S2: European Union - Green Deal Part 2/3

October 5, 2020

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🎙️ The Voices & The Context

The Format: A casual, conversational podcast between two friends/co-hosts. It feels like a relaxed, informed chat over coffee, mixing personal anecdotes with policy analysis.
The Key Players:
- Rich McCarthy: An ex-teacher and energy auditor, now a "present dad and house husband." He brings a grounded, slightly cynical, and humorous perspective.
- Carola Bohm: A German academic living in the UK. She is the more structured, policy-informed voice, providing the deep dive into the EU Green Deal.
The Vibe: Educational but Fun. The hosts have great chemistry, balancing serious policy discussion with witty asides, self-deprecating humor, and playful mockery of EU infographics. It's a "nerdy but accessible" vibe.

🗝️ Key Themes & Topics

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What you'll learn

1 (00:10) **Introduction to the Episode & Green Deal Recap**
2 (01:50) **Sustainable Agriculture: Overview & Core Pillars**
3 (03:21) **The Farm to Fork Strategy & Competitiveness Debate**
4 (08:21) **Funding, Communication, & Rural Resilience**
5 (16:05) **The Aging Farmer Crisis & Young Farmer Support**
6 (19:16) **The Role of Knowledge, Innovation, & Digital Agriculture**
7 (27:01) **EU Research & Knowledge-Sharing Programs**

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Show Notes

Union’s Green Deal was announced by Ursula von der Leyen back in 2019 and voted in by the European Parliament in January of this year. In this second of three (or will it be four?) episodes, Rich and Carola explore EU's Sustainable Agriculture, they explore policies in this area and what exactly is digital agriculture?

This was a very long episodes, so we cut it in two. This one covering only Sustainable Agriculture, leaving Sustainable Industry, and another long discussion on cement and steel, for the next episode.

This deal covers 9 policy areas, and in E32, Carola and Rich covered the areas of

· Clean Energy

· Farm to Fork

· Biodiversity

In this episode we will cover

· Sustainable Agriculture

And in the next episodes we will cover

· Sustainable Industry

· Eliminating Pollution

· Building and Renovation

· Sustainable mobility

· Climate action

Key Resources

European Green Deal, Wikipedia Entry - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Green_Deal

A European Green Deal. Striving to be the first climate-neutral continent - https://ec.europa.eu/info/strategy/priorities-2019-2024/european-green-deal_en

Further Links

Digital revolution in Agriculture
https://ec.europa.eu/eip/agriculture/en/publications/eip-agri-brochure-shaping-digital-revolution

Eurostats (2018), Organic farming statistics - https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=File:Organic_farming_area_2018data-01.jpg

Greening our Energy Supply - https://ec.europa.eu/info/sites/info/files/food-farming-fisheries/sustainability_and_natural_resources/documents/leaflet-greening-our-energy-supply_en.pdf

EU-funded CLAIM (Cleaning litter by developing and applying innovative methods in European Seas) https://www.claim-h2020project.eu/

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