Swiss Impact with Banerjis

Host - Ben Banerjee & Sveta Banerjee

Topic: How our eating habits is killing the Planet and what can be done?

Guests - Jeroom Remmers is the director of the TAPP Coalition Dr. Helena Wright, FAIRR Initiative Policy Director, Dr. Ameenah Gurib-Fakim , Forbes List for the 100 ‘Most Powerful women in the world,' 6th President of Mauritius.

The weekly show on how Impactful investments and businesses are helping to implement the 17 UN SDG’s worldwide to preserve the world for future generation.

Banerjis have enlightening and in-depth conversations with newsmakers, celebrities, thought leaders, entrepreneurs, project owners, investors, politicians and business leaders and encourage them to act now.

Jeroom Remmers is the director of the TAPP Coalition, an international foundation focusing on fair prices and taxes to make the production and consumption of meat and dairy sustainable (tappcoalition.eu). The foundation is supported by farmers, healthcare professionals, youth, businesses and charities. TAPP Coalition showed a 55%-majority of Dutch, German and French consumers support a meat tax, including environmental costs (GHG-emissions, nitrogen, biodiversity loss), on the condition that revenues of an excise duty will be used to reduce VAT rates on vegetables/fruits and compensate farmers and low-income groups. Remmers’ report ‘Aligning food prices with the European Green Deal’, and the report ‘Sustainability charge on meat’, presented at the EU Parliament 5th Feb 2020, received global media coverage and influenced the EU Commission's ‘Farm to Fork Strategy’. The Coalition's meat tax proposal was included in Dutch governmental proposals for a next government, sent to the Dutch Parliament, 22nd of April 2020. Dutch Governmental parties D66 and Christian Union included the TAPP Coalition plan in their election programs.

Dr. Helena Wright, FAIRR Initiative Policy Director, focuses on policy solutions related to the risks and opportunities of intensive animal agriculture. Helena works to promote greater understanding of the ESG risks in intensive animal agriculture and build sustained engagement in sustainable policies and business practices. She has worked for the World Wide Fund for Nature as Vice President, the think tank E3G, as well as the UK Government as a negotiator. She has a PhD from Imperial College, London.

Dr. Ameenah Gurib-Fakim was in the Forbes List for the 100 ‘Most Powerful women in the world’ and 1st among the Top 100 Women in Africa Forbes List 2017, 2019. She is honoured as one of Foreign Policy’s 2015 Global Thinkers. She has been the Managing Director of the Centre International de Développement Pharmaceutique (CIDP) Research and Innovation as well as Professor of Organic Chemistry with an endowed chair at the University of Mauritius. Since 2001, she has served successively as Dean of the Faculty of Science and Pro Vice Chancellor (2004- 2010). She has also worked at the Mauritius Research Council as Manager for Research (1995-1997).

Elected Fellow of several academies and societies, Dr Gurib-Fakim received several international prizes including the 2007 l’Oreal-UNESCO Prize for Womenin Science, the African Union Commission Award for Women in Science, 2009. On 05 June 2015, she was sworn in as the 6th President and the First Female President of the Republic of Mauritius and served in that capacity until March 2018.

In 2020, she was elected Honorary President of the International and Engineering Institute and received their 2020 5th IETI Annual Scientific Award. She also received the IAS-COMSTECH Ibrahim Memorial Awardfrom the WIAS in Jordan.

Host - Ben & Sveta Banerjee

Guest - Surprise Guest!

The weekly show on how Impactful investments and businesses are helping to implement the 17 UN SDG’s worldwide to preserve the world for future generation.

Banerjis have enlightening and in-depth conversations with newsmakers, celebrities, thought leaders, entrepreneurs, project owners, investors, politicians and business leaders and encourage them to act now.

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Guest - Gurminder Singh Khalsa, also known as Dr G in US Silicon Valley Founder and chairman of International Green Technology Institute, Transformative Capital Inc and EcoSpirit Collaborative Platform.

The weekly show on how Impactful investments and businesses are helping to implement the 17 UN SDG’s worldwide to preserve the world for future generation.

Banerjis have enlightening and in-depth conversations with newsmakers, celebrities, thought leaders, entrepreneurs, project owners, investors, politicians and business leaders and encourage them to act now.

This week guest is Gurminder Singh Khalsa, Presently developing the EcoSpirit Collaborative Platform to support the growth of ecofarmers, eco-entrepreneurs, eco-communities and promote economics globally.

Founder & Chairman of the International Green Technology Institute since 2003, launched various programs such as the Roundtable of Green Thought Leaders, Green Awards at the Green Carpet, Green Technology Leadership Lecture Series, the Green Technology Entrepreneurial Forum, the Green Technology Global Expo, and Conference.

He was the Co-Founder, President, and CTO of Transformative Capital Inc, a strategic, technology & financial advisory firm providing consulting & capital formation services.

Prior to Transformative Capital Inc, Gurminder has advised 15 US State Governors, various City Officials, renewable energy, green infrastructure, and going green companies.

Host - Ben & Sveta Banerjee

Guest - Stephen Brenninkmeijer Founder and Principal of Willows Investments UK Chairman of European Climate Foundation

The weekly show on how Impactful investments and businesses are helping to implement the 17 UN SDG’s worldwide to preserve the world for future generation.

Banerjis have enlightening and in-depth conversations with newsmakers, celebrities, thought leaders, entrepreneurs, project owners, investors, politicians and business leaders and encourage them to act now.

Stephen is a private investor with interests in climate change, impact investing and education. For 30 years he was involved in family-held retail business, C&A in USA, Japan, England and throughout Europe. He has been active in strategic investing since 2002, and founded Willows Investments in 2008 with the aim of supporting promising ventures with a social mission. Among his many board positions he is Chair of the Supervisory Board of The European Climate Foundation; Chair of the Business & Law School Advisory Board of St Mary’s University Twickenham (UK); a Member of the Board of Directors, World Resources Institute (USA).

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Guest - Dr. Jamison Ervin Head of Global Programme on Nature for Development at UNDP United Nations Development Programme

The weekly show on how Impactful investments and businesses are helping to implement the 17 UN SDG’s worldwide to preserve the world for future generation.

Banerjis have enlightening and in-depth conversations with newsmakers, celebrities, thought leaders, entrepreneurs, project owners, investors, politicians and business leaders and encourage them to act now.

Dr. Ervin is one of the most amazing and leading expert on how humanity can avert itself from catastrophic climate change and yet keeps it standard of life and economic development.

She has been working at the intersection of nature and development since 1990. Currently she is at the United Nations Development Programme, focusing on enabling countries to develop a ‘Map of Hope’ for nature-dependent goals that puts nature at the heart of sustainable development. She also focuses on supporting local action on nature-based solutions, including leading UNDP’s Equator Initiative, on supporting governments in identifying nature-based solutions for climate, and on supporting action and ambition on protected areas.

Host - Sveta and Ben Banerjee

Swiss Impact Season 1 Summary Part 2

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This is the summary of the most exciting moments of the season 1.

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Guests: Kevin Harrington - Entrepreneur - ABC's Shark Tank

For more than 30 years, Kevin Harrington has empowered entrepreneurs and innovative business leaders to turn dreams into mind-boggling reality.

An original “shark” on the hit TV show Shark Tank, the creator of the infomercial, pioneer of the As Seen on TV brand, and co-founding board member of the Entrepreneur’s Organization—Kevin Harrington has pushed past all the questions and excuses to repeatedly enjoy 100X success.

His legendary work behind-the-scenes of business ventures has produced well over $5 billion in global sales, the launch of more than 500 products, and the making dozens of millionaires.

Twenty of his companies have each topped $100 million in revenue.

Host - Sveta and Ben Banerjee

Guest - Martin Palmer President & Interim Chief Executive FaithInvest - FaithInvest is an international, not-for-profit membership organisation for religious groups and faith- based institutional investors. Our aim is to grow the scale and impact of faith-consistent, values-driven investing worldwide.

Martin Palmer is the President and Interim Chief Executive of FaithInvest, an international, not-for-profit membership organisation for religious groups and faith-based institutional investors founded in 2019. Its aim is to grow the scale and impact of faith-consistent, values-driven investing worldwide. FaithInvest grew out of the Alliance of Religions and Conservation (ARC), which was founded by Martin Palmer with His Royal Highness Prince Philip in 1995 to help faiths develop environmental and conservation projects based on their own beliefs and practices.

Martin was Secretary General of ARC until June 2019. He is the author and editor of more than 20 books on religious and environmental topics. He has translated many ancient Chinese texts, is a regular contributor to the BBC, and is a lay preacher in the Church of England. He has been working with the faiths on their investment programmes since 2001 and helped found the International Interfaith Investment Group (3iG) in 2005.

Earlier Show - International Broadcast Media Presents " Swiss Impact with Banerjis " February 26, 2021 Live IBMTV - https://youtu.be/jW3e53sMHi4 "Swiss Impact with Banerjis" Guest - Martin Palmer (President-FaithInvest) only on IBMTV

Host - Sveta and Ben Banerjee

Special Guests:

1. H.E. Ms. Elisabeth von Capeller Ambassador of Switzerland to Nepal
2. Mr. Bhattarai from Embassy of Switzerland
3. Mr. Tim Gocher, CEO of Dolma Impact Fund

This time we travel to Nepal. All our viewers who want to learn how Swiss embassy and Swiss Agency for development and Cooperation are actively fostering private sector development and impact investment eco-system. We will also be joined by the CEO of the Dolma Impact Fund. For the entrepreneurial audience of ours, the discussion will include the criteria and procedure of these investments.

Ambassador Elisabeth von Capeller from Switzerland did her master's degree in agricultural engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich. Later on she worked at Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) in Cameroon. In 2007, Ms von Capeller moved to the SDC cooperation office in Nepal where she was Head of Cooperation and Deputy Head of Mission from 2009. In 2011, she was appointed Head of the South Asia Division, Head of Conflict and Human Rights. In February 2018, she was appointed as the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Switzerland to Nepal.

Mr. Bhattarai is an economist at the Embassy of Switzerland and Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation in Nepal. As the focal point for private sector engagement at the Embassy and SDC, he has an experience of working closely with a diverse set of partners such as government agencies, entrepreneurs, foreign and local investors, financial institutions, and other key stakeholders in Nepal’s entrepreneurship ecosystem.

Tim is the founder and CEO of Dolma Impact Fund, the first international private equity fund focussed on Nepal. He is an investment executive with a background in renewable energy and Technology. He is also Hon. Professor of Sustainable Business at The University of Nottingham and Guest Lecturer at London Business School where he gained his MBA.