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The Sustainability Agenda

The Sustainability Agenda is a weekly podcast exploring today’s biggest sustainability questions. Leading sustainability thinkers offer their views on the biggest sustainability challenges, share the ... Read more

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Episode 22: Professor Giorgos Kallis: Degrowth and the dangers of excessive economic growth

Episode 22: Professor Giorgos Kallis: Degrowth and the dangers of excessive economic growth

In this interview, Professor Giorgos Kallis, a leading degrowth thinker, provides an overview of evolving theories of de... Read more

8 May 2017

53mins

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Episode 84: Interview with Noam Chomsky, pioneering linguist, social critic, and political activist on the environmental crises we are facing

Episode 84: Interview with Noam Chomsky, pioneering linguist, social critic, and political activist on the environmental crises we are facing

Described by the New York Times as “arguably the most important intellectual alive,” Noam Chomsky is a pioneering Americ... Read more

27 Dec 2019

32mins

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Episode 64: The importance of behaviour change to reduce CO2. Interview with CEO of Rare, Brett Jenks

Episode 64: The importance of behaviour change to reduce CO2. Interview with CEO of Rare, Brett Jenks

When we think about the magnitude of global emissions and the scale of the decarbonisation challenge, it is easy to feel... Read more

4 Mar 2019

47mins

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Episode 61: Interview with Carlota Perez, Centennial Professor of International Development at the London School of Economics

Episode 61: Interview with Carlota Perez, Centennial Professor of International Development at the London School of Economics

Professor Carlota Perez has spent her career researching the profound impact technology has had on socio-economic develo... Read more

18 Dec 2018

1hr 6mins

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Episode 5: Mardi McBrien | Why we need to integrate climate change-related information into mainstream financial reporting

Episode 5: Mardi McBrien | Why we need to integrate climate change-related information into mainstream financial reporting

It took many decades over the early 20th Century for a standardised way of presenting financial information to investors... Read more

14 Sep 2016

25mins

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Episode 79: Interview with Peter Head, resilience champion

Episode 79: Interview with Peter Head, resilience champion

With the growing reach of climate change-induced extreme weather events and increasing urbanization, it is becoming more... Read more

15 Oct 2019

51mins

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Episode 72: Interview with Rob Hopkins, founder of Transition movement

Episode 72: Interview with Rob Hopkins, founder of Transition movement

People feel defeated when they hear the grand cost of achieving carbon neutrality. But what if some of the solutions wer... Read more

16 Jul 2019

52mins

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Episode 17: Professor Kevin Anderson| Climate Change Warning

Episode 17: Professor Kevin Anderson| Climate Change Warning

Professor Kevin Anderson is an important – and outspoken – voice on how our emissions today are locking in dangerous lev... Read more

10 Feb 2017

57mins

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Episode 50: Interview with Paul Hawken, co-founder and Executive Director of Project Drawdown

Episode 50: Interview with Paul Hawken, co-founder and Executive Director of Project Drawdown

In this interview, jointly with the Drawdown Agenda, Paul Hawken, the co-founder and Executive Director of Project Drawd... Read more

22 Jul 2018

58mins

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Episode 3: Mike Barry | The path to become the world’s most sustainable retailer

Episode 3: Mike Barry | The path to become the world’s most sustainable retailer

Marks & Spencer launched its Plan A progamme in 2007 with the ambition to make the company the world’s most sustaina... Read more

6 Sep 2016

27mins

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Episode 4: Susan Burns | What the ecological footprint tells us

Episode 4: Susan Burns | What the ecological footprint tells us

By many measures, humans have shown themselves to be a pretty successful species. But we are living unsustainably. We ar... Read more

8 Sep 2016

46mins

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Episode 53: Deep dive on sustainable agricultural supply chains with Tobias Webb, founder of the Innovation Forum, a sustainability events and publishing company based in London.

Episode 53: Deep dive on sustainable agricultural supply chains with Tobias Webb, founder of the Innovation Forum, a sustainability events and publishing company based in London.

Tobias Webb is the founder of the Innovation Forum, a sustainability events and publishing company based in London. Inno... Read more

21 Aug 2018

41mins

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Episode 52 Interview with Professor Tim Jackson, Professor of Sustainable Development at the University of Surrey and Director of the Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity (CUSP)

Episode 52 Interview with Professor Tim Jackson, Professor of Sustainable Development at the University of Surrey and Director of the Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity (CUSP)

Tim Jackson is Professor of Sustainable Development at the University of Surrey and Director of the Centre for the Under... Read more

9 Aug 2018

40mins

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Episode 77: Interview with Mark Campanale, Founder of Carbon Tracker Initiative

Episode 77: Interview with Mark Campanale, Founder of Carbon Tracker Initiative

In this interview with Mark Campanale, we discuss divestment from coal, oil and gas and the carbon bubble. Mark asks the... Read more

25 Sep 2019

50mins

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Episode 9: Aron Cramer | Corporate sustainability – past progress and future questions

Episode 9: Aron Cramer | Corporate sustainability – past progress and future questions

BSR has been providing socially responsible business solutions to many of the world’s leading companies for almost 25 ye... Read more

13 Oct 2016

27mins

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Episode 11: Douglas Rushkoff | How the digital revolution undermines sustainability–and some proposals for a fairer more sustainable world

Episode 11: Douglas Rushkoff | How the digital revolution undermines sustainability–and some proposals for a fairer more sustainable world

Author, media theorist, professor, activist: Douglas Rushkoff wears many hats. At the heart of his work is a recurring t... Read more

8 Nov 2016

28mins

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Episode 76: Interview with Eva Garen, Director of Environmental Leadership Training Initiative

Episode 76: Interview with Eva Garen, Director of Environmental Leadership Training Initiative

In this episode we speak with Eva Garen, Director of ELTI, Environmental Leadership and Training Initiative. ELTI focuse... Read more

15 Sep 2019

45mins

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Episode 10: Paul Dickinson | The crucial importance of corporate climate change data

Episode 10: Paul Dickinson | The crucial importance of corporate climate change data

Paul Dickinson founded CDP, formerly the Carbon Disclosure Project, in 2000 with a vision to help the global economic sy... Read more

26 Oct 2016

36mins

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Episode 70: Interview with Mark Maslin, Professor of Earth Systems Science, UCL, author of The Human Planet

Episode 70: Interview with Mark Maslin, Professor of Earth Systems Science, UCL, author of The Human Planet

The scale of human impact on our planet is not easy to engage with – even scientists often have a narrow focus on the sp... Read more

17 Jun 2019

49mins

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Episode 43: Dr. Charly Kleissner, co-founder KL Felicitas Foundation, discusses the power of “deep impact” investing and the importance of developing a new post-modern portfolio theory that includes impact

Episode 43: Dr. Charly Kleissner, co-founder KL Felicitas Foundation, discusses the power of “deep impact” investing and the importance of developing a new post-modern portfolio theory that includes impact

Dr. Charly Kleissner is a pioneer in the field of impact investment. He believes that the deeper meaning of wealth is to... Read more

25 Apr 2018

1hr 20mins

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