Women In Sustainability

In this episode, Emily talks with Priscillia Moulin, a Senior Advisor to both Inovasi Digital and Earthqualizer, and the Director of Strategy for MosaiX Europe. Earthqualizer is a non-profit focused on sustainability and social equity in landscapes affected by deforestation, which monitors around 30 million hectares of land on a biweekly basis. Earthqualizer works alongside Inovasi Digital, which provides digital tools for sustainability monitoring and regulatory compliance, and MosaiX, a start-up offering data, engagement, and strategic guidance for companies navigating sustainability legislation. Priscillia tells us about how her career began, and how she has navigated working with global leaders such as Wilmar International, Unilever, Mars, and other multinational consumer goods companies on shaping sustainability standards in the palm oil industry, as well as with stakeholders on the ground in South East Asia. Efeca Website Efeca Linkedin Efeca Instagram

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. Efeca Website Efeca Linkedin Efeca Instagram

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. Efeca Website Efeca Linkedin Efeca Instagram

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. Efeca Website Efeca Linkedin Efeca Instagram

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. Efeca Website Efeca Linkedin Efeca Instagram

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. Efeca Website Efeca Linkedin Efeca Instagram

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. Efeca Website Efeca Linkedin Efeca Instagram

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. Efeca Website Efeca Linkedin Efeca Instagram

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. Efeca Website Efeca Linkedin Efeca Instagram

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. Efeca Website Efeca Linkedin Efeca Instagram

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. https://www.linkedin.com/in/nutrisult/ Efeca Website Efeca Linkedin Efeca Instagram

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. https://www.instagram.com/bibilaluz/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/bibilaluz/ https://twitter.com/bibilaluz https://www.instagram.com/waikg https://twitter.com/waikgt Efeca Website Efeca Linkedin Efeca Instagram

In this episode, Emily talks with Penny Davies, a recognised change agent who has over 35 years of experience working in the field of forestry, climate change and sustainable development in diverse geographic locations across Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America and North America. They discuss Penny’s early experiences working in Sierra Leone with rural women, her transition from working at a grassroots level with rural communities to the international policy making world, and women as a minority in food, forests and climate-policy making. Across her career, Penny has supported evidence-based policy development on forests and livelihoods - including access to markets, climate finance, property rights (forests, land and water), involving producer organizations and social networks, as well as the contribution of forests and lands to conflict resolution. She has led UK Government and European Union (EU) delegations in international forest policy-making arenas (United Nations (UN), EU, World Bank) and played a key role developing the European Union’s Forest Law Enforcement Governance and Trade (FLEGT) Action Plan (and coined the term!). For 14 years, Penny was Senior Forestry Advisor to DFID, leading advice on UK Government’s global policy and international programming on forests, focusing on their contribution to poor peoples’ livelihoods and climate protection. More recently, she was International Director for Natural Resources and Climate Change at the Ford Foundation. Within her role she supported rural communities and indigenous peoples in the Global South, ensuring their needs were reflected in government and company policies. She was also Coordinator of the Climate & Land Use Alliance (CLUA) for 7 years, where she created strategies to reduce climate change by supporting international policies, programmes, and finance that conserve tropical forests, biodiversity and ecosystems, promote indigenous peoples’ and rural communities’ forests, livelihoods and land rights, while reducing deforestation and human rights abuse from illegal logging and agribusiness. Efeca Website Efeca Linkedin Efeca Instagram