177. Future of Food: Live from COP27
Outrage + Optimism: The Climate Podcast
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🗓️ 16 November 2022
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to another episode of Outrage + Optimism, where we examine issues at the forefront of the climate crisis, interview change-makers, and transform our anger into productive dialogue on building a sustainable future.
In this special episode we bring you the conclusion of our celebrated Future of Food series, recorded live from COP 27. Outrage + Optimism host Tom Rivett-Carnac pulls together an incredible line up of leaders to explore how food might act as the connecting force that engages communities and individuals and brings us all together in a united global movement.
First, Tom takes the opportunity to catch up Per Heggenes, the CEO of The IKEA Foundation, to hear why food is of huge importance to his organisation's work and why Per believes food needs to stay top of the global agenda.
Next, Tom convenes a fascinating and diverse group of guests in a unique and quirky setting: a blue shipping container repurposed in collaboration with Museum for the United Nations UN Live team and The IKEA Foundation using Global We portals, to bring the voices of people on the frontline of climate change, directly into the heart of climate conversations at COP27 via full length screens, set up in diverse global locations.
Listen to the fascinating contributions from Tom's IRL guests Paul Polman, Business Leader, Former CEO of Unilever and co-author of Net Positive; Liesbet Steer, Executive Director of the Education Commission; and Sophia Kianni climate activist, Executive Director of Climate Cardinals and the youngest member on the United Nations Secretary-General's Youth Advisory Group on Climate Change; and our Global We portal leaders from Kigali Sarah Kenkuyu, Program Manager at GiveDirectly Rwanda; Kristian Gasaro, activist, Greenpreneur and photographer; and Tanignigui Siriki Soro, a writer and community leader from the Ivory Coast.
The resulting conversation is as diverse and as fascinating as our guests themselves.
Enjoy the show!
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Kristian Gasaro
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Outrage and Optimism. It's Tom here, still currently in Sharnel's |
| 0:16.6 | Shake, and excited to bring you a special live recording, straight from COP27. |
| 0:30.0 | As many of you all know, Outrage and Optimism's future of food series has been running over |
| 0:40.9 | the last year in partnership with the IKEA Foundation, and this episode will mark the last |
| 0:45.5 | episode in what has been a fascinating and very popular series. Food has been a huge |
| 0:51.6 | talking point at this year's COP in Egypt, and on this episode we worked in partnership |
| 0:56.6 | with the IKEA Foundation and the UN live team to gather a group of leaders, half of whom |
| 1:02.5 | were attending in Kigali, Rwanda, and half were in the room with me to exchange ideas about |
| 1:09.2 | how food can play an inclusive role in bringing a wider community of people into the climate |
| 1:15.8 | change movement. So I'll introduce this unique setting during the recording, and I hope |
| 1:22.2 | you enjoy the diverse range of experiences on offer, as we discuss these barriers and |
| 1:26.8 | future opportunities. But I would just say that even in today's world of Zoom calls |
| 1:31.3 | and everyone being on the screen, this was amazing. It really felt like we were sharing |
| 1:35.8 | the room with these leaders in Rwanda, and the connection that is possible, just with |
| 1:40.7 | that next step on technology, was really amazing. Now, before we get into that conversation, |
| 1:46.7 | I also took the opportunity to catch up with Peer Heggeners, CEO of the IKEA Foundation, |
| 1:52.4 | to ask about his organization's approach to tackling the food system crisis, and why |
| 1:57.0 | it is a big priority for the IKEA Foundation. |
| 2:05.6 | Okay, so thank you very much for joining us again, delightful to see you. Over the course |
| 2:10.0 | of the last year, supported by you, we've been doing this future of food series that has |
| 2:14.8 | honestly been one of the best things that we've done on outrage optimism. People have |
| 2:18.8 | loved it based on the feedback, and this is the final episode in that series. So I'd |
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