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This episode ties together the key themes of the podcast series by looking to the future of the sector and the skills required for it to lead the way to a world beyond waste. Advance the sense of pride in the skills and professionalism of the sector.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Celebrating the growing range of innovative technology at the disposal of waste and resource management professionals, promoting their application to facilitate greater sustainability and circularity within the sector. Profiling examples of collaboration, demonstrating how professionals can utilise them.     Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This episode examines the policy framework impacting the industry, including overcoming potential roadblocks and reviewing the policies needed to cement the industry's role in facilitating greater circularity. New policies and solutions are discussed, alongside current examples of best practice. Featuring Cathy Cook, Chair, LARAC and Lee Marshall, Policy & External Affairs Director, CIWM. Learn mo...

This episode examines the growing range of strategies being applied by resources and waste management professionals to decarbonise the industry, celebrating the strides being made, whilst reinforcing the role the industry plays in facilitating greater sustainability. Featuring Sam Horne, Chair, NAWDO and Andy Rees, Head of Waste Strategy, Welsh Government.     Learn more about your ad choices. Vis...

This episode will join-the-dots; spelling out why circularity cannot happen without this industry, by demonstrating the influence it has on creating greater circularity. It will drill down into real-life examples of how the industry is advancing circularity and what wider lessons can be learnt. Featuring Sophie Thomas, Designer, etsaW Ventures and Chris McDonald, CEO, Materials Processing Institut...

Why now must be the time to harness better management of resources and whole life cycle approaches. Reassessing the role of waste and resource management: the underappreciated change agent of circularity/greater sustainability. Featuring Dan Cooke, CIWM President, and Dr Adam Read, Past President of CIWM. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Investing in our future means greater computer literacy and a new generation of IT professionals committed to climate action.     BCS CEO Rashik Parmer and Annett Almark, BCS Director of Learning and Development, discuss strategies to attract and inspire diverse, new talent in the computer sciences sector and skills development amongst IT professionals.  This is Episode 6 of 6 of Net Zero: A Digit...

Reducing E-Waste to advance the Circular Economy.    University of Nottingham’s Prof Margaret Bates and Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s Joe Iles discuss how we address the issue of E-Waste and highlight solutions deploying behavioural change and new technologies across repurposing, recycling and circularity.  This is Episode 5 of 6 of Net Zero: A Digital Journey, a podcast series hosted by physicist,...

Harnessing the power of IT to combat the climate crisis through collaboration    GreenWeb Foundation’s Chris Adam and Swansea University’s Alvin Orback discuss how to develop synergistic relationships between industry, academics, practitioners and governments that advance Green IT and digital solutions to the climate crisis.  This is Episode 4 of 6 of Net Zero: A Digital Journey, a podcast series...

The technological advances unlocking the potential of green computing.     BCS’s Alex Bardell and MET Office CEO Prof. Penny Endersby discuss advances in computer technology that are driving forward the science of climate forecasting and energy efficient computing.   This is Episode 3 of 6 of Net Zero: A Digital Journey, a podcast series hosted by physicist, oceanographer and broadcaster Helen Cze...

Leading by example. Is the information technology sector on track to achieve its own Net Zero targets?     BCS Director of Policy, Dr Bill Mitchell and the Digital Catapult’s David Pugh explore the progress made by the IT industry towards climate neutrality by 2030.    This is Episode 2 of 6 of Net Zero: A Digital Journey, a podcast series hosted by physicist, oceanographer and broadcaster Helen C...

Accelerating the fight against climate change through information technology science and practise.      BCS President, Mayank Prakash, and DEFRA’s Adam Turner discuss the critical role of digital and data technologies in supporting the transition to Net Zero and responding to climate impacts already locked in.    This is Episode 1 of 6 of Net Zero: A Digital Journey, a podcast series hosted by phy...

Harnessing technology to advance the role of Planning in combating climate change.    Connected Places Catapult’s Katie Adnams and UCL’s Prof Joanna Williams discuss the advances in technology and research every planner should know about if they’re serious about sustainability and Net Zero.    This is Episode 6 of 6 of Planning for Tomorrow’s Environment, a podcast series hosted by multi award-win...

It’s time to come together. How Planners can work in partnership with developers and stake holders to advance Net Zero.     WSP Executive Director, Rachel Skinner and Nottingham City Council’s Paul Seddon discuss real world examples of innovative collaboration between planners and built environment professionals and their ground-breaking results.     This is Episode 5 of 6 of Planning for Tomorrow...

All you need to know about how Planning is deployed around the world in the fight against climate change.  CAP Secretary General, Kelley Moore, and Newcastle University Centre for Researching Cities’ Simin Davoudi discuss innovative approaches to planning and climate change that UK planners could deploy in their own work.      This is Episode 4 of 6 of Planning for Tomorrow’s Environment, a podcas...

Tackling climate change is good for our health! The social benefits of healthy placemaking.     Founder of Create Streets, Nicholas Boys Smith and the Environment Agency’s Ben Llewellyn discuss healthy placemaking and how it can lead to strategies that benefit both the environment and our wellbeing.     This is Episode 3 of 6 of Planning for Tomorrow’s Environment, a podcast series hosted by multi...

How do we hardwire sustainability within our built environment and climate action into our Planning system?     Susan Bridge, RTPI President and England Chief Planner Joanna Averley offer practical advice to planners about tackling roadblocks, facilitating collaboration and forging strategic partnerships that advance climate action.     This is Episode 2 of 6 of Planning for Tomorrow’s Environment...

Serious about tackling the climate crisis? Then we need to talk about Planning.    RTPI Past President Tim Crawshaw and CAP Young Planners Chair Olafiyin Taiwo discuss how to elevate the role of a Planner in order to deliver sustainable solutions that fulfil our Net Zero ambitions.   This is Episode 1 of 6 of Planning for Tomorrow’s Environment, a podcast series hosted by multi award-winning broad...

It’s time to create a new vision of the materials and minerals sector.   Sarah Gordon, CEO of Satarla and IOM3’s Dr. Emily Radley discuss strategies to promote diversity, STEM learning and attracting new talent as the core building blocks of the sector’s development.  This is Episode 6 of 6 of Material Change: Resourcing Net Zero, a podcast series hosted by physicist, oceanographer and broadcaster...

The UK boasts world renowned materials science research and development that’s at the cutting edge of our response to climate change.   David Knowles, CEO of the Henry Royce Institute, and Chris McDonald, CEO of the Materials Processing Institute discuss the very latest research trends, knowledge exchange and academic to industry collaboration that leading to new technological breakthroughs.   Thi...

Proving the adage that necessity is the mother of invention, the climate crisis is driving transformative innovation in the materials, minerals and mining community.   Katherine Bennett, CEO at the High Value Manufacturing Catapult and IOM3 Dr Emma Wilcox discuss examples of innovative approaches in the sector propelling the development of circularity and facilitating our journey to Net Zero.  Thi...

The growth of renewable energy has put critical minerals and materials at the heart of our energy transition.   Jeremy Wrathall, Managing Director of Cornish Lithium and Jeff Townsend, CEO of the Critical Minerals Association discuss how cross sector collaboration is advancing the sustainable extraction, processing and use of materials and minerals for a Net Zero future.  This is Episode 3 of 6 of...

Cutting edge materials science and engineering has the potential to accelerate our transition to Net Zero.        Neil Glover, IOM3 President and Innovate UK’s Neil Witten discuss the critical role of novel materials and processes in delivering affordable, reliable green energy.    This is Episode 2 of 6 of Material Change: Resourcing Net Zero, a podcast series hosted by physicist, oceanographer a...

Net Zero is only attenable through the innovative work of the materials, minerals and mining communities.   Dr Colin Church, CEO of IOM and CIWM’s Lee Marshall discuss how the better management of resources and whole life approaches can accelerate our transition to a green economy.   This is Episode 1 of 6 of Material Change: Resourcing Net Zero, a podcast series hosted by physicist, oceanographer...

Ready or not, the transition to cleaner electricity is already upon us.     IEMA’s Martin Baxter and IMTECH’s Andrew Western discuss all the latest trends in policy, funding and training related to Net Zero that every electrotechnical professional needs to know about.     This is Episode 6 of 6 of Leading the Charge, a podcast series hosted by multi award-winning broadcaster and journalist Rob Smi...