Podcasts by Transformers | The sustainability change makers
How business people and policy makers are transforming the future to create a more sustainable one. The guests are people from the industry, environmental influencers and politicians driving the change into a low carbon and green economy.
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Leaving No One Behind from 2023-09-29T14:53:20
Neighbourhood Economics is the story of how an organisation united 35,000 people living in a Suburb of Stockholm,Sweden
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The Phosphorus Paradox from 2023-09-18T12:12:13
Meet Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize Awarded journalist for The New Yorker Magazine and Pär Larshans, Sustainability Director at Ragn-Sells, leader of the transition into a circular economy.
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Fireside chats are now in Transformers from 2023-08-24T15:57:26
Get connected to find out about controversial topics related to Sustainability, Climate Change and Leadership
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Urban Plant Power from 2023-05-24T22:39:15
How plants and gardens have the power to make our cities greener and how AIPH – the International Association of Horticultural Producers created the World Green City Award for worldwide cities. Mee...
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Karl-Henrik Robert|System change – but How? from 2023-03-07T23:19:06
Meet Karl-Henrik Robert, Professor of Strategic Sustainable Development and founder of the Natural Step Framework.
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Margot Wallström|Chemical legislation, Blood diamonds and illegal logging in the Amazon from 2022-12-26T15:43:07
Leadership in Politics with Margot Wallström, a former EU Commissioner for Environment and Vice President of the EU.
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Human Forest|E-bike start up–Neighbourhood Economics in London from 2022-12-10T15:22:37
Meet the team of Human Forest Augustin Guilisasti, CEO and Founder Caroline Steton, and Will Jansen. Human Forest is a carbon-negative e-bike and e-moped sharing company based in London in my neigh...
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Kari Aina Eik|Transformers Urbanist–Changemaker from 2022-11-13T21:01:53
Meet Kari Aina Eik. She has dedicated her life to bridging the worlds of the United Nations, global markets and cities and has worked to establish several UN and international programs for sustaina...
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Mats Andersson&Sasja Beslik|ESG Investment–Speed, Scale and Greenwash from 2022-10-31T23:20:03
Featuring: Mats Andersson, Former CEO of the Swedish Pension fund AP4 and awarded as Chief Investment Officer’s Lifetime Achievement Award for his leadership of AP4. Sasja Beslik, Investment strate...
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Joel Makower|What’s Green Business? from 2022-10-14T22:48
Joel Makower is a remarkable storyteller. In the last 30 years, he´s demonstrated his ability to tell compelling stories that both inform and inspire business leaders toward profitable action. Joel...
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Dr. Audrey Timm and Bill Hardy|Power to the plants from 2022-10-08T01:14:23
Meet Bill Hardy and Dr. Audrey Timm. They represent AIPH, the international association of horticulture producers and lead on this non-profit organisations green city initiative we talk about The G...
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Professor Johan Rockström|The planetary Steward from 2022-09-02T13:27:10
Professor Johan Rockström is the Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and a Professor at the Institute of Earth and Environmental Science at Potsdam University. Meet Profes...
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Johan Rockström (part 2)|8 years left to transform the future of humanity or destabilize the planet from 2022-08-18T03:46:40
Professor Johan Rockström is the Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and a Professor at the Institute of Earth and Environmental Science at Potsdam University. Meet Profes...
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Johan Rockström (part 1)|A minute to midnight: Reversing environmental tipping points from 2022-07-27T23:02:40
Professor Johan Rockström is the Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and a Professor at the Institute of Earth and Environmental Science at Potsdam University. Meet Profes...
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Sustainable Cities a vision or a reality? from 2022-05-16T18:13:58
This week 11-13 May, when the City of Malmö hosts ICLEI’s World Congress of Local and Regional Governments dedicated to sustainable urban development I decided to shine a light on some of the...
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Sandrine Dixson-Declève|The Limits to Growth and the Earth4All from 2022-05-04T15:57:11
Meet Sandrine Dixson-Declève, The Co-President of the Club of Rome. She Chairs the European Commission, Expert Group on Economic and Societal Impact of Research & Innovation and she is a member...
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Lisa Kurbiel|Money with meaning from 2022-04-13T14:40:31
How to promote financing solutions and accelerate the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals – the SDGs. Meet Lisa Kurbiel, The head of the Secretariat for the Joint SDG Fund in the U...
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Kadri Simson, Anna Borg and Anders Egelrud|EU Energy in transition–what a shift towards clean energy looks like? from 2022-03-23T14:42:44
Transformers podcast looks into European dependency of fossil fuels. Russian’s war on Ukraine has exposed the price and negative side of consuming Russian oil and gas. The podcast is a summar...
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Christina Lampe-Önnerud|The Battery Queen reigns supreme from 2022-03-04T19:07:25
Christina Lampe-Önnerud is known for her pioneering work in developing Lithium-ion batteries for portable electronics, electric vehicles, and utilities. She is currently the CEO of Cadenza Innovati...
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Anders Wijkman|A journey from linear to circular economy from 2022-01-24T20:13:17
Anders Wijkman – an opinion maker, writer and chairman of the Governing Board of Climate-KIC – the largest public-private partnership on innovation for low-carbon solutions in the European Un...
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Stuart L. Hart|The Bottom of the Pyramid from 2022-01-07T19:53:55
Stuart L. Hart is one of the world’s top authorities on the implications of environment and poverty for business strategy. According to Bloomberg Businessweek, he is “one of the founding fath...
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Anders Egelrud and Charles Secrett|Is Biomass energy a threat or a solution to meet the Climate Crises? from 2021-12-16T17:45:38
COP26 showed an urgent need to accelerate climate actions. Some relate to Forestry, Biomass and Biodiversity. My guests today are Anders Egelrud, CEO of Stockholm Exergi and Charles Secrett, a Clim...
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James O´Toole|Is Sustainability Sustainable? from 2021-11-25T17:33:24
James O´Toole, Professor Emeritus at the University of Southern California’s Business School. O’Toole’s research and writings are in the areas of leadership, ethics, corporate culture, ...
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Sasja Beslik|The stewardship of ESG investment from 2021-10-23T14:46:55
Sasja Beslik is an economist and journalist. He is an ESG expert that helps a large audience understand the ins and outs of ESG. In 2020, Beslik was ranked the world’s most influential person...
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James Hanusa|Designing Inspiration from 2021-09-19T19:00:43
James Hanusa, spearheads the advantgard movement of emerging technology and culture. He is a frequently speaker on innovation, creativity and sustainability. James was one of the people leading the...
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Gunter Pauli|The entrepreneurial father of the Blue Economy from 2021-08-25T12:41:21
Gunter Pauli is an entrepreneur in business, culture, science, politics and the environment. Gunter’s development of The Blue Economy resulted in a book published in 2015 called “The B...
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Peggy Liu|Is it time for the Tornado movement? from 2021-07-27T14:43:25
Peggy Liu is the Chairperson of JUCCCE (Joint US–China Collaboration for Clean Energy). She has been given several kudos including Hero of the Environment (Time), “Women to Watch in Asia” (Forbes) ...
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Teresa Fogelberg|How multistakeholder collaboration can drive change from 2021-07-09T15:37:34
Teresa Fogelberg is a former top diplomat at the Netherlands ministries of Foreign Affairs, a OECD Working Party Chair, private sector advisor of the UN Secretary General and executive and co-found...
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Pankaj Bhatia|Measures that matter from 2021-06-22T14:17:16
Pankaj Bhatia is the Deputy Director of the World Resource Institutes Climate Program and Director of GHG Protocol. As Deputy Director, he helps manage one of World Resource Institutes’ large...
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Pankaj Bathia | Measures that matter from 2021-06-22T14:17:16
Pankaj Bhatia is the Deputy Director of the World Resource Institutes Climate Program and Director of GHG Protocol. As Deputy Director, he helps manage one of World Resource Institutes’ large...
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Pankaj Bhatia | Measures that matter from 2021-06-22T14:17:16
Pankaj Bhatia is the Deputy Director of the World Resource Institutes Climate Program and Director of GHG Protocol. As Deputy Director, he helps manage one of World Resource Institutes’ large...
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Kafi Dixon|Producer of the documentary A Reckoning in Boston from 2021-05-21T10:43:17
Kafi Dixon is a Boston bus driver and urban farmer who seeks equity for low-income women of color. In 2017 Kafi founded Boston’s first Cooperative for Women – a Worker-owned Urban Farm Food C...
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Jytte Guteland|The new EU Climate Law from 2021-04-22T10:48:33
Jytte Guteland is a member of the European Parliament for the Social Democrats since 2014. She was the lead negotiator for the European Union Climate Law that reached a deal after 14 hours of talks...
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Lena Miranda|Scale Up Innovation–Societies in Transition from 2021-04-08T14:47:10
Lena Miranda is the CEO of the Science Park in the city of Linköping in Sweden. Science parks aim to increase the wealth of their community by promoting the culture of innovation and the competitiv...
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Svante Axelsson|World leaders to be inspired for actions from 2021-03-23T13:39:12
Svante Axelsson is the Swedish national coordinator for Fossil Free Sweden, a governmental initiative that brings together companies, municipalities, regions and organisations that stands behind th...
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Uffe Elbæk (part 2)|Politics that matters from 2021-03-07T11:00:46
The music Freedom to Love by The Savage Rose was selected by Uffe Elbaek. Politics has always been a part of Uffe’s life, from Social Liberals, the alternative to the Independent Green Party....
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Uffe Elbæk (part 1) | At the forefront of Education from 2021-02-25T10:38:22
The music Freedom to Love by The Savage Rose was selected by Uffe Elbaek. Uffe Elbæk is a journalist, politician and system entrepreneur. He has been Minister of Culture in Denmark and since 2011 U...
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Uffe Elbæk (part 1)|At the forefront of Education from 2021-02-25T10:38:22
The music Freedom to Love by The Savage Rose was selected by Uffe Elbaek. Uffe Elbæk is a journalist, politician and system entrepreneur. He has been Minister of Culture in Denmark and since 2011 U...
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Albert Nashon&Renalda Mwanyuma|Digital revolution in Kenya from 2021-02-10T16:17:44
Albert Nashon and Renalda Mwanyuma are from Nairobi, Kenya. Albert is a social entrepreneur and the founder of The Slumcode Group, an organisation that promotes digital inclusion to less advantaged...
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Epi Ludvik feat. Eva-Lena Skalstad|Crowdsourcing: what is it and how it works? from 2021-01-26T15:12:21
Epi Ludvik is a leader in the world of Crowdsourcing. He is the founder of Crowdsourcing Week, an organisation that promotes the engagement of crowds or groups for common goals across the globe, th...
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Marc J. Lane|Money with meaning – the Mission-Driven Venture from 2021-01-13T17:08:42
Marc J. Lane is a business and tax attorney, financial advisor and practise law at the Law Office of Marc J Lane in Chicago, USA. He is an expert on entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial finance. Ma...
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Jonathon Porritt|Hope in Hell, a“call to action”on the Climate Emergency from 2020-12-22T11:27:59
Jonathon Porritt is the Founder and Director of Forum for the Future – a UK sustainability organisation. Leading environmentalist, Porritt has advised UK governments in sustainability, helped...
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Bert-Ola Bergstrand|Creating the conditions that encourages systems to change from 2020-12-02T13:28:48
Bert-Ola Bergstrand is the initiator, founder and co-founder of a number of international platforms and networks in the field of “crowd-impact economy” that involve millions of people across the gl...
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Mark Watts|The power of mayors from 2020-11-19T14:49:57
Mark Watts is the Executive Director of C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group. The organisation grew from 63 to 96 of the world greatest cities, representing one quarter of the global economy. Mark W...
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Phil Ruxton&Marco Carmini|Kayapo Indians, Croda and COVID-19 from 2020-11-03T14:48:53
Phil Ruxton is Vice President of Sustainability of Croda and helped the Executive Committee and Board of Croda International to develop sustainability goals that will make Croda land, people and cl...
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Mats Andersson, Gregory Wendt and Nick Sramek|How capital markets can become sustainable and climate crisis proof from 2020-10-13T13:37:48
Mats Anderson was the first CEO to decarbonise a pension fund – the US$ 43bn AP4; Gregory Wendt has more than 30 years of experience in the capital market and sustainable finance; and Nick Sr...
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Cecilia Repinski|Green Digital Finance Innovator from 2020-09-25T14:03:38
Cecilia Repinski is the Executive Director of Stockholm Green Digital Finance, a fintech company designed to support the scaling up of green debt market by connecting green investors with potential...
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John Elkington|The CSR Ambassador from 2020-09-10T11:00:55
John Elkington is a world authority on corporate responsibility and sustainable capitalism, a bestselling author and serial entrepreneur. He is known for his role as Ambassador for the Future.
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Kristina Persson|Governance that Matter from 2020-08-25T11:09:16
Kristina Persson is an Economist and the former Minister for Nordic Cooperation and Strategic Development. Persson was a Swedish MP and MEP during the 1990s. In 2005, Persson created the Think Tank...
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Pär Larshans|The Circular Business Changemaker from 2020-08-11T18:45:04
Pär Larshans is a winner of the Trust Across America-Trust Around the World award for global leaders for his role in the transformation into a circular economy. He is Director of Sustainability and...
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Anders Egelrud|The Climate Positive City 2025 from 2020-06-05T18:24:36
Anders Egelrud, CEO of Stockholm Exergi - one of Sweden’s most sustainable and profitable energy company. He will make Stockholm Exergi Climate Positive by 2025.
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Sean Kidney|The Green Finance Market and the Climate Bonds Initiative from 2020-06-05T16:51:05
Sean Kidney, key influencer in the green finance market. CEO and Co-founder of the Climate Bonds Initiative.. Sean is working to reach a $100 trillion green bond market to deliver a low carbon econ...
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Bo Frank|The Mayor that will deliver a Fossil Free City 2030 from 2020-06-05T16:37:49
Bo Frank is one of the key influencers in the City of Växjö. Exmayor and vice mayor from 1991 to 2016, Frank is nowPresident of the City Council. His mission is to make the city fossil free in 2030...
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