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SEVENTEENx - SDG Convos with Mick HaseSustainability as a Service through measurement and action with Willem OverboschWillem Overbosch is CEO (Chief Executive Officer) & Co-founder of SDG Align on a mission to make sustainable practices a business habit. Their 2021 Good Design Award Winning Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Insights as a service platform delivers unique perspectives across internal and external supply chain stakeholder perspectives.
Over the past 20 years Willem founded and led multiple businesses in Online publishing and Community SaaS (Software as a Service). In 2018 his book ‘Top trends for business leaders’ (in Dutch 'Top trends voor Ondernemers') was a number 1 bestselling management book in The Netherlands, discussing topics on Digital transformation, Business innovation, Sustainable Deve...
2024-02-2736 min
Global Connections Television PodcastProfessor Rolf Schwarz: NATO and the Middle East: In Search of a StrategyRolf Schwarz has served as a political adviser for the Middle East and Africa at NATO Headquarters and as a professor at the NATO Defense College. He is a senior adviser at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Mr. Schwarz holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, University of Geneva He is the author of several articles and books, notably a book on state-building and post-conflict peacebuilding, as well as articles on sustainable development and United Nations Sustainable Development (SDG) financing. In his most recent book - NATO and...
2024-02-2326 min
The reMAKERsSeason 3: Episode 11The economy is just how we produce and provide for one another. So what if we threw out the old indicators of growth and profit, and instead measured its success by our collective wellbeing?On this episode of the reMAKERS podcast, we talk to Amanda Janoo (Economics and Policy Lead) and Lisa Hough-Stewart (Implementation Lead) from the global Wellbeing Economy Alliance — about the countries and businesses that are doing just that. We learn that the term ‘economy’, and the indicators of GDP, stock market growth and employment, didn’t enter the public discourse until the 1930s, as peop...
2023-11-2330 min
The Next PageA UN for the futureA conversation with Swiss Youth Representative, Flora Chiper
This episode with Flora Chiper, Swiss UN Youth Representative for 2023-2025, explores the role of Youth Representatives and their current work, vision and hopes for multilateralism. Flora Chiper is multicultural and multilingual and brings a scientific perspective to the team of Swiss youth reps. She is currently a postgraduate student at the University of Basel, Department of Biomedicine Tissue Engineering Group and was previously at Harvard Medical School researching cartilage regeneration using stem cells. Flora advocates for a more data-driven decision making, long-term thinking and for more m...
2023-10-2729 min
Conversations With CaroleEpisode 003 Working For The Cause: Balancing Family and Business Pursuits with Carol Ann WhiteheadToday’s podcast features Carol Ann Whitehead, an amazing social entrepreneur and civic activist from Manchester, England. She is the Managing Director of the UK based publishing and events agency, “The Zebra Partnership.” Carol Ann is currently living in Northern Ireland, chaperoning her teenage daughter, who is under contract with BBC Television. Carol Ann is one of the most prolific social media mavens on LinkedIn. You won’t want to miss this interview. =================Carol Ann Whitehead is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and an award-winning Managing Director of The Zebra...
2023-09-281h 00
Policy and RightsUnited Nations on Various Global IssuesBriefing by the Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary-GeneralThe following is a near-verbatim transcript of today’s noon briefing by Farhan Haq, Deputy Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.Good afternoon, everyone.**Secretary-General’s TravelsI have travel to announce. Tomorrow morning, the Secretary-General will travel to Washington, D.C., to meet with members of the United States Senate. He accepted an invitation by Senator Patrick Leahy, President pro tempore of the Senate, to meet him and other members of the leadership of the Senate Committee on Appropriations.While on Capitol Hill...
2022-12-1323 min
The Next PageAchieving the SDGs: How Can We Really Measure Progress? A Conversation with Ruzanna Tarverdyan & Edward MishaudToday's episode delves into data. It’s all around us in our daily lives, but how important is data for multilateralism today? Especially, as we look to Agenda 2030, and measuring our progress to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (the SDGs)?
The #NextPagePod is joined by Ruzanna Tarverdyan, Founding President of the Geneva Consensus Foundation, and author of the book, “Measuring sustainable development goals performance”, as well as Edward Mishaud, Acting Director of the SDG Lab at UN Geneva.
How can we really measure if we’re achieving the SDGs? Are countries’ ready to integrate the social, ec...
2022-10-2142 min
Oxford Policy PodReaching the Sustainable Development GoalsIn September 2015, leaders from around the world gathered in New York at the United Nations General Assembly and committed to an ambitious global agenda, setting forth seventeen “Sustainable Development Goals”, or SDGs, to be achieved by 2030. These goals, if accomplished, would mark incredible feats of human history. Unfortunately, the most recent report from the UN Economic and Social Council shows that the world is not on track to meet these targets by the 2030 deadline. This episode of the Oxford Policy Pod will dive into the progress and delays on the SDGs, and understand what it will take to reach thes...
2022-07-1448 min
Swiss Impact with BanerjisReal News and Action on Climate ChangeHost: Ben Banerjee & Sveta Banerjee
Topic: Real News and Action on Climate Change
Guest: Professor Petteri Taalas Secretary-General of the World Meteorological
Organization
Prof. Petteri Taalas is the Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization, with its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. He was appointed to serve as Secretary-General in 2015 by the World Meteorological Congress, the supreme body of the Organization. He took up his position in January 2016 for an initial four-year period and was duly re-elected in 2019 by Congress to serve for a second term of four years. Prior to his appointment as WMO Secretary-General, Prof...
2022-07-091h 01
The Next PageIt Takes A Global Crisis: Episode 4 - Sustainable CitiesWelcome to Episode 4 of 'It Takes a Global Crisis', a series of four special episodes produced by the UN Library & Archives Geneva in collaboration with the SDG Lab. In this last episode, we explore sustainable cities.
According to the United Nations, about 2 out of every 3 people will be living in cities or urban centres by 2050. Did it take a global crisis like the pandemic to highlight what we need for the future of cities? To ensure safe, livable, sustainable spaces? Let’s find out, as our host Edward Mishaud speaks with Dr. Agata Krause, Head of the 2030 Agen...
2022-04-0144 minSwiss Impact with BanerjisAre we meassuring the social impact?Host: Ben Banerjee & Sveta Banerjee
Topic: Are we measuring the Social Impact?
Guest: Juan J. Alarcon, Project Director of the Limmat Foundation
Juan J. Alarcon has a Master’s degree in Economics (Barcelona, 1976) and in Financial Investment (Geneva, 1978). He has also a Diploma for Development Cooperation - NADEL of the ETH (Zurich, 2002) and completed the Advanced Management Program of the IESE Business School (Barcelona, 2008).
From 1980-1985 he was the financial director of an international trading company in Geneva.
From 1985 -2018, J. Alarcon has been the project director of the Limmat Foundation, an...
2022-03-281h 03
UN Catch-Up Dateline GenevaUN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva: Ukraine latest, Kenya’s ‘seeds of hope’ farmers, SDG Book ClubIt’s a month since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, we’ll hear what impact it’s had on the country’s children – more than half of them are now on the move - and the global economy. We’ve also got news of a lean, green and wonderfully healthy farming initiative in Kenya, that’s offering former tobacco growers a much brighter and more prosperous future. And, we find out about a super sustainable development goals book club for young readers – we’ll be talking to 6-year-old Leo Rolf, from Amsterdam, he’s got lots of interesting things to say…
2022-03-2430 minUN Catch-Up Dateline GenevaUN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva: Ukraine latest, Kenya’s ‘seeds of hope’ farmers, SDG Book ClubIt’s a month since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, we’ll hear what impact it’s had on the country’s children – more than half of them are now on the move - and the global economy. We’ve also got news of a lean, green and wonderfully healthy farming initiative in Kenya, that’s offering former tobacco growers a much brighter and more prosperous future. And, we find out about a super sustainable development goals book club for young readers – we’ll be talking to 6-year-old Leo Rolf, from Amsterdam, he’s got lots of interesting things to say…
2022-03-2430 minThe Next PageIt Takes a Global Crisis: Episode 3 - Social ProtectionWelcome to Episode 3 of 'It Takes a Global Crisis', a series of four special episodes produced by the UN Library & Archives Geneva in collaboration with the SDG Lab. In this episode, we explore social protection.
Host Edward Mishaud is joined by Christina Behrendt, Head of the Social Policy Unit at the International Labour Organization, and Dr. Kate Philip, Programme Lead for the Presidential Employment Stimulus in South Africa.
The COVID-19 pandemic has put social protection in the spotlight, inviting us to reflect on social protection policy not only in times of crisis but also in ever...
2022-03-0438 min
How'd it Happen?Marcus Shingles, The Metaverse Disruption. What It Is & How it Will Impact You (#246)With all the latest trends springing up like mushrooms in a world of technology, it’s difficult to keep up even moreso to stay ahead. It makes you wonder how today’s guest make it seem so easy. Today, I’m with Entrepreneur, CEO, and Co-Founder of Exponential Destiny, Marcus Shingles, as he shares how he did it and how he does it all to this day.Marcus has decades of experience running and working with the world's leading global organizations (for-profit & non-profit), heads of state governments, and prominent startups focused on innovation, specifically related to new busine...
2022-02-071h 09
The Next PageIt Takes a Global Crisis: Episode 2 - Environment and Social ResilienceWelcome to Episode 2 of 'It Takes a Global Crisis', a series of four special episodes produced by the UN Library & Archives Geneva in collaboration with the SDG Lab. In this episode we look at the environment and social resilience.
We're joined by David Smith, Chief Economist and Regional Coordinator of UNDP-UNEP Poverty-Environment Action for the SDGs (PEA), UNEP Africa Office, and Akanksha Khatri, Head of the Nature Action Agenda, World Economic Forum (WEF). Together with host Edward Mishaud, they explore how COVID-19 has shed new light on our understanding of society's critical link with the environment. They d...
2022-02-0436 min
INGSA HorizonsInterrogating Foresight: Science advice and predicting the futureThe concept of ‘foresight’ has been in and out of fashion with governments for decades, and the science community has been calling attention to long-term issues for even longer. Yet, the world was still unprepared for Covid-19 in the same way that we will be surprised when the impact of climate change and other SDG challenges begin to accelerate through cumulative impact cycles. Why do successive governments fail to act? Does science advice have a role in accelerating a meaningful anticipatory response to long-term systemic issues?Featuring:Dr Jeff Kinder, Institute on GovernancePresident Francisco Saga...
2022-01-1042 min
The Next PageIt Takes a Global Crisis: Episode 1 - Digitalization & Connectivity, a COVID-driven raceWelcome to Episode 1 of 'It Takes a Global Crisis', a series of four special episodes produced by the UN Library & Archives Geneva in collaboration with the SDG Lab.
In this episode on digitalization and connectivity, we're joined by Doreen Bogdan-Martin, Director of the ITU Telecommunication Development Bureau (BDT) and Ibrahima Guimba-Saïdou, the Minister Special Advisor to President of Niger and CEO of the National Agency for Information Society (ANSI). Together, they explore the impact of COVID-19 on connectivity and digitalization across the world, and whether progress to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals has been accelerated or d...
2022-01-0741 min
The Next PageIt Takes a Global Crisis: Episode 0 - IntroductionDid it take a global crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic for us to see the challenges to reaching Agenda 2030? To set in motion solutions for sustainable development for all? Welcome to 'It Takes a Global Crisis', a series of four special episodes produced by the UN Library & Archives Geneva in collaboration with the SDG Lab.
In this introductory episode, we're joined by Nadia Isler, Director of the SDG Lab and Francesco Pisano, the Director of the Library & Archives, to explore how the COVID-19 pandemic has in many ways accelerated sustainable development solutions, but also highlighted the challenges...
2021-12-2028 minSwiss Impact with BanerjisWhat happened in Geneva?Host: Sveta and Ben Banerjee
Topic: What happened in Geneva?
The weekly show on how Impactful investments and businesses are helping to implement the 17 UN SDG’s worldwide to preserve the world for future generation.
Banerjis have enlightening and in-depth conversations with newsmakers, celebrities, thought leaders, entrepreneurs, project owners, investors, politicians and business leaders and encourage them to act now.
2021-12-1435 min
Future Learning Design PodcastDecolonizing Education - A Conversation with Estelle Baroung HughesEstelle Baroung Hughes is the Founding President of Africa Learning International, focused on SDG 4 (Quality Education for All) in Africa. As a Cameroonian citizen, Estelle is passionate about the cultural wealth of her 250 languages country. The focus of her NGO is to honour the diversity of African nations by supporting culturally responsive education on the continent. ALI provides teacher professional development, Master Teacher programs, shares educational resources and opportunities and organizes conferences and teacher exchanges.
As an educator, Estelle specializes in international education. She is a teacher, a researcher, and an educational coach. She is a teaching a...
2021-07-0430 min
The Smart and Sustainable City podcastITU: Cristina Bueti - United 4 Smart and Sustainable CitiesToday we talk with Cristina Bueti. Counsellor at the International Telecommunication Union in Geneva. When the United Nations defined its Sustainable Development goals in 2015, one of these goals was set to focus on Cities: The SDG 11. “Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable”. The ITU and Cristina have been a key driver to enable progress against the goals set in this SDG11, providing a framework used by over 150 cities around the world, all aspiring to become smarter & more sustainable.
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2021-06-2227 min
Healthy Cities in the SDG Era6. Global Health DiplomacyThis episode of Healthy Cities in the SDG Era takes a different approach in thinking about the Sustainable Development Goals, by zooming out from a focus on specific SDGs, to talking about global health diplomacy, a process which is linked to many of the Goals.Professor Ilona Kickbusch is the founder and chair of the Global Health Centre of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva. Previously, she served as the head of the global health division of Yale University and held various positions at the World Health Organization. In 2016, Prof. Kickbusch was awarded the...
2021-05-1147 min
DataforDisasterRiskReductionMonitoring SDG Goal 6: Role of City and Country Systems along with CitizensIn this episode of Monitoring SDG Goal 6: Role of City and Country Systems along with Citizens, Dr. Mehta and Mondardini talk about monitoring SDG 6 and local and country systems for data collection for water and sanitation. They also discuss a case study and data collection methods, data sharing policy for SDG, other global case studies, and best practices of using citizen data for water and sanitation. The two speakers also talk about the role of the city and national government in monitoring WASH at scale, and the role of Niti Aayog in India. Citizens' science is also an important element...
2020-11-2737 min
World Health Innovation Summit PodcastWorld Health Innovation Summit COVID19 Europe Discussion 1st August 2020World Health Innovation Summit COVID19 Europe discussion 1st August 2020Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has dramatically unveiled the fragile state of the world’s health, health workforce, political and social systems – the lack of emergency health crisis preparedness (under-resourced, weak leadership, strategic plans without clear lines of authority), siloed policy frameworks (focus on individual diseases and the lack of integration of health into the whole of societal activity and its impact on individual as well as community well-being and prosperity), and unclear communication (misguided rationale of policies, inconsistent interpretation of data).The net result has been...
2020-08-0753 min
Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der WissenschaftenL.I.S.A. - Panel Discussion, Questions & AnswersIn closing of the first session on SDGs and international development, a panel discussion and a session to answer and raise new questions is being held. Roopa Dhatt, Chair of the first session, moderates the discussion, while accompanied by Detlev Ganten, Alex Harris, Randolph Nesse, Mujaheed Shaikh and Marisol Touraine. As an introduction, the latter, who is on the Executive Board of Unitaid in Geneva, gives a speech and raises attention to the fact that although we are facing progress regarding global health, still, half of the world's population does not have access to full health coverage. Even in developed...
2020-02-2942 min
The Next Page13: Storytelling session with science expedition leader Paul Rose #LibraryTalkThis episode of The Next Page brings you a curated recording of our recent Storytelling session with science expedition leader, Paul Rose. In 2019, our Library Talks programme focuses on SDG 13 on climate action, and the issues the world is facing amid environmental changes. In this context, Paul Rose joined us at the Library to share his life story of engagement for the planet, his thoughts on the some of the biodiversity and sustainability challenges of today, and the opportunities he sees for everyone to make a change and advocate for the environment, both in our own spheres of influence a...
2019-11-0144 min
Podcast 6The World Tourism Organisation launches an app for SDG''s achievementThe World Tourism Organisation has launched an online platform to achieve Sustainable Development Goals, SDG's through tourism. The Tourism4SDGs.org platform is set to be a space that will allow users to access a wide range of resources, add their own initiatives and share content related to tourism and sustainable development. The WTO says the economic relevance of tourism, representing up to 10% of the world's GDP and employment, makes harnessing its potential essential for the advancement of the SDGs. WTO's representative in Geneva Zoritsa Urosevic....
2018-07-2504 min
Small Arms Survey podcastsIndicators for achieving sustainable development: Measuring violent deaths and SDG Goal 16The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a new proposed framework to come into effect after the Millennium Development Goals. Amongst them, Goal 16 focuses on peaceful and inclusive societies, access to justice, and accountable institutions. This goal is a significant step towards recognizing that preventing and reducing violence is essential for development. In the first part of this two-episode podcast Small Arms Survey experts explain how the Global Burden of Armed Violence (GBAV) initiative offers useful methodology for implementing SDG Target 16.1, which calls for measurable reductions in armed violence. Research Director Anna Alvazzi del Frate, Senior Researcher and Coordinator of the...
2015-04-1707 min