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Send us a textToday, the (REDACTED) team welcomes Marius Myking, the Norway-based Director Of Product Design for international architecture and design firm Snøhetta.From Marius's quest to cover rent in the big Apple, To Snøhetta's discovery of a need for an internal product design department. We chat with Marius about what makes Snøhetta design tick, how industrial design can enhance an architectural firm and how Snøhetta's collaborative approach enhances design and client outcomes.Hosted by Fraser Greenfield and Louis Mills with guest, Marius Myking from Snøhetta.—————————————————————-SnøhettaSnøhetta | LinkedIn Follow Snøhetta on Instagram | @snohetta     Marius Myking - Director Of Product Design - Snøhetta | LinkedInFollow Marius on Instagram | @marius_mykingTodd BracherEverything ElevatedFollow Everything Elevated on Instagram | @everything_elevated Wi-Fi Router for Telenor | SnøhettaHeaven's gate: ‘The Portal', by Snøhetta, Erik Jørgensen Møbelfabrik and Everything ElevatedBibliotheca Alexandria | SnøhettaSINTEF Array for MDF Italia | Snøhetta MDF ItaliaSocial | SnøhettaVarierForite Tiles | Snøhetta FLYT | Snøhetta​​Our Common Future: Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development  ========================== This episode is sponsored by PCBWay! When you get a quote from PCBWay, use our promo code ‘REDACTED' for a special discount on us! Just go to PCBWay.com—————————————————————- To follow the show, get in contact with us via email & more head to: https://linktr.ee/redactedpod

In this episode of Africa Science Focus, our reporter Michael Kaloki speaks with African researchers on the importance of ethics in science. Jerome Singh, an adjunct professor at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Canada, talks about the need to prioritise human wellbeing during science experiments, while Emma Ruttkamp-Bloem, chair of UNESCO's World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology, highlights the ethical considerations needed in the production of artificial intelligence technologies.Alloy Ihuah, from the Department of Philosophy, Benue State University, Makurdi, Nigeria, evaluates the effects of western science on Africa, and advocates for the domestication of science on the continent. This podcast was supported by the Science Granting Councils Initiative which aims to strengthen the institutional capacities of 18 public science funding agencies in Sub-Saharan Africa. Africa Science Focus is produced by SciDev.Net and distributed in association with your local radio stationThis piece was produced by SciDev.Net's Sub-Saharan Africa English desk.Do you have any comments, questions or feedback about our podcast episodes? Let us know at podcast@scidev.net

This lecture was given on September 28th, 2023, at Georgetown University. For more information on upcoming events, visit us at thomisticinstitute.org/upcoming-events About the speaker: Robert P. George is the sixth McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University, a program founded under his leadership in 2000. George has frequently been a Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School. Born on July 10, 1955, Robert George has served as Chairman of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom as well as a presidential appointee of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and the President's Council on Bioethics. In addition, Professor George has served as the U.S. member of UNESCO's World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology. He was also a Judicial Fellow at the Supreme Court of the United States, where he received the Justice Tom C. Clark Award. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Swarthmore, he holds J.D. and M.T.S. degrees from Harvard University as well as D.Phil., B.C.L., D.C.L., D.Litt. degrees from Oxford University. He holds twenty-two honorary doctorates. George is a recipient of the U.S. Presidential Citizens Medal, the Honorific Medal for the Defense of Human Rights of the Republic of Poland, the Irving Kristol Award of the American Enterprise Institute, the Canterbury Medal of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, and one of Princeton University's highest honors – the President's Award for Distinguished Teaching. George is the author of hundreds of books, essays, and articles. He is a finger-style guitarist and bluegrass banjo player.

"There are a number of criteria for keystone resources and sandalwood [...] fits quite a few of them." Our guest this episode is Dr Richard McLellan. Richard is an experienced ecologist, conservationist, and program manager. He held senior positions within WWF-Australia and WWF-International, focusing on native vegetation management, forest conservation, sustainable resource use, and ecological footprint reduction. He is the chair of the Forest Conservation Fund and the Gunduwa Regional Conservation Association, an ambassador for the Western Australian Parks Foundation, and a long-time member of the World Commission on Protected Areas. In his spare time, Richard recently completed his PhD with Charles Sturt University and Bush Heritage Australia on the ecological importance of Australian sandalwood in Australia's rangelands. The Ecological Society of Australia acknowledges the Traditional Owners and Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging. Richard works on the lands of the Yamaji, Nanda, Badimia, Martu, and Wajarri-Yamaji peoples. Help the ESA support ecology in Australia by donating (⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.ecolsoc.org.au/get-involved/donate/donation-form⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠) or by becoming a member (⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.ecolsoc.org.au/get-involved/become-a-member⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠). The music in this podcast is ‘Glow' by Scott Buckley - www.scottbuckley.com.au. Episode image credit: Richard McLellan.

James Workman James Workman (Founder of AquaShares Inc.) * Graduated Yale, studied abroad Oxford. Prize-winning investigative reporter in Washington, DC.* White House appointee to US Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt on water, dams, climate, wildfire.* Senior advisor, communications, World Commission on Dams under Nelson Mandela.* Strategic communications consultant to global corporations, agencies, NGOs on natural resources.*…More

James Workman James Workman (Founder of AquaShares Inc.) * Graduated Yale, studied abroad Oxford. Prize-winning investigative reporter in Washington, DC.* White House appointee to US Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt on water, dams, climate, wildfire.* Senior advisor, communications, World Commission on Dams under Nelson Mandela.* Strategic communications consultant to global corporations, agencies, NGOs on natural resources.*…More

Dan is a well-respected leading global expert on ocean conservation. He is currently Emeritus Marine Vice Chair of IUCN's World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA). He is a member of WCPA Chair's Advisory Group, and Chairs the Hope Spot Council and is an Emeritus Board Member of Mission Blue. He is also a founding Non-Executive Board Member of the Office for Environmental Protection, established in the wake of Brexit Under the Environment Act. This new body was established in 2022 to hold UK public bodies to account on their environmental records, and to advise on the implementation of UK environmental law. In March 2021 Dan was awarded the Fred Packard Award by IUCN and WCPA in recognition of having dedicated his life and career to conservation, and especially as an outstanding and inspiring figure in global marine protected areas, and a major contributor over many years to the work of IUCN and WCPA on marine conservation.Prior to these appointments and up until 2022 Dan was Principal Advisor, Marine Science and Conservation for IUCN's Global Marine and Polar Programme, and held the global honorary role as Marine Vice Chair for the World Commission on Protected Areas for 17 years, providing a world-wide lead on ocean protection.

In honor of Black history month, Cornel West and Robert George join the Gloria Purvis Podcast to talk about what Black joy and resistance mean to them. West and George are currently touring the country to speak at various universities about the centrality of truth-seeking to higher education. They are both prolific intellectual giants, who require very little introduction, but whose friendship is an inspiration. Dr. Cornel West teaches on the works of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, as well as courses in Philosophy of Religion, African American Critical Thought, and a wide range of subjects at Union Theological Seminary. He has written 20 books and is best known for his classics, Race Matters and Democracy Matters, and for his memoir, Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud. His most recent book, Black Prophetic Fire, offers an unflinching look at nineteenth and twentieth-century African American leaders and their visionary legacies. Robert George is a professor of Jurisprudence and the Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University, a program founded under his leadership in 2000. He has served as Chairman of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom as well as a presidential appointee of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and the President's Council on Bioethics. In addition, Professor George has served as the U.S. member of UNESCO's World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology. He was also a Judicial Fellow at the Supreme Court of the United States, and the author of several books.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on Cleaning Up, Michael welcomes Achim Steiner, Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme and co-chair of UN Energy. Michael had questions for Steiner on UNDP's roster of initiatives, balancing climate priorities with development goals, and how to clear a path to financing billions of dollars of clean infrastructure in the midst of a global energy crisis.Like, share and subscribe to Cleaning Up for more essential conversations around the net zero transition. Links and Related Episodes: Learn more about UNDP: https://www.undp.org/energyOver 120 countries are part of UNDP's Climate Promise: https://climatepromise.undp.org/Discover UNDP's Sustainable Finance Hub: https://sdgfinance.undp.org/Many of the episodes mentioned can be found in our ‘United Nations' playlist on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gvl91lgPsUg&list=PLe8ZTD7dMaaDVAOrAyAwuMKrmq3G9ih75Watch Episode 98 with Bill McKibben: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W9uR6eTe94Watch Episode 59 with Alain Ebobissé: https://www.cleaningup.live/ep-59-alain-ebobisse-meeting-africas-infrastructure-needs/Guest BioAchim Steiner became Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme in 2017, and is also the Vice-Chair of the UN Sustainable Development Group. Steiner has been a global leader on sustainable development, climate resilience and international cooperation for nearly three decades.Prior to joining UNDP, he was Director of the Oxford Martin School and Professorial Fellow of Balliol College, University of Oxford. He led the United Nations Environment Programme (2006-2016), and was Director-General of the United Nations Office at Nairobi. Steiner previously held positions including Director General of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, and Secretary General of the World Commission on Dams.Steiner graduated in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (MA) from Worcester College, Oxford University, and holds an MA from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS).

En este episodio Edgardo Sobenes conversa con el Prof. Juan Manuel de Faramiñán Gilbert sobre  el auge del populismo, el COVID-19 y las noticias falsas. El Prof. de Faramiñán Gilbert inicia haciendo un recuento de las pandemias que han afectado a la humanidad. Nos habla sobre los derechos que fueron afectados durante el COVID-19 y su impacto en los sistemas democráticos y sus estructuras. Posteriormente, nos explica el concepto de populismo, lo que determina a un líder populista, y la relación entre populismo y democracia. Nos aclara la relación entre las democracias iliberales y los movimientos populistas, el papel de las noticias falsas y la post verdad durante la pandemia y en la expansión del populismo. Finaliza haciendo reflexiones sobre la importancia de la verdad, las criptomonedas, propiedades digitales, tokens NFT, realidad virtual, metaverso, y mucho más.  Membresía del Podcast (https://www.hablemosdi.com/contenido-premium)Acerca del Prof. Juan Manuel de Faramiñán Gilbert Artículo: Entre pandemia y posverdad: el auge de los populismos  Catedrático (emeritus professor) de Derecho Internacional Público y Relaciones Internacionales de la Universidad de Jaén. Director Internacional emérito de la Red Latinoamericana y del Caribe de Universidades e Instituciones que investigan la tecnología, la política y el derecho del espacio ultraterrestre (ReLaCa-Espacio). Miembro del Centro Europeo de Derecho del Espacio de la Agencia Europea del Espacio y antiguo miembro de su Junta Directiva (Board of the European Centre of the Space Law of European Space Agency). Miembro Vocal de la Junta Directiva del Centro Español de Derecho Espacial. Miembro del Instituto Internacional de Derecho del Espacio de la Federación Astronáutica Internacional (International Institute of Space Law (International Astronautical Federation). Antiguo miembro de la Subcomisión de Ética para el Espacio Ultraterrestre de la UNESCO (Sub-Commission on the Ethics of Outer Space of the World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology (COMEST) de la UNESCO).Miembro del panel especializado de árbitros establecido de conformidad con las reglas opcionales para el arbitraje de controversias relacionadas con las actividades en el espacio ultraterrestre de la Corte Permanente de Arbitraje (CPA). Investigador Senior Asociado del Real Instituto Elcano de España, y Miembro del capítulo español del Club de Roma. Para mayor información ver página web: www.juanmanueldefaraminangilbert.esCompra el libro en https://www.hablemosdi.com/libros Support the showAdquiere aquí el libro " Hablemos de Derecho Internacional Volumen I" https://www.hablemosdi.com/libros

In this episode, Hita and Michael speak with noted Indian environmentalist Ashish Kothari, who works at the interface between development and environment and focuses particularly on radical alternatives to development discourses. Ashish is a familiar name to people working in the Indian environmental context as well as those who engage with degrowth, not least because of his strong involvement in grassroots environmental movements such as the Narmada Bachao Andolan in the country. He is one of founders of Kalpavriksh, a Non-Profit Organisation in India which deals with environmental and development issues. In addition, he wears many other hats – as an academic and teacher, as a member of international steering committees such as those of the World Commission on Protected Areas or the Convention on Biodiversity Alliance. He has also worked as a member of several Government of India committees including those responsible for assessing India's Forest Rights Act and drafting the country's National Wildlife Action Plan and Biodiversity Act. He is also the coordinator of Vikalp Sangam, a platform that brings together organisations and individuals who work on development alternatives across India. He is also one of the editors of the book Pluriverse: a post development dictionary. In our conversation Ashish reflects upon the influence of his early childhood experiences with environmental activism – particularly protests against the shooting of the Great Indian Bustard by Saudi Arabian Princes and against tree felling in the Delhi Ridge Forest upon his engagement with environmental conservation. He asks the pertinent question: can wildlife conservation happen at the cost of human rights? We speak about the eternal debate of development vs the environment, and his conviction that the idea of development per se itself is deeply flawed. Instead, he says, what we need are different notions of well-being emerging from different parts of the world serving to replace the idea of development. We spoke about the dangers of viewing community led action as yet another panacea but also recognising the inherent strength present within them. We discuss moving beyond dichotomies of community vs government instead looking towards alternatives where we can enable communities to regain their balance in different ways. We reflect upon the importance of building and being part of networks that both keep you going but also stand ready to continue in your place, and how that very act of working together poses further challenges if one were to consider identity building, branding or even issues of satisfying personal egos. We end with some reflection on Ashish's conceptualization of the term Eco Swarajya and the challenges associated with misappropriation of culturally or spiritually loaded terms. Some of the initiatives that Ashish mentions during this interview are: Vikalp Sangam: https://vikalpsangam.org/ Kalpavriksh: https://kalpavriksh.org/ Radical Ecological Democracy: https://radicalecologicaldemocracy.org/ Global Tapestry of Alternatives: https://www.globaltapestryofalternatives.org/ Pluriverse: a post development dictionary: https://www.ehu.eus/documents/6902252/12061123/Ashish+Kothari+et+al-Pluriverse+A+Post-Development+Dictionary-2019.pdf/c9f05ea0-d2e7-8874-d91c-09d11a4578a2 Ashish's website and blog: https://ashishkothari.in/ ; https://ashishkothari51.blogspot.com/

All good things come in threes. Or more. Add a Chief Sustainability Officer, a body positive Barbie doll,  a purple inclusive M&M and an actual expert in applied ethics and you get a lively discussion on true colours, washings and genuine CSR efforts in the first episode of our new mini-series (it comes in threes) on corporate social responsibility. Have a listen and find out more, including how energy companies account for their profits and your bills via legitimisation strategies.   More information about the podcast and  a full transcript can be found on wordsandactions.blog. In this episode early in the introduction, Erika cites two definitions. She first cites the definition of sustainability in a 1987 report by the World Commission on Environment and Development (a sub-organisation of the United Nations) called “Our Common Future”. It can be found here. The second definition is on corporate social responsibility and taken from the website Investopedia.  The examples we give of CSR in action, including attempts that backfired, are body-positive Barbie dolls, the “inclusive” and desexualised M&M candy figures and a now (in)famous Benetton advert. The latter is  reproduced in Erika's and Veronika's textbook Language in Business, Language at Work (Macmillan Higher Education, 2018; the second edition will have Bernard as the third author. Still in the introduction, we also mention this article on the social responsibility of business, the reference to which can be found on our website.  Every summer, the Pride season in Western countries now comes with many examples of “pinkwashing”, where companies claim to be queer-friendly, but either don't have relevant policies or even have practices that go against LGBT equality. Some examples from 2022 can be found here.  Towards the end of the introduction, Veronika talks about legitimation as a discourse strategy, based on these works by van Leeuwen and Reyes. We then proceed to the interview with Garrath Williams. On the links between ‘responsible' and ‘response', the Oxford English Dictionary has the following to say (shortened – the OED has lots of detail): Etymology: < Anglo-Norman responssable, ressponsable, Anglo-Norman and Middle French responsable answerable, entitled to an answer …, answerable, required to answer …, that responds, that constitutes a reply (15th cent.), apparently < classical Latin respōns- , past participial stem of respondēre respond v. … probably < classical Latin respōnsāre to reply  While we mention but do not elaborate on the Drink Responsibly campaign in the UK, someone else has, in a 2014 report on alcohol and the night-time economy.  During our analysis of the ExxonMobil press release, we wonder if the company has a Chief Sustainability Officer. The answer is no but it has had an external sustainability advisory panel since 2009.    In episode 26, we'll talk about language and the environment – see you then!

On this week's show: How sci-fi writer Kurt Vonnegut foresaw many of today's ethical dilemmas, and 70 years of tunas, billfishes, and sharks as sentinels of global ocean health First up this week on the podcast, we revisit the works of science fiction author Kurt Vonneugt on what would have been his 100th birthday. News Intern Zack Savitsky and host Sarah Crespi discuss the work of ethicists, philosophers, and Vonnegut scholars on his influence on the ethics and practice of science. Researchers featured in this segment: Peter-Paul Verbeek, a philosopher of science and technology at the University of Amsterdam and chair of the World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology David Koepsell, a philosopher of science and technology at Texas A&M University, College Station Christina Jarvis, a Vonnegut scholar at the State University of New York, Fredonia, and author of the new book Lucky Mud & Other Foma: A Field Guide to Kurt Vonnegut's Environmentalism and Planetary Citizenship Sheila Jasanoff, a science studies scholar at Harvard University Next, producer Kevin McLean discusses the connection between fishing pressure and extinction risk for large predatory fish such as tunas and sharks. He's joined by Maria José Juan Jordá, a postdoc at the Spanish Institute for Oceanography, to learn what a new continuous Red List Index using the past 70 years of fisheries data can tell us about the effectiveness and limits of fishing regulations. Finally, in a sponsored segment from the Science/AAAS Custom Publishing Office, Sean Sanders, director and senior editor for custom publishing, interviews Joseph Hyser, assistant professor in the Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology at Baylor College of Medicine about his use of wide-field fluorescence live cell microscopy to track intercellular calcium waves created following rotavirus infection. This segment is sponsored by Nikon. This week's episode was produced with help from Podigy. [Image: richcarey/istock; Music: Jeffrey Cook] [alt: underwater photo of a swirling mass of tunas, with podcast overlay symbol] Authors: Sarah Crespi; Kevin McLean; Zack Savitsky Episode page: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adf7398 About the Science Podcast: https://www.science.org/content/page/about-science-podcastSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this week's show: How sci-fi writer Kurt Vonnegut foresaw many of today's ethical dilemmas, and 70 years of tunas, billfishes, and sharks as sentinels of global ocean health First up this week on the podcast, we revisit the works of science fiction author Kurt Vonneugt on what would have been his 100th birthday. News Intern Zack Savitsky and host Sarah Crespi discuss the work of ethicists, philosophers, and Vonnegut scholars on his influence on the ethics and practice of science. Researchers featured in this segment: Peter-Paul Verbeek, a philosopher of science and technology at the University of Amsterdam and chair of the World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology David Koepsell, a philosopher of science and technology at Texas A&M University, College Station Christina Jarvis, a Vonnegut scholar at the State University of New York, Fredonia, and author of the new book Lucky Mud & Other Foma: A Field Guide to Kurt Vonnegut's Environmentalism and Planetary Citizenship Sheila Jasanoff, a science studies scholar at Harvard University Next, producer Kevin McLean discusses the connection between fishing pressure and extinction risk for large predatory fish such as tunas and sharks. He's joined by Maria José Juan Jordá, a postdoc at the Spanish Institute for Oceanography, to learn what a new continuous Red List Index using the past 70 years of fisheries data can tell us about the effectiveness and limits of fishing regulations. Finally, in a sponsored segment from the Science/AAAS Custom Publishing Office, Sean Sanders, director and senior editor for custom publishing, interviews Joseph Hyser, assistant professor in the Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology at Baylor College of Medicine about his use of wide-field fluorescence live cell microscopy to track intercellular calcium waves created following rotavirus infection. This segment is sponsored by Nikon. This week's episode was produced with help from Podigy. [Image: richcarey/istock; Music: Jeffrey Cook] [alt: underwater photo of a swirling mass of tunas, with podcast overlay symbol] Authors: Sarah Crespi; Kevin McLean; Zack Savitsky Episode page: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adf7398 About the Science Podcast: https://www.science.org/content/page/about-science-podcastSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

With COP 27 just around the corner, what really is sustainable development and what does the world need most right now to achieve it?Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland, the former Prime Minister of Norway, and chair of the World Commission on Environment and Development, known as the Brundtland Commission, which produced the The Brundtland Report, explores this very topic on Summa & Friends. From how she achieved full consensus with the Brundtland Commission, to why we need to focus on the social aspects of sustainability, and what's holding us back from reaching sustainable development, Gro is frank and honest about how we as individuals, as companies, as nations, need to unite and collaborate to save the world. This is a truly inspirational episode with an incredible woman. Download and listen today.On today's podcast:Achieving consensus with the Brundtland CommisionThe social aspect of sustainabilityThe lack of mandate at the World Bank and IMFWhy the speed of change is slowWhat the world needs now is unity Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode of Heterodox Out Loud, we explore the flawed human tendency to reject and censor opposing arguments — especially when they contradict values and beliefs that are held with conviction. Our guest on the show, Robert George, the sixth McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University, explains how we can remain confident and passionate in our commitments, while also embracing and engaging opposing perspectives.In addition to his academic accolades, George has served as Chairman of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom as well as a presidential appointee of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and the President's Council on Bioethics. In addition, Professor George has served as the U.S. member of UNESCO's World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology. George's blog post: On Critics and Bullies. The post was originally published on the Blog, Mirror and Justice. For more from George, you can follow him on Twitter at @McCormickProfLet us know what you think! For comments and questions email communications@heterodoxacademy.org.This episode was hosted by Zach Rausch, and produced by Davies Content. Heterodox Out Loud is an ongoing series of selected pieces from heterodox: the blog in audio form with exclusive interviews. 

Neste episódio do Podcast CRUZAMENTO, André Correia e Daniel Guedelha conversam com Filipe Alfaiate sobre ESG e sustentabilidade, mas olhando também para a ciência e tecnologia. Falámos ainda sobre modelos de negócio alternativos e sustentáveis e green washing. Filipe Alfaiate tem uma carreira transversal e global, que o levou a trabalhar em mais de 35 países nos últimos 20 anos, na intersecção do sector público, privado e social, tendo-se especializado na área de impacto social e sustentabilidade. Filipe é um especialista internacional nessas matérias, um empreendedor de impacto e Professor Adjunto na Nova SBE (email), onde leciona e contribui para projectos na área de Impacto, Sustentabilidade, e “New Ventures in Emerging Markets”. É membro do centro Leadership for Impact na Nova SBE, tendo realizado um mestrado (MPA) na Universidade de Harvard (na “John F. Kennedy School of Government”). Filipe aconselha empresas (nacionais e multinacionais), doadores, Governos e agências internacionais em como trazer o sector privado para a resolução dos problemas globais com que nos deparamos, nomeadamente através de estratégias de criação de valor financeiro e ESG, negócios inclusivos e rentáveis, e cadeias de fornecimento e inovações de mercado na base da pirâmide, em países emergentes. Depois de fazer uma transição transformadora de uma carreira internacional de advocacia e assessoria jurídica para se dedicar ao empreendedorismo de impacto, Filipe recebeu o Prémio Direitos Humanos "Sergio Vieira de Mello" da mão do Presidente de Timor-Leste pelo trabalho anti-pobreza realizado em Timor-Leste, com a organização “Empreza Diak” que ali fundou. Outras referências feitas no episódio: Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development: Our Common FutureCreating Shared Value (Michael E. Porter & Mark R. Kramer, Harvard Business School)Health Market InnovationsCruzamento Talks: ESG (YouTube) Contactos: CruzamentoPodcast.comcruzamentopodcast@gmail.comLinkedIN: CruzamentoTwitter: @cruzamentofmFacebook: @podcastcruzamentoYouTube: Podcast Cruzamento

Lecture summary: The talk will draw upon my recent report submitted to the UNHRC earlier this year. See: https://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Housing/Pages/CFI_20years_SR_adequate_housing.aspx Balakrishnan Rajagopal is currently a Professor of Law and Development at the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). A lawyer by training, he is an expert on many areas of human rights including economic, social and cultural rights, the UN system, and the human rights challenges posed by development activities. He is the founder of the Displacement Research and Action Network at MIT which leads research and engagement with communities, NGOs, and local and national authorities. He has conducted over 20 years of research on social movements and human rights advocacy around the world focusing in particular, on land and property rights, evictions and displacement. He has a law degree from University of Madras, India, a Masters degree in law from the American University as well as an interdisciplinary doctorate in law from Harvard Law School. Prof Rajagopal served as a human rights advisor to the World Commission on Dams and has advised numerous governments and UN agencies on human rights issues. He served for many years with the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Cambodia during the 1990s when he was responsible for human rights monitoring, investigation, education and advocacy, as well as law drafting in a variety of areas. He has held visiting professorships and fellowships at many prestigious institutions around the world. He has delivered many distinguished lectures on invitation such as the Lecture on “International Courts and Second and Third Generation Human Rights” at the Brandeis Institute for International Judges, Brandeis University, the Keynote on ‘Rethinking the Right to Development: Challenges and Opportunities’ at the 3nd Inter-American Conference on Human Rights, Bogota, Colombia, the Keynote on ‘Right to housing: Comparative perspectives’, Human Rights Law Resource Center, Melbourne, Australia, Special Lectures at the UN University for Peace, Costa Rica, the Rechtskulturen Lecture at the Institute for Advanced Study, Germany, the Valerie Gordon Human Rights Lecture, Northeastern University School of Law, the Annual Hansen/Hostler Distinguished Lecture on Global Justice, San Diego State University, the Annual New Frontiers Lecture at the Nigerian Institute for Advanced Legal Studies and Keynotes at various conferences including the joint annual conference of the Australian and New Zealand Societies of International Law. Prof Rajagopal has published numerous scholarly articles, and book chapters and is the author/editor of four books. He has also led or contributed to field and research reports on evictions, displacement and housing and related human rights and development policy issues. He has also published widely in the media on human rights and international law and issues concerning the South including in such publications as the Boston Globe, the Hindu, the Wire, Washington Post, the Indian Express, El Universal, and the Nation, and the huffingtonpost.com.

Lecture summary: The talk will draw upon my recent report submitted to the UNHRC earlier this year. See: https://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Housing/Pages/CFI_20years_SR_adequate_housing.aspx Balakrishnan Rajagopal is currently a Professor of Law and Development at the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). A lawyer by training, he is an expert on many areas of human rights including economic, social and cultural rights, the UN system, and the human rights challenges posed by development activities. He is the founder of the Displacement Research and Action Network at MIT which leads research and engagement with communities, NGOs, and local and national authorities. He has conducted over 20 years of research on social movements and human rights advocacy around the world focusing in particular, on land and property rights, evictions and displacement. He has a law degree from University of Madras, India, a Masters degree in law from the American University as well as an interdisciplinary doctorate in law from Harvard Law School. Prof Rajagopal served as a human rights advisor to the World Commission on Dams and has advised numerous governments and UN agencies on human rights issues. He served for many years with the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Cambodia during the 1990s when he was responsible for human rights monitoring, investigation, education and advocacy, as well as law drafting in a variety of areas. He has held visiting professorships and fellowships at many prestigious institutions around the world. He has delivered many distinguished lectures on invitation such as the Lecture on “International Courts and Second and Third Generation Human Rights” at the Brandeis Institute for International Judges, Brandeis University, the Keynote on ‘Rethinking the Right to Development: Challenges and Opportunities’ at the 3nd Inter-American Conference on Human Rights, Bogota, Colombia, the Keynote on ‘Right to housing: Comparative perspectives’, Human Rights Law Resource Center, Melbourne, Australia, Special Lectures at the UN University for Peace, Costa Rica, the Rechtskulturen Lecture at the Institute for Advanced Study, Germany, the Valerie Gordon Human Rights Lecture, Northeastern University School of Law, the Annual Hansen/Hostler Distinguished Lecture on Global Justice, San Diego State University, the Annual New Frontiers Lecture at the Nigerian Institute for Advanced Legal Studies and Keynotes at various conferences including the joint annual conference of the Australian and New Zealand Societies of International Law. Prof Rajagopal has published numerous scholarly articles, and book chapters and is the author/editor of four books. He has also led or contributed to field and research reports on evictions, displacement and housing and related human rights and development policy issues. He has also published widely in the media on human rights and international law and issues concerning the South including in such publications as the Boston Globe, the Hindu, the Wire, Washington Post, the Indian Express, El Universal, and the Nation, and the huffingtonpost.com.

Achim Steiner is UNDP Administrator. He has served across the United Nations system. He was the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Nairobi and between 2006-2016 he led the United Nations Environment Programme, where he prioritized investments in clean technologies and renewable energy. Achim has also held other notable positions including Director General of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, and Secretary General of the World Commission on Dams.Achim Steiner- TED Talk : Humanity's planet-shaping powers -- and what they mean for the futureFuture of Development public conversation between Amartya Sen, Nobel Laureate and Professor of Economics and Philosophy, and Achim Steiner, UNDP Administrator.  UNDP Future Of Development - YouTubeClimate Promise | United Nations Development Programme (undp.org)UNDP Development Futures Series | United Nations Development ProgrammeHuman Development Reports (undp.org)Hello Future | UNDPTwitter: @AchimSteiner @UNDP Host:Professor Dan Banik, University of Oslo, Twitter: @danbanik  @GlobalDevPodhttps://in-pursuit-of-development.simplecast.com/ 

En esta  segunda parte del episodio, el Profesor Juan Manuel de Faramiñán nos habla sobre la cuarta generación de Derechos Humanos. Se refiere a la estación espacial, el marco jurídico que regula las actividades, comportamiento, y responsabilidades de los astronautas en la estación espacial. Nos comenta sobre las actividades espaciales como un motor del desarrollo sostenible, la Agenda Espacio 2030, y los cuatro pilares de la gobernanza equilibrada. Posteriormente, nos conversa sobre el problema que representa la basura espacial, la responsabilidad de los estados, la militarización del espacio, y los escudos antimisiles. Finaliza el episodio refiriéndose al planeta Marte, los intentos de colonización ultraterrestre, y el tratado de la luna.Membresía del Podcast  https://www.hablemosdi.com/contenido-premium Acerca del Prof. Juan Manuel de Faramiñán Gilbert Catedrático (emeritus professor) de Derecho Internacional Público y Relaciones Internacionales de la Universidad de Jaén. Director Internacional emérito de la Red Latinoamericana y del Caribe de Universidades e Instituciones que investigan la tecnología, la política y el derecho del espacio ultraterrestre (ReLaCa-Espacio). Miembro del Centro Europeo de Derecho del Espacio de la Agencia Europea del Espacio y antiguo miembro de su Junta Directiva (Board of the European Centre of the Space Law of European Space Agency). Miembro Vocal de la Junta Directiva del Centro Español de Derecho Espacial. Miembro del Instituto Internacional de Derecho del Espacio de la Federación Astronáutica Internacional (International Institute of Space Law (International Astronautical Federation). Antiguo miembro de la Subcomisión de Ética para el Espacio Ultraterrestre de la UNESCO (Sub-Commission on the Ethics of Outer Space of the World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology (COMEST) de la UNESCO).Miembro del panel especializado de árbitros establecido de conformidad con las reglas opcionales para el arbitraje de controversias relacionadas con las actividades en el espacio ultraterrestre de la Corte Permanente de Arbitraje (CPA).Investigador Senior Asociado del Real Instituto Elcano de España, y Miembro del capítulo español del Club de Roma.Para mayor información ver página web: www.juanmanueldefaraminangilbert.es Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/hablemosDI)

En este episodio Edgardo Sobenes conversa con el Profesor Juan Manuel de Faramiñán Gilbert sobre los tratados y principios que rigen las actividades de los Estados en el espacio ultraterrestre. En esta primera parte del episodio, el Profesor nos da una visión detallada sobre el marco jurídico del espacio ultraterrestre, el estado legal, su aplicabilidad y relevancia práctica para la comunidad internacional. Aborda de forma magistral la explotación y exploración del espacio ultraterrestre, la luna, y otros cuerpos celestes. Nos comenta sobre el papel fundamental y novedoso del sector privado y la validez, relevancia y aplicabilidad de los tratados y principios que rigen las actividades de los Estados sobre las empresas privadas como Space X. En la segunda parte del episodio, el Profesor nos habla sobre la cuarta generación de Derechos Humanos. Se refiere a la estación espacial, el marco jurídico que regula las actividades, comportamientos, y responsabilidades de los astronautas en la estación espacial. Nos comenta sobre las actividades espaciales como un motor del desarrollo sostenible, la Agenda Espacio 2030, y los cuatro pilares de la gobernanza equilibrada. Posteriormente, nos conversa sobre el problema que representa la basura espacial, la responsabilidad de los estados, la militarización del espacio, y los escudos antimisiles. Finaliza el episodio refiriéndose al planeta Marte, los intentos de colonización ultraterrestre, y el tratado de la luna.Membresía del Podcast  https://www.hablemosdi.com/contenido-premium Acerca del Prof. Juan Manuel de Faramiñán Gilbert Catedrático (emeritus professor) de Derecho Internacional Público y Relaciones Internacionales de la Universidad de Jaén. Director Internacional emérito de la Red Latinoamericana y del Caribe de Universidades e Instituciones que investigan la tecnología, la política y el derecho del espacio ultraterrestre (ReLaCa-Espacio). Miembro del Centro Europeo de Derecho del Espacio de la Agencia Europea del Espacio y antiguo miembro de su Junta Directiva (Board of the European Centre of the Space Law of European Space Agency). Miembro Vocal de la Junta Directiva del Centro Español de Derecho Espacial. Miembro del Instituto Internacional de Derecho del Espacio de la Federación Astronáutica Internacional (International Institute of Space Law (International Astronautical Federation). Antiguo miembro de la Subcomisión de Ética para el Espacio Ultraterrestre de la UNESCO (Sub-Commission on the Ethics of Outer Space of the World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology (COMEST) de la UNESCO).Miembro del panel especializado de árbitros establecido de conformidad con las reglas opcionales para el arbitraje de controversias relacionadas con las actividades en el espacio ultraterrestre de la Corte Permanente de Arbitraje (CPA).Investigador Senior Asociado del Real Instituto Elcano de España, y Miembro del capítulo español del Club de Roma. Para mayor información ver página web: www.juanmanueldefaraminangilbert.es Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/hablemosDI)

Crista Valentino was 26 years old when she co-founded CoalitionWILD. Her aim? To connect and equip the world's young change-makers to tackle our planet's greatest conservation challenges.She is an unstoppable force in the field of conservation with an impressive list of credentials to her name. She is the North American Focal Point for the International Union for the Conservation of Nature's World Commission on Protected Areas Young Professionals; is an active member of the Global Youth Biodiversity Network, has had her writing featured in international publications, and was on the Executive Committee for the 11th World Wilderness Congress. In this episode we break down what it takes to run such an initiative and coordinate members from all around the world. We explore some of the planets most pressing environmental issues, and dive into the role we can all play as environmental stewards. Alongside all of this, we take a look at Crista's inherent love for the outdoors, discussing what trail running, travelling, and adventure means to her, and how she balances running a flourishing eco-business with grounded living. Find out more:CoalitionWILD WebsiteCrista's LinkedInCrista's Instagram

The world of development thinkers and practitioners is abuzz with a new lexicon: the idea of “the nexus” between water, food, and energy. It promises better integration of multiple sectoral elements, a better transition to greener economies, and sustainable development. However, there appears to be little agreement on its precise meaning, whether it only complements existing environmental governance approaches or how it can be enhanced in national contexts.In this episode of Between the Lines, IDS Fellow Shilpi Srivastava interviews Jeremy Allouche, Dipak Gyawali and Carl Middleton the editors of the book: The Water–Food–Energy Nexus: Power, Politics, and Justice.With thanks to:Between the Lines created by Sarah KingRecorded, edited and narrated by Gary EdwardsMusic credit: Crypt of Insomnia/One Day in Africa (instrumental version)/Getty ImagesRelated linksThe Water–Food–Energy Nexus Power: Politics, and JusticeInterviewerShilpi Srivastava is a Research Fellow with the Resource Politics Cluster. She is trained as a political scientist and she completed her PhD in Development Studies (Sussex) in 2015. Her doctoral research focused on the politics and practice of water regulation reform in India.Book authorsJeremy Allouche is a co-director of the Humanitarian Learning Centre and principle investigator of the GCRF-funded project Islands of Innovation in Protracted Crisis and the AHRC/DFID-funded project New Community-Informed Approaches to Humanitarian Protection and Restraint. He is a political sociologist trained in history and international relations with over 20 years research and advisory experience on resource politics (water, mining) in conflict and borderland areas and the difficulties of aid delivery in such contexts, as well as studying the idea of ‘islands of peace'.Dipak Gyawali is a hydroelectric power engineer and a political economist who, during his time as Nepal's Minister of Water Resources in 2002/2003, initiated reforms in the electricity and irrigation sectors focused on decentralization and promotion of rural participation in governance. He also initiated the first national review and comparison of Nepali laws with the guidelines of the World Commission on Dams.Carl Middleton is an SEI Affiliated Researcher with SEI Asia Centre. His research interests orientate around the politics and policy of the environment in Southeast Asia, with a particular focus on environmental justice and the political ecology of water and energy. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On this episode of Democracy Sausage, researchers Rebecca Colvin and Jamie Pittock join Mark Kenny to discuss Australian attitudes to climate change, how they influence people’s voting patterns, and Australia’s increasingly severe weather events.Was the so-called climate election of 2019 lost, or simply never fought? Will a shock event like the recent floods in New South Wales, or Australia’s Black Summer a little over a year ago, change the way people vote? And what will more frequent and more severe weather events mean for vulnerable Australian communities? On this episode of Democracy Sausage, social scientist at Crawford School of Public Policy Dr Rebecca Colvin and environmental scientist at Fenner School of Environment and Society Professor Jamie Pittock join Professor Mark Kenny to discuss climate politics, and whether leadership can move Australia in line with the growing number of countries making more substantial emissions reductions commitments.Bec Colvin is a Lecturer at ANU Crawford School of Public Policy with the Resources, Environment & Development Group. Prior to joining Crawford, she was a knowledge exchange specialist for the ANU Climate Change Institute.Jamie Pittock is a Professor in the Fenner School of Environment and Society. Jamie is a member of the Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists and the World Commission on Protected Areas and chairs the Eminent Scientists Group of the World Wide Fund For Nature Australia.Mark Kenny is a Professor in the ANU Australian Studies Institute. He came to the university after a high-profile journalistic career including six years as chief political correspondent and national affairs editor for The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, and The Canberra Times.Democracy Sausage with Mark Kenny is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. We’d love to hear your feedback for this podcast series! Send in your questions, comments, or suggestions for future episodes to podcast@policyforum.net. You can also Tweet us @APPSPolicyForum or join us on the Facebook group.This podcast is produced in partnership with The Australian National University. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this episode, Siwan and Professor Jamie Pittock discuss whether raising dam walls is an effective management strategy to address our changing climate. They discuss the current proposal to raise the Warragamba Dam wall in outer Sydney, and whether the stated aims of it being to address flooding and protect downstream communities, will actually be achieved. Jamie has worked for the World Wide Fund for Nature, and is a member of the Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists and World Commission on Protected Areas. He is also on the Advisory Board of the Nature Conservancy. He is now based at the Fenner School at the Australian National University where he teaches and writes across environment, society and climate change adaptation topics. In their conversation, Siwan and Jamie discuss the ecological and cultural consequences of the proposal to raise the dam wall, and highlight how a multi-million dollar ‘flooding' solution is likely to fail.

Lecture summary: Recent scientific information presents an alarming diagnosis of the multiple adverse consequences of climate change on the ocean: levels of ocean acidification not seen in millions of years, changes in ocean chemistry, warming temperatures and deoxygenation threating marine life, in particular coral reefs; and rapidly melting glaciers and ice sheets challenging the survival of some island States and threatening existing maritime boundaries and entitlements. There are two different applicable international regimes, one for the ocean and the other for climate change. Yet neither has a clear mandate for the ocean-climate nexus. The 1982 United Nations Convention for the Law of the Sea, often referred to as the Constitution for the oceans, negotiated before climate change emerged on the international agenda, makes no reference to climate change. The 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, with a clear mandate for atmospheric climate change, limits the role of the ocean to serving as sink or reservoir for greenhouse gases. The 2015 Paris Agreement added little more other than a preambular reference to ocean ecosystems. The lecture will examine whether and how these two principal legal regimes can meet the test for international law in providing a dialectic and evolutive response to the pressing challenges of the climate-ocean nexus. Nilüfer Oral is Director of the Centre of International Law (CIL) at the National University of Singapore and a member of the law faculty at Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey. She is member of the UN International Law Commission and co-chair of the study group on sea-level rise in relation to international law. She served as climate change negotiator for the Turkish Ministry (2009 – 2016). She has also appeared before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea. Nilufer Oral is a Distinguished Fellow of the Law of the Sea Institute at Berkeley Law (University of California Law Berkeley); Senior Fellow of the National University of Singapore Law School; and Honorary Research Fellow at University of Dundee. Dr. Oral was elected to the Council of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) (2012-2016) and served as Chair of the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law (2014-2017). She is currently a member of the Steering Committee of the World Commission on Environmental Law. Dr Oral is the series editor for the International Straits of the World publications (Brill); member of the Board of Editors of the European Society of International Law Series; Board of Editors of the International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law; Associate Editor of the Research Perspectives in the Law of the Sea (Brill); and International Advisory Board, Chinese Journal of Environmental Law (Brill) She has published numerous articles edited several books, and has spoken at many international conferences.

Lecture summary: Recent scientific information presents an alarming diagnosis of the multiple adverse consequences of climate change on the ocean: levels of ocean acidification not seen in millions of years, changes in ocean chemistry, warming temperatures and deoxygenation threating marine life, in particular coral reefs; and rapidly melting glaciers and ice sheets challenging the survival of some island States and threatening existing maritime boundaries and entitlements. There are two different applicable international regimes, one for the ocean and the other for climate change. Yet neither has a clear mandate for the ocean-climate nexus. The 1982 United Nations Convention for the Law of the Sea, often referred to as the Constitution for the oceans, negotiated before climate change emerged on the international agenda, makes no reference to climate change. The 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, with a clear mandate for atmospheric climate change, limits the role of the ocean to serving as sink or reservoir for greenhouse gases. The 2015 Paris Agreement added little more other than a preambular reference to ocean ecosystems. The lecture will examine whether and how these two principal legal regimes can meet the test for international law in providing a dialectic and evolutive response to the pressing challenges of the climate-ocean nexus. Nilüfer Oral is Director of the Centre of International Law (CIL) at the National University of Singapore and a member of the law faculty at Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey. She is member of the UN International Law Commission and co-chair of the study group on sea-level rise in relation to international law. She served as climate change negotiator for the Turkish Ministry (2009 – 2016). She has also appeared before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea. Nilufer Oral is a Distinguished Fellow of the Law of the Sea Institute at Berkeley Law (University of California Law Berkeley); Senior Fellow of the National University of Singapore Law School; and Honorary Research Fellow at University of Dundee. Dr. Oral was elected to the Council of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) (2012-2016) and served as Chair of the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law (2014-2017). She is currently a member of the Steering Committee of the World Commission on Environmental Law. Dr Oral is the series editor for the International Straits of the World publications (Brill); member of the Board of Editors of the European Society of International Law Series; Board of Editors of the International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law; Associate Editor of the Research Perspectives in the Law of the Sea (Brill); and International Advisory Board, Chinese Journal of Environmental Law (Brill) She has published numerous articles edited several books, and has spoken at many international conferences.

Our guest this week is Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland, the former prime minister of Norway and former head of the World Health Organization. Gro has had an illustrious career in Norway and abroad. In addition to becoming the first female head of the Norwegian Labor party, she became the first female prime minister of Norway in February 1981. And during her second stint as Prime Minister in 1986, her cabinet made world news headlines when she appointed 8 female ministers in a cabinet of 18. In addition to being widely regarded as the most influential Norwegian politician of all time, Gro is also widely known for having chaired the World Commission on Environment and Development, popularly referred to as the Brundtland Commission. The Commission’s influential 1987 report, Our Common Future, popularized and defined the term “sustainable development”. She is also known for her work as Director General of the World Health Organization between 1998 and 2003, during which time she and the WHO coordinated a rapid worldwide response to stem outbreaks of SARS.We discussed the world response to Covid, multilateralism and the role of UN agencies such as the WHO and the current status of the sustainable development discourse. A full transcript of our conversation is available.Dan Banik on TwitterIn Pursuit of Development on Twitter 

Legal scholar Robert P. George comments on the meaning of friendship across disagreement, the need for public virtues of courage and humility, and how to address political polarization and hateful divisions through seeking the truth, thinking critically and openly, and respecting the dignity and freedom of the other. Interview by Evan Rosa.Episode Introduction (Evan Rosa)How do we heal from 2020? Yes, how do we heal from this pandemic, but how do we heal from the political rifts deeper than we can remember? How do we heal from physical distance that has isolated and alienated us from embodied presence and genuine connection with others? How do millions of public school children heal from remote learning and the psychological impact of disconnection? How do we heal in a moment like this?We've been trying to tackle this question in a variety of ways on the podcast, and we'll continue in upcoming episodes. This week, we're sharing a conversation I had with Robert P. George, the McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University.  We spoke just a few weeks before the election, really, as the frenzy and vitriol and worry started to peak. We spoke about American division and the punishing and apparently unrelenting hatred that can be on display in the disgust one side mutually feels for the other, even in the birthplace of modern democracy, where the idea of personal dignity grounds our freedom to live together. I asked him about what it means to achieve friendship across deep disagreement—something he's become widely known for in his close friendship and collaboration with Cornel West. We spoke about the virtues of citizenship, including humility and courage; specifically the courage to stand for what you think is right even at the horror of being thought heretic in your tribe. This kind of homelessness from the tribe, especially for Christians who find themselves in tension with their tradition. He reflects on seeking the truth in a world where anyone can portray themselves as an expert and facts are no longer commonly regarded as such. I asked him to offer some practical steps toward mutual understanding and civil discourse, which prizes collaborating around a pursuit of the truth far over mere victory for power's sake.The kind of divisions we feel now—whether social distance or political distance—won't be mended and healed with one strategy. So we'll be bringing a variety of perspectives to bear on the question of healing. But the way Robert George frames civic friendship that shares a value for the truth and a commitment to respect for the other… maybe there's some potential there. Thanks for listening today.About Robert P. GeorgeRobert P. George is McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University. He has served as chairman of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), and before that on the President's Council on Bioethics and as a presidential appointee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights. He has also served as the U.S. member of UNESCO's World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology (COMEST). He is a former Judicial Fellow at the Supreme Court of the United States, where he received the Justice Tom C. Clark Award. A graduate of Swarthmore College, he holds J.D. and M.T.S. degrees from Harvard University and the degrees of D.Phil., B.C.L., D.C.L., and D.Litt. from Oxford University. He has been a visiting professor at Harvard Law School and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.Professor George is a recipient of many honors and awards, including the U.S. Presidential Citizens Medal, the Honorific Medal for the Defense of Human Rights of the Republic of Poland, the Canterbury Medal of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, the Sidney Hook Memorial Award of the National Association of Scholars, the Philip Merrill Award of the American Council of Trustees and Alumni, the Bradley Prize for Intellectual and Civic Achievement, the Irving Kristol Award of the American Enterprise Institute, the James Q. Wilson Award of the Association for the Study of Free Institutions, Princeton University's President's Award for Distinguished Teaching, and the Stanley N. Kelley, Jr. Teaching Award of the Department of Politics at Princeton.He has given honorific lectures at Harvard, Yale, the University of St. Andrews, Oxford University, and Cornell University. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and holds twenty-one honorary degrees, including honorary doctorates of law, ethics, science, letters, divinity, humanities, law and moral values, civil law, humane letters, and juridical science.

Progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 2: Zero Hunger is stalling, and the Covid-19 Pandemic is erasing the progress of the last decade in many parts of the world. Is it possible to re-energize on this issue? Could a new commission make a difference? Today, we're talking with the authors of a new report entitled "High Level Commissions and Global Policymaking Prospects for Accelerating Progress Toward SDG2." Geoff Gertz is a fellow in the Global Economy and Development Program at the Brookings Institution. And Sarah Zoubek, is the Associate Director of the World Food Policy Center here at Duke University. Interview Summary What was the original idea behind studying the potential and the limits of a new High Level Commission Focus on Sustainable Agriculture and SDG2? Sarah, let's begin with your thoughts. Sure. In the summer of 2019, there was a group of agricultural development experts that came together and they said, global progress is stalling for achieving Sustainable Development Goal Two. So what can we do to catalyze action? What is something different we could try? Someone pitched the idea of a high level group of individuals coming together in sort of a commission style. And they had seen some success by high level groups like the Lancet Commission on investing in health, for example, and wondered how that could apply to the food security and agriculture space - if something there could be successful. So, Geoff, what are your thoughts on this? And what do we mean by high level? Does this mean experts on a topic? Does it mean heads of agencies and countries? Does it mean heads of States? What does this mean, high level commission? That's a great question. So the commissions we're talking about are made up of individual participants. We're not looking at groups that are business corporations or international organizations that are part of some sort of national coalition. Individuals who participate are individuals who are prominent enough that they have some professional reputation outside of their immediate sphere. So this can be heads of state or former heads of state cabinet level members, heads of large businesses, heads of international organizations. That's really the type of person that we're looking at here. And Geoff what roles and functions do high level commission serve? So the key point in understanding the rules these commissions play and how they really work is that the commissioners themselves have no formal authority. These commissions are not issuing grants. They're not implementing their own projects. Really what they're doing is working through communications and advocacy, to convince other people how to act. In the report we go through several different ways that commission have functioned. This role we see is that they focus on promoting normative change - really trying to change how policy makers and the public think about important transnational challenges. They also generate and sympathize new knowledge. This is bringing new research to bear on the questions and right synthesizing what else has been done by academic experts. The third function we look at is catalyzing political action through short-term focus on how to convince policy makers and other people who have political power in these arenas that they need to take action on certain challenges. Fourth, they also facilitate coordination among actors. And then finally, all of these commissions can serve as a test run for international negotiation. In a commission, you'll a lot of the politics in a less high stress, less high stakes manner that can then inform subsequent formal international negotiation. Sarah, back to the point that you made when you let off this conversation, is it fair to say that given that agriculture development is not having as much impact as a needs to, if SDG2 is going to be accomplished, that the only way to do this is to get people at the very highest levels together in order to create visibility and impact ultimately, do you think that's fair to say? Well, I think that was one idea, and there's clearly many levers that you can try to pull. Certainly there's an attempt to try to have more bottom up inclusive approaches to fixing problems now. But I think the idea was let's try this as another tool in the toolkit and see what could potentially happen. And that was the idea behind Brookings and Duke coming together to try to investigate. Geoff, I'd like to also hear your thoughts on how these commissions have impact. And can you give an example of a commission say that was successful, maybe one that wasn't so successful? So that's a real tough question. One we kind of grappled with a lot at work, because tracing the impact of these commissions is difficult. It's hard to know how the world would have looked differently if these commissions didn't exist. One thing that we found is that for a lot of commissions, there's not huge evidence of impact at all. Commissions involving quite high level people come and go, and don't really leave much evidence in media mentions and citations in policy and academic literature. A lot of commissions seem to be quickly forgotten after they wrap up. In some ways, this reflects with one of our interviews head of this project told us, which is that a high level commission is what you want to do when you want to look like you're doing something, but don't actually want to do something. For a lot of these commissions, what we found is that they didn't necessarily have a real, clear theory of change for how they're going to have an impact. Some of them were more successful, and some were very successful. So I think Sarah already mentioned one that was very successful was the Commission for Investing in Health. That's the only one. It is a very interesting case. Probably the most famous one of the most successful commission ever is the Brundtland Commission, which was a commission back in the 1980s, organized to the UN that really defined and popularized the concept of Sustainable Development. And so it's this idea that now just completely permeates international development landscape. Commissions that were maybe less successful are those that face real challenges. It's often because they didn't have a clear political strategy from the get-go. We looked at the report from the Aspen Food Security and Strategy Group as a useful discussion forum. A lot to participants found it useful in that sense, but they never really had a clear strategy for how they're going to take the discussion that they're having within that commission to a broader political and public audience. And that's where we see a lot of commissions fall short. So after all the research that went into this report, is it possible to know, is there a recipe for success and what can help make a commission successful in the long run? There's definitely not a perfect recipe because there will always be things like world events and timing creating impact. And so you could have all the recipe correct and it's good, and you could still get thrown off. But there are some things you can do to increase your chances of a commission being successful. Geoff mentioned one of them was just starting with a clear mandate and problem statement. And that sounds like a no-brainer, but there were certainly some commissions we saw that when it's not clear - you just actually spend the majority of the time agreeing on the problem statement instead of doing the work. And then also making sure that it is demand driven - that people actually really see a need for the commission and it's not just three people behind closed doors deciding that this would be a great idea. Beyond that, it really hinges on the identity of the chairperson. You could have more than one, but they are really this kind of gravitational force that attracts other members to join. Who you invite really should be your theory of change as well who serves on the panel, because they're going to be your best ambassadors. You really want to hink of those individuals as representing networks of people to try to increase their reach. And then certainly you need adequate funding because you're going to need people to travel and you need, since these are often very people that are on the commission, you're going to need staff to support them and do some of the research. And then beyond that things just like clear deadlines, benchmarks, in-person meetings to do some of that relationship building and get people's attention focused. Although that's a little harder now in a zoom only pandemic world. But then also getting buy-in from relevant stakeholders throughout. We definitely saw some examples where that didn't happen. Like the World Commission on Dams, for example. Initially they involve developing countries like China and India, but then as the work progressed, those countries weren't really pleased with the direction. Then they backed out and it wound up being a very sort of NGO and civil society-led process. And so they didn't really have a good process for managing internal dispute. Then ultimately two countries that were super critical to making change didn't pay attention to the commission's recommendations. So the internal politics piece and having processes for getting through that is pretty critical. You also really need to say something new and we heard a lot, nobody wants another review of the evidence. You've got to say something clear and bold and different. And then lastly, there's a great quote by Gro Harlem Brundtland who said, "A good report is not the end, but the beginning." A lot of these commissions put together recommendations in a report and then leave it there, but the impact is better achieved if you really have a long follow up period. And like Geoff mentioned again, the Atlantic Commission on Investing in Health, they planned two years of follow-up. So lots of communication strategy, hosting events all over the world. There's definitely a number of things you can do to make it more successful. Sarah, some of the things you just mentioned that would be pertinent to commissions of any sort. So let's talk a little more specifically about what a commission could do to help catalyze action in the food and agriculture space. So what are your thoughts on that? Well, there are definitely some cautions. There are a large number of actors in the space. We're also moving into a time, like I said, where people are demanding more bottom up and inclusive approaches rather than ones that could be perceived as really top down and elite. We're trying to think more holistically about development agendas. There's definitely a danger of biting off too much, but keeping all of these in mind, we ultimately decided based on our research and our interviews, that if you did it properly, a commission actually really could be helpful. And we came up with a couple ideas. One is that there's a UN Food System Summit planned for 2021 and really was all the other events being canceled for the foreseeable future because of the pandemic. It's kind of the go-to event for food systems and a huge moment for focusing energy and attention. The summit really is going to try to drive a change in the discourse, but also really get political commitments from countries. They've already developed a group of champions that are individuals who represent large networks, but we really think launching some kind of commission in tangent with this and coordinating closely with them could really help to forward the Summit's outcomes. Another option would just be proposing reforms to the institutional setup for food security and agriculture internationally. It's kind of a high risk high reward proposal because it would really be a massive lift and you'd need to have buy-in from the UN Secretary General and some other powerful government. But so much of what we hear in the food and Ag space is how fragmented it is, how there's so many overlapping mandates of different agencies and the financing needs to be better targeted and coordinated like the World Food Program, starting to do more development oriented work instead of just emergency relief. And that's really the role of some of the other roam based agencies traditionally. We kind of need a step back and an examination of who's doing what and how to better specialize amongst those groups. And a lot of those groups were launched around emergency events. The massive shifts in the world that we're seeing through COVID may actually open people up to thinking differently about how those institutions are structured. Finally we think a more narrow focus on a Sustainable Development Goal Two at a global level could be helpful. Some sort of specific topic with a defined problem statement and theory of change could maybe produce some traction. Two ideas that came up for us were a focus on food security and conflict, especially since some of the latest FAO reports show that conflict is one of the key drivers of food security globally. The other one would be making a political case for increased investment in agriculture. Bios: Geoffrey Gertz is a Fellow in the Global Economy and Development Program at the Brookings Institution and a Research Associate at the Global Economic Governance Programme in Oxford. His research focuses on international political economy, including the politics of trade and foreign investment, geoeconomic competition, investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS), commercial diplomacy, and private sector development in fragile states. He earned an MPhil and DPhil in International Relations from the University of Oxford, and a BA in Economics from DePauw University. Sarah Zoubek oversees the execution of the WFPC's strategic plan and daily operations, including managing the global portfolio of projects. Sarah is an experienced research analyst, project manager, and strategy consultant whose work has concentrated on food production value chains and producer incentives for sustainable business practices. Her previous work includes identifying potential levers to aid adoption of sustainable practices within the Iowa corn and Brazilian beef value chains, designing economic case studies featuring Midwestern producers who successfully employ soil health practices, and aiding the launch of a nationwide soil health campaign. She earned a Master of Environmental Management degree at Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment in 2013. Prior to her graduate studies, Sarah worked at New York Sun Works (NYSW), a non-profit organization that teaches environmental science through the lens of sustainable food production. She also holds a BA in English from Yale University.

Deze week hebben we een gast met wie we gaan praten over ethiek en artificiële intelligentie. Hij is hoogleraar Techniekfilosofie bij de Universiteit Twente, waar hij ook co-directeur van het design lab is. Hij is voorzitter van UNESCO – COMEST, de World Commission on the Ethics of Science and Technology. Zijn onderzoek richt zich op de filosofie van mens-technologierelaties en heeft tot doel bij te dragen aan filosofische theorie, ethische reflectie en praktijken van ontwerp en innovatie. In de muziekrubriek hebben we deze week een song "Titans" van singer-songwriter Leine.

Mariasole Bianco"Pianeta Oceano"Rizzoli Editorehttps://www.rizzolilibri.it/BergamoScienza"I nostri pesci mangiano plastica?"incontro con Mariasole BiancoDomenica 18 ottobre, ore 17:00https://bergamoscienza.it/Si sente parlare sempre più di isole o addirittura continenti di plastica negli oceani, e di inquinamento dei mari. Ma qual è la situazione attuale nei mari del mondo e nel Mediterraneo? E cosa sono le microplastiche? Quali sono i rischi per l'ambiente e per la catena alimentare? Perché se i nostri pesci mangiano plastica, noi cosa mangiamo?La nostra vita dipende dal mare, il futuro del mare dipende da noi Il mare: culla della vita, meraviglia della natura capace di dividere come di unire. Da sempre i poeti ne cantano lo splendore e la forza, e popoli interi l'hanno solcato nel corso dei millenni. Ancora oggi offre cibo, lavoro ed energia a metà della popolazione mondiale. Abbiamo chiamato Terra il nostro pianeta, eppure il 71 per cento della sua superficie è ricoperto da distese d'acqua, che nelle loro profondità ospitano l'80 per cento delle specie viventi; esse regolano il clima, producono il 50 per cento dell'ossigeno che respiriamo e assorbono un terzo dell'anidride carbonica prodotta dall'uomo. Ma quanto sappiamo di questo incredibile habitat? Poco, molto poco. Le ricerche hanno portato alla luce appena il cinque per cento dei tesori che nasconde, e le mappe dei fondali oceanici sono meno precise di quelle della Luna o di Marte. Basti pensare che il budget annuale della Nasa finanzierebbe gli studi della Noaa – l'omologa agenzia per l'esplorazione oceanografica – per milleseicento anni. C'è ancora tanto da scoprire, sotto le onde. Ciononostante, ci siamo convinti che l'oceano fosse infinito, quantomeno per risorse e capacità di ripresa. Purtroppo non è così, e questo prezioso ambiente sta cambiando a una velocità mai vista: anno dopo anno si fa sempre più caldo, acido e povero di ossigeno. L'influsso dell'uomo sta minacciando il più grande bacino di biodiversità del pianeta, mettendo in pericolo ogni singola forma di vita. Non ultima, la nostra. Mariasole Bianco, giovane e talentuosa biologa marina, ci mostra in questo volume tutta la bellezza e la fragilità del mare. Con competenza e passione presenta le storie di chi ogni giorno si batte per la salute degli oceani, e ci ricorda come il futuro del pianeta dipenda da essa. Perché siamo arrivati a un punto critico, ma c'è ancora speranza: una soluzione è possibile, se ciascuno fa la sua parte.Mariasole Bianco: una laurea a Genova in Gestione e conservazione dell'ambiente marino e un master in Australia in Gestione delle aree protette, dal 2012 fa parte della World Commission on Protected Areas e partecipa ai lavori dell'International Union for Conservation of Nature. Nel 2013 ha fondato la onlus Worldrise, che crea e promuove progetti per la tutela dell'ambiente marino. Nel 2015 la rivista americana «Origin» l'ha inserita tra i cento Ocean Heroes, e nel 2019 ha ricevuto il riconoscimento DonnAmbiente. Ospite fissa della trasmissione Kilimangiaro, si è affermata come punto di riferimento della comunità italiana e internazionale in qualità di esperta di conservazione dell'ambiente marino.IL POSTO DELLE PAROLEascoltare fa pensarehttps://ilpostodelleparole.it/

What challenges are there to the protection of the Ulu Muda forest reserve and its surrounding area -- home to megafauna like elephants and the primary source of water for more than 4 million people in Perlis, Kedah and Penang. Melisa Idris and Sharaad Kuttan speak to Surin Suksuwan, member of the World Commission on Protected Area.

In this interview, we talk with renowned Indian social activist Medha Patkar. She speaks about many of the social and environmental issues facing India for which she has been a leader and champion in fighting injustice with peaceful protests and marches. This includes dam and watershed projects which displace populations while also devastating farmland.Medha Patkar is the founder member of the 35 years old people's movement called Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA). NBA has been engaged in a struggle for justice for the people affected by the dam projects related to the Sardar Sarovar dams project, especially those whose homes will be submerged, but have not yet been rehabilitated. She is also one of the founders of the National Alliance of People's Movements (NAPM), an alliance of hundreds of progressive people's organisations. In addition to the above, Patkar was a commissioner on the World Commission on Dams, which did a thorough research on the environmental, social, political and economic aspects and impacts of the development of large dams globally and their alternatives. She was the national co-ordinator and then convener of National Alliance of People's Movements for many years and now continues to be an advisor to NAPM. Under the banner of NAPM she has participated in and supported various mass struggles across India against inequity, non-sustainability, displacement and injustice in the name of development. Her work challenges Casteism, Communalism and all kinds of discrimination.The post Episode 92: Interview with Medha Patkar, social activist appeared first on The Sustainability Agenda.

A body of moral principles derived from God’s natural creation, the “natural law” sheds light on right and wrong in human conduct. What does the natural law teach us about virtue? To what extent does virtue require, by its very nature, such supports as faith and community? Listen as natural law expert, Robert P. George, for an investigation into these timely questions.Dr. Robert P. George is McCormick Professorship of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University.He has several times been a Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School. He has served as Chairman of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom and on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and the President’s Council on Bioethics. He has also served as the U.S. member of UNESCO’s World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology. He was a Judicial Fellow at the Supreme Court of the United States, where he received the Justice Tom C. Clark Award. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Swarthmore, he holds the degrees of J.D. and M.T.S. from Harvard University and the degrees of D.Phil., B.C.L., D.C.L., and D.Litt. from Oxford University, in addition to twenty-one honorary doctorates. He is a recipient of the U.S. Presidential Citizens Medal, the Honorific Medal for the Defense of Human Rights of the Republic of Poland, the Canterbury Medal of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, the Bradley Prize, the Irving Kristol Award of the American Enterprise Institute, and Princeton University’s President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching.His books include Making Men Moral: Civil Liberties and Public Morality and In Defense of Natural Law (both published by Oxford University Press).Dr. David Corey is the Director of Baylor in Washington and a professor of Political Science focusing on political philosophy in the Honors Program at Baylor University. He is also an affiliated member of the departments of Philosophy and Political Science. He was an undergraduate at Oberlin, where he earned a BA in Classics from the College and a BMus in music from the Conservatory. He studied law and jurisprudence at Old College, Edinburgh before taking up graduate work in political philosophy at Louisiana State University. He is the author of two books, The Just War Tradition (with J. Daryl Charles) (2012) and The Sophists in Plato’s Dialogues (2015). He has written more than two dozen articles and book chapters in such venues as the Review of Politics, History of Political Thought, Modern Age, Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy, and the Cambridge Dictionary of Political Thought. His current projects, Rethinking American Politics, and Liberalism & The Modern Quest for Freedom, examine the loss of healthy political association in the United States and offer strategies for reform.Support the show (http://www.faithandlaw.org/donate)

What is the philosophy of robotics technology? Can capitalism and socialism integrate for making sure the robots are not going to lead to social inequality? Very intriguing and thoughtful discussion with Prof.Peter-Paul Verbeek, The chairman of UNESCO’s World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology, The philosopher of technology, chair of the philosophy department at the University of Twente. Prof. Peter-Paul was one of the 18 members of this worldwide network of experts studying ethical issues related to science and technology. In this episode, we discussed the philosophy of robotics technology and ethical considerations for shaping the technology and how we can decrease social inequality while enhancing technology and more. I hope you would enjoy this episode.

Episode 27: Drawing on two decades of field experience studying resilient societies in Africa, Asia and the Americas, James Workman is a pioneering writer and entrepreneur in the design of equitable conservation markets for freshwater and marine resources. As a founder of the online water savings trading platform, AquaShares (http://aquashares.com), he has helped establish water markets in California and Morocco involving hundreds of users, and is now calling on this experience to aid California GSAs and their basin stakeholders in designing and operating cap-and-trade markets to better comply with SGMA. Prior to establishing these markets, Workman was the Deputy Director of the Environmental Defense Fund's Solutions Center for fisheries markets, launched the International Water Association's magazine The Source, was senior advisor to the World Commission on Dams under Nelson Mandela, and served as a White House appointed speechwriter to U.S. Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt. Workman is author of the award-winning Heart of Dryness: How the last Bushmen can help us endure the coming age of permanent drought (https://www.amazon.com/Heart-Dryness-Bushmen-Permanent-Drought/dp/0802715583), and co-author of the forthcoming Sea Change: The fishermen's revolution that is replenishing life offshore – and on. He studied at Yale & Oxford, and taught at Wesleyan, Whitman and Bates colleges, but his real education came from blowing up dams, releasing wolves, restoring wildland fires, guiding safaris, smuggling water to dissidents, breaking down in Africa's Kalahari Desert, getting married, and becoming a dad – although not ranked in that order. This episode's motto: "Subsidies help bad farmers continue to make bad decisions." Links: All in auctions: http://www.aguanomics.com/2012/12/all-in-auctions-is-published.html Priests and Programmers: http://www.aguanomics.com/2009/01/priests-and-programmers-review.html

What does "sustainability" mean? Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland is famous for serving three terms as the Prime Minister of Norway and chairing the World Commission on Environment and Development -- the Brundtland Commission -- which defined sustainable development as "development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs." In this episode we discuss Dr. Brundtland's autobiography, Madam Prime Minister, her life and accomplishments, and her contribution to our modern understanding of sustainability. (Dr. Brundtland at a conference in 2014 (image by Luiz Munhoz)) Want more podcast episodes? You can find them all on our podcast page, or you can subscribe on iTunes or Stitcher. #### **ABOUT THIS EPISODE** Related links: Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development: Our Common Future (1987) Madam Prime Minister - autobiography by Gro Harlem Brundtland (2002) Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology Interviewee: Liz Laudadio Producer/Host: Miriam Krause Music: Ketsa

Topic:Innovative Solutions for Resilient Water Management In This Episode:[02:43] Guest James Workman is introduced. [03:42] James talks about his book and what motivated him to travel to Africa. [07:13] James shares why he created programming based on what he saw in Africa. [08:50] James describes AquaShares. [11:51] What measures are people taking to reduce their water use? [13:37] James talks about AquaShares’ partners and the incentives for homeowners. [16:43] How many people have signed on to participate in the program? [19:07] James shares what success looks like for this program and for water resilience in general. [23:05] James states where people can go to learn more about AquaShares. Guest and Organization:James Workman creates conservation markets for water and marine life. He wrote the award-winning Heart of Dryness: How the Last Bushmen Can Help Us Endure the Coming Age of Permanent Drought, and is co-author with Amanda Leland of the forthcoming Sea Change: How Fishermen Are Irreversibly Restoring Life Offshore – and On. Workman studied at Yale & Oxford, taught at Wesleyan & Whitman, but his real education came blowing up dams, releasing wolves, restoring wildfires, guiding safaris, smuggling water to dissidents, breaking down in Africa’s Kalahari Desert, and becoming a dad. An investigative journalist, he served as White House appointee to U.S. Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt, later joining the World Commission on Dams under Nelson Mandela. In San Francisco, he writes for Environmental Defense Fund, edits the International Water Association’s magazine, The Source, and is founder of AquaShares Inc., the world’s first online water savings market. https://twitter.com/droughtdoctor (Follow James Workman on Twitter) Take Away Quotes: “A lot of problems, especially environmental problems, can be solved by regulation alone. You just say, okay, that factory over there is pouring its waste, its sewage, its pollution into the air, into the water; we’ve got to just put a cap on that, lock that. But what do you do with the 50,000 people who are all competing with each other for the same resource? And that’s the tragedy that…makes all, to me, conservation issues interesting.” “The approach of AquaShares is to give people a sense that they’re not just renting access to as much water as they want, as cheap as they want, but they have an ownership stake, that they’re stewards of that water that they save, and that they can profit from saving water, not just feel good about it.” “One of the biggest water users in every city is the city itself. There’s lots of water loss, in some cases, 10, 20, 30 percent, and while, for more than a decade or more, utilities have been pointing a finger at families and firms, saying, ‘You should save water, you should save water,’ utilities themselves had real no incentive to spend $100,000 to systematically find and fix their leaks, manage their water pressure, and address that, because it might only save a few thousand dollars’ worth of water.” “It’s a crazy business model for me, but success is when we go out of business; there’s no need for AquaShares anymore because everyone is autonomous, they’re using the bare-minimum water, there’s nothing left to trade, there’s no more water that can go towards a higher-value use.” Resources: http://aquashares.com/ (AquaShares ) http://www.smart-markets.com/ (Smart Markets) https://www.newpartners.org/ (2018 New Partners for Smart Growth Conference – February 1-3, 2018)

Al founded Blue Ventures in 2003 to demonstrate that effective marine conservation requires pragmatic, entrepreneurial and locally-led approaches to marine and fisheries management. Within Blue Ventures Al is responsible for leading an interdisciplinary and international team of over 150 colleagues working worldwide. His work focuses on developing scalable solutions to marine environmental challenges, through approaches that make marine conservation make economic sense to coastal communities. Alongside his work with Blue Ventures Al is an Honorary Fellow of the University of Edinburgh School of Geosciences, a member of the World Commission on Protected Areas, and a member of the Marine Stewardship Council’s Stakeholder Council. Al is a TED Fellow, an Ashoka Fellow, and 2015 winner of the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship and the WWF Duke of Edinburgh Conservation Award. His work was highly commended by HRH the Duke of Cambridge in the 2013 inaugural Tusk Conservation Awards, and has twice been recognised by the UK Chancellor in the ‘Enterprising Young Brits’ awards. He has received the IUCN World Conservation Union’s Young Conservationist Award and the Condé Nast Environment Award. Widely published in peer reviewed literature and the wider media, Al is a regular writer and speaker. See his work in the TED blog, the Telegraph, the Guardian, BBC news, and WWF’s Fuller Symposium.

The term sustainability and phrase sustainable development were popularised with the publication of Our Common Future, a report released by the World Commission on Environment and Development in 1987. Also known as the Brundlandt report, it introduced the widely quoted definition of sustainable development: -development which meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs-. The report argued that economic development and social equity were necessary in order to protect the environmental and that the goals of economic well-being, equity and environmental protection could be reconciled if social and environmental considerations were systematically integrated into all decisions affecting the economy. Since the publication of the Brundtland report sustainable development has been widely accepted as a guiding principle, and yet the concept remains elusive and implementation has proven difficult. This is caused by the fact that economic development, social equity, and environmental protection are contradictory areas that are difficult to be reconciled. As a result the report is seen by many as a landmark in environmental politics and diplomacy while others decry it as a missed opportunity. In a newly published book entitled Defining Sustainable Development for Our Common Future. A History of the World Commission on Environment and Development Iris Borowy critically examines the history and impact of the Brundtland Commission. The book explores how the work of the Commission brought together contradictory expectations and world views in the concept of sustainable development as a way to reconcile these profound differences. This episode of Exploring Environmental History examines these contradictions as well as the historical context of sustainability with the author of Defining Sustainable Development, Iris Borowy. She is a researcher at the Institute of History, Theory and Ethics in Medicine of RWTH Aachen University, in Germany. Music credits: Where You Are Now by Zapac, Piano 8 by AT by Martijn de Boer (NiGiD), Life Isnt Everything by Hans Atom. All available from ccMixter

Ashok Gangadean (Haverford College) is Professor of Philosophy and was the first Director of the Margaret Gest Center for Cross–Cultural Study of Religion at Haverford. His primary concern throughout his career has been to clarify the universal logos or common ground at the heart of human reason and rational life. He is Founder–Director of the Global Dialogue Institute, which seeks to embody the dialogical powers of global reason in all aspects of cultural life. His book, Meditative Reason: Toward Universal Grammar (l993) attempts to open the way to global reason. A companion volume, Between Worlds: The Emergence of Global Reason (l997) explores the dialogical common ground between diverse worlds. His forthcoming book, The Awakening of the Global Mind further develops these themes for the general reader. He is co–convenor of the recently formed World Commission on Global Consciousness and Spirituality which brings eminent world leaders together in sustained deep dialogue to cultivate global vision and wisdom for the new millennium. This high level Commission has been supported generously by the Breuninger Foundation and has held annual retreats in the past three years at their Wasan Island Retreat