Climate Confident - Stories And Strategies That Cut Emissions

Get in touch - leave me a message Concrete and the built environment have an enormous carbon footprint. To find out more about how companies in that space are innovating to reduce emissions, I invited Gonzalo Galindo , president of Cemex Ventures to come on the podcast to talk about what they're doing . Cemex Ventures is the VC arm of Cemex, one of the world's largest cement companies, a...

Get in touch - leave me a message Go big or go home - that could easily have been the motto of our last two episodes of this podcast and this week is no different. Today's guest on the podcast is Troy Carter . Troy is Co-founder and CEO of Earthshot Labs , a venture-backed organisation whose purpose is planetary-scale regeneration. We had a fascinating conversation covering why Earthshot labs...

Get in touch - leave me a message Ecocide is a term that is recently starting to gain a little ground in the public's eye, but what is it, where does it come from, and just what are the chances of it becoming an internationally legislated crime? To find out more about Ecocide I invited Jojo Mehta to come on the podcast. Jojo is the Co-Founder & Executive Director, Stop Ecocide Internation...

Get in touch - leave me a message One of the most interesting companies in the Climate space has to be Icebreaker One . Icebreaker One is working across industries and governments to create a web of open net-zero data connecting financial , engineering and environmental data to help inform net-zero decisions. Sounds ambitious? Absolutely - but they have form doing this! How are they doing it? To f...

Get in touch - leave me a message So, we've come to our final episode of 2021, but fear not, lots more excellent episodes of the Climate 21 podcast are coming your way starting January 12th next, and every Wednesday after that. In this episode, I have a favour to ask to start with. The podcast is now in the high hundreds of listeners, thank you all for that, but I'd love to get it into t...

Get in touch - leave me a message What is Intelligent Decarbonisation? Intelligent Decarbonisation is the combining of artificial intelligence with cyber physical assets to reduce carbon emissions. To discuss this I invited Cambridge University Prof Markus Kraft to come on the podcast because he literally wrote the book on the topic . Professor Kraft  is a Fellow of Churchill College Cambridge and...

Get in touch - leave me a message Hi folks, I'm on a short break this week to go back to Ireland to check in on my Dad. Normal programming will resume once again next week. So you can look forward to another excellent episode of the podcast this coming Wednesday, December 15th. Support the show Podcast subscribers I'd like to sincerely thank this podcast's amazing subscribers: Anita...

Get in touch - leave me a message I didn't make it to COP 26 but several people I know went so I reached out to one of them, Sally Eaves to discuss her impressions of the event, what were the big wins and what more do we need to do! We talked a lot in the podcast about COP 26 but we also discussed other topics such as what organisations can do to reduce their impact, how to manage ESG reporti...

Get in touch - leave me a message Welcome to the 50th episode of the Climate 21 podcast. In this instalment, due to a scheduling snafu, I was without a guest, so I took the opportunity to talk about a recent keynote talk I have delivered now a few times to phenomenal feedback - The Sustainability Imperative. In this talk I go through the roots of my passion for sustainability, the factors making a...

Get in touch - leave me a message Welcome to another joint Digital Supply Chain and Climate 21 podcast episode. The reason this is a joint podcast is that today's topic - the electrification of transportation is relevant to both podcasts. Today's podcast guest is James Carter . James is a Mobility Futurist, Thought Leader and Influencer, and he is the Principal Consultant at Vision Mobil...

Get in touch - leave me a message Stanford doctoral candidate Benjamin (Ben) Franta (aka @BenFranta on Twitter) has a degree in Applied Physics from Harvard, a Law degree from Stanford, and is currently working on his Ph. D. from Stanford on the history of climate science, climate denial, and the fossil fuel industry. I came across him when I heard about his most recent paper where he and two Fren...

Get in touch - leave me a message I first came across the Carbon Tracker Initiative about 8-9 years ago when they posted a cool short video explaining the concept of a Carbon Budget . I follow the Carbon Tracker Initiative's Founder and Executive Chairman Mark Campanale on LinkedIn so I reached out to him to see if he'd be willing to come on the podcast to explain it. We had a fascinatin...

Get in touch - leave me a message A few weeks back I had IMF Assistant Director Ralph Chami on the podcast talking about how he came up with a way to put a monetary value on the ecosystem services performed by keystone species such as whales in the wild initially and subsequently also by forest elephants. If you haven't heard that podcast, do check it out, you will not regret it. In today&apo...

Get in touch - leave me a message With a workforce of almost 300,000 , Capgemini is one of the world's largest global IT Services and consulting companies. Curious to know what their sustainability story is, I reached out to Capgemini's Global Head of Sustainability Dr . James Robey and invited him to come on the podcast. We had a great conversation about how Capgemini are becoming more...

Get in touch - leave me a message We in SAP held our first Sustainability Summit in April of this year and it was a resounding success. So much so, that we're holding a follow-up Sustainability Summit on October 28th. It is a virtual event and you can find more details here . To find out more about the event, and why you should attend I invited Anita Varshney , Global Vice President for SAP&a...

Get in touch - leave me a message In previous episodes of this podcast, both Prof Sir David King of the Cambridge Centre for Climate Repair and Rob Gardner of St James' Wealth Management mentioned the role of whales, elephants, and biodiversity in general in sequestering carbon. Interested to know more I came across Ralph Chami , Assistant Director at the International Monetary Fund and co-fo...

Get in touch - leave me a message There's a lot of talk these days about targets - be it Net Zero targets, SDGs, or other targets, but how do we measure progress against those targets? Dedlyne is a startup based in the UK which aims to help out here by offering a  dashboard with a very easy-to-understand interface - a simple date, which is articulated in a dial, which is red, Amber, or green,...

Get in touch - leave me a message There is a strong appetite in the investment community right now for sustainable funds to invest in but does that investment lead to sustainable outcomes, and also important - is it a sound investment? I read a couple of fascinating articles recently by Ken Pucker which addresses these questions so I invited him to come on the podcast to talk this through. Ken is...

Get in touch - leave me a message We (in SAP) are running a webinar on September 22nd titled Building a Sustainable Supply Chain for the High Tech Industry . The idea of this webinar is to show how you can optimize both your shareholder return and your design-to-operate processes for sustainability. Given that the subject is both climate, and supply chain-related, I felt this made it an ideal epis...

Get in touch - leave me a message There has been a lot in the press recently about activist investors, the increasing importance of ESG, and how big money can move the needle on climate. Here on this podcast, I've had a number of episodes related to ESG and investing as well. In this week's show, I'm talking to Rob Gardner . Rob is the Director of Investments at St. James's Pla...

Get in touch - leave me a message One of the stakeholders in the climate crisis with the most exposure is the insurance industry, and yet to date, I hadn't invited anyone from that industry to come on the podcast, so this episode corrects that! After reading an article by Zurich Insurance's Global Chief Risk Officer Peter Giger in the World Economic Forum titled " Climate change wil...

Get in touch - leave me a message Aaaand we're back! Rejuvenated after a couple of week's vacation, in this week's episode of the Climate 21 podcast I talk to Watershed co-founder Taylor Francis . If you're not familiar with Watershed, they have developed a platform to help organisations measure out to their scope 3 emissions, build a carbon reduction plan, and source lower-car...

Get in touch - leave me a message Keeping it short and sweet - I'm headed off on vacation for the next few weeks so the podcast is going on a brief break too. I will be back publishing the podcast at its normal weekly (every Wednesday at 6 am CET) cadence resuming with a cool episode on August 25th. If you get lonely for the podcast, there are 36 episodes in the back catalog you can check out...

Get in touch - leave me a message One of the most difficult industries to reduce emissions in is the chemicals industry. I recently came across Carbon Minds , a company focused on emissions data specifically for the chemicals industry. I was intrigued to know more so, I invited Arne Kätelhön , Carbon Minds co-founder and Managing Director to come on the podcast to tell me all about the industry, a...

Get in touch - leave me a message I first came across today's podcast guest Tariq Fancy when I read an interview he gave to Peter McKillop on Greenbiz where he argued that sustainable investments and the current focus on ESGs won't achieve anything and may distract from what is really needed - a carbon tax and systemic change. Given Tariq was recruited by Larry Fink's Blackrock to b...