Climate Solutions News

Textile dyeing is one of the most polluting stages in fashion, and one of the least visible. It accounts for a large share of the sector's carbon emissions and around a fifth of global industrial water pollution. In this episode, Dominic Shales speaks with Philippe Berlan, CEO of EverDye, the French green-chemistry company rethinking how fabric is coloured. Berlan explains why conventional dyeing...

Green hydrogen has had a punishing few years, with cancellations, cost overruns and demand that arrived late. So why did Schroders Capital keep investing while others retreated? Holly Turner and Duncan Hale join Climate Solutions News ahead of Reset Connect London 2026 to explain the firm's approach. Duncan walks through the Barrow Green Hydrogen Project in Cumbria, which will supply hydrogen to a...

How is AI changing the way we measure the carbon cost of what we build? One Click LCA founder and CEO Panu Pasanen joins the Climate Solutions News podcast to explain. Life cycle assessment counts the full environmental cost of a product or building, from raw material to disposal. It is rigorous work, and traditionally slow. Pasanen explains what the discipline involves, why embodied carbon is so...

Britain retrofits fewer than 100,000 buildings a year. To hit net zero it needs between one and 1.5 million. Andrew Spencer, Energy and Carbon Services Director at Equans UK and Ireland, joins Dominic Shales to explain the gap and what closes it. The conversation covers the 200,000 to 500,000 skilled workers the industry lacks, the £10-20 billion annual funding requirement, and the policy instabil...

UNDO Carbon can prove its science works. The harder problem is paying for the years between spending on deployment and earning the carbon credits back, and that financing gap, more than the chemistry, is what now decides how fast enhanced rock weathering can grow. Dominic Shales speaks with Alex Bury, head of finance at UNDO, about the economics of scaling carbon removal. They discuss why enhanced...

Heavy industry produces the materials that the modern world runs on. It also produces around a quarter of global greenhouse gas emissions. Cement alone accounts for roughly 8% of global CO₂, a share that has barely moved in decades. Most of the plants responsible are old, complex, and still running on control systems that were never built for the world they operate in today. This week, Dominic Sha...

The headlines say climate investment is in retreat. Duncan Reid is not convinced. In this episode of the Climate Solutions News podcast, Dominic Shales sits down with the chief executive of Reset Connect, the green investment event that anchors London Climate Action Week. Reid has spent 25 years in events and now watches climate capital up close, with investors, founders and corporate buyers gathe...

What if the carbon dioxide coming out of a factory could go straight into growing protein? That is the logic behind Arborea's BioSolar Leaf technology, and it is attracting serious interest from some of the world's largest food companies. Dominic Shales speaks with Dr Kaly Chatakondu, Global Commercial Director at Arborea, about the London-based startup that has spent a decade industrialising phot...

Ammonia production has barely changed in 100 years. It still relies on the Haber-Bosch process, runs at extreme temperatures and pressures, and accounts for close to 2% of global greenhouse gas emissions. But with ammonia now emerging as a leading candidate for zero-carbon maritime fuel and a hydrogen carrier for the energy transition, the pressure to decarbonise its production has never been grea...

France produces more biomethane than almost any other European country, yet a significant share of its agricultural biogas potential goes untapped. The reason: most farms sit too far from the gas grid to make connection viable, and the infrastructure cost runs to 100,000 euros per kilometre. Jules Vasse, head of public affairs at SUBLIME Énergie, joins Climate Solutions News Publisher Dominic Shal...

Most climate tech founders obsess over their technology and their fundraising. Few think hard enough about the law — until it's too late. In this episode, CSN publisher Dominic Shales speaks with Mitesh Jagatia, founder of Eco Ventures Counsel , the UK initiative connecting early-stage climate startups with free, full-service legal support. Confirmed participating firms include  Ashurst ,&nbs...

Can synthetic fuels ever be produced cheaply enough to compete with fossil alternatives? Florian Hildebrand, co-founder and CEO of Greenlyte Carbon Technologies, thinks the answer is yes — and that the industry has been solving the wrong problem. In this interview, Hildebrand explains how Greenlyte's Liquid Solar platform uses cheap intermittent renewable energy as its organising principle, why th...

In this episode of Climate Solutions News, Dominic Shales speaks with Brittany Harris, co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of QFlow, about why construction projects often fail to deliver the carbon and cost savings set out at design stage, and how better data can close that gap. Construction and the wider built environment account for close to 40 percent of global carbon emissions, yet many pro...

In this episode, Dominic Shales speaks with Freddie Ingleby, Managing Director of Caledonian Climate, about one of the most powerful and overlooked climate solutions, peatlands. Peatlands store more carbon than all the world’s forests combined, yet when degraded they become major sources of emissions. Ingleby explains what peatlands are, why Scotland is globally significant, and how restoring dama...

Direct air capture took an unexpected step forward at COP30, even as the summit delivered few major breakthroughs. In this interview, Tom Rollason, Head of Policy and Partnerships at Mission Zero Technologies, explains why engineered carbon removals gained unprecedented attention in Brazil and how the sector is shifting from niche innovation to essential climate infrastructure. We discuss Mission...

OXCCU has raised $28 million to scale its technology that converts waste carbon and green hydrogen into sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). In this episode of the Climate Solutions News podcast, Andrew Symes, Co-founder and CEO of OXCCU, explains how their process works, what the new funding will support, and why scaling SAF is critical as airline emissions continue to rise. We discuss: The $28m Seri...

How can philanthropy accelerate the growth of carbon removal? In this interview, Climate Solutions News publisher Dominic Shales speaks with Adam Fraser, Chief Executive of TerraSet , about the role of donors in scaling breakthrough technologies. Fraser explains how TerraSet channels philanthropic capital into early stage carbon removal projects through strategic pre-purchases, supporting a divers...

As Europe ramps up defence spending, what’s the hidden cost to the climate? In this episode of the Climate Solutions News podcast, we speak with Alexis Normand, CEO of carbon accounting platform Greenly, about their new report Rearming Europe: Counting the Carbon Bootprint . The report reveals how NATO’s growing military budgets—and the EU’s €800 billion ReArm Europe initiative—could generate emis...

Climate Solutions News speaks to Dr Mattia Romani, co-author of a groundbreaking new study published in npj Climate Action, which explores how artificial intelligence could dramatically cut global carbon emissions. The report, produced by the Grantham Research Institute at LSE and Systemiq, finds that AI applications in power, transport and food systems could reduce emissions by 3.2 to 5.4 billion...

What happens when governments cut the very data that helps us forecast extreme weather, respond to climate risks, and power clean tech innovation? In this Climate Solutions News interview, host Dominic Shales speaks with Kelly Wanser, Executive Director of SilverLining, about the critical loss of atmospheric monitoring capabilities in both the US and UK. From NOAA’s potential lab closures to the U...

Arctic sea ice has reached alarming new lows, melting faster than ever and threatening global climate stability. In this in-depth interview, Climate Solutions News publisher Dominic Shales talks exclusively with Dr Joshua Elliott, Chief Scientist at Renaissance Philanthropy, about innovative technologies that could halt or even reverse this crisis. Dr Elliott discusses promising approaches like cl...

Nuclear power is back in the spotlight as countries look for reliable, low-carbon energy sources - but the question of what to do with radioactive waste still looms large. In this episode, we explore three practical, science-backed approaches to managing nuclear waste around the world. We begin in Finland, where engineers are preparing to open the world’s first deep geological repository, a facili...

How Can Retailers Drive Health & Sustainability? In this insightful conversation, Mike Barry , former Head of Sustainability at M&S and co-founder of The Planeatry Alliance , discusses how retailers and food companies can align human and planetary health. He breaks down the complexities of the food system, explains why retailers hold the key to large-scale change, and explores the role of...

In this insightful interview, Charlie Stewart, content strategist at Exceptional, discusses the often-overlooked environmental impact of digital marketing and PR activities. Digital campaigns, powered by energy-intensive data centers, now contribute 2.5-3% of global carbon emissions—surpassing the aviation industry. Charlie highlights key findings from the report From Words to Actions: Reducing th...

Europe’s Critical Raw Material Challenge: Can Innovation Lead the Way? Europe’s transition to clean energy faces a major obstacle: dependence on imported critical raw materials (CRMs) like lithium, copper, and graphite. A new report, A Critical Raw Material Supply-Side Innovation Roadmap for the EU Energy Transition , highlights how Europe’s share of global mineral production has dropped from 25%...