Funding the Future: World Bank Expert Tom Kerr on Green Finance Solutions
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Green Visions: Conversations with a Change Maker
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Music by The Magnettes
New York Climate Week
What can cities do more to scale up climate actions – Fireside chat with Mayor of Malmö and President of ICLEI Katrin Stjernfeldt-Jammeh
Green Bonds and Green Finance Models in Municipalities
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The podcast Green Bonds and Green Finance Models with Maryke van Staden, ICLEI, Björn Bergstrand, Kommuninvest and Sean Kidney, Climate Bonds Initiative.
The World Food Programme: how to end global hunger
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With Dr Martin Frick, Director of the World Food Programme.
Circularity and Food Systems
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With Rebecca Hesketh – former Programme Manager for the Food Initiative, Ellen MacArthur Foundation.
Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Food Systems
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With Tammy Meiron CTO of Fresh Star, a food incubator and Jon Rathauser CEO of Eggmented Reality – producer of clean, vegan, non-GM and environmentally friendly protein.
Waste and the Food Systems
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With Francesco Faella, Vice President, Packaging Ambient Solutions at Tetra Pak, Axel Boëthius, Recycling expert at the Swedish Consumers Cooperative and Sylvia Chin, CEO of Clear CO2.
Scope 3 and why it is so critical to reach net zero
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With Gilles Tisserand, Vice President of Sustainability, Climate and Biodiversity at Tetra Pak and Pankaj Bhatia, Deputy Director Climate Programme and Director of the Greenhouse Gas Protocol at The World Resource Institute.
Changemakers in the Circular Economy
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With Christine Levêque, Global Vice President, Collection & Recycling at Tetra Pak and Pär Larshans, Head of Sustainability and Public Affairs at Ragn-Sells.
Leaving No One Behind
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Neighbourhood Economics is the story of how an organisation united 35,000 people living in a Suburb of Stockholm,Sweden
The Phosphorus Paradox
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Meet Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize Awarded journalist for The New Yorker Magazine and Pär Larshans, Sustainability Director at Ragn-Sells, leader of the transition into a circular economy.
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Urban Plant Power
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How plants and gardens have the power to make our cities greener and how AIPH – the International Association of Horticultural Producers created the World Green City Award for worldwide cities. Meet Ms Valerie Plante, Mayor of Montreal; Audrey Timm technical advisor to AIPH Green City Award; Kobie Brand, Regional Director of ICLEI Africa and …
Karl-Henrik Robert | System change – but How?
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Meet Karl-Henrik Robert, Professor of Strategic Sustainable Development and founder of the Natural Step Framework.
Margot Wallström | Chemical legislation, Blood diamonds and illegal logging in the Amazon
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Leadership in Politics with Margot Wallström, a former EU Commissioner for Environment and Vice President of the EU.
Human Forest | E-bike start up – Neighbourhood Economics in London
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Meet the team of Human Forest Augustin Guilisasti, CEO and Founder Caroline Steton, and Will Jansen. Human Forest is a carbon-negative e-bike and e-moped sharing company based in London in my neighbourhood, Southwork.
Kari Aina Eik | Transformers Urbanist – Changemaker
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Meet Kari Aina Eik. She has dedicated her life to bridging the worlds of the United Nations, global markets and cities and has worked to establish several UN and international programs for sustainable cities.
Mats Andersson & Sasja Beslik | ESG Investment – Speed, Scale and Greenwash
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Featuring: Mats Andersson, Former CEO of the Swedish Pension fund AP4 and awarded as Chief Investment Officer’s Lifetime Achievement Award for his leadership of AP4. Sasja Beslik, Investment strategy officer at SDG Impact Japan and In 2020, Sasja Beslik was ranked as the world’s most influential person within green finance.
Joel Makower | What’s Green Business?
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Joel Makower is a remarkable storyteller. In the last 30 years, he´s demonstrated his ability to tell compelling stories that both inform and inspire business leaders toward profitable action. Joel is chairman and co-founder of GreenBiz Group, a media and events company focusing at the intersection of business and the Green economy.
Dr. Audrey Timm and Bill Hardy | Power to the plants
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Meet Bill Hardy and Dr. Audrey Timm. They represent AIPH, the international association of horticulture producers and lead on this non-profit organisations green city initiative we talk about The Green City Award that recognises initiatives relying on a greater use of plants and nature to create better city environments.
Professor Johan Rockström | The planetary Steward
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Professor Johan Rockström is the Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and a Professor at the Institute of Earth and Environmental Science at Potsdam University. Meet Professor Johan Rockström in 3 programmes: – A minute to midnight: Reversing environmental tipping points. – 8 years left to transform the future of humanity or destabilize …
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Johan Rockström (part 2) | 8 years left to transform the future of humanity or destabilize the planet
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Professor Johan Rockström is the Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and a Professor at the Institute of Earth and Environmental Science at Potsdam University. Meet Professor Johan Rockström in 3 programmes: – A minute to midnight: Reversing environmental tipping points. – 8 years left to transform the future of humanity or destabilize …
Johan Rockström (part 1) | A minute to midnight: Reversing environmental tipping points
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Professor Johan Rockström is the Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and a Professor at the Institute of Earth and Environmental Science at Potsdam University. Meet Professor Johan Rockström in 3 programmes: – A minute to midnight: Reversing environmental tipping points. – 8 years left to transform the future of humanity or destabilize …
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Sustainable Cities a vision or a reality?
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This week 11-13 May, when the City of Malmö hosts ICLEI’s World Congress of Local and Regional Governments dedicated to sustainable urban development I decided to shine a light on some of the world’s urban challenges with the people who have been working in the development of a sustainable Malmö and also people who can …
Sandrine Dixson-Declève | The Limits to Growth and the Earth4All
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Meet Sandrine Dixson-Declève, The Co-President of the Club of Rome. She Chairs the European Commission, Expert Group on Economic and Societal Impact of Research & Innovation and she is a member of the European Commission’s Sustainable Finance Platform. Sandrine is one of the 30 most influential women across the globe.
Lisa Kurbiel | Money with meaning
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How to promote financing solutions and accelerate the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals – the SDGs. Meet Lisa Kurbiel, The head of the Secretariat for the Joint SDG Fund in the United Nations.
Kadri Simson, Anna Borg and Anders Egelrud | EU Energy in transition – what a shift towards clean energy looks like?
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Transformers podcast looks into European dependency of fossil fuels. Russian’s war on Ukraine has exposed the price and negative side of consuming Russian oil and gas. The podcast is a summary of the seminar that took place on March 18. In the panel, Kadri Simson, EU Commissioner of Energy, Anna Borg, CEO of Vattenfall Sweden and …
Christina Lampe-Önnerud | The Battery Queen reigns supreme
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Christina Lampe-Önnerud is known for her pioneering work in developing Lithium-ion batteries for portable electronics, electric vehicles, and utilities. She is currently the CEO of Cadenza Innovation, a startup she founded in 2012.
Anders Wijkman | A journey from linear to circular economy
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Anders Wijkman – an opinion maker, writer and chairman of the Governing Board of Climate-KIC – the largest public-private partnership on innovation for low-carbon solutions in the European Union.
Stuart L. Hart | The Bottom of the Pyramid
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Stuart L. Hart is one of the world’s top authorities on the implications of environment and poverty for business strategy. According to Bloomberg Businessweek, he is “one of the founding fathers of the ‘base of the pyramid’ – economic theory.”
Anders Egelrud and Charles Secrett | Is Biomass energy a threat or a solution to meet the Climate Crises?
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COP26 showed an urgent need to accelerate climate actions. Some relate to Forestry, Biomass and Biodiversity. My guests today are Anders Egelrud, CEO of Stockholm Exergi and Charles Secrett, a Climate Campaigner. Both have long experience in Climate Change Policies and Actions.
James O´Toole | Is Sustainability Sustainable?
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James O´Toole, Professor Emeritus at the University of Southern California’s Business School. O’Toole’s research and writings are in the areas of leadership, ethics, corporate culture, and philosophy. He is an author of eighteen books, most recently THE ENLIGHTENED CAPITALISTS: CAUTIONARY TALES OF BUSINESS PIONEERS WHO TRIED TO DO GOOD WHILE DOING WELL.
Sasja Beslik | The stewardship of ESG investment
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Sasja Beslik is an economist and journalist. He is an ESG expert that helps a large audience understand the ins and outs of ESG. In 2020, Beslik was ranked the world’s most influential person within green finance.
James Hanusa | Designing Inspiration
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James Hanusa, spearheads the advantgard movement of emerging technology and culture. He is a frequently speaker on innovation, creativity and sustainability. James was one of the people leading the process of transforming the Burning Man Project into a non-profit organisation.
Gunter Pauli | The entrepreneurial father of the Blue Economy
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Gunter Pauli is an entrepreneur in business, culture, science, politics and the environment. Gunter’s development of The Blue Economy resulted in a book published in 2015 called “The Blue Economy 2.0: 200 projects implemented, $4 billion invested and 3 million jobs created”. Gunter has published 20 books in more than 30 languages about science and fables for children. …
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Peggy Liu | Is it time for the Tornado movement?
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Peggy Liu is the Chairperson of JUCCCE (Joint US–China Collaboration for Clean Energy). She has been given several kudos including Hero of the Environment (Time), “Women to Watch in Asia” (Forbes) and World Economic Forum Young Global Leader. Peggy Liu is a graduate of MIT in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and completed programs at …
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Teresa Fogelberg | How multistakeholder collaboration can drive change
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Teresa Fogelberg is a former top diplomat at the Netherlands ministries of Foreign Affairs, a OECD Working Party Chair, private sector advisor of the UN Secretary General and executive and co-founder of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). Her mission is to address the global challenges of poverty, inequality and climate, by building solutions, using innovative partnerships …
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Pankaj Bhatia | Measures that matter
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Pankaj Bhatia is the Deputy Director of the World Resource Institutes Climate Program and Director of GHG Protocol. As Deputy Director, he helps manage one of World Resource Institutes’ largest programs. Pankaj is one of the world’s leading experts and authority on the GHG Protocol standards and tools, particularly in the areas of corporate, scope …
Kafi Dixon | Producer of the documentary A Reckoning in Boston
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Kafi Dixon is a Boston bus driver and urban farmer who seeks equity for low-income women of color. In 2017 Kafi founded Boston’s first Cooperative for Women – a Worker-owned Urban Farm Food Coop called the Common Good Co-op which includes women of all races, classes, and cultures. Learn more at Common Good Co-op website. …
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Jytte Guteland | The new EU Climate Law
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Jytte Guteland is a member of the European Parliament for the Social Democrats since 2014. She was the lead negotiator for the European Union Climate Law that reached a deal after 14 hours of talks on the 21st of April 2021. Since 2019, she is a member and group leader for the Social Democratic Group …
Lena Miranda | Scale Up Innovation – Societies in Transition
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Lena Miranda is the CEO of the Science Park in the city of Linköping in Sweden. Science parks aim to increase the wealth of their community by promoting the culture of innovation and the competitiveness of its associated businesses and knowledge-based institutions. Lena is also chair of Swedish Incubators & Science Parks and chair of the European …
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Svante Axelsson | World leaders to be inspired for actions
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Svante Axelsson is the Swedish national coordinator for Fossil Free Sweden, a governmental initiative that brings together companies, municipalities, regions and organisations that stands behind the declaration that Sweden will be one of the first fossil free nations in the world. He was awarded in 2021 as Sweden’s most powerful influencer by the newspaper Aktuell …
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Uffe Elbæk (part 2) | Politics that matters
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The music Freedom to Love by The Savage Rose was selected by Uffe Elbaek. Politics has always been a part of Uffe’s life, from Social Liberals, the alternative to the Independent Green Party. This second episode with Uffe focus on his life in politics and society. Music Love and Freedom by The Savage Rose selected by Uffe Elbaek.
Uffe Elbæk (part 1) | At the forefront of Education
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The music Freedom to Love by The Savage Rose was selected by Uffe Elbaek. Uffe Elbæk is a journalist, politician and system entrepreneur. He has been Minister of Culture in Denmark and since 2011 Uffe is a member of the Danish Parliament. In 1991 Uffe founded one of the world’s most creative educational programs – the Kaospilot. …
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Albert Nashon & Renalda Mwanyuma | Digital revolution in Kenya
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Albert Nashon and Renalda Mwanyuma are from Nairobi, Kenya. Albert is a social entrepreneur and the founder of The Slumcode Group, an organisation that promotes digital inclusion to less advantaged youngsters. Renalda is the Head of Special Programs. The Slumcode Group has engaged over 200,000 people in the past 15 years. Music by Poeta Dennis featuring …
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Epi Ludvik feat. Eva-Lena Skalstad | Crowdsourcing: what is it and how it works?
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Epi Ludvik is a leader in the world of Crowdsourcing. He is the founder of Crowdsourcing Week, an organisation that promotes the engagement of crowds or groups for common goals across the globe, through conferences, summits and online networking. Epi has also created one of New York’s hottest boutique virtual ad Agencies built on a 100% Crowdsourcing model. Eva-Lena Skalstad is …
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Marc J. Lane | Money with meaning – the Mission-Driven Venture
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Marc J. Lane is a business and tax attorney, financial advisor and practise law at the Law Office of Marc J Lane in Chicago, USA. He is an expert on entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial finance. Marc is also an influential advocate of best corporate governance practise. His latest book The Mission-Driven Venture is a practical roadmap …
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Jonathon Porritt | Hope in Hell, a “call to action” on the Climate Emergency
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Jonathon Porritt is the Founder and Director of Forum for the Future – a UK sustainability organisation. Leading environmentalist, Porritt has advised UK governments in sustainability, helped the Prince of Wales create the business sustainability programme and part of the development of the Cambridge Institute for sustainability and leadership.
Bert-Ola Bergstrand | Creating the conditions that encourages systems to change
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Bert-Ola Bergstrand is the initiator, founder and co-founder of a number of international platforms and networks in the field of “crowd-impact economy” that involve millions of people across the globe. He is currently working with transformation of neighbourhoods and cities and developing networking tools to strengthen learning processes across communities, sectors and stakeholders.
Mark Watts | The power of mayors
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Mark Watts is the Executive Director of C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group. The organisation grew from 63 to 96 of the world greatest cities, representing one quarter of the global economy. Mark Watts is former director of Arup and was the Senior Advisor to the Mayor of London from 2000 to 2008.
Phil Ruxton & Marco Carmini | Kayapo Indians, Croda and COVID-19
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Phil Ruxton is Vice President of Sustainability of Croda and helped the Executive Committee and Board of Croda International to develop sustainability goals that will make Croda land, people and climate positive by 2030; and Marco Carmini is Managing Director of Croda Latin America and an engineer with over 35 years experience in renewable feedstocks.
Mats Andersson, Gregory Wendt and Nick Sramek | How capital markets can become sustainable and climate crisis proof
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Mats Anderson was the first CEO to decarbonise a pension fund – the US$ 43bn AP4; Gregory Wendt has more than 30 years of experience in the capital market and sustainable finance; and Nick Sramek is the Director of International Relations at Silicon Valley Forum. They discuss the future of investment and pension funds.
Cecilia Repinski | Green Digital Finance Innovator
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Cecilia Repinski is the Executive Director of Stockholm Green Digital Finance, a fintech company designed to support the scaling up of green debt market by connecting green investors with potential green investment opportunities. Her company is the first company in the world with a platform that provides different interfaces that correlate and interact allowing issuers …
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John Elkington | The CSR Ambassador
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John Elkington is a world authority on corporate responsibility and sustainable capitalism, a bestselling author and serial entrepreneur. He is known for his role as Ambassador for the Future.
Kristina Persson | Governance that Matter
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Kristina Persson is an Economist and the former Minister for Nordic Cooperation and Strategic Development. Persson was a Swedish MP and MEP during the 1990s. In 2005, Persson created the Think Tank Global Utmaning (Global Challenges) to promote Sustainable Development.
Pär Larshans | The Circular Business Changemaker
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Pär Larshans is a winner of the Trust Across America-Trust Around the World award for global leaders for his role in the transformation into a circular economy. He is Director of Sustainability and Public Affairs at Ragn-Sells group working with waste management, environmental services and recycling.
Anders Egelrud | The Climate Positive City 2025
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Anders Egelrud, CEO of Stockholm Exergi – one of Sweden’s most sustainable and profitable energy company. He will make Stockholm Exergi Climate Positive by 2025.
Sean Kidney | The Green Finance Market and the Climate Bonds Initiative
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Sean Kidney, key influencer in the green finance market. CEO and Co-founder of the Climate Bonds Initiative.. Sean is working to reach a $100 trillion green bond market to deliver a low carbon economy.
Bo Frank | The Mayor that will deliver a Fossil Free City 2030
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Bo Frank is one of the key influencers in the City of Växjö. Exmayor and vice mayor from 1991 to 2016, Frank is nowPresident of the City Council. His mission is to make the city fossil free in 2030. He is an outstanding promoter of fossil free strategies and the initiator of a new model of governance for the city.