Climate Confident - Stories And Strategies That Cut Emissions

Get in touch - leave me a message Heating cities by opening windows is not a joke. It’s how many buildings still control temperature in winter, and it’s a climate disaster hiding in plain sight. In this episode, I’m joined by Drew Maggio , Technical Director at Highmark Building Efficiency , to unpack why buildings are one of the biggest, most underestimated levers in the climate transition, espec...

Get in touch - leave me a message Europe is drowning in cheap clean power, and still wasting it. The problem isn’t renewables. It’s what happens when the grid can’t cope with abundance. In this episode of the Climate Confident Podcast, I’m joined by Oonagh O’Grady , Vice President of International Origination at Hydrostor , a global leader in long-duration energy storage. We dig into one of the mo...

Get in touch - leave me a message Europe doesn’t have a clean energy problem. It has a grid problem. Solar is cheap. Batteries are scaling. Demand is exploding. The system in the middle is cracking. In this episode, I’m joined by Rob Stait , Managing Director of Alight’s behind-the-meter business, to unpack why the energy transition is now being held back less by technology and more by infrastruct...

Get in touch - leave me a message 8% of global emissions come from the material we barely talk about. Concrete. Cement. The literal foundations of modern life, and one of the hardest climate problems we face. In this episode, I’m joined by Ana Luisa Vaz , VP of Product at Paebbl , to unpack why construction is such a stubborn emissions hotspot, and what it would take to genuinely change that. Ana...

Get in touch - leave me a message What if the biggest barrier to decarbonising buildings isn’t technology, cost, or ambition - but sheer complexity? The built environment produces nearly 40% of global emissions, yet we still make low-carbon construction harder than it needs to be. In this episode, I’m joined by Tommy Linstroth , founder of Green Badger , to unpack why construction remains one of t...

Get in touch - leave me a message Most companies say they’re tackling Scope 3. Then they rely on averages and hope for the best. That’s not decarbonisation. That’s denial with spreadsheets. In this episode, I’m joined by Paul Byrnes , CEO of Mavarick AI , to dig into one of the most stubborn blockers to real emissions reduction: bad data across global supply chains. Paul brings a rare mix to the t...

Get in touch - leave me a message What if the biggest lever for food-system decarbonisation isn’t factories or fleets, but soil you’ll never see on a corporate balance sheet? In this episode, I’m joined by Rhyannon Galea and Kristjan Luha from eAgronom to unpack one of the hardest climate problems to solve: Scope 3 emissions in food and agriculture. This conversation was originally recorded for my...

Get in touch - leave me a message What if the fastest way to decarbonise shipping isn’t a shiny new fuel, but the waste it’s already throwing away? Shipping moves 90% of global trade, yet it’s still one of the hardest sectors to decarbonise. In this episode, I’m joined by Nicholas Ball , CEO and founder of XFuel , to unpack why cost, physics, and adoption matter more than climate theatre when cutt...

Get in touch - leave me a message What if the clean energy transition depended on potato-sized rocks four miles under the Pacific, and we’ve barely started talking about it? In this episode I’m joined by Oliver Gunasekara , CEO and co-founder of Impossible Metals , to tackle one of the most uncomfortable truths in climate tech: there is no net zero without mining. We dig into how deep sea polymeta...

Get in touch - leave me a message What happens when solar stops being just “cheap” and becomes game-changingly efficient as well , pushing past 30% and reshaping global power economics? In this episode, I sit down with Aaron Thurlow , a 25-year solar veteran and commercial lead at Caelux , to unpack how perovskite-silicon tandem modules could transform not just clean energy - but the resilience, c...

Get in touch - leave me a message What if the real disruption in solar isn’t the technology — but the business model behind it? This week I’m joined by Scott Therien , Director of Strategic Partnerships at REC Solar , to unpack one of the most important, and least discussed, shifts in the energy transition: the move from one-off construction projects to long-term, risk-bearing power-purchase agree...

Get in touch - leave me a message What if cutting emissions isn’t enough, and never was? And what if the real lever we’ve been ignoring is regeneration, not reduction? This week I’m joined by Chad Frischmann , co-creator of Project Drawdown and founder of Regenerative Intelligence, for a conversation that goes right to the core of what the climate movement keeps getting wrong. We dig into why stop...

Get in touch - leave me a message Most people never think about industrial heat. Yet half of all manufacturing emissions come from it. My guest this week, Addison Stark , CEO and co-founder of AtmosZero , is on a mission to electrify one of the dirtiest, most overlooked pieces of infrastructure on Earth: the steam boiler. In this episode, Addison and I uncover how a technology unchanged since the...

Get in touch - leave me a message What if business, not politics, held the real key to ending the climate crisis? In this week’s episode, I sit down with Rinaldo Brutoco , founder and CEO of the World Business Academy , to explore a radical but beautifully simple idea: that stakeholder capitalism - where companies serve people and planet, not just shareholders, can actually outperform the old prof...

Get in touch - leave me a message What if upgrading your home to be climate-friendly was as simple as scanning it with your phone? In this week’s episode of the Climate Confident Podcast , I talk with Grant Gunnison , founder and CEO of Zero Homes - a former NASA and MIT engineer who’s now tackling one of climate tech’s toughest challenges: decarbonising existing homes . His company uses smartphon...

Get in touch - leave me a message In this week’s episode of Climate Confident , I sat down with Johanna Wolfson , co-founder and general partner at Azolla Ventures , to talk about how we can rethink climate-tech investing - not as a game of chasing returns, but as a mission to fund what truly matters. Johanna’s firm takes a bold approach using catalytic capital , money that embraces higher risk to...

Get in touch - leave me a message In this week’s episode of Climate Confident , I sat down with Christopher Carrick , founder and CTO of Lignin Industries , to explore a game-changing innovation in the fight against plastic pollution, turning waste from the paper industry into carbon-negative bioplastics. Christopher’s story starts in his kitchen, where curiosity (and a Star Wars ice-cube tray) le...

Get in touch - leave me a message In this week’s episode of Climate Confident , I’m joined by Sherie Nelson , Senior Director of Responsibility & Wellness at Elior North America , a food service company serving millions of meals daily across schools, hospitals, universities, and businesses. Sherie sits at the fascinating intersection of nutrition, sustainability, and systems change - proving t...

Get in touch - leave me a message In this week’s episode of the Climate Confident Podcast, I sit down with Dr. Gary Yohe , one of the world’s leading climate economists, long-time IPCC author, and a member of the Nobel Peace Prize, winning IPCC team of 2007. Gary has spent over four decades shaping how we understand climate change, not just as an environmental issue, but as a fundamental risk mana...

Get in touch - leave me a message In this week’s episode of Climate Confident , I sit down with Emily Wilkinson , Principal Research Fellow at ODI Global and Director of the Resilient and Sustainable Islands Initiative (RESI) , to explore one of the most pressing and least discussed frontlines of the climate crisis: small island developing states (SIDS). These 39 nations, scattered across the Cari...

Get in touch - leave me a message When people think about tackling the climate crisis, they often talk about energy, food, or transport. But what about money? In this week’s episode of Climate Confident , I sat down with Scott Ryan , founder and CEO of Investature , to unpack one of the biggest blind spots in corporate climate strategies, the financial supply chain. Scott argues that pensions, ret...

Get in touch - leave me a message In this week’s episode of the Climate Confident podcast I sat down with one of the true veterans of climate activism, Jonathon Porritt . For over five decades Jonathon has been a leading voice on sustainability, from his early days in the Green Party and Friends of the Earth to his most recent book Love, Anger, and Betrayal . We explored what he calls the “science...

Get in touch - leave me a message In this episode of the Climate Confident Podcast, I sit down with Tom Day from the NewClimate Institute to unpack one of the thorniest issues in corporate climate action: credibility. Over the past few years, big tech companies and multinationals have rolled out bold net zero pledges, but how much of it is substance, and how much is smoke and mirrors? Tom argues t...

Get in touch - leave me a message In this replay episode of the Climate Confident podcast, I revisit one of the most urgent and eye-opening conversations I’ve hosted - my conversation with Tzeporah Berman, Chair and Founder of the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative. We dig into the uncomfortable truth: while governments champion renewables and set emissions targets, fossil fuel explor...

Get in touch - leave me a message In this week’s replay episode of the Climate Confident Podcast , I bring back one of my favourite conversations from earlier this year - my discussion with Jarand Rystad, founder and CEO of Rystad Energy, about the global energy transition and whether we’re truly moving fast enough to meet climate targets. Jarand makes a compelling case that the shift to renewable...