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Hi, welcome to a brand new episode of EU Watchdog Radio.

I'm Joanna, comms officer at Corporate Europe Observatory, and this episode is quite something.

I talk to my colleague Nina Holland and to Rachel Radvani,

who is an environmental health campaigner at the Center for International Environmental

Environmental Law or SEL. Anina, by the way, is a researcher and campaigner at CEO, and she focuses

mainly on agribusiness and GMOs.

And together with CL, we at CEO have launched the briefing into how the industry blocks regulation of toxic chemicals.

It's called the Pollution Playbook, and it's really a great read.

You can check it out in our website, and I'm going to talk to Rachel and Nina about it.

But that's not all.

For this episode, I've also spoken to Olivia de Schutter, legal scholar and university professor,

specializing in economic and social rights, and who served as the UN Special Rapporteur

on the Right to Food, from 2008 till 2014, and 2014 and in 2020 was appointed as the

United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights so stick

around my first question to the co-authors was why it was important to do this briefing.

Nina Holland is the person you will hear first and then Rachel Radvani.

We are facing multiple environmental crises, right?

And there is the toxic pollution crisis that is not all too often discussed, but that exists

next to the breakdown of ecosystems and the climate crisis. So these are interrelated environmental

crises that we have to address that are really urgent because they because of the harm that toxic pollution is doing to human health, but also to the environment and ecosystems.

But in fact, one of the things that is blocking us from tackling it is that the chemical industry and their lobby groups are using their influence to weaken regulations

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