Meliora: a podcast from the Sustainability & Resilience Institute
Welcome to the Green Gown Award winning 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: Jack Dinham, Ellie Howell, Mya Harvey, Lily Killner, Sophie Green, Libby Kale, School of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Southampton
Podcast communications: Tyler Domone-Hollands, Hannah Parish, Alexander Ayerst, Maya Stevens, University of Southampton
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Meliora: a podcast from the Sustainability & Resilience Institute
Impact Agenda - The Reality behind SDG 12
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In this student takeover episode of the Meliora Podcast we discuss the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 12, which concerns responsible consumption and production.
We begin with an overview of what SDG 12 is and the critical global issues of unsustainable production and consumption which led to its creation. Discussing the goal itself highlighted the requirements and obligations for countries to implement to achieve this goal. This allowed us to consider and analyse how well countries and global companies are achieving the requirements of the goal in practice. The podcast centred on countries exemplifying both successful and unsuccessful progress towards the goal, including South Korea, Rwanda, Indonesia, Japan, The United States and India. Finally, upon consideration of the countries struggling with achieving the goal, we provide recommendations for how this goal could be improved to increase country achievement and address the global issues of unsustainable consumption and production.
Episode Host: Aymen Fatima
Episode guests: Oleksandra Fedorenko, Maisie Cook
Episode editor: Maisie Cook
Episode researchers and script-writers: Katie Dixon, Bilquis Tijani
This episode is part of the Student Takeover Season on the Meliora Podcast and is a group project from the University of Southampton UOSM2043 Global Sustainability Challenges module.
