Podcast-Episode

Pesticides are largely known for their negative effects on people and the environment. These substances are meant to kill pests, but their toxicity also destroys biodiversity and causes poisoning worldwide. Pesticides can be found everywhere: in the air we breathe, the food we eat, and the water we drink. That is why many highly dangerous pesticides are banned in the European Union.

Achieving a climate-friendly Europe by 2050 is the EU's long-term goal.  In the short run, it means stopping using fossil gas almost entirely much sooner. To limit global warming to 1.5ºC above pre-industrial levels and stay in the Paris Agreement, the demand must end  by 2035.

Europride is “the” pan-European international event dedicated to LGBTQI+ pride and since 1992, the event has been hosted by a different European city every year. Serbian capital Belgrade is home to the 2022 edition of Europride, although the Serbian President, Aleksandar Vučić announced that the event would be postponed or cancelled.

Climate change and the physical boundaries of our planet make it imperative to transform the way our societies work and produce goods. Gail Rego talks to Anna Coote and Antonio Andreoni about specific frameworks and policy proposals that could make the turnaround become a reality.

Women and girls are exposed to unique forms of violence related to their gender, ethnicity, age, sexuality, and socioeconomic status. Have female refugees found ‘safety’ at the European Union’s borders? Gail Rego talks with Madita Stantdke-Erdmann and Anila Noor.

There is emergence of a transformative economic thinking, integrating environmental, social, and economic dimensions, after the wreckage of neoliberal economic thought that clearly has reached its date of expiry. Green finance can contribute to that. Gail Rego talks with Frank van Lerven and Carolyn Sissoko.

Liberal and progressive political actors show a tendency towards skirting around demographic issues which has left a vacuum for the far-right to fill with racist, anti-immigration, and anti-abortion discourses. Presented by Esme Nicholson.