About Sustainability…

About About Sustainability…

About Sustainability… is a podcast presented by the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, featuring IGES staff and guests having in-depth discussions about sustainability-related topics. Each episode addresses a different topic of conversation -- be it an upcoming event, a debate of interest, or an interesting research finding. With the topic as a starting point, we see where the conversation takes us. We aim at a broad audience, so we avoid using jargon and try not to assume lots of pre-existing knowledge on the topic. Views expressed during the podcast are those of the speaker at the time of recording and are not the official positions of IGES or other organisations involved.

Publisher

Institute for Global Environmental Strategies

Category

business · science · science

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

17 Feb 2022

Latest episode

14 Nov 2025

Latest episodes

1 of 31 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   14 Nov 2025TRANSCRIPT

   The Science of Change (Part 1): Behavioural Insights for Sustainability

   Welcome to About Sustainability…, a podcast brought to you by the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES). In this episode, hosts Dwayne Appleby and Alice Yamabe are joined by Philipe Bujold, Senior Behavioural Scientist at Rare’s Centre for Behaviour & the Environment. The Center for Behavior & the Environment (BE.Center) at Rare is an international non-profit that works to put behavioural science into practice, applying behavioural insights and design thinking to ...

2. 

   7 Aug 2025

   Environmental negotiations: Discussions that shape our future

   Dwayne Appleby and Andre Mader interview IGES Executive Director Hiroshi Ono about the complexities and challenges of multilateral environmental agreement negotiations.

3. 

   7 Mar 2025

   SDG10 and Beyond: Ensuring a Just Transition for All

   Host Dr. Emily Carter interviews Dr. Kenji Tanaka and Ms. Anya Sharma about implementing just transition principles locally, exploring SDG10's evolution and global case studies.

Inside a recent episode

The Science of Change (Part 1): Behavioural Insights for Sustainability

Published 14 Nov 2025 · Transcript excerpt

[…] But then what Nudge did was open up this whole door of more implicit levers or levers that are not directly observable in people's minds. And that opened the whole door to other fields that were looking at the role of, for example, emotions of social norms, of, in this case, Nudge, we call this choice architecture, so that the way that we design the choice environment for people. And all of these things really, really matter for decision making also. And so that kind of opened up the whole spectrum of different tools that we have to help influence people's decisions. So at Rare, for example, we have our own toolkit, which really describes kind of most of the tools in the behavioral sciences. […]

Who has been a guest on About Sustainability…

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Hiroshi Ono
• Dr Kenji Tanaka
• Ms Anya Sharma
• Fernando Ortiz Moya
• Yasuo Takahashi

Reach and audience

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Apple Podcasts (US)

4.0 / 5

3 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

3 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 11 / 100

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Quality

9

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

32

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