Common Home Conversations Pathway to 2022

This week's episode features Lionel Chami, Special Advisor at the Global Pact Coalition. During our conversation, we discuss the need for a common foundation that would allow us to build an international governance system that addresses the environment as a whole. We also talk about how the tool of law can be utilized to reclaim the right to a healthy environment and the role the Global Pact for Environment can play in del...

This week's episode features Jojo Mehta, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Stop Ecocide International. During our conversation, we discuss humanity's dependence on nature and the urgent need to get ecocide recognized as an international crime. We also talk about how ecocide is one of the root causes of the climate emergency and about the campaign's mission to get the International Criminal Court to amend the Rome Statut...

This week's episode features Helena Lindemark, Founder of the 2022 Initiative Foundation. During our conversation, we discuss the need to rethink our relationship with nature and how we need to recognize that our well-being and the well-being of the planet are interconnected. We also discuss the historic 1972 Stockholm Conference and how the Stockholm+50 summit can build on the legacy of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme, ...

This week's episode features Leida Rijnhout, environmental justice expert and Associate at the Stakeholder Forum for a Sustainable Future. During our conversation, we discuss how we cannot afford any more business-as-usual from the private sector or governments that damage the environment whenever and wherever they want. We talk about the costs of inaction and how exceeding our planetary boundaries will have devastating co...

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Kimberly White

Hello and welcome back to Common Home Conversations for part II of our discussion with María Espinosa, President of the 73rd Session of the United Nations General Assembly and former Ecuadorian Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Izabella Teixeira, Co-Chair of the United Nations Environment Programme's International Resource Panel and former Minister for the Environ...

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Izabella Teixeira

We need to promote inclusive development but with nature. Homosapiens are part of nature, we cannot forget it. 

Maria Espinosa

To manage, wisely and responsibly, ecosystems and the earth system, we need to rethink sovereignty.

Izabella Teixeira 

There is no future for humankind if you're not able to address social inequality.

Maria Espinosa

the voices of civil society, of academia...

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Our planet faces a myriad of catastrophic environmental challenges- climate change, widespread biodiversity loss, overexploitation of resources, air pollution, sea-level rise, extreme weather, desertification. The science is clear- the state of our global environment is deteriorating at an unprecedented rate. In one of the few times in history, the prospects of future generations are far worse than they wer...

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Kimberly White

Hello and welcome to Common Home Conversations. Today we're joined by María Espinosa, President of the 73rd Session of the United Nations General Assembly and former Ecuadorian Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Izabella Teixeira, Co-Chair of the United Nations Environment Programme's International Resource Panel and former Minister for the Environment of Brazil. T...

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Izabella Teixeira

We need to understand what a healthy environment means for us, for humankind, considering the next years and what the challenges are that we need to tackle better. 

Maria Espinosa

We need to reinterpret sovereignty in the context of our common heritage and common good.

Izabella Teixeira

We need a new expression of humanism around the world and what shared responsibility means, not o...

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Kimberly White

Hello and welcome to Common Home Conversations. Today we're joined by Thomas Boudreau, Professor of Conflict Analysis and Dispute Resolution at Salisbury University. Thank you so much for joining us today!

Thomas Boudreau

My pleasure. Thank you for inviting me. 

Kimberly White

So, you're a Professor of Conflict Analysis and Dispute Resolution at Salisbury Uni...