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Send us Fan Mail Kirsty Crawford argues that conservation of marine life needs to be a collaborative effort, explains how inland waste and litter damage marine ecosystems, shares how children become devoted to sea through nursery rhymes, music, and English literature and how we should let young people lead the fight for cleaner oceans, restored habitats and stopping sewage pollution. Kirsty is the...

Send us Fan Mail Vikram Gandhi  argues why private capital is needed to create a sustainable world. He explains why do Harvard students look at sustainability challenges as business opportunities, what the key lessons from India are about developing while decarbonising and gives insights to addressing the climate crisis as a collective action problem. Vikram is a professor at the Harvard Business...

Send us Fan Mail Benedek Jávor argues that European green policies need to be more effective. How does the social contract with farmers influence the landscape? Is it sustainable that green policies are developed in Europe while related technologies are all pioneered by China? How can a climate tax be turned fair and generate a just prosperity? Benedek is a Hungarian biologist, environmentalist an...

Send us Fan Mail Rodrigo explains how we should manage climate risks, warns that with the current trajectory, a society level climate chaos could happen by 2035? and argues why better risk literacy could help us all plan our future. Rodrigo Souza is a senior lecturer in accounting and risk management at the Business School of the University of Roehampton. He has a significant professional and acad...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the latest episode of Ready, Steady, Green. This time we share a short snippet, to extend invitation to an event that is happening the last week of April in London, at the University of Roehampton. On the 29 April, 10.00-4.00pm London time, the hybrid workshop on ‘Climate Resilience in UK Firms’  invites finance managers, management accountants and risk managers to disc...

Send us Fan Mail Chitzi Ogbumgbada argues why governments should ensure energy security, how the African communitarian approach addresses renewable energy injustices, and why the individual actions of countries will never bring us even close to the goals of the Paris agreement. Chitzi is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Exeter. His PhD thesis developed an African communitarian approach to gl...

Send us Fan Mail Simon King argues how one can make sustainability the competitive edge of their organisation, why climate credibility matters for young people, if sustainability is primarily a management or a technological issue and why local authorities cannot afford to follow net zero. Simon is a senior partner in Edenseven, a management consultancy firm that helps companies of all sizes achiev...

Send us Fan Mail Veronica White explains what makes one bike across the UK, and interview over fifty farming women across the UK. Is there a pattern for sustainable farming in England? How can farms contribute to sustaining food security? Are farmers to adapt more nature-friendly farming practices? How shall we prioritise between competing demands for land use? Veronica is an ESRC funded PhD stude...

Send us Fan Mail Leo Rayman argues why it is both a moral duty and a career advancement opportunity to come up with sustainability solutions, why the atmosphere of a climate tech conference is different to a sustainability conference; how the ability to control the local things will lead to controlling the big stuff; why innovation should not be a dilemma but the fundamental focus and why putting...

Send us Fan Mail Franzisca Weder believes in activist academics who don't just stand on the sidelines; sustainability communication needs to build on exciting and disruptive stories; to underline climate emergency one has to speak about the burning issues that effect everyone, instead of mentioning climate change; people need spaces to come to agreement about what they mean by sustainability;...

Send us Fan Mail Filipe Machado Franca claims it is time that indigenous voices that had been silenced and suffered are finally brought to the table, why nature restoration efforts are more than just throwing seeds in the ground, why sister tree and brother jaguar are our family and how tropical forest fieldwork in Brazil, Ghana and Malaysia help understand what is happening in Sweden and Romania....

Send us Fan Mail Anne Robertson, a professor of ecology at the University of Roehampton in London, speaks about why fieldwork is essential to understand what is happening to our rivers; how cutting back on screen time could help youth volunteering, extended droughts and flooding are proof of the climate change; why is it we don't know where our rivers are coming from and why have COPs lost th...

Send us Fan Mail Ash is an experienced sustainability workshop facilitator and climate educator. He is Director of Climate Clarity whose mission is to raise awareness and empowerment around the climate and ecological crisis using mainly Climate Fresk workshops. What is the future of sustainability education? Is talking about climate in the classroom enough? How shall we get young people engaged in...

Send us Fan Mail Attila Schillinger, Professor of Practice at the University of Oregon talks about youth climate awareness, the role of young people at COP30, differences in interpretations of sustainability, the lack of global climate leadership, the 10th anniversary of the Paris agreement, the importance of connecting global concerns to local actions, the changing role of ESG expectations, and t...