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Are European green policies competing with clean technologies from China? Benedek Jávor, European green politician

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2557337/fan_mail/new] 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 and green politician. Currently he is Head of the Representation of Budapest to the EU. Between 2014-2019 he was Member of the European Parliament, and the first vice-chair of the Committee for Environment, Public Health and Food Safety; green coordinator and substitute member of the Committee of  Industry, Research and Energy; as well as the Budgetary Control Committee. As MEP he focused on climate-, environmental and energy-policy, anti-corruption policy and Roma inclusion during his term there. Previously he was also member of the Hungarian National Assembly and one of the founding green politicians of the country. Notes:  7:17: European Green Deal: https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/priorities-2019-2024/european-green-deal_en [https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/priorities-2019-2024/european-green-deal_en] 7:56: European Climate Law setting 2050 as the deadline for Europe’s economy and society to become climate neutral: https://climate.ec.europa.eu/eu-action/european-climate-law_en [https://climate.ec.europa.eu/eu-action/european-climate-law_en] Also: legally binding target of net zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2050. 9:35: European climate policy and climate diplomacy: https://www.eeas.europa.eu/eeas/eu-energy-and-climate-diplomacy-%E2%80%93-strengthening-sovereignty-and-advancing-global-clean-transition_en [https://www.eeas.europa.eu/eeas/eu-energy-and-climate-diplomacy-%E2%80%93-strengthening-sovereignty-and-advancing-global-clean-transition_en] 10:10: China climate leadership: https://unfccc.int/news/un-climate-chief-in-beijing-china-s-climate-leadership-is-helping-accelerate-the-global-energy [https://unfccc.int/news/un-climate-chief-in-beijing-china-s-climate-leadership-is-helping-accelerate-the-global-energy] 12:20: China as the biggest emitter of GHGs: https://interactive.carbonbrief.org/the-carbon-brief-profile-china/index.html [https://interactive.carbonbrief.org/the-carbon-brief-profile-china/index.html] 14:10: China setting the trend globally in electric mobility: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHxZM5dOAg8 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHxZM5dOAg8] 19:40: the dilemma of choice regarding European agricultural development and the social contract with farmers: https://agriculture.ec.europa.eu/cap-my-country/sustainability/socially-sustainable-cap_en [https://agriculture.ec.europa.eu/cap-my-country/sustainability/socially-sustainable-cap_en] 24:20: research study (in Hungarian) about people’s perception of the environment and the green transition: https://mmaa.hu/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Zold_Fordulat-tanulmany_A4.pdf [https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmmaa.hu%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2022%2F01%2FZold_Fordulat-tanulmany_A4.pdf&data=05%7C02%7CGabor.Sarlos%40roehampton.ac.uk%7Cc2687a9ff1784213bebf08deb3fac771%7C5fe650635c3747fbb4cce42659e607ed%7C0%7C0%7C639146087197247845%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=T4bwY4INZGObKmBh0nxgXev1k%2Ftqnc7g9lsUoHmMbmY%3D&reserved=0] Igazságos Zöld Átállás – Jávor Benedek bemutatta a tanulmányt   - Zöld Hang [https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fzoldhang.hu%2F2022%2F01%2F07%2Figazsagos-zold-atallas-javor-benedek-bemutatta-a-tanulmanyt%2F&data=05%7C02%7CGabor.Sarlos%40roehampton.ac.uk%7Cc2687a9ff1784213bebf08deb3fac771%7C5fe650635c3747fbb4cce42659e607ed%7C0%7C0%7C639146087197210459%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=nl5d2E8a2O%2FMPH692nVlxKRsn9S%2FhtGl7tcpqxQSeS0%3D&reserved=0] 26:45:  we need at least two Earths to live at the current levels 33:05: the green transition is the solution to your social and economic concerns 32.30: Austrian minister of Environment, Leonore Gewessler https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonore_Gewessler [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonore_Gewessler] and the redistribution of environment tax revenues in Austria, based on social needs: https://greenfiscalpolicy.org/austria-announces-carbon-tax-offset-by-reduction-in-other-taxes/ [https://greenfiscalpolicy.org/austria-announces-carbon-tax-offset-by-reduction-in-other-taxes/] vs. 35:25 the planned introduction of the climate tax in France and the gilets jaunts movement: https://hir.harvard.edu/frances-yellow-vest-movement-and-the-global-debate-on-climate-change/ [https://hir.harvard.edu/frances-yellow-vest-movement-and-the-global-debate-on-climate-change/] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2210422421000587 [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2210422421000587] 36:10: rapid fire quiz: * Life style Limits to growth Life cycle assessment 37:50: the game changing book of Limits to Growth by Dennis and Daniela Meadows 42:00: the transformation of green politics and the ‘mixed fortunes’ of green parties in Europe: https://eu.boell.org/en/2024/12/19/2024-review-green-parties-face-mixed-fortunes-amid-anti-government-backlash [https://eu.boell.org/en/2024/12/19/2024-review-green-parties-face-mixed-fortunes-amid-anti-government-backlash] 47:30: boost to green politics leading to social transition and a more just, more fair, more sustainable and more democratic society If you liked the episode, make sure to follow Ready, Steady, Green! on your favourite podcast channel, share the episode with your friends and invite others to listen. 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Why increased risk literacy is key to managing climate challenges - Rodrigo Souza, risk management academic

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2557337/fan_mail/new] 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 academic experience risk management, corporate governance, internal controls and internal and external auditing, and related areas including cost and management control accounting. He is especially interested in the implementation of risk management in relation to controllership, audit, corporate governance, environmental management and business planning. Highlights of the episode: 10:23: Irreversible climate change might be happening much sooner than 2050. People, governments, institutions, and individuals must think about climate resilience.  11:53: David Spiegelhalter from Cambridge University, a statistician from the Royal Society, talks about risk literacy: https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.1191181 12:53 report from the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries about the IPCC report and about climate change fundamentally affecting human life taking place as early as 2035: https://actuaries.org.uk/media/gebdhxzi/climate-emergency-final-report.pdf https://actuaries.org.uk/media/isvotyer/parasol-lost.pdf 14:45: climate change as an interconnected risk 17:30: about availability bias 21:20: about the importance of changing the rhetoric and the framing of climate change 22:34: it is essential to move from observation mode to action mode 23:00 rapid fire quiz with letter 'K': * Key Performance Indicators, KPIs * Kyoto Protocol, and in general, global agreements Note: 24:10: Larry Fink pronouncement earier this year: https://www.cnbc.com/video/2026/04/14/watch-cnbcs-full-interview-with-blackrock-ceo-larry-fink.html 24:20: adding another ‘E’, Economic, before ESG, Environmental, Social and Governance 24:35 People, planet and profit vs people, planet and prosperity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnu_xGel2xg https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeroenkraaijenbrink/2019/12/10/what-the-3ps-of-the-triple-bottom-line-really-mean/ 29:18: So, for instance, for the first time in history, neuroscientists have verified that the IQ of people is decreasing with AI: https://thequantumrecord.com/philosophy-of-technology/global-iq-decline-rise-of-ai-assisted-thinking/ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd6xz12j6pzo 30:11: AI as a global challenge to climate change 30:49: Oxford professor, Juliane Reinecke, about the desirable worlds: https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:2e91cff1-bda2-43fa-86dc-b1e6d48c48b4/files/s2514nn59z 37:14: why it is important to become risk literate in the everyday life 39:02: further research and paralels to earlier crises: https://www.aicpa-cima.com/resources/download/building-and-enhancing-organisational-resilience-before-and-after-covid-19 If you liked the episode, make sure to follow Ready, Steady, Green! on your favourite podcast channel, share the episode with your friends and invite others to listen. You can catch up with our earlier episodes and tell who would you like to hear next. Help us get the message through: We must act on sustainability now!   This was Gabor Sarlos, with Ready, Steady, Green! podcasting: Ready, Steady, Green [https://readysteadygreen.buzzsprout.com/] news and views: LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/gaborsarlos] action: COPmitment [https://copmitment.com/]

Building Climate Resilience in UK Firms - invitation to join the workshop on the 29 April

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2557337/fan_mail/new] 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 discuss critical and topical issues related to climate change. In this teaser episode we discuss what challenges does the climate crisis bring to companies and why the development of a Climate Resilience Toolkit is essential for them to prosper. I am joined in the studio by Rodrigo Souza, a senior lecturer in finance at the Business School of the University of Roehampton who is one of the co-organisors of the event.  For the detailed programme and to register: https://climate-resilience.uk/ [https://climate-resilience.uk/] https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/climate-resilience-and-emerging-risks-turning-threats-into-opportunities-tickets-1985270060192 [https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/climate-resilience-and-emerging-risks-turning-threats-into-opportunities-tickets-1985270060192] If you liked the episode, make sure to follow Ready, Steady, Green! on your favourite podcast channel, share the episode with your friends and invite others to listen. You can catch up with our earlier episodes and tell who would you like to hear next. Help us get the message through: We must act on sustainability now!   This was Gabor Sarlos, with Ready, Steady, Green! podcasting: Ready, Steady, Green [https://readysteadygreen.buzzsprout.com/] news and views: LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/gaborsarlos] action: COPmitment [https://copmitment.com/]

Why can renewable energy inherently lead to energy injustice? Chitzi Ogbumgbada, environmental law specialist

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2557337/fan_mail/new] 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 global energy justice and demonstrated how this approach could be operationalised through international climate law and international human rights law to address renewable energy injustices. His primary research interests lie at the intersection of international energy and environmental law and are mainly concerned with how legal obligations interact with issues like climate change, energy security, and clean energy, conceptualised through the energy justice framework developed along African philosophy.  5:13: UK Climate Change Act: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2008/27/contents [https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2008/27/contents] 9:15: about consultation with the community to secure extracting of critical minerals in Cornwall 10:15: about the Niger delta and how neglecting led to vice and violence 14:00 free market versus welfarism 17:30: about the distribution of renewable energy benefits across international communities 19:20: COP28, Dubai: the first Global Stocktake: https://unfccc.int/topics/global-stocktake [https://unfccc.int/topics/global-stocktake] 22:20: why it is so difficult to phase out fossil fuels 27:00: about options that save the planet and are gentle on the wallet 29:20: Rapid Fire game with words starting with ‘I’, the 9th letter of the alphabet * IPCC * Industrialisation * Inaction 31:50: there should not be any conflict between industrialisation and conservation 32:55: it is our actions that have caused us climate change and it is our inaction that stops us addressing this issue 34:50: about the African communitarian approach to energy justice 35:40: about the leading professors of the political philosophy of African communitarian approach Professor Thaddeus Metz: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thaddeusmetz/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/thaddeusmetz/] Professor Kwame Gyekye: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwame_Gyekye [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwame_Gyekye] The essence of African comm: relationalism: how we relate to others 44:30: incorporating energy justice in the law school curriculum If you liked the episode, make sure to follow Ready, Steady, Green! on your favourite podcast channel, share the episode with your friends and invite others to listen. You can catch up with our earlier episodes and tell who would you like to hear next. Help us get the message through: We must act on sustainability now!   This was Gabor Sarlos, with Ready, Steady, Green! podcasting: Ready, Steady, Green [https://readysteadygreen.buzzsprout.com/] news and views: LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/gaborsarlos] action: COPmitment [https://copmitment.com/]

Why does your organisation's climate credibility matter? Simon King, senior partner at Edenseven

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2557337/fan_mail/new] 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 achieve their sustainability goals and work towards net zero emissions. Edenseven provides sustainability solutions across a diverse range of industries in both the public and private sectors, for example focusing on buildings, electricity, supply chain, and transport. They develop effective strategies informed by data to ensure quantifiable results that deliver carbon reduction, cost savings, compliance with regulations, and enhanced credibility with stakeholders. Highlights 7:50: About the 3 scopes of carbon emissions 12:25: about Science Based Targets Initiatives (SBTI) 17:40: how should we overcome the bareer that local authorities cannot afford becoming Net Zero 29:20:  78% of millennials, and it's even higher on Gen. Z will consider the climate credibility of the organisation they apply to work for 31:00: University of Roehampton launching both an MSc Business Analytics and a BSc Business Data Analytics programme 40:10: why nature based solutions need to be part of the toolkit 42:00: controversies around carbon offsets  43:10: Rapid Fire with letter 'H', the 8th letter of the alphabet: * Heat pumps * Heat waves * Hydrocarbons 46:00: the wet bulb temperature and the human body  52:02: the biggest thing every individual can do is advocating for change  55:45: the analogy of mandatory seat belts and banning indoor smoking should encourage governments to mandate climate actions as well 58: 41: how carbon border adjustment (CBA) coudl contribute to people paying the full price of products and stop exporting carbon emissions to poorer countries If you liked the episode, make sure to follow Ready, Steady, Green! on your favourite podcast channel, share the episode with your friends and invite others to listen. You can catch up with our earlier episodes and tell who would you like to hear next. Help us get the message through: We must act on sustainability now!   This was Gabor Sarlos, with Ready, Steady, Green! podcasting: Ready, Steady, Green [https://readysteadygreen.buzzsprout.com/] news and views: LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/gaborsarlos] action: COPmitment [https://copmitment.com/]