In this season of the podcast, we’re asking: How Could We? Transform our food systems so they nourish people and regenerate our planetary systems.

Host Anne-Sophie Garrigou is joined this week by Michelle Donnelly, a farmer from the Mulroy Meadow Farm in Donegal, Ireland. Michelle and her husband Cathal moved to Donegal in 2020 to pursue their dream of running a regenerative farm, which currently produces pasture-raised eggs, forest-raised traditional breed pork, and grass-fed beef. Mulroy Meadow Farm also offers farm tours and educational programmes.

Anne-Sophie is also joined on this episode by Stewart Gee, who works on Climate KIC’s Irish Deep Demonstration, a project that aims to help Ireland achieve a climate-neutral food system by 2050.

In this episode, Michelle talks about her journey from being a pharmacist to becoming a farmer, why regenerative agriculture is so important to her - especially from a health and community perspective - as well as the barriers and opportunities provided by regenerative agriculture.

Stewart discusses the enabling conditions and policies needed to scale up regenerative agriculture at the regional and national level in Ireland and what lessons learned in Ireland could inspire regenerative agriculture practices elsewhere.

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This episode was presented and produced by⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Anne-Sophie Garrigou⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and co-produced by⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Bárbara Mendes-Jorge⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

Climate KIC is Europe’s leading climate innovation agency and community. We are here to help create climate-resilient societies and fight the climate breakdown, building better futures for local communities, globally. Check out our website and follow us on LinkedIn.

You can also see how we are supporting farmers’ food futures, find out how to attend the 3rd European Carbon Farming Summit - taking place in Padua, Italy from 17-19 March 2026 - and check out our Green Horizons network dedicated to sustainable agriculture and knowledge exchange.

Welcome to a new season of the podcast, where we’re asking: How Could We? Transform our food systems so they nourish people and regenerate our planetary systems.

In this food-focused season, we’re looking at a range of topics, including soil health, regenerative agriculture practices, integrated landscape management, the importance of justice and equity in this transition, enabling policies and the cultural dimension of food transformation. We’re meeing farmers, researchers, and innovators who are pioneering regenerative approaches, transforming how we eat and how we relate to our planet.

This week, host Anne-Sophie Garrigou interviews Saskia Keesstra, a soil expert from Climate KIC, who has spent years working at the intersection of soil science, farming practices, and climate policy.

Saskia discusses how healthy soil does much more than grow our food, why it is one of our most powerful allies in the fight against climate change and hear about how farmers in our network are pioneering soil regeneration practices that could transform farming and our food system.

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This episode was presented and produced by⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Anne-Sophie Garrigou⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and co-produced by⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Bárbara Mendes-Jorge⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

Climate KIC is Europe’s leading climate innovation agency and community. We are here to help create climate-resilient societies and fight the climate breakdown, building better futures for local communities, globally. Check out our website and follow us on LinkedIn.

You can also see how we are supporting farmers’ food futures, find out how to attend the 3rd European Carbon Farming Summit - taking place in Padua, Italy from 17-19 March 2026 - and check out our Green Horizons network dedicated to sustainable agriculture and knowledge exchange.

Recorded live at the SB62 June Climate meeting in Bonn - a key conference in the lead up to the upcoming United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) COP30 in Brazil - this week’s episode sees host Anne-Sophie Garrigou interview more experts at the heart of negotiations to hear what we can expect from Brazil's COP30 presidency and the challenges that lie ahead.

Firstly, climate policy researcher Lina Yassin from the International Institute for Environmental Development outlines the Global Goal on Adaptation and explains why tripling adaptation finance by 2030 is literally a matter of life and death for communities facing climate disasters.

Anne-Sophie talks to Glindys Virginia Luciano, International & Strategic Relations Project Manager at EIT Food, about how food systems are gaining traction as a cross-cutting solution and how she hopes that ​​spaces for multiple stakeholders to have discussions will be created at COP30.

Finally, Dr. Sanjay Vashist, Director at Climate Action Network South Asia raises important questions about climate finance commitments and the true meaning of "just transition" – particularly the difference between asking rich nations to scale back their emissions versus expecting developing countries to abandon their development aspirations.

If you're interested in hearing about COP30 from us in the next months, subscribe to Climate KIC's COP30 mailing list.

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This episode was presented and produced by⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Anne-Sophie Garrigou⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and co-produced by⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Bárbara Mendes-Jorge⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

Climate KIC is Europe’s leading climate innovation agency and community. We are here to help create climate-resilient societies and fight the climate breakdown, building better futures for local communities, globally.

Check out our website, register to Climate KIC’s COP30 mailing list, follow us on LinkedIn and subscribe to our newsletter.

Welcome to a new season of How Could We?, recorded live at the SB62 June Climate meeting in Bonn, a key conference in the lead up to the upcoming United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) COP30 in Brazil.

This week, host Anne-Sophie Garrigou interviews a scientist (Bart van den Hurk, IPCC Working Group II Co-Chair), a negotiator (Genaro Matías Godoy González, Chile's Acting Lead Negotiator on Finance) and a civil society representative (Aline Baroni, Country Director at ProVeg Brasil). They talk about what they think the main challenges facing the COP30 presidency are this year and what they can share about what is happening behind the scenes.

We also talk about what shifts are needed at COP 30 as well as how the conference’s mutirão call aims to bring people together to mobilise for climate action.

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This episode was presented and produced by⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Anne-Sophie Garrigou⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and co-produced by⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Bárbara Mendes-Jorge⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

Climate KIC is Europe’s leading climate innovation agency and community. We are here to help create climate-resilient societies and fight the climate breakdown, building better futures for local communities, globally.

Check out our website, register to Climate KIC’s COP30 mailing list, follow us on LinkedIn and subscribe to our newsletter.

Welcome to the latest episode of How Could We?, recorded live at the ⁠⁠ChangeNOW summit⁠⁠ in Paris - an event focused on showcasing sustainable solutions and profiling sustainability leaders making an impact.

This season is focused on adaptation and climate resilience - and for this week's episode, ⁠⁠Anne-Sophie Garrigou⁠ is joined by François Gemmene, a researcher and IPCC lead author.

François' work focuses mostly on the human impacts of climate change, including migration and displacement, as well as issues such as security conflicts, inequalities and development.

In this episode, François discusses the evolving relationship between climate adaptation policies and migration governance, what a just transition means in the context of adaptation, why local and regional governments are uniquely positioned to lead the way and his work on the Pathways2Resilience EU programme, which helps support regions through long-term adaptation.

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This episode was presented and produced by⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Anne-Sophie Garrigou⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and co-produced by⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Bárbara Mendes-Jorge⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.⁠⁠

⁠⁠Climate KIC⁠⁠ is Europe’s leading climate innovation agency and community. We are here to help create climate-resilient societies and fight the climate breakdown, building better futures for local communities, globally.

Follow us ⁠⁠on LinkedIn⁠⁠ and subscribe ⁠⁠to our newsletter⁠⁠.

Welcome to the latest episode of How Could We?, recorded live at the ⁠ChangeNOW summit⁠ in Paris - an event focused on showcasing sustainable solutions and profiling sustainability leaders making an impact.

This season is focused on adaptation and climate resilience and for this week's episode, ⁠Anne-Sophie Garrigou is joined by Joshua Amponsem, Co-Director of the Youth Climate Justice Fund and Founder of the Green Africa Youth Organization.

Joshua has spent the last decade pushing for more inclusive climate policies, shaped international forums like the UN Youth Climate Summit and led groundbreaking work, including the Global Youth Call to Action on adaptation. His work challenges the colonial roots of climate funding and calls for a new era of climate finance, one that truly supports local leadership, youth innovation, and indigenous wisdom.

In this episode, Joshua talks about the injustice of climate finance, the need to support leadership coming from the global south, and what it takes to shift decision making and funding to the communities that are living through and needing the transition.

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This episode was presented and produced by⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠Anne-Sophie Garrigou⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and co-produced by⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠Bárbara Mendes-Jorge⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.⁠

⁠Climate KIC⁠ is Europe’s leading climate innovation agency and community. We are here to help create climate-resilient societies and fight the climate breakdown, building better futures for local communities, globally.

Follow us ⁠on LinkedIn⁠ and subscribe ⁠to our newsletter⁠.

Welcome to the latest episode of How Could We?, recorded live at the ChangeNOW summit in Paris - an event focused on showcasing sustainable solutions and profiling sustainability leaders making an impact.

This week, Anne-Sophie Garrigou interviews Eytan Levi, Co-Founder of Roofscapes. Focused on adapting existing roofs and buildings to a changing climate, Roofscapes uses timber platforms to make previously untapped roofs shadier and greener, thereby reducing thermal discomfort, increasing biodiversity anchors, and offering new outdoor spaces in cities.

Eytan talks about how an inspiration for founding Roofscapes was his Paris upbringing, how timber platforms can dramatically reduce temperatures - even during heatwaves - the importance of involving people who live in the buildings Roofscapes works on, and invites listeners to visit Roofscapes’ pilot project at L’Académie du Climat in Paris.

If you enjoyed this episode, we recommend checking out our fifth season, whose content is also focused on cities.

This episode is part of Climate KIC’s #LiveableCities Campaign 2025, which highlights our leadership in transforming cities across Europe into climate-resilient, just, and regenerative places. Through initiatives like NetZeroCities, CitiES 2030, Climathon, EIT Community New European Bauhaus and the Pilot Cities Programme, we support local governments and communities in creating scalable solutions to tackle climate challenges. By showcasing diverse approaches - from citizen engagement and innovative financing to sustainable mobility and urban heat mitigation - this campaign amplifies the stories behind the systems change we’re helping to orchestrate.

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This episode was presented and produced by⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Anne-Sophie Garrigou⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and co-produced by⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Bárbara Mendes-Jorge⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

Climate KIC is Europe’s leading climate innovation agency and community. We are here to help create climate-resilient societies and fight the climate breakdown, building better futures for local communities, globally.

Follow us on LinkedIn and subscribe to our newsletter.

Welcome to a new season of How Could We?, recorded live at the ChangeNOW summit in Paris - an event focused on showcasing sustainable solutions and profiling sustainability leaders making an impact.

This week Anne-Sophie Garrigou interviews Marion Waller, Executive Director of the Pavillon de L'Arsenal in Paris. The Pavillon de L’Arsenal is a centre for architecture and urban planning, as well as a museum.

Marion talks about the importance of collaboration between cities when tackling climate challenges, the role of culture and storytelling in driving urban transformation, how architecture acts as a bridge between identity and climate resilience, as well as the role of public engagement through imagination.

If you enjoyed this episode, we recommend checking out our episode about building a sustainable mass timber market in East Africa with Syakaa William - as well as our fifth season, whose content is also focused on cities.

This episode is part of Climate KIC’s #LiveableCities Campaign 2025, which highlights our leadership in transforming cities across Europe into climate-resilient, just, and regenerative places. Through initiatives like NetZeroCities, CitiES 2030, Climathon, EIT Community New European Bauhaus and the Pilot Cities Programme, we support local governments and communities in creating scalable solutions to tackle climate challenges. By showcasing diverse approaches - from citizen engagement and innovative financing to sustainable mobility and urban heat mitigation - this campaign amplifies the stories behind the systems change we’re helping to orchestrate.

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This episode was presented and produced by⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Anne-Sophie Garrigou⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and co-produced by⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Bárbara Mendes-Jorge⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

Climate KIC is Europe’s leading climate innovation agency and community. We are here to help create climate-resilient societies and fight the climate breakdown, building better futures for local communities, globally.
Check out our website, follow us on LinkedIn and subscribe to our newsletter.