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By Marc Buckley on 17th November 2022 Bernhard Kowatsch is head of the World Food Programme (WFP) Innovation Accelerator and he is at COP27 to showcase “solutions that not only help tackle the climate crisis but also the current hunger crisis”. What gives Bernhard some belief that these crises will…

By Marc Buckley on 15th November 2022 Jennifer Stojkovic, author of The Future of Food is Female and founder of the Vegan Women Summit (VWS), is at COP27 to “elevate women’s leadership in the future of food”. Jenny landed in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, on a mission to put ‘The Future…

By Marc Buckley on 16th November 2022 Dr Saad Uakkas, the North Africa coordinator for the African Youth Initiative on Climate Change, says the introduction of the new Children and Youth pavilion at COP27 is a “big moment for young people” “For the first time ever we have a whole…

By Marc Buckley on 8th November 2022 At the Food4Climate Pavilion at COP27 it is very much #ACopHalfFull as food system experts say they are confident that real change is now happening that will deliver a better future for people and planet. I caught up with an old friend of…

By Marc Buckley on 10th November 2022 The recent presidential victory secured by Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, known as Lula, in Brazil has been hailed by many as a major win for the natural world. Felipe Villela, the co-founder of renature, which supports farmers and corporates to scale regenerative…

By Marc Buckley on 9th November 2022 There is a sense of real optimism and hope among many of the people we are talking with at COP27 in Sharm-el-Sheikh, Egypt. Together with Paula Maultasch, the creative executive producer of the Inside Ideas podcast, we are on #ACopHalfFull tour of COP27…

By Marc Buckley on 17th November 2022 Paul Newnham is a man with his finger very much on the pulse at COP27, as he tells me about his plans to double global bean consumption by 2028. The SDG Advocacy Hub director is in Sharm el-Sheikh launching the Beans is How…

By Marc Buckley on 15th November 2022 Most of us are permanently glued to our phones, various apps and countless news and social media feeds. Which makes it easy to miss important information. And when that missed information pertains to the very future of humanity, then we have a problem. …

By Marc Buckley on 14th November 2022 In place of the usual weekend reads here is a weekday one for you from inside COP27. I caught up with the co-author of the seminal turn of the century book Natural Capitalism, Hunter Lovins, in Sharm el-Sheikh, who for decades has been…