79. Everything Is Possible with Sanda Ojiambo
Outrage + Optimism: The Climate Podcast
Persephonica
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🗓️ 20 November 2020
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
After 4 intolerable years of you-know-who in the US, this week there seems to be a brief moment of calm. But while many of us are catching our breath, the world is transforming how it will conduct business as usual by pressing the proverbial ‘reset’ button on what appears to be “everything we do and how we do it.” - to quote Lindsay Levin.
And this is the perfect moment to reset everything, right? We’ve seen economic inequality grow exponentially, we’ve seen the gender gap resist closing, and we’ve watched the climate crisis reveal itself not just on television, but in our own backyards. And, not to mention, COVID.
But in 2020, there’s one person who believes everything is possible.
Sanda Ojiambo is Executive Director and CEO of the United Nations Global Compact, the first African citizen to be appointed to the post, and second woman! We meet her on this episode in week 5 of her life in New York City after relocating from Nairobi for the job. Sanda brings her brilliant mind and stubborn optimism to leading the business world on accomplishing the SDGs in this historic and unprecedented time.
Stick around to the end to hear an intimate live performance with Gaeya!
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| 0:00.9 | So Paul, we have some exciting news. |
| 0:03.3 | Well, indeed, we have been informed |
| 0:05.6 | that Cristiana and Tom's brilliant book, |
| 0:08.0 | The Future We Choose, has made it to the final round |
| 0:11.1 | of the Goodreads' best books of 2020. |
| 0:13.7 | And this is an award decided by readers. |
| 0:16.7 | So the book, yeah, exactly so. |
| 0:19.0 | You know where we're coming from, right? |
| 0:20.6 | So the book now needs your vote. |
| 0:23.3 | How do we do it? |
| 0:24.2 | Okay, so we're inviting our listeners |
| 0:25.7 | to vote for the future we choose |
| 0:27.5 | at goodreads.com slash choice awards. |
| 0:31.5 | Then click on the science and technology category |
| 0:34.4 | and that's where you'll find the future we choose. |
| 0:36.4 | Vote for the book there. |
| 0:37.7 | The link is in the show notes. |
| 0:39.2 | I got you. |
| 0:40.1 | Great. |
| 0:40.9 | Thank you. |
| 0:41.8 | And now on with the show. |
| 0:43.2 | Hello and welcome to Outrage Optimism. |
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