South Korea's Green Growth program success has been an inspiration for dozens of countries around the world, who have worked with World Bank to replicate its lessons.

Eun Joo Yi, World Bank manager of the Korea Green Growth Trust Fund (KGGTF) share with us the reasons for taking a stand on sustainable development, the importance of developing new engines of growth, stakeholder engagement, partnership with the private sector and having a national vision. We talk about specific technological innovations such as smart-grid, fuel cells vehicle-to-car technologies and get inspired about turning problems into opportunities.

This is a must-watch episode for anyone interested in how to get started with thinking about Green Growth programs in their regions.

About Eun Joo Yi >>

Senior Environmental Specialist, World Bank.

Eun Joo as program manager of the Korea Green Growth Trust Fund built an innovative, implementation focused trust fund devoted to supporting World Bank staff and clients design, plan, and implement green growth initiatives, strategies, and investments. The trust fund’s focus on operational expertise worked to improve economic and resource efficiency, build greater resilience to extreme weather and natural disasters, and increase competitiveness.

Prior to joining the World Bank, Eun Joo consulted for the IFC Advisory Services (WBG) on resource efficiency and clean energy.  Before moving to Washington DC, she lived in Norway and Russia working in projects related to international science & technology diplomacy, climate, energy and environment.  Her broad global experience ranges from a Norwegian engineering firm, ISTC working with the US EPA and State Department, and Pfizer Inc.  Eun Joo has contributed to a range of publications, most recently on the potential implications of resource scarcity and climate change on conflict, migration and trade in 2025 and Korea’s Green Growth 2.0.

She is a US national and received her undergraduate from State University of New York at Stony Brook and her graduate degree from Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs. 

You can find Eun Joo on Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/eun-joo-ej-allison-yi-b209861/

"Powering life today and tomorrow" is the Guernsey Electricity motto. Such a simple phrase encapsulates the ethos of sustainable development - to enable wellbeing and life on the planet while leaving the conditions fit-for-purpose for them to thrive in the future.

While energy underpins the rise of human civilisations, the unsustainable use of fossil fuels that emit Greenhouse Gases such as Carbon Dioxide is bringing us to the brink of irreversible damage and collapse through global warming, ocean acidification, wasteful and polluting production and overconsumption.

We interview Alan Bates, CEO of Guernsey Electricity about the energy trilemma, their new sustainability plans, the key role of the business in enabling the island energy transition, the advantages of commercialisation and government ownership, and the priority to reduce, reuse and recycle.

Alan stressed the need for innovation, for "failing fast and failing cheap" and to be on top of the technological developments in renewables, battery storage, smart grid to not fall behind.

His message that "There is no Do Nothing" scenario is a sobering call for action for government, business and civic society.

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Alan Bates and the Chief Executive of Guernsey Electricity since 2010, Board member at Guernsey Water and formerly MD of Manx Gas. You can follow Alan on Twitter - https://twitter.com/ambgsy

 

 

 

The episode is an attempt to deep-dive into food systems and regenerative agriculture. Very quickly, we learn that defining "regenerative agriculture" and "sustainable food systems" is not an easy task or a black and white answer.

For India, sustainable food systems are those that help "build communities while distributing equity along the supply chain" and in doing so using fewer chemicals.

India talks about the trust we place daily in household food brands without knowing the provenance of all of the ingredients. Studies show that up to 70% of global food supplies may be subject to fraud in labeling and ingredient additions. The food supply is simply too long and crosses too many borders allowing for mistakes, misinformation and manipulation along the way.

She is passionate about the subject of communities and how a visioning of a different food system needs to be embedded in communities that take back the power to decide on their future and food choices.

We explore the distinction between local and localism and how the later may provide the much-needed answers for building more resilient and empowered communities.

India shares with us the story of the Jersey Sustainable Co-Operative and inspires us to take action and become educated about our food choices.

About India

India Hamilton MA, Food Systems Consultant. She is a Le Cordon Bleu Chef and has been a part of the innovative food scene in London since 2012, delivering creative projects for clients such as IKEA, Sainsbury’s and has recently exhibited in the Wellcome Trust. Following success in Hyderabad designing a sustainable food system, India returned to Jersey and co-founded SCOOP, The Sustainable Cooperative. With multiple awards under her belt and years of "pop up" experiences, India is focused on pushing the boundaries of the food system through embedding food experiences into local food contexts.

About Sustainable Co-Operative Jersey

The Sustainable Cooperative is a low/no waste community shop that aims to create a more sustainable supply of food on the island of Jersey. Food that doesn't cost the earth.

https://www.facebook.com/scoopjersey

https://scoop.org.je/

Economic theory and modelling are all-pervasive in our modern life. We explore the fallacies behind modelling assumptions and talk about "first principles" that one could use to design models for post Covid-19 recovery.

We discuss the heavy reliance of island communities like Guernsey and Jersey on the State, given that majority of infrastructure is States-owned. The government can and must play a key role in enabling innovation and entrepreneurship and research shows (Entrepreneurial State by Mariana Mazzucato) that R&D played the defining role to create many of the tech innovations we all enjoy.

Governments can help derisk the innovation process while creating governance structures such as Economic Development Boards to execute on ambitions plans and to unleash entrepreneurial potential.

Martyn's key message focuses on having a recovery vision and taking risks.

About Martyn Dorey

Guernsey man, investment actuary, founder of Dorey Financial Modelling (DFM), an actuarial technology firm.  DFM is a small enterprise supporting decision making and risk analysis in government, and on institutional and private wealth assets totalling in excess of £1,000 billion.  

Martyn was a consultant for three of the top UK investment consulting firms and won UK national awards for innovation such as the Society of Actuaries ‘paper of the year’ in 2005 and was rated top UK talk on the Geometry of Finance in 2012.  He also developed a little known statistical distribution the “d distribution” which uses a different “number system” to capture real-world dependencies.

Martyn is Ex-President of the Guernsey Chamber of Commerce 2016-2018, co-founder of legal technology start-up Ozoris and founder of C3M, a project to put fixed link infrastructure from Guernsey to France.

You can follow Martyn on Twitter - https://twitter.com/TigGuern

Up to a third(1) of all food produced is wasted in the process of food growth, harvest, supply chain, binning by supermarkets and household waste. If only a fraction of this "wasted" food was salvaged it would be enough to eliminate hunger and malnutrition.

As our population keeps growing and land use changing to support more and more intensive agriculture, the pressure on our planet from the unsustainable food ecosystem has never been higher. Depending on where you are in the world, agriculture and land-use change, which often accompanies the need for agricultural expansion, are together among the top 2-5 most important contributing factors to climate change.

What may be inappropriately dabbed as "waste", is usually viable for consumption.

In this episode, we explore this pertinent subject with entrepreneur and activist Elis Joudalova, a resident of the island of Jersey and founder of the OLIO community hubs in Jersey, Guernsey and Stockholm. She is a food waste and circular economy professional with a contagious passion for food, environment and community empowerment.

We talk about why food waste and its twin social issue of food poverty, present everywhere, including the relatively affluent island communities of Jersey and Guernsey. We see how technology, innovation and design can be the modern power for positive change.

Last but not least, you cannot stop but get inspired by Elis' infectious optimism and willingness to stand for what she believes in to be the change you want to see in the world!

You can follow Elis on Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/elis-joudalova-95a10563/.

(1) UN Food and Agriculture Organisation  - http://www.fao.org/food-loss-and-food-waste/en/

Episode Four of the Transition Island podcasts explores the issue of food waste, how new redistributive platforms such as OLIO can help + the power of collective action and activism to be the change you seek in the world.

The need for economic recovery stimulus packages post Covid19 pandemic is indisputable. But the decision to act is the easy part.

What should these packages look like, what kind of recovery should they support, what conditionality may they need attached?

In this episode, we explore the idea for a Green Recovery underpinning future Green Growth with our guest Estelle Levin-Nally, founder and CEO of a social venture and consultancy Levin Sources.

From the UN and the UK Green Party, to the governments of New Zealand, Canada and France, the call and commitment for embedding sustainability and climate change mitigation into the economic bailouts and recovery plans has never been louder.

The good news is that green recovery may give governments the best return for the buck while creating more sustainable and resilient economies that can better withstand future crises.

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Levin Sources - https://www.levinsources.com/

Governments around the world are committing to launching Covid19 economic recovery packages.

In this episode we explore ideas for the successful design of recovery packages, the need for building urgency and decentralisation and for governance structures that enable engagement with the wider community and business.

In this interview with John Hollis, an economist and former Accenture Global Partner, we deep-dive into ideas behind Public-Private Partnerships as a way to design post-pandemic recovery in a collaborative fashion.

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Welcome to the first episode of the new Transition Islands podcast, broadcasting from Guernsey in the Channel Islands.

Learn about the reason for launching the podcast as part of the wider Transition Islands initiative.

In conversation with co-hosts Sasha Kazantseva-Miller and Jon Buckland, they explore:

• the need and opportunity for transition to cleaner, regenerative and equitable economies
• UN Sustainable Development Goals
• importance of collaboration and partnership for transition
• inspiration from the Transition Towns movement
• and much more!

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