Tom Raftery

Climate Confident - Stories And Strategies That Cut Emissions

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Climate Confident is the podcast for business leaders, policy-makers, and climate tech professionals who want real, practical strategies for cutting emissions and building a resilient low-carbon future. Every Wednesday at 7am CET, I sit down with the people doing the work, executives, engineers, scientists, founders, and policymakers, to unpack what’s actually driving climate progress across energy, transport, industry, supply chains, food, finance, and more. This isn’t about vague pledges or greenwash. It’s about what’s working, what isn’t, and what leaders need to understand now to make bett...

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The role of the investment community in climate emissions reductions - a chat with JP Morgan's Paul O'Connor 20.01.2021 32:02

Get in touch - leave me a message The investment community has enormous influence on global markets (by directing capital flows) and the climate emissions space is by no means immune to this. I invited J.P. Morgan's Head of EMEA ESG Debt Capital Markets Paul O'Connor to come on the podcast to talk about how this works. I know next to nothing about finance as you can probably tell from...

Renewable energy, storage, and electric transportation - a chat with Auke Hoekstra 13.01.2021 46:10

Get in touch - leave me a message So, Auke Hoekstra is a bit of a legend in the renewable energy, and electric vehicle world. Program Director at NEON research leading a team of 35 PhD's at Eindhoven University of Technology Auke and his team are at the forefront of R&D into clean energy generation, electricity storage, and usage in transportation. However, it is on his Twitter account (...

The importance of Climate related goals for organisations - a chat with Prof Stephanie Bertels 06.01.2021 42:10

Get in touch - leave me a message In this week's episode of the podcast I'm talking Prof Stephanie Bertels - Prof Bertels is the Director of the Centre for Corporate Governance and Sustainability SFU Beedie School of Business as well as Founder and Executive Director of The Embedding Project . We had a fascinating conversation covering the reasons why climate change matters to business t...

Final episode of 2020, upcoming guests, 2020 news, and an ask 23.12.2020 12:43

Get in touch - leave me a message The last Climate 21 episode of 2020 Quick announcement - to help serve you the podcast audience better I have created a chat room on my TomRaftery.com website. Just go to TomRaftery.com/climate and there you can leave ideas for topics for upcoming podcasts, speaker suggestions, feedback on episodes, or create your own topic for people to chat about 3 back episodes...

Microsoft's incredibly ambitious climate emissions initiative - a chat with Lucas Joppa 16.12.2020 43:23

Get in touch - leave me a message Microsoft has a stellar track record when it comes to climate emissions. Microsoft rolled out an internal price on carbon in 2012 - something most major companies today have yet to do. And in January 2020 Microsoft announced its plan to become carbon negative by 2030, and by 2050 to remove from the atmosphere all the carbon Microsoft has been responsible for emitt...

What are Shell's climate emissions reduction ambitions? A chat with Shell exec committee member Huibert Vigeveno 09.12.2020 29:44

Get in touch - leave me a message Fossil fuel companies are in large part responsible for the current climate emergency we find ourselves in - both through the products they produce, and through delaying climate action by governments for as long as they possibly could. Things have changed for the better more recently though. With the signing of the Paris Climate Agreement, with the global rise of...

Climate 21? What's that? - a chat with SAP Executive Board member Thomas Saueressig 02.12.2020 32:15

Get in touch - leave me a message Welcome to the inaugural episode of the Climate 21 podcast - thank you for your interest. This is a podcast which aims to talk to senior executives, climate scientists, and other interested stakeholders to share successful climate emissions reductions stories/strategies to help inspire others on this important journey. For this first episode I invited SAP Executiv...

Climate 21 Intro 07.09.2020 0:44

Get in touch - leave me a message Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, where-ever you are in the world. This is the Climate 21 podcast, and I am your host, Global Vice President for SAP, Tom Raftery. Climate 21 is an initiative by SAP to allow our customers calculate, report, and reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. The climate 21 podcast will showcase best practices and thought leadershi...