Intergenerational Fairness Day Podcast

Intergenerational Fairness Day
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On November 16th, 2023, organisations from all over the world are proclaiming a worldwide day for action. Join host Lena Winzer as she introduces the concept of ‘intergenerational fairness’ and the organisations championing the Intergenerational Fairness Day! Every three months an episode will be released, in which challenges to an intergenerationally fair world are introduced and discussed.The first episode releases on 16/11/2023 and is produced by Lena Winzer and Svenja Klöckner. 

Episodes

  1. 12/16/2025

    Inside the European Commission's Citizens' Panel on Intergenerational Fairness

    This episode takes you straight to Europe’s unique effort to look beyond short-term politics: the European Commission’s Citizens’ Panel on Intergenerational Fairness. From September to November 2025, 150 randomly selected citizens from all 27 EU Member States gathered on three weekends to discuss long-term policy recommendations – and on November 16th, Intergenerational Fairness Day, they handed over their final 24 recommendations to European Commissioner for Intergenerational Fairness, Glenn Micallef. Lena was in Brussels for the final session, and in this episode, she walks you through what she witnessed: the debates, the challenges, the learning moments, and the recognition that citizens were shaping a shared long-term vision rather than simply observing it. What exactly is a Citizens’ Panel? How does it work? And what does it mean that its outcome will help shape the EU’s first-ever Strategy on Intergenerational Fairness, due in 2026? To answer these questions, Lena speaks with three people who helped shape the process from the inside: Béla Kuslits, senior ecology officer at the Jesuit European Social Centre, and the coordinator of the Future Generations InitiativePetranka Malcheva, policy lead for Health, Long-term thinking and Prevention at the Office of the Future Generations Commissioner for WalesDeša Srsen, Cabinet member of Commissioner Micallef and the person responsible for drafting the upcoming StrategyLena discusses the panel’s purpose with experts, shares their biggest surprises, and what it will take for Europe to truly embed long-term responsibility into everyday policymaking. If you want to understand how exactly Europe is trying to turn intergenerational fairness into political practice, this is the episode you don’t want to miss. Find out more information about the Foundation for the Rights of Future Generations: https://intergenerationaljustice.org/about-us/who-we-are/ You can explore the European Citizens’ Panel on Intergenerational Fairness on the Commission’s website: https://citizens.ec.europa.eu/citizens-panel-intergenerational-fairness_en and read our full blogpost about the final session here: https://intergenerationaljustice.org/2025/11/25/european-citizens-panel-intergenerational-fairness/. If you want to dive deeper into the Intergenerational Fairness Day itself, you’ll find more information here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intergenerational_Fairness_Day or https://intergenerationaljustice.org/projects/intergenerational-fairness-day/ And if you’re new to this podcast, you can listen to all episodes here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2273376 Follow us on Instagram @intergenerationalfairnessday and use the #intergenerationalfairnessday or send us an email to dialog@srzg.de.  Thank you for listening!  -------- CREDITS Creator/Host/Executive Producer: Lena Winzer Producer/Editor: Lena Winzer, Svenja Klöckner Music: Benjamin Cornelius, Background Sounds

    40 min

  2. 12/16/2024

    Negotiating Tomorrow: COP29’s Impact on Intergenerational Fairness

    Get ready for December 16th because our new episode is about THE intergenerational fairness challenge: climate change! COP29 was held in Baku, Azerbaijan, just a few weeks ago and one thing is clear: the stakes have never been higher. With global temperatures nearing the 1.5°C threshold, the decisions made—or avoided—at these conferences will shape the future for generations to come. In this episode, we’ll take a closer look at what happened at COP29. What progress was made? Where did the negotiations fall short? And how do these outcomes impact intergenerational fairness? And you're not just hearing it from anywhere: Lena's guest Arthur is an Ambassador for the FRFG and experienced COP29 firsthand. Together they unpack all the successes and shortcomings at this year's Conference of the Parties. From funding gaps and geopolitical dynamics to accountability issues and backdoor deals – we have it all. Find out more information about the Foundation for the Rights of Future Generations: https://intergenerationaljustice.org/about-us/who-we-are/ and about FRFG's Ambassador and Climate Expert Arthur: https://intergenerationaljustice.org/about-us/ambassadors/ For more information about this year's COP in Baku: https://unfccc.int/cop29#:~:text=With%20a%20central%20focus%20on,300%20billion%20annually%20by%202035.https://www.carbonbrief.org/cop29-key-outcomes-agreed-at-the-un-climate-talks-in-baku/https://unfccc.int/cop29/auvsBBC News and Global Witness report: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crmzvdn9e18o For more information about the Intergenerational Fairness Day: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intergenerational_Fairness_Day or https://intergenerationaljustice.org/projects/intergenerational-fairness-day/ ..and for this podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2273376 Follow us on Instagram @intergenerationalfairnessday and use the #intergenerationalfairnessday or send us an email to dialog@srzg.de. Thank you for listening! If you want to learn more about the other organisations championing the Intergenerational Fairness Day, then check out the links below! Intergenerational Foundation, United Kingdom https://www.if.org.uk Milliongenerations, Netherlands https://www.milliongenerations.org/index.php?title=Main_Page Partnership for Future Generations in Africa https://ourfutureagenda.org/2023/02/partnership-for-future-generations-in-africa Think Forward, Australia https://www.thinkforward.org.au Generation Squeeze, Canada https://www.gensqueeze.ca -------- CREDITS Creator/Host/Executive Producer: Lena Winzer Producer/Editor: Lena Winzer, Svenja Klöckner Music: Benjamin Cornelius, Background Sounds

    50 min

  3. 09/19/2024

    The Future of Intelligence: AI and the Survival of Humanity

    We’re back with part 2 of our Existential Risks Edition! Welcome to the fifth episode of the Intergenerational Fairness Day Podcast coming September 19th! Our discussion today has got everything: a hostile takeover, technological advancements, power and peril and a few heroes like my guest today trying to warn us about it all. This is "Episode 5: The Future of Intelligence: AI and the Survival of Humanity." In today's episode, your host Lena Winzer and her guest founder and director of the Existential Risk Observatory, Otto Barten, are going to break it all down—what AGI actually is, why it could pose such a significant risk, and what's being done to address it. So, buckle up as we separate fact from fiction and explore the existential risks of AI, a topic that could very well determine the fate of humanity. For more information about the Existential Risk Observatory and their projects  - check out the links below! Website: https://www.existentialriskobservatory.org/ Policy proposals: https://existentialriskobservatory.org/papers_and_reports/Policy%20Proposals.pdf Articles in TIME: https://time.com/author/otto-barten/ Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@existentialriskobservatory X: https://x.com/xrobservatory LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/71570894/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/existentialriskobservatory/   For more information on the Existential Risk of AI:  Kurzgesagt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fa8k8IQ1_X0 Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existential_risk_from_artificial_general_intelligence Yoshua Bengio's blog: https://yoshuabengio.org/2024/07/09/reasoning-through-arguments-against-taking-ai-safety-seriously/ Superintelligence (in German): https://www.suhrkamp.de/buch/nick-bostrom-superintelligenz-t-9783518586846 The Precipice: https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Toby-Ord/dp/0316484911 PauseAI: https://pauseai.info/ For more information about the double issue of the Intergenerational Justice Review on Existential Risks and other projects of the FRFG check out the links below: Intergenerational Justice Review: https://igjr.org/ojs/index.php/igjr/issue/view/118 All other FRFG projects: https://www.intergenerationaljustice.org For more information about the Intergenerational Fairness Day: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intergenerational_Fairness_Day ..and for this podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2273376

    51 min

  4. 06/15/2024

    Nuclear Weapons: The Ultimate Existential Risk

    It's time again! Welcome to the fourth episode of the Intergenerational Fairness Day Podcast coming June 16th! Join us as we discuss the likelihood of extinction through nuclear war, the fallout, its effects including a nuclear winter, as well as efforts and strategies for prevention and disarmament in Episode 4: Nuclear Weapons: The Ultimate Existential Risk! Listen to your host Lena Winzer discuss a whole new aspect of the intergenerational (un)fairness spectrum with her guest Susi Snyder from the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. She is the programme coordinator at ICAN and was also the president of ICAN's international steering group which pushed for the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and in 2017 won the Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts. Together they determine whether nuclear war is the ultimate existential risk. For more information on ICAN and their projects  - check out the links below! ICAN https://www.icanw.org/ ICAN Nuclear Spending Report https://actionbutton.nationbuilder.com/share/SPK-QEBCSEU= Follow ICAN on X and Instagram @nuclearban! For more information about the double issue of the Intergenerational Justice Review on Existential Risks and other projects of the FRFG check out the links below: Intergenerational Justice Review: https://igjr.org/ojs/index.php/igjr/issue/view/118 All other FRFG projects: https://www.intergenerationaljustice.org For more information about the Intergenerational Fairness Day: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intergenerational_Fairness_Day ..and for this podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2273376 Follow us on Instagram @intergenerationalfairnessday and use the #intergenerationalfairnessday or send us an email to dialog@srzg.de. Thank you for listening! If you want to learn more about the other organisations championing the Intergenerational Fairness Day, then check out the links below! Intergenerational Foundation, United Kingdom https://www.if.org.uk Milliongenerations, Netherlands https://www.milliongenerations.org/index.php?title=Main_Page Partnership for Future Generations in Africa https://ourfutureagenda.org/2023/02/partnership-for-future-generations-in-africa The Berkeley Institute for Young Americans, United States of America https://youngamericans.berkeley.edu Think Forward, Australia https://www.thinkforward.org.au Generation Squeeze, Canada https://www.gensqueeze.ca Future Design, Japan https://www.ri-futuredesign.com Next Generation Fellows, United Nations Foundation https://ourfutureagenda.org/nextgenerationfellows/ -------- CREDITS Creator/Host/Executive Producer: Lena Winzer Producer/Editor: Lena Winzer, Svenja Klöckner Music: Benjamin Cornelius, Background Sounds

    1h 2m

  5. 03/16/2024

    Unseen Heroes: Empowering Young Carers

    Welcome to the third episode of the Intergenerational Fairness Day Podcast coming March 16th! Join us as we discuss the physical, emotional, social and educational challenges Young Carers face in their daily lives in Episode 3: Unseen Heroes: Empowering Young Carers! Listen to your host Lena Winzer discuss a whole new aspect of intergenerational (un)fairness and long-term consequences with her guests MYTIME Young Carers CEO Krista Cartlidge, Benjamin Salzmann from the Young Carer Center Windschatten Berlin, Tristan Stecker from the German Steering Group for Young Care from the German Professional Association for Nursing Professions and FRFG's very own Head and Speaker of the Board Luise Roither. For more information on the organisations from today's episode - check out the links below! MYTIME Young Carers https://www.mytimeyoungcarers.org/ Windschatten Berlin https://ernst-freiberger-stiftung.de/young-carer/windschatten-berlin/ Steering Group "Young Care" https://www.junge-pflege.de/ For more information about the double issue of the Intergenerational Justice Review on Young Carers and other projects of the FRFG check out the links below: Intergenerational Justice Review: https://igjr.org/ojs/index.php/igjr All other FRFG projects: https://www.intergenerationaljustice.org For more information about the Intergenerational Fairness Day: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intergenerational_Fairness_Day ..and for this podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2273376 Follow us on Instagram @intergenerationalfairnessday and use the #intergenerationalfairnessday or send us an email to dialog@srzg.de. Thank you for listening! If you want to learn more about the other organisations championing the Intergenerational Fairness Day, then check out the links below! Intergenerational Foundation, United Kingdom https://www.if.org.uk Milliongenerations, Netherlands https://www.milliongenerations.org/index.php?title=Main_Page Partnership for Future Generations in Africa https://ourfutureagenda.org/2023/02/partnership-for-future-generations-in-africa The Berkeley Institute for Young Americans, United States of America https://youngamericans.berkeley.edu Think Forward, Australia https://www.thinkforward.org.au Generation Squeeze, Canada https://www.gensqueeze.ca Future Design, Japan https://www.ri-futuredesign.com Next Generation Fellows, United Nations Foundation https://ourfutureagenda.org/nextgenerationfellows/ -------- CREDITS Creator/Host/Executive Producer: Lena Winzer Producer/Editor: Svenja Klöckner Music: Benjamin Cornelius, Background Sounds Art: Intergenerational Fairness Day

    58 min

  6. 01/16/2024

    Longterm Thinking with the Foundation for the Rights of Future Generations

    Welcome to the second episode of the Intergenerational Fairness Day Podcast coming January 16th! Join us as we delve deeper into the work of the FRFG in Episode 2: Longterm Thinking with the Foundation for the Rights of Future Generations. Listen to your host Lena Winzer as she interviews the scientific director Jörg Tremmel, the head of the board Carl-Georg Luft, board member Grace Clover, and ambassadors Milena Weber and Jonas Hohenforst on how the FRFG works to promote intergenerational justice in Germany and globally. For more information about projects of the FRFG check out the links below: Intergenerational Justice Prize: https://www.intergenerationaljustice.org/awards/current/ Past and future Walkshops: https://walk-for-the-future.info Intergenerational Justice Review: https://igjr.org/ojs/index.php/igjr All other FRFG projects: https://www.intergenerationaljustice.org For more information about the Intergenerational Fairness Day: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intergenerational_Fairness_Day ..and for this podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2273376 Follow us on Instagram @intergenerationalfairnessday and use the #intergenerationalfairnessday or send us an email to dialog@srzg.de. Thank you for listening! If you want to learn more about the other organisations championing the Intergenerational Fairness Day, then check out the links below! Intergenerational Foundation, United Kingdom https://www.if.org.uk Milliongenerations, Netherlands https://www.milliongenerations.org/index.php?title=Main_Page Partnership for Future Generations in Africa https://ourfutureagenda.org/2023/02/partnership-for-future-generations-in-africa The Berkeley Institute for Young Americans, United States of America https://youngamericans.berkeley.edu Think Forward, Australia https://www.thinkforward.org.au Generation Squeeze, Canada https://www.gensqueeze.ca Future Design, Japan https://www.ri-futuredesign.com Next Generation Fellows, United Nations Foundation https://ourfutureagenda.org/nextgenerationfellows/ -------- CREDITS Creator/Host/Executive Producer: Lena Winzer Producer/Editor: Svenja Klöckner Music: Benjamin Cornelius, Background Sounds Art: Intergenerational Fairness Day

    25 min
  7. Introducing Intergenerational Fairness: A Global Movement

    11/16/2023

    Introducing Intergenerational Fairness: A Global Movement

    Welcome to the first episode of the Intergenerational Fairness Day Podcast! Join us in our worldwide effort to call for intergenerational fairness on November 16th! Listen to your host Lena Winzer tell you all about the concept and introduce you to the organisations that have called this day into action.  Follow us on instagram @intergenerationalfairnessday and use the #intergenerationalfairnessday or send us an email to dialog@srzg.de.  Thank you for listening! If you want to learn more about the organisations championing the Intergenerational Fairness Day, then check out the links below! Foundation for the Rights of Future Generations, Germany https://www.intergenerationaljustice.org Intergenerational Foundation, United Kingdom https://www.if.org.uk Milliongenerations, Netherlands https://www.milliongenerations.org/index.php?title=Main_Page Partnership for Future Generations in Africa https://ourfutureagenda.org/2023/02/partnership-for-future-generations-in-africa/#:~:text=Partnering%20for%20future%20generations%20requires,as%20trustees%20for%20future%20generations. The Berkeley Institute for Young Americans, United States of America https://youngamericans.berkeley.edu Think Forward, Australia https://www.thinkforward.org.au Generation Squeeze, Canada https://www.gensqueeze.ca Future Design, Japan https://www.ri-futuredesign.com Next Generation Fellows, United Nations Foundation https://ourfutureagenda.org/nextgenerationfellows/   CREDITS  Creator/Host/Executive Producer: Lena Winzer  Producer/Editor: Svenja Klöckner  Music: Benjamin Cornelius, Background Sounds  Art: Intergenerational Fairness Day

    26 min
  8. Trailer - New Podcast coming Nov 16th

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    Trailer - New Podcast coming Nov 16th

    On November 16th, 2023, organisations from all over the world are proclaiming a worldwide day for action. Join host Lena Winzer as she introduces the concept of 'intergenerational fairness' and the organisations championing the Intergenerational Fairness Day! In too many areas of life, society is acting at the expense of young people and future generations. The day calls for a joint and intensive effort to secure the existence of humanity beyond the next decades so that the interests of younger and future generations are better protected both nationally and internationally. Every three months, Lena sits down with the organisations behind this Intergenerational Fairness Day to introduce and discuss challenges to an intergenerationally fair world. The podcast launches on 16/11/2023 and you can follow us on instagram ⁠@intergenerationalfairnessday⁠!

    2 min

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On November 16th, 2023, organisations from all over the world are proclaiming a worldwide day for action. Join host Lena Winzer as she introduces the concept of ‘intergenerational fairness’ and the organisations championing the Intergenerational Fairness Day! Every three months an episode will be released, in which challenges to an intergenerationally fair world are introduced and discussed.The first episode releases on 16/11/2023 and is produced by Lena Winzer and Svenja Klöckner. 

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