Climate Drift: Off the Record

AI companies are racing to secure power for their energy hungry data centres and it turns out renewables might be their only option in the short term. Environmentalists have been terrified about what AI and its energy use could mean for the climate. But after diving into the data, we flip the script on its head and ask: is AI the unexpected catalyst we never knew we needed to drive renewables and...

Manuela Zoninsein, CEO of Kadeya, found out the hard way that Venture Capital doesn’t work when you’re building a physical Climate Tech company. After spending two painful years searching for, and eventually finding amazing financing options, she’s here to share the map she wished someone had handed her.  We Discuss - Why the default VC playbook breaks for climate hardware (and why that’s not your...

Fabien Koutchekian (Genomines CEO) and Skander Garroum (3x Founder: Raised $25M) have gone through hell to successfully raise money for new companies and they want to help you avoid some of the pain. Genomines secured one of the largest Climate Tech funding rounds in Europe in 2025. It turns out fundraising is messy and involves way more psychology than Excel. Skander Garroum is here today to tell...

Thanks to three converging ‘miracles’ the continent of Africa is one step closer to living out the Solarpunk utopian dream where people can live in harmony with nature. This episode is based on Skander Garroum’s viral article that blew up, focussing on how solar and batteries have taken hold, how African countries are using the tech to leapfrog others in the west and the amazing things they are ac...

Incredible job seekers are struggling to break into climate while Climate Tech companies are totally overwhelmed with huge numbers of high quality, AI supported applicants. Skander Garroum’s solution: if you want to break through, give away your best ideas. Seriously! We desperately need to move as many of the best people as we can to work into climate. If you’re one of these people and you want t...

In this episode of Off the Record, Skander Garroum reports back on what surprised him the most at The Drop - Europe's leading climate tech conference. In the lead up to the event, all anyone seemed to talk about was AI, and yet, upon arrival the discussions went in a totally different direction. The China discussion dominated the Climate Tech space with competing factions trying to figure out how...

Skander Garroum knew China was leading in Climate Tech infrastructure, manufacturing and products offerings, but was totally blown away during his recent trip when he went to go and see their edge first hand. Until you’re on the ground and have access to everything the country is developing, and until you experience what regular Chinese people see and do every day, you just can’t imagine how far a...

2025 was a total rollercoaster for Climate Tech and 2026 is shaping up to be no different. We never imagined that by the end of 2025 we’d be ‘winning’ on the climate front and now we have a whole new batch of surprises of what to look forward to for this new year. Skander Garroum walks us through what’s expected, big concerns, crazy predictions and finally, what he hopes to see play out. Reindustr...

When you look back on 2025, what stands out? Let us guess: AI. Yes, AI, power production and data centres were huge and deserve a lot of attention. But there was so much more. If you think back to January 2025 everything climate and Climate Tech looked like a car wreck playing out in slow motion, with big sweeping policy changes in the US on the horizon and global economic concerns. And yet, someh...