Sustainable
Matters
podcast

A brand new podcast series from IEMA about ideas, challenges and hope for the planet, including conversations with experts in the fields of technology, conservation, sustainability, food, finance and nature.

Craig is the Chief Executive of The Wildlife Trusts. He has been described as “one of the country’s top environmental campaigners”, by The Guardian as “the very model of a modern eco-general”.

In 2021, he was included in The Sunday Times Green Power List of the UK’s top 20 environmentalists.

He and Sarah talk this episode which inspired Craig to get into all things 'green', how COP summits really work and what needs to be done now to make real change to our planet.

Sustainable Matters … A podcast series full of solutions and optimism for a more sustainable world, brought to you by IEMA: transforming the world to sustainability

Other episodes

March 11, 2024

Episode 6: Martin Lines

Martin Lines is a third generation farmer from Cambridgeshire, who takes his role as custodian of the land very seriously. He is also CEO of The Nature Friendly Farming Network which advocates for sustainable food and farming in the UK. Martin was nominated for the podcast by the food writer and campaigner Henry Dimbleby, who says he loves the way ...

December 21, 2023

Episode 5: Henry Dimbleby

Henry is the author of the National Food Strategy, co-author of The School Food Plan, founder of the Chefs in Schools and the restaurant chain Leon and now author of a new book called Ravenous - described as a “jaw dropping guide to the modern food system”. He wrote the book with his wife, Jemima Lewis. In this interview we talk about Henry’s love ...

December 19, 2023

Episode 4: Polly Billington

Polly Billington, Labour’s parliamentary candidate for East Thanet at the next election. She worked as a reporter for the BBC for many years, before leaving to become a special advisor to Ed Miliband - she was the media director for his successful bid to lead the Labour party in 2010. In 2016, she founded UK100, a network of local government lea...

November 15, 2023

Episode 3: Rachel Kyte

Rachel Kyte was named by Time magazine as one of the 15 women leading climate action. She is an extremely accomplished and experienced leader, with an appetite to keep on learning. She has worked at the UN and with the World Bank, was the Chief Executive Officer of Sustainable Energy for All, and was the 14th dean of The Fletcher School at Tufts U...

October 04, 2023

Episode 2: Abadesi Osunsade

Abadesi Osunsade is the founder of Hustle Crew which exists to make workplaces fairer. She says her childhood spent overseas as the daughter of a diplomat, plus the tragic loss of her sister helped to make her curious about the world and determined to do what she could to make it better. Sarah talks to Abadesi about why inclusion matters for sustai...

August 15, 2023

Episode 1: Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon MBE

Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon MBE is a maths whizz - famously passing her maths A level at 11 years old. Ten years ago, she founded the Stemettes, a social enterprise working to inspire and support girls, young women and non-binary people in STEM and STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Maths) careers. She passionately believes that technol...

August 14, 2023

Sustainable Matters Trailer

Sustainable Matters is a show for anyone interested in sustainability, hosted by former BBC environment correspondent Sarah Mukherjee. Sarah is now CEO of IEMA, the worldwide alliance of environment and sustainability professionals. Experts in the fields of technology, food production, climate change and conservation talk to Sarah about their big i...

Speaker

Craig Bennett

Craig was formerly CEO of Friends of the Earth where he refocussed the organisation to empower communities to take action on the climate & ecological crises, resulting in a step change in the scale and impact of the movement, with over 200 new Friends of the Earth community groups set up during his tenure. He also led the organisation to numerous campaign victories including on bees, fracking and against the expansion of Heathrow Airport.

He is Honorary Professor of Sustainability and Innovation at Alliance Manchester Business School, an Associate Fellow of Homerton College (Cambridge), a Senior Associate of The Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, and a Policy Fellow of The Centre for Science and Policy at The University of Cambridge. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

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Sustainable
Matters
podcast