Meliora: a podcast from the Sustainability & Resilience Institute
Welcome to the Meliora Podcast from the Sustainability and Resilience Institute at the University of Southampton!
This podcast explores the greatest and most wicked problem that is sustainability, whilst looking at how we are collectively addressing this critical global challenge.
Sustainability needs to be addressed by understanding how the economy, society, culture, politics and environment intersect, and this is the focus that informs each episode of the Meliora podcast.
In each episode, host Professor Simon Kemp and guest hosts are joined by a variety of guests, including academics, students, staff, researchers, alumni, community groups and business leaders.
The aim of the podcast is to shine a light on the vast range of topics surrounding sustainability and to allow listeners to learn about the critical challenges we face, as well as how they can be part of the solution. We also ensure our fantastic students have the opportunity to share their brilliant work with the world.
Podcast host: Professor Simon Kemp, Deputy Director of the Sustainability & Resilience Institute, University of Southampton
Podcast editors: Lily Killner, Sophie Green, Libby Kale, Jack Dinham, School of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Southampton
Please do get in touch to discuss this podcast and any of the issues we raise by emailing sri@soton.ac.uk
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Meliora: a podcast from the Sustainability & Resilience Institute
Student Takeover Season: The Sustainability of the Pharmaceutical Industry
In this student takeover episode of the Meliora Podcast from the Sustainability & Resilience Institute at the University of Southampton, we are discussing the sustainability of the Pharmaceutical Industry. Through separating the SDGs into economic, social, and environmental issues, we place a lens over the progress the industry has made in addressing sustainability.
The Pharmaceutical Industry plays a crucial role in contributing to the achievement of the United Nation’s SDG 3 – Good Health and Wellbeing - addressing healthy lives, access to medicines, innovation, and pandemic preparedness. In the meantime, numerous goals around environmental sustainability are abandoned, with the manufacturing and supply of medicines greatly contributing to greenhouse gas emissions and the pollution of toxic chemicals into water systems. This episode highlights areas for improvement, suggesting ways in which the industry can become more sustainable, as well as celebrating the successes of pharmaceutical companies over the last 40 years, in improving life expectancy.University of Southampton
Episode host: Sophie Saunders
Episode guests: Benjamin Bulley, Billy Weir and Georgina Norton
