Women In Sustainability - Episodes Tagged with “Sustainable Development”

Laura Boon-Williams

Efeca — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 13:00:00 +0000

In this episode Emily talks with Laura Boon-Williams, the Lloyd’s Register Foundation Senior Curator of Contemporary Maritime at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, on the eve of a new exhibition at National Maritime Museum on the Sea Empress oil spill on the south-west coast of Wales. They discuss the legacy of the spill, which is a powerful example of how environmental disaster, public mobilisation and policy change intersect, as well as her career in science education.

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Los Angeles Barea

Efeca — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 08:00:00 +0000

Just in time for COP, Emily and acclaimed filmmaker Los Angeles Barea discuss Los Angeles’ new, multi-award winning film, Green SuperHeroes 2030, a documentary following 10 young environmentalists, ages 5 to 17, from around the world as they develop groundbreaking solutions to tackle climate change — from designing microplastic detectors to preserving the Amazon rainforest. She and Emily talk about what inspired her to make the film and the Green Superheroes movement that she is starting up with children around the world.

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Archana Soreng

Efeca — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 07:00:00 +0100

In this episode Emily talks with Archana Soreng, a climate activist who belongs to the Khadia Tribe from Odisha, India. Archana, who was a member of the inaugural United Nations Secretary-General’s Youth Advisory Group on Climate Change from 2020–2023 and is currently a Skoll Fellow and a climate adviser to the Rockefeller Foundation, shares her journey from growing up in an indigenous community to becoming an advocate for indigenous rights, youth leadership and climate action. They discuss her work fighting for inclusive policy-making and implementation, drawing from her experience of working with indigenous communities.

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Luiza Bruscato

Efeca — Wed, 28 May 2025 07:00:00 +0100

In this episode Emily chats with Luiza Bruscato, the Global Executive Director of the Roundtable on Responsible Soy and the former Executive Director of the Brazilian Roundtable on Sustainable Livestock. Luiza has worked for 15 years in the agribusiness space in Latin America, driving positive change in the soya, meat, leather, and dairy production chains. She and Emily discuss her career journey and the livestock and soy industries in Brazil and globally.

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Megan Flynn

Efeca — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 08:00:00 +0100

In this podcast episode, Emily chats with Megan Flynn, the MD and Chief Growth and Impact Officer at Pollination Group. Pollination Group is a global climate change investment and advisory firm focused on accelerating the transition to a net zero, nature positive future. Part of the founding team, Megan heads up their advisory segment and over the course of her career has helped many businesses in the climate space to scale and grow. In this discussion, they explore challenges and opportunities in carbon markets, the importance of innovative partnerships, Megan's career journey, and the need for gender equity in the sustainability field.

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Dr Éliane Ubalijoro

Efeca — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 08:00:00 +0000

This month Emily speaks with Dr Éliane Ubalijoro, who is currently serving as the CEO of the Center for International Forestry Research and World Agroforestry (CIFOR) and the Director General of World Agroforestry (ICRAF). An accomplished leader with a background in agriculture and molecular genetics, she has been recognized for outstanding contributions in the areas of gender equity and sustainable prosperity creation. She talks about her work at CIFOR-ICRAF and her strategies for staying positive in the fight for a better world.

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Leah Samberg

Efeca — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 08:00:00 +0000

Emily chats with Leah Samberg, the Lead Scientist on Global Policy at the Rainforest Alliance and the Lead Scientist of the Accountability Framework initiative (Afi), about the great work that Afi is leading on land sector carbon emissions and engagements with carbon and climate initiatives, as well as her reflections on what needs to happen over the next year in the lead up to COP30 - a year when many corporate commitments and market regulations come to fruition.

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Dr. Manon Littek

Efeca — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 08:00:00 +0000

Join us for an exciting and inspiring conversation with Dr. Manon Littek, one of Europe's leading early stage investors in the agrifoodtech and deep tech industries. She and Emily discuss her career and her work as a founding partner of the early stage venture capital Green Generation Fund, where she is making innovative investments in areas like regenerative agriculture and sustainable food production.

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Hilda Flavia Nakabuye

Efeca — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 09:00:00 +0000

Join us as our host Emily Fripp chats with Hilda Flavia Nakabuye, the Ugandan climate and environmental rights activist who founded Uganda's Fridays for Future movement, in advance of COP 29 at Baku. Emily and Hilda discuss her climate activist roots, her work in Uganda, especially on saving Lake Victoria and stopping the East African crude oil pipeline construction, and her upcoming visit to the COP.

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Sarah Mogford

Efeca — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 07:00:00 +0100

In this episode, Emily chats with Sarah Mogford, the UK Divisional Director of Environment and Planning and a board member of RSK, one of the world's largest environmental consultancies. They discuss Sarah’s work growing the company from 25 to over 15,000 employees her insights on being a woman in the sustainability field.

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Sheri-Leigh Miles

Efeca — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 08:00:00 +0100

In this episode Emily interviews Sheri-Leigh Miles, director of NETpositive Futures, a consultancy based in Yorkshire that helps organisations, teams and networks understand how sustainability links to organisational excellence. She frequently works with the UK Higher Education sector on sustainability issues and is the Chair of the Board of Trustees for Change Agents UK, which offers recruitment services into sustainability roles, supports purposeful careers, and delivers sustainability education programmes. Join Emily and Sheri-Leigh as they discuss what it truly means for an organisation to be sustainable, and how women can take on more leadership roles in the sector.

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Liv Bowditch

Efeca — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 11:00:00 +0100

In this inspiring episode, Emily chats with Liv Bowditch, a Parliamentary Assistant and local Dorset activist with a passion for economics, sustainability, and equality, who only recently completed her A Levels. Follow along as they discuss the roots of her mission, how she handles negativity in the sustainability space, her views on environmental policies, and her goals and aspirations for the future.

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Jenny Morisetti

Efeca — Thu, 16 May 2024 08:00:00 +0100

In this episode Emily talks with Jenny Morisetti, an expert convener and activist in Dorset, about the myriad community projects promoting sustainable fashion and textiles, renewable energy, and eco-schools that she runs. They discuss her involvement in Dorset’s COP 2024 and the Defashion Dorset event, which focuses on educating the community about local fibre growers, cloth makers and a local clothing culture, as well as the work she does as a Retrofit Adviser for traditional buildings using renewable energy.

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Ditte Lysgaard Vind

Efeca — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 09:00:00 +0100

Ditte Lysgaard Vind is a renowned circular economy and design expert and practitioner, based in Denmark. Ditte is the founder of The Circular Way, the Chairwoman of the Danish Design Council and a member of the executive board of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation as well as the global SDG innovation lab UNLEASH. She most recently published Danish Design Heritage and Global Sustainability, a book that showcases practical examples taken from Danish designs of how design can help build a regenerative society. In this episode, you will hear Ditte explain how we need to design the world of tomorrow with the waste of today, while designing a world without waste.

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International Women’s Day

Efeca — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 07:00:00 +0000

Join us for our International Women’s Day podcast! Efeca team members Rose McCulloch and Christina Wood interview the two female leads of our company - Emily Fripp, our Director and Founder, and Lucy Cullinane, our Director of Operations, about how it all began for Efeca 15 years ago, how we foster inclusion in our company culture, and where our work is headed. Emily and Lucy share some stories from their exciting careers and talk about women in the sustainability field who have inspired their work.

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Emer Fardy

Efeca — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 16:00:00 +0000

Emer Fardy is the Head of Sustainability and Human Rights at Hilton Food Group, a London stock exchange listed food packaging company, specialising in the processing of protein products across meat, seafood, vegan and vegetarian categories. In this episode, Emer shares her cross-supply chain perspective and her passion for improving sustainability in livestock supply chains, including topics such as antibiotic reduction, animal welfare and environmental impacts.

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Daphna Nissenbaum

Efeca — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 02:00:00 +0000

Daphna Nissenbaum is the founder and CEO of TIPA, a global compostable packaging company providing innovative solutions for the fashion and food industries, and a globally recognized pioneer and female entrepreneur in the sustainable solutions space. Daphna spoke at the World Economic Forum in 2020, and has received multiple awards for her work, including being named as a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum in 2019. In this episode you will learn about sustainable packaging innovations, and Daphna’s journey to found one of the leading companies working against plastic waste.

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Dr. Ines Smyth

Efeca — Thu, 30 Mar 2023 09:00:00 +0100

In this episode, Emily speaks with Dr. Ines Smyth who has an MSc and PhD in Social Anthropology. With 10 years of experience working as a University Lecturer and Researcher, she has an extensive publication list, and has also been the Senior Gender Advisor in Oxfam Great Britain, and the Senior Gender Expert at the Asian Development Bank. She is now a Gender and Women Rights consultant with over 30 years of professional experience in the fields of gender equality, Gender-Based Violence (GBV), and gender mainstreaming, around the world, especially in East Asia.

In particular, Dr Smyth has over 10 years of practical experience in Myanmar, working on the full gamut of issues and methodologies pertaining to gender equality and social inclusion in the context of a country prone to ecological and other crises.

Since engaging in consultancy work, she has engaged in the identification, design and formulation of standalone women’s rights programs and gender mainstreaming strategies in development and humanitarian settings. She has also used intersectional research for the purpose of influencing governments and other development actors on issues of women’s access to natural and other resources, food security, livelihood and governance. She has prioritised collaboration with individuals and civil society organisations, including Women's Rights Organisations, in developing and delivering innovative capacity-enhancing curricula on gender and women's transformative feminist leadership, gender mainstreaming in humanitarian settings, gender and Disaster Risk Reduction, safeguarding and GBV, gender and localisation, feminist MEAL, and engaging men.

To her private and professional life she has brought a commitment to gender and social justice, which translates into feminist activism as well as, in the last 4 years, in active engagement with Extinction Rebellion, for a transition to a just and fossil fuel free society.

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Margot Logman

Efeca — Fri, 24 Feb 2023 12:00:00 +0000

Margot Logman is a specialist in nutrition and food supply chains and an expert facilitator, supporting strategic collaboration between companies and governments that influence how we source food more sustainably. Margot has worked with some of the world’s leading food companies such as Unilever, Nestle and Friesland Campina where she has provided strategic support on a range of topics including CSR, nutrition strategy and communications.

As the Secretary General of the European Palm Oil Alliance (or EPOA) between 2016-2022, she worked on market transformation across the complex palm oil supply chain, together with members Sime Darby, Wilmar, Cargill and more. She has also engaged many international partners, including the Malaysian Palm Oil Council and GAPKI (the Indonesian palm oil association).

Both personally and professionally, she likes to create meaningful impact through sustainability and public health improvement strategies. Through public private cooperation between businesses, governments and non-governmental organisations she facilitates and implements time bound strategies, appealing communication campaigns and interventions based on expert knowledge. By building trusted relationships, she has been able to build and activate meaningful cooperation with a range of global stakeholders.
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Bibi La Luz Gonzalez

Efeca — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 06:00:00 +0000

In this episode we speak with Bibi Gonzalez, who works to create change in food security, climate regeneration and human rights. Emily and Bibi discuss Bibi’s experience building her career and her insights on women working in the food security space.

Bibi holds an MA. International Political Economy from the University of Warwick (UK) where she focused on food, migration and development. She is part of numerous youth organiszations, including Global Shapers as Community Champion for Central America and lead of the UnShape Slavery project, Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative as Fellow and inaugural Alumni Board member, One Young World Ambassador and Delegate Speaker, World Merit 360 UN Speaker on SDG2, Thomson Reuters Foundation Trust Changemakers, and the Climate Reality Project. She is the founder of Eat Better Wa’ik, an organization in Guatemala devoted to reducing malnutrition through creative and inclusive education, economics, transformative agroforestry, consumption and technology.

She previously worked at the World Food Programme in Guatemala, international and NGOs, academia, media, especially touching on project creation, corporate partnerships and social innovative executive production and reporting.

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Carolina Brandão

Efeca — Tue, 08 Nov 2022 06:00:00 +0000

In this episode we speak with Carolina Brandao, who works for the World Economic Forum, leading the public sector engagement work for the Tropical Forest Alliance. She and Emily discuss the work of women in the policy space, the evolution over the years of women’s work in multi-stakeholder partnerships in leading dialogue and engagement, and ultimately delivering impact in the field of sustainability.

After working in education in Brazil for several years, Carolina graduated from Sciences-Po in Paris with a degree in International Relations. She has over thirteen years of policy-advocacy, strategy and multi-stakeholder partnership management in the field of sustainability. She is currently working on mobiliszing major food and agricultural companies to engage in advocacy with the aim of enriching and supporting the adoption of public policies for sustainable agricultural commodities in the EU and US markets.

She has also worked as the lead on COP26 Mobilizsation for Sustainable Supply Chains with the Government of the United Kingdom in the COP26 Nature Campaign – the Forests, Agriculture and Commodity Trade (FACT) Dialogue, which aimed to achieve sustainability in the supply chain of globally traded agricultural commodities while supporting livelihoods.

She previously worked at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, handling Donor government relations for BMGF in France, providing critical support to the Head of Southern Europe, G7 and G20, and increasing resource mobilizsation for the empowerment of women and girls, global health and international development.

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Dr. Junzuo Zhang

Efeca — Sat, 08 Oct 2022 08:00:00 +0100

Join Emily as she talks with Dr. Junzuo Zhang, who leads the China-UK Collaboration on International Forest Investment and Trade (InFIT) Programme, based in Beijing.

Together they discuss Junzuo’s early work researching the role of gender in sustainable development, the evolving role of women in policy creation and research and the importance and the need for women to be confident, to empower their engagement and drive this agenda forward.

Junzuo graduated with a Phd in Geography from SOAS in London, having previously studied agricultural and rural development at the School of Social Studies at the Hague. She currently leads the China-UK Collaboration on International Forest Investment and Trade (InFIT) Programme, which aims to reduce impacts of China's international trade in timber products and other commodities grown on forest land.

Prior to this she served as the Community Development Coordinator for GIZ’s EU-China Natural Forest Management Project and worked closely with partners in 58 villages and 6 counties in Sichuan, Hunan and Hainan Provinces, South China. Here, shemanaged the implementation of various pilot and demonstration projects that provided models for community based alternative livelihoods.

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Efeca — Thu, 08 Sep 2022 10:00:00 +0100

On the 8th March 2022 (International Women’s Day) Efeca announced the creation of a new podcast series: a platform for women’s voices in sustainability.

The 2022 UN theme for International Women's Day, "Gender equality today for a sustainable tomorrow," sought to highlight the contribution of women and girls around the globe, who participate in their communities and promote climate change adaptation, mitigation, and response, in order to build a more sustainable future for all.

Join our host Emily Fripp, Founding Director of Efeca for this new podcast series and platform for women’s voices in sustainability.

Together we’ll help celebrate and elevate the perspectives and work of women, showcasing the role that women play in supporting sustainable livelihoods, climate change mitigation and creation of sustainable supply chains.

Emily has been lucky enough to work around the world with amazing people and fascinating forest commodities across different sectors, geographies and commodity interests.
We hope you enjoy these monthly chats with inspirational women working in sustainability today, showcasing how diverse and inclusive working are essential parts of our sustainable future.