PARIS – In this episode of Peoples World Podcasts, PW co-editor, Teresa Albano, interviews Sean Sweeney, coordinator for Trade Unions for Energy Democracy. Sweeney, who is in Paris, is also the director of the International Program for Labor, Climate and the Environment at the Murphy Institute at the City University of New York.

Albano and Sweeney, in this podcast, discuss opportunities and challenges before the labor movement in the face of the looming eco-crisis, and the political realities surrounding the COP 21 international climate talks taking place now in Paris.

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CONTRIBUTOR Teresa Albano Teresa Albano was the first woman editor-in-chief of People’s World, 2003-2010, leading the transition from weekly print to daily online publishing and establishing PW’s social media presence. Albano has been a staff writer for People’s World covering political, labor and social justice issues for more than 25 years. She traveled throughout the U.S. and abroad, including India, Cuba, Angola, Italy, and to Paris to cover the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference. An award-winning journalist, Albano has been honored for her writing by International Labor Communications Association, National Federation of Press Women and Illinois Woman Press Association.