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Jan Maisenbacher interviews Meaghan Cuddy about designing impactful environmental conferences and tracking conservation commitments.

Are you tired of attending yet another high-level environmental summit only to walk away feeling like you just witnessed another round of “blue blue blah blah” ? For those of us working towards blue regenerative societies the gap between ambitious political declarations and real-world execution can be a source of frustration. We know what needs to be done, yet institutional inertia (and non- collaborative dialogue) continue to slow our progress. In episode #33 host and experienced conference designer Jan Maisenbacher sits down with Meaghan Cuddy , manager of the Our Ocean Conference secretariat at the World Resources Institute. Together, they pull back the curtain on how to design a high-stakes global forum for actual impact, rather than empty rhetoric. Having organized conferences himself, Jan brings a unique conference-design lens to the conversation, questioning why commitments are not more deeply integrated into the actual panel setups and session agendas to break the passive “panel talk” bubble. Unlike standard UN processes, the Our Ocean Conference is an invite-only platform designed without diplomatic negotiations. Its sole objective is mobilising and tracking concrete…

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