Green Growth Policy: lessons from South Korea with Eun Joo Yi from World Bank
Transition Islands
Eun Joo Yi, World Bank manager of the Korea Green Growth Trust Fund (KGGTF) share with us the reasons for taking a stand on sustainable development, the importance of developing new engines of growth, stakeholder engagement, partnership with the private sector and having a national vision. We talk about specific technological innovations such as smart-grid, fuel cells vehicle-to-car technologies and get inspired about turning problems into opportunities.
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Energy Transition with Alan Bates, CEO Guernsey Electricity
Transition Islands
Episode Seven of the Transition Islands podcast explores the need to accelerate transition to sustainable energy systems, achieving net-zero, smart grid, failing fast and cheap. Alan Bates, Chief Executive of Guernsey Electricity, leaves us with the key message that there is no "Doing Nothing" scenario.
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Let's Talk About Food with India Hamilton
Transition Islands
Episode Six of the Transition Islands podcast explores the complexity behind food systems and attempts to define regenerative agriculture with chef and social entrepreneur India Hamilton. We explore the embeddedness of food systems in communities, the distinction between local and localism and get inspired about the story of the Jersey Sustainable Co-Operative. We are moved to action to learn more about where our food comes and to play a role in creating a vision of food resilience for our own communities.
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Entrepreneurial State and Risk-Taking with Martyn Dorey
Transition Islands
Episode Five of the Transition Islands podcast explores the role of the State in enabling innovation, unpicks issues with modelling and highlights risk-taking as essential to #BuildBackBetter.
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Food Waste and Activism with Elis Joudalova
Transition Islands
Up to a third(1) of all food produced is wasted in the process of food growth, harvest, supply chain, binning by supermarkets and household waste. If only a fraction of this "wasted" food was salvaged it would be enough to eliminate hunger and malnutrition.
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Green Recovery and Green Growth with Estelle Levin-Nally
Transition Islands
Episode Two of Transition Islands podcast explores the opportunity to embrace sustainability in Covid-19 economic recovery plans with Estelle Levin-Nally, Jon Buckland and Sasha Kazantseva-Miller.
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Partnership for Recovery with John Hollis
Transition Islands
Episode three of Transition Islands podcast explores the need for urgency, importance of design and partnership approach for Covid-19 recovery packages.
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Transition Islands Podcast: Ideas for a Regenerative Future
Transition Islands
Episode 1 explores the motivation and purpose behind the launch of Transition Islands podcast in conversation with co-hosts Sasha Kazantseva-Miller and Jon Buckland.
info_outlineEconomic theory and modelling are all-pervasive in our modern life. We explore the fallacies behind modelling assumptions and talk about "first principles" that one could use to design models for post Covid-19 recovery.
We discuss the heavy reliance of island communities like Guernsey and Jersey on the State, given that majority of infrastructure is States-owned. The government can and must play a key role in enabling innovation and entrepreneurship and research shows (Entrepreneurial State by Mariana Mazzucato) that R&D played the defining role to create many of the tech innovations we all enjoy.
Governments can help derisk the innovation process while creating governance structures such as Economic Development Boards to execute on ambitions plans and to unleash entrepreneurial potential.
Martyn's key message focuses on having a recovery vision and taking risks.
About Martyn Dorey
Guernsey man, investment actuary, founder of Dorey Financial Modelling (DFM), an actuarial technology firm. DFM is a small enterprise supporting decision making and risk analysis in government, and on institutional and private wealth assets totalling in excess of £1,000 billion.
Martyn was a consultant for three of the top UK investment consulting firms and won UK national awards for innovation such as the Society of Actuaries ‘paper of the year’ in 2005 and was rated top UK talk on the Geometry of Finance in 2012. He also developed a little known statistical distribution the “d distribution” which uses a different “number system” to capture real-world dependencies.
Martyn is Ex-President of the Guernsey Chamber of Commerce 2016-2018, co-founder of legal technology start-up Ozoris and founder of C3M, a project to put fixed link infrastructure from Guernsey to France.
You can follow Martyn on Twitter - https://twitter.com/TigGuern