The Burning Case
A place for critical conversations about our future on this planet and how policy making and radical democracy are essential to ensure that future is not only green but also fair and inclusive.We’ll be chatting about the burning issues of our time, how policies are made and give you the tools to overhaul take the system!
Episodes
33 episodes
"Building Coalitions of Hope" - Defeating the Far Right - Part 1
In just a couple of months European citizens will be heading to vote in both national elections and the 2024 European elections - and the stakes have never been higher! Hence, we are on a mission to try and figure out how to stop ...
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"Guess Who's Back, Back Again?"
Hello everyone! And welcome back to a new season of the Burning Case podcast! We're happy to be back in your ears and hope you had a lovely summer. Today's episode is a bit of a different one as the whole Burning Case podc...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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Life in Plastic, Is Not So Fantastic: How Plastic Is The Fossil Fuel Industry's Next Frontier
Did you know that about 8 percent of the world’s oil production is used to make plastic and power the manufacturing of it? And what's even more frightening is that figure is projected to rise to 20 percent by 2050.With our guest, ...
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Turning The Page to Fit Today's World: How Media Is Reinventing Itself.
Did you know that some studies have shown that individuals that are exposed to several hours of news coverage on a specific event have experienced more physical and mental issues than those who directly witnessed said event?In today’s ep...
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Fast & Furious Fashion: How Europe Wants to Tackle the Industry's (Many) Problems
To round off our two-episode series on the state of the fashion industry today, we are taking a deep-dive into the current policies being discussed at EU level to tackle the environmental and social impacts of the industry. We welc...
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Rana Plaza, 10 years on - Has the Fashion Industry Really Changed?
Ten years ago today, 1,134 workers lost their lives in the Rana Plaza disaster in Bangladesh. It is considered the deadliest garment-factory disaster in history. To commemorate this tragic event, we are publishing a two-episode series on...
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Look Down: Why It's Crucial to Stop Deep Sea Mining Now!
Today we take a deep-dive (yes, pun fully intended) into the ocean and more specifically into what lies under it. We are joined in this episode by Anne-Sophie Roux, Deep Sea Mining Campaign lead to discuss the following:
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Hand Over The Billions: Why It's Time For A Windfall Tax on Corporate Profits
$200 billion dollars. This is how much profit the big 5 fossil fuel companies have made in 2022.Shocked? Disgusted? Angry? Join the club… While major corporations are announcing record-breaking profits in 2022, more and more people are f...
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Mental Health is political: how oppressive systems hurt our minds
Did you know that there has been a 13% per cent rise in mental health conditions and substance use disorders in the last decade? And that 20% of the world’s children and adolescents nowadays have a mental health condition? Sadly,...
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Don't Gas Africa: Ending Fossil-Fuel Energy Apartheid in Africa
Did you know that 600 million Africans are currently left without access to modern clean renewable energy and that this number is likely to increase if further gas and oil projects are undertook. To ensure that Africa is not locked i...
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Organising or campaigning: how to mobilise for radical change?
Have you ever taken part in a protest, signed a petition or shared a campaign on social media? Then you've already been accustomed to the different forms activism can take.In today's episode, we deep dive into what organising, mobilisin...
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Justice Is Everybody's Business: Joining Forces To Make EU Corporate Accountability Indisputable
Welcome back to a new season of The Burning Case Podcast! We’re kicking off this season with an episode all about the European Commission’s proposal for a Directive on Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence and the amazing campaign “
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#NotMyTaxonomy: Why The EU Shouldn't Label Gas and Nuclear Green
Have you heard of the EU Taxonomy for Sustainable Activities? In short, it is a classification system aimed to help companies, investors and policymakers better understand which economic activities can be considered as environmentally sustainab...
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Feeding on Pesticides: 1/3 of European Fruit and Vegetables Contain Toxic Residue
Did you know that around 1/3 of fruit and vegetables in the EU are contaminated with toxic pesticide residue?This staggering figure comes from the report “
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How Fossils Fuels War: The Links Between the Fossil Fuel Industry and Global Conflicts
The Ukraine war is, sadly, the latest conflict to once again shed light on the links between fossil fuel and global conflicts. While in this aforementioned case, the invasion is not justified by the seize of fossil fuel resources, Putin is able...
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Young People and Politics - Part 1: Have the Youth Outgrown Traditional Politics?
Have you ever felt like traditional politics do not best serve your political rights? In this special 3-episode series we take a look at how people-powered politics might be better fitted to express political voices today. The first epi...
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Pushing the toxic boundary: chemical pollution, planetary boundaries and science in media
Chemicals are everywhere today: in the air we breathe, the food we eat and the water we drink.But did you know the production of chemical products has multiplied by 50 since 1950, and that it is expected to triple again by 2050? Meanwhi...
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Charging Europe: the path to renewables in an EU energy crisis
Did your energy bill increase dramatically recently? Rest assured, you're not alone. Europe, and most of the rest of the world is experiencing "historically high energy prices" - with disastrous consequences for the millions of peo...
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The green illusion: how PR firms help big oil delay climate action
Have you ever seen an ad for Total, Shell or BP bragging about their climate commitments and thought "what the hell am I looking at and how can they be so shameless"?And those campaigns are not only designed and developed to influence i...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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#TooHotToHandle 5: The most unfair COP ever
With #COP26 only days away, we decided to dive into the UK's government claim to "deliver the most inclusive COP ever".For a few months now, there's been a strong backlash from many activists and frontline communities on this promise as...
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Season 2
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227 land & environment defenders killed in 2020: Europe's key role in defending the defenders
The climate crisis is a crisis against humanity.These are the first words of the summary of a new report published by NGO Global Witness ...
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Vaccine apartheid: how rich countries are denying access to vaccines to the rest of the world
Did you know that on the 31st of March 2021, 0.1% of Covid vaccines administrated worldwide had gone to low income countries? While 86%of doses had gone to high and upper income countries? That estimates show that many countries in...
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#TooHotToHandle 4: Racial justice in Europe, from empty catchphrases to real structural change
At about the same time last year, George Floyd, an African-American man was murdered in the US. His death sparked an unprecedented wave of protests against police brutality and structural racism in the US but also across the world. A ye...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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#TooHotToHandle 3: Trading tradeoffs, why China and Europe are sparring over Uighur lives
Ever hear of the Uighur community? There are about 12 million Uighurs, mostly Muslim, living in north-western China in the region of Xinjiang. Human rights groups believe China has detained more than a million Uighurs...
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#TooHotToHandle 2: Amendment 171, how the dairy industry wants to censor plant based alternatives
Oat drink in your cappuccino, soy yoghurt, creamy plant based butter. If you live in Europe, these wording might soon become illegal. And so would a tweet or an advert mentioning scientific data showing that a product causes, for e...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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