Climate Confident - Stories And Strategies That Cut Emissions

Get in touch - leave me a message Hey folks, in today's episode of the Climate Confident podcast I had the pleasure of sitting down (again!) with Steve Willis to talk in a little more depth about the idea of the ocean as a nation - which he mentioned briefly on last week's instalment of the show . Steve's concept is a fascinating one, and we spent the whole episode discussing the po...

Get in touch - leave me a message I had the pleasure of speaking with Professor Denise Baden and Steve Willis on the latest episode of this podcast. Denise is a Professor of Sustainable Practice at the University of Southampton and runs the Green Stories project, which aims to communicate climate solutions through storytelling. Steve is the Director of Herculean Climate Solutions and helped produc...

Get in touch - leave me a message In today's Climate Confident episode I had the privilege of sitting down with Bridgette McAdoo , the Director of Sustainability at Genesys . In our conversation, we covered a wide range of topics related to sustainability and what it means for Genesys and the world. We started by discussing the importance of sustainability and the role it plays in Genesys’ bu...

Get in touch - leave me a message In this episode of the Climate Confident podcast, I discuss the importance of sustainable farming practices and the ways in which farmers can reduce their emissions. My special guest is Robin Saluoks , the CEO of eAgronom , a company that provides tools for farmers to track and manage their carbon emissions. We begin by diving into Robin's background and how...

Get in touch - leave me a message Welcome to the latest episode of the Climate Confident Podcast, where I, Tom Raftery, have the pleasure of hosting Tim Brown , the CEO of Tradewater . In this episode, we delve into the crucial work that Tradewater is undertaking to combat climate change through the collection, control, and destruction of greenhouse gases. Tim provides insight into the specific ga...

Get in touch - leave me a message In this premier episode of the newly rebranded Climate Confident podcast, I sat down with Luiz Amaral , CEO of the Science Based Targets Initiative . As global leaders in helping companies set ambitious, science-based emission reduction targets and measure progress, the Science Based Targets initiative is at the forefront of meaningful climate action. Join Luiz an...

Get in touch - leave me a message As the title of this episode says, this is the final episode of 2022.  Compliments of the season to all of you, the listeners, and have a very Happy New Year. The podcast will be back again in 2023 on January 11th, with lots of great episodes lined up. In the meantime, there are 101 episodes in the back catalog, across all aspects of climate, across all industries...

Get in touch - leave me a message I recently came across Justin Bean 's new book What Could Go Right? (non-affiliate Amazon link) - which asks what if we put aside #climate doom, and Pollyanna optimism, and instead picture an ideal world, and work towards it? Intrigued to know more, I invited Justin to come on the podcast. We talked about the book, why Justin felt compelled to write it, the l...

Get in touch - leave me a message The electrification of the transportation space is hugely important for reducing emissions, and one company heavily involved in this process is Siemens as a supplier to many of the main car manufacturers. I reached out to Ed Bernardon , Vice President, Strategic Automotive Initiatives Siemens Digital Industries Software to invite him to come on the podcast. Ed is...

Get in touch - leave me a message Taking individual climate action can often feel pointless - or at best a balm to assuage a guilty conscience, but it is far more important than that. Choosing sustainable products sends a demand signal to manufacturers/producers/retailers that non-sustainable products are not wanted. But which products are the most sustainable? It seems like every products is now...

Get in touch - leave me a message I saw a climate-related post  recently from Herman Gyr of the Enterprise Development Group  on LinkedIn where he talked about a presentation himself and Lisa Friedman gave at the Business Edge Briefing at Dominican University of California's Institute for Leadership Studies . The presentation offered a reframing of climate challenges and an innovative model f...

Get in touch - leave me a message Today's podcast is a little different in that we're tackling two climate-related topics with the one guest: climate anxiety, and water shortages. Marc Cortez is the author of Climaturity - A Journey To The Muddy Climate Middle , as well as being the founder and CEO of water neutrality company Liquid8 . I invited him to join me on the podcast to discuss b...

Get in touch - leave me a message Climate emissions from the industrial sector are hard to tackle. Many industrial processes require high temperatures traditionally achievable only by burning fossil fuels. Rondo Energy is stepping into the space with their heat battery - a battery that stores energy from intermittent renewables in the form of heat, and then releases it as needed. I invited John O&...

Get in touch - leave me a message One of the processes with the highest climate emissions is the production of cement and concrete - and one of the largest producers of cement and concrete is the Swiss multinational Holcim . Holcim have some really interesting sustainability initiatives, so I invited their Chief Sustainability Officer Magali Anderson to come on the podcast to tell me all about the...

Get in touch - leave me a message Carbon accounting (measuring and reporting climate emissions) has not traditionally been something SMBs have needed to do. That is starting to change as larger organisations are requiring reporting from their supply chains. One company looking to help SMBs with this is Greenly . They have developed a carbon accounting platform specifically for SMBs which they like...

Get in touch - leave me a message Reducing cities climate emissions is vitally important, but can be challenging due to the politics involved, budgetary constraints, and the complexity of the ecosystems. One company working to help in this space is ClimateView . ClimateView has a software platform that helps cities turn their Climate Action Plans, into Climate Investment Plans by making it readily...

Get in touch - leave me a message One criticism you regularly hear levelled at batteries for electric vehicles, or for energy storage is the significant climate emissions associated with their production. One company working to fix this, while also keeping the cost down is Norway based Freyr Battery . To learn more I invited their co-founder and CEO Tom Einar Jensen to come on the podcast. We had...

Get in touch - leave me a message Can we use natural processes to suck CO2 back out of the atmosphere? It sounds tempting because the risks of unintended consequences with processes that have been taking place already on the planet for millennia are significantly lower. One such process is weathering, and a company looking to do Enhanced Weathering thereby sucking millions, and hopefully billions...

Get in touch - leave me a message Banks and financial institutions are looking to invest in projects which reduce emissions, but to avoid the greenwashing label, these projects need hihi quality data. That's where CarbonChain comes in. CarbonChain is a carbon accounting platform that supplies high fidelity data so organisations can prove emissions reductions. I invited Adam Hearne , CarbonCha...

Get in touch - leave me a message I came across a post by famed Dutch researcher Auke Hoekstra ( @AukeHoekstra on Twitter) pointing to a newly published scientific paper proving that a 100% renewable energy grid by 2050 or before is entirely feasible . I've known intuitively that this has been possible for some time, but to have it shown in peer reviewed science is something else entirely. So...

Get in touch - leave me a message The automotive industry has been responsible for its fair share of historical and ongoing emissions. Many of the manufacturers are now realising that this is not sustainable (in both senses of the term). Catena X was formed to help help address some of the challenges the automotive industry are facing - including those related to emissions, and sustainability. I i...

Get in touch - leave me a message Nuclear power can potentially help reduce the emissions associated with power generation. However, there are well known issues with nuclear - primarily its cost, the time to develop a nuclear power plant, and the highly radioactive waste it generates. Curio is a hugely ambitious company working to tackle two of these three problems. I invited Ed McGinnis , Curio&a...

Get in touch - leave me a message The idea of using carbon offsets to reduce your climate emissions is one that is often controversial.  Patch is a platform dedicated to making it easier for organisations to buy and sell carbon credits. I invited Brennan Spellacy ( BSpellacy_ on Twitter)  to come on the podcast to tell me more. We had a cool conversation. I pushed back on Brennan on some of the mo...

Get in touch - leave me a message Systemic change is needed to fix the climate. Piecemeal regulations won't cut it. One woman who is working on fixing this is Maya van Rossum . She's the founder of For The Generations , an organisation working to get constitutions to pass a Green Amendment passed to guarantee a right to clean air, clean water, healthy environments, and a stable climate f...

Get in touch - leave me a message The circular economy is growing in importance. Retail is particularly sensitive to this given how younger generations are being far more sensitive to sustainability issues in their purchase decisions. With this in mind, I invited circularity consultant Juli Lassow of JHL Solutions to come on the podcast. We had a scintillating conversation covering why circular ec...