Climate Confident - Stories And Strategies That Cut Emissions

Get in touch - leave me a message I'm going on vacation for a couple of weeks, but don't worry I'll be back with loads more episodes, choc full of successful emissions reduction stories shortly. Listen to this short episode to find out more... Support the show Podcast subscribers I'd like to sincerely thank this podcast's amazing subscribers: Anita Krajnc Cecilia Skarupa B...

Get in touch - leave me a message The aviation industry is one the hardest to decarbonise. One way to get its climate emissions down in the short term is to use sustainable aviation fuels (SAF). One company in this space has come up with a plant that can not only produce oil that can be used to create SAF, but it can do so in a way that is economically advantageous for the farmer, without taking l...

Get in touch - leave me a message Is climate a driving force for Digital Transformation in companies? And what role does sourcing and procurement play? In early 2022, Economist Impact conducted a global survey of 430 C-level executives across various organisational functions to explore how their businesses and industries are transforming procurement to meet existing and emerging challenges. To fin...

Get in touch - leave me a message Machine Learning is great for helping us surface new series on Netflix, for helping us search through the thousands of photos on your phone to find that one of the cute cat you took a picture of all those months ago, or for things such as fraud detection by banks, but can it be used to impact the physical environment to help reduce climate emissions? Prateek Joshi...

Get in touch - leave me a message The climate news about China seems to be consistently contradictory. On the one hand, we hear how China is responsible for high levels of emissions, while on the other we hear how China is leaping ahead in its deployments of renewables. Where does the truth lie? I invited Daniel Berger of EAC who has been based in China for the last 20 years to come on the podcast...

Get in touch - leave me a message Creating a narrative is all-important in any sphere. All the more so in the climate space where the stakes are perilously high, and as we heard in last week's episode, climate anxiety is becoming a very real thing. To explore the topic of storytelling, particularly as it pertains to climate I invited multiple award-winning journalist, British Foreign Correspo...

Get in touch - leave me a message So we're hearing more about Climate Anxiety these days - particularly among the younger generations who will have to live with the damage we have wrought on our climate far longer than the rest of us. To talk a little about this, I invited Grist Staff Writer Kate Yoder to come on the podcast to talk about it. We had a fascinating conversation discussing what...

Get in touch - leave me a message Creating lithium-ion batteries is a hugely energy-intensive process and consequently, battery-electric cars take approximately 17,000km to repay their carbon debt. Nanoramic Laboratories has come up with a way to reduce by over 30% the amount of energy required to manufacture lithium-ion batteries, while at the same time making them more energy-dense, and increasi...

Get in touch - leave me a message Following on from last week's episode of the podcast where I talked to Rebellious Foods about their plant-based chicken, in this week's episode I talk to Jacob von Manteuffel, co-founder of Bettaf!sh , a company making plant-based tuna (or Tu-Nah, as they call it!). We had a fascinating conversation talking about what plants Bettafish uses (seaweed), the...

Get in touch - leave me a message Chicken makes up an increasing part of the food we eat. Chicken production is polluting, cruel, and causes significant emissions. One company looking to address this issue is Rebellyous Foods . They have come up with a way to produce plant-based meat , which looks like chicken, tastes like chicken, and is similarly priced to chicken. To find out more I invited Reb...

Get in touch - leave me a message For millennia we have had a stable climate with atmospheric CO2 levels at around 280ppm. Since the Industrial Revolution, the amount of CO2 in our atmosphere has rocketed up to now around 420ppm with the consequent climate chaos we're now witnessing. Can we reverse that? Can we bring atmospheric CO2 levels back down to 280 once more? Today's guest on the...

Get in touch - leave me a message And we're back. I was off last week with Covid, hence the gap in the usual weekly cadence. But boy do I have an excellent episode for you this week to make up for it. Enduring Planet is a FinTech lender focused exclusively on the new climate economy. I invited Dimitry Gershenson , the company's CEO and Co-Founder to come on the podcast to tell me all abo...

Get in touch - leave me a message Energy efficiency isn't nearly as sexy a topic as building out some shiny new solar farm, but it is equally important, and when this energy efficiency benefits low income families who have traditionally been disproportionately effected by issues such as climate change, and pollution,  even better again. In this episode of the podcast I spoke to Ryan Cassidy ....

Get in touch - leave me a message Access to validated climate data sources is not trivial. What happens though if you want validated, regularly updated data that you can integrate with your systems? That is where Sust Global comes in. Sust Global uses credible, validated regularly, updated climate data sources, and provides integrations so organisations have access to this data in their systems to...

Get in touch - leave me a message Some of the lesser talked about emissions reductions solutions are efficiency based solutions. In this week's episode of the Climate 21 podcast I talk to Christopher Angelo , CEO of Glass Dyenamics , a company working in this space. Glass Dyenamics uses dynamic glass (glass that changes its transparency when a low electric current is applied to it), to preven...

Get in touch - leave me a message With 400,000 employees, Deloitte is the world's largest professional services firm. Deloitte set out its World Climate Commitments recently with an aim of reaching Net Zero by 2030. To find out more about this I invited Deloitte Managing Director & US Leader for Sustainability & Climate Change Scott Corwin to come on the podcast to tell us more. We ha...

Get in touch - leave me a message In several episodes of this podcast now guests have talked about the Circular Economy, but I've never had a full episode on it, so today we're changing that! I invited Stephen Jamieson  to join me for this episode. Stephen is the Global Head of Circular Economy Solutions at SAP, so no one is better placed to talk to us about Circular Economy, and how it...

Get in touch - leave me a message This week's episode of the podcast deals with methane once more. Last week's episode featured a startup in the methane space called Bennamann. This week I interviewed Andrew Benedek, the founder, and CEO of one of the world's most established methane companies Anaergia . We talked again about the importance of capturing fugitive methane, Anaergia&ap...

Get in touch - leave me a message Fugitive methane - what is it? And how can it be turned from a nasty climate emission into a source of energy, reduced emissions, and a way to reduce an organisation's costs, amongst other benefits? To answer these and more questions I invited Chris Mann , Co-Founder, and CTO of Bennamann to come on the podcast to tell us all about it. UPDATE: Chris emailed m...

Get in touch - leave me a message Investment is a hugely important part of the fight against climate change. But where should the money come from? What if the money we invest for our pensions, life insurance, savings were put towards fighting the climate crisis, while at the same time making a profit for us? Putting our money to work, for good. That is the thinking behind Carbon Collective - an in...

Get in touch - leave me a message Climate and deforestation have always been very closely linked. But how is deforestation linked to human health, and how can improving human health, lead to huge reductions in deforestation? To answer these questions, I invited Dr Kinari Webb , founder of Health in Harmony to come on the podcast. Health in Harmony has had major successes in reducing deforestation....

Get in touch - leave me a message Have you come across the term Climate Interventions before? If not, possibly you've heard of Geoengineering. Prof Wake Smith lectures in Yale about Climate Interventions, and is about to publish a book called  Pandora's Toolbox, The Hopes And Hazards Of Climate Interventions . So obviously, I invited him to come on the podcast to enlighten us on the topi...

Get in touch - leave me a message A huge portion of an organisation's emissions come from its supply chain. The Climate Choice is a company working to change that by becoming a platform for companies to share their emissions data, and by providing Climate Performance Ratings. They are working with some very large companies to help their suppliers get on board with this initiative. I invited T...

Get in touch - leave me a message I'm a big fan of Amy Westervelt 's Drilled podcast. If you're not familiar, it is a Climate podcast but done like a Netflix series with each episode leading to the next one, so it tells a narrative over a number of episodes, and then it starts a new series, with a new story to tell. Really compelling! Imagine my excitement when I heard that Amy is s...

Get in touch - leave me a message There is a new book on climate which has been recently released which I think is worth paying attention to. It is called Supercharge Me . Why do I think it is worth paying attention to? Because it takes a different tack to most other books. It proposes a manifesto of actions which if followed, should deliver net zero. what kind of actions? The ones that actually m...