In this episode of the META Podcast, Marie-Amélie talks with Professor Harald Ulrik Sverdrup, who has previously been leading the research group on the application of System Dynamics to the analysis of extraction and exploitation of mineral resources at Industrial Engineering, University of Iceland, to understand how models like WILIAM are created to help us find our way through, resembling how the world operates across space and time.

In theory, such models can help us make better choices or prepare better for what comes next. The reality is more puzzling. Can we trust a model to tell us something inherently unknown? And what if the model we have trusted to guide misses a decisive point? We need to understand how integrated models work, what they can do, and their limits to make the most out of them. 

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In this episode of the META Podcast, Marie-Amélie talks with Robert Oakes, the Senior Researcher at the Institute for Environment and Human Security, at the United Nations University, to understand the place of humans in modelling. From migration to overpopulation, the model from the LOCOMOTION project has the potential to shed some light on a path that could be helpful for innovative, future-proof policies.

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In this episode of the META Podcast, we start a new series about modelling. Marie-Amélie talks with EEB experts Marguerite Culot, Associate Policy Officer for Economic Transition, and Andreas Budiman, Communications Officer, about the potential of models for climate change policies.

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In this episode of the META Podcast, Marie-Amélie brings you for a walk through European cities to explore the solutions that already exist to create more sustainable and resilient cities. Local transformation and concrete sustainable change might be closer than you may think!

In this episode of the META Podcast, Marie-Amélie talks with Jeremy Wates, Secretary General at the EEB, about our environmental rights and more specifically the Aarhus convention. In this listen you will learn more about the creation of the convention and its current issues in the EU.

In this episode of the META Podcast, Marie-Amélie talks with her colleague Francesca Carlsson about public participation in the EU. Citizens and NGOs in the European Union have the right to take part in environmental decision-making, but are these rights truly respected across the EU? 

Elections Special - In the third and last episode of our 'Elections Special' series, Marie-Amélie talks to Roland Joebstl about climate change and how a strong European Parliament is essential for environmental protection.

"We are deciding the future today!"

Elections Special - In the second episode of our series dedicated to the European Elections, Marie-Amélie receives Bérénice Dupeux to talk about our agricultural system.

In this second episode, we receive Bérénice Dupeux, agriculture expert at the European Environmental Bureau (EEB)

Elections Special - In the first episode of this special series dedicated to the European elections, Marie-Amélie invites Piotr Barczak and Jean-Pierre Schweitzer, circular economy experts at the European Environmental Bureau to talk about the importance of a strong Parliament for a strong circular economy.

In the first episode of the META podcast, Marie-Amélie interviews Justin Roborg-Söndergaard from the environmental GEOTA to find out more about eucalyptus plantations spreading in the south of Portugal and their impact on the local biodiversity and landscape.