Driving Net Profit with Zero Emissions

Send us Fan Mail “I think the first thing is to know what you want to achieve. Have some really good discussions with your finance team, procurement, corporate affairs - whoever is involved in this process. Ask yourselves: are you going to set targets, are you just trying to comply, or do you actually want your supply base to reduce their emissions? Because that will inform some of the decisions t...

Send us Fan Mail “As a business, we take sustainability very seriously—it’s integral to how we operate. Poultry can be produced in an environmentally responsible way. It’s not fully there yet, but as one of the lowest-impact meats, we believe we can keep driving improvements and aim for genuine carbon neutrality.” In this episode of “Driving Profit with Net Zero emissions” podcast, we have the ple...

Send us Fan Mail “We have been monitoring the commitments of local governments in Australia since 2017. We've recently updated the ambitious commitments and found that, in total, 165 Councils out of 537 local governments in Australia have made commitments to net zero emissions. This number covers 31% of all councils. NSW takes the lead in terms of the absolute number of councils committing to...

Send us Fan Mail " Let's turn our attention to what we want and need our data to be. We all know data is essential for climate action, but let's be honest, it's so tough to get together data that's accurate, reliable, complete, and assurance-ready. It's particularly tricky if you're creating a carbon footprint for the first time." In this special episode of...

Send us Fan Mail “Find out what you really want to do in life and get clear around that. What's the thing for you that your mind can conceive and your heart believe you can achieve?” In this special edition of the 'Driving Net Profit with Zero Emissions' podcast, we feature a live discussion with Creel Price, a pioneering venture capitalist and leader in climate venture investments....

Send us Fan Mail “It is about understanding the low-hanging fruit and working on that. You don't have to change everything overnight. Yes, to do something like going carbon neutral, you have to be able to commit to buying offsets and not every business has that ability. So, the aim is to reduce your emissions first so that you have to buy less offsets. Seems obvious but really critical to do....

Send us Fan Mail “It's called a crisis for a reason, and the sooner we can do things, the better. I think the education that I got through this process was that we are already at a point that is very difficult. So now we all have to get on board. You know, now I look at the world slightly differently when I travel myself, I look at what other people are doing and whether they're not doin...

Send us Fan Mail “It doesn’t make sense to go carbon neutral and purchase carbon offsets that might be dodgy. The purpose of achieving carbon neutrality is that you want to prove to the marketplace that you care about the environment and that you are taking a stand against climate change.  You don’t want to open yourself up to reputational damage. “ In this special episode of “Driving Profit with...

Send us Fan Mail “I think authenticity is really important. It's nice to look and learn from what other people are doing, but follow your own normative compass. Follow the path that looks right for you and your organisation, and just work your way through it, step by step. Be ready to have ethically defensible strategies when operating in areas that are open to critique, but it's more im...

Send us Fan Mail “One of the most impactful things we can do if you're passionate about climate change is to support politics. It's striking at the root of what needs to be done to make sure that the people who are working on the policies are going to drive this transformation. If we don't have the right people working at the root in favour of this, then we can all be wasting so muc...

Send us Fan Mail “We don't have to worry about the next quarterly cycle, like public companies do. We can take judgments that transcend that cycle, understanding that seasons and natural systems produce variable results. We've made a judgment to leave a whole bunch of fish uncaught, with a negative impact on profitability, and we've made that call based on what we've felt is in...

Send us Fan Mail “One of the things that we've also done is put in an internal carbon price. We'll be using that in modelling all our CapEx decisions and strategy to understand the impacts of various decisions on our targets and the financial return. The CFOs of our businesses saw immediately how that process could help us achieve our goals and what their responsibility was in terms of m...

Send us Fan Mail In this special podcast episode, we speak with three people with significant experience in the transport sector, coming from the car manufacturing perspective, the policy perspective, and the motorist's perspective - Scott Nargar, David Malicki and Nikesh Murali. In this episode, we talk about how transport emissions can be reduced, as transport accounts for nearly 20% of Aus...

Send us Fan Mail This is part 2 of a special podcast recording based on a webinar that Barbara Albert, our Co-CEO, ran under the Entrepreneur’s Program to explain the fundamentals of Net Zero to Australian small and medium-sized businesses. In the first part of the recording, Barbara introduced carbon accounting, carbon scopes, calculating your carbon footprint and developing decarbonisation and n...

Send us Fan Mail This podcast episode is sponsored by AusIndustry, a Commonwealth Government program, which helps eligible businesses strengthen, grow and innovate, and develop and commercialise new ideas and products  – locally, nationally and globally. The program also helps businesses achieve net zero via support from consultancies such as 100% Renewables.    This recording is based on a webina...

Send us Fan Mail In this podcast episode, we speak with Emma Bombonato , Environmental Sustainability Manager of Sydney Opera House. The Opera House is the nation’s premier tourist destination and one of the world’s busiest performing arts centres. Being a carbon neutral organisation under Climate Active since 2018, the Sydney Opera House builds on a long history of embedding sustainability in its...

Send us Fan Mail In this podcast episode, we speak with Rob Waterworth , CEO of FLINTpro and the Mullion Group. The Mullion Group is a global software and consulting company, highly sought after for its expertise in greenhouse gas inventory systems for the land sector.  We talk about carbon emissions and removals in the land sector such as carbon sequestration in vegetation and soil carbon, and di...

Send us Fan Mail “Rewiring a community means electrifying the majority of the households, the vehicles, the water heaters, the space heaters, the kitchens, and powering it with a mix of rooftop solar, community renewables, and grid-based renewables, all backed up by batteries everywhere. This is a pathway to zero emissions, better public health, household savings, and perhaps most importantly, com...

Send us Fan Mail In this podcast episode, we speak with Adrian Minshull , co-founder, CEO and Managing Director of the Hydroflux Group, one of Australia’s fastest growing and leading specialist water and wastewater solutions providers and Julia Seddon , CEO and Director of Cress Consulting, a subsidiary of the Hydroflux group.  We talk about the group’s climate strategy , how they tackle their emi...

Send us Fan Mail In this podcast episode, we speak with Jaana Quaintance-James, the Chief Sustainability Officer of Global Fashion Group. Global Fashion Group, or GFG for short, serves customers in 17 countries and connects one billion potential consumers with thousands of global, local and own brands via its e-commerce platforms. We talk about GFG’s strategy on how carbon emissions can be tackled...

Send us Fan Mail In this podcast episode, we interview two outstanding behavioural scientists - Dr Juliette Tobias-Webb and Dr Philipe Bujold. We are going to investigate how behavioural science can help drive net profit with zero emissions. We look into how organisations can inspire and motivate their employees, suppliers and customers to make and sustain changes in behaviour at all levels that m...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we speak with Lion, one of Australia’s largest brewers to hear more about their climate change targets and their journey towards net-zero emissions. We talk about Lion’s carbon footprint in Australia and globally, including their scopes 1, 2 and 3 for their operations and supply chain emissions and what measures they take to reduce emissions.  We talk about extern...

Send us Fan Mail “I think it’s justified that the built environment moves much more quickly. Rather than casting out long-term scenarios, for many sectors of the economy, the question should be, why not net-zero today? If not, why not?”,  argues Bruce Precious in today’s episode, which discusses the question of how the built environment can achieve net-zero emissions.  The built environment is a s...

Send us Fan Mail Revolving Energy Funds are a great mechanism to finance climate action strategies. They are a self-sustaining funding mechanism, which you start with seed capital that you invest in sustainability projects, such as energy efficiency, water conservation, or solar projects, for example. The fund’s unique feature is that you return savings from sustainability projects back into the R...

Send us Fan Mail Transitioning to net-zero is now prominent on the agenda in many boardrooms. As more companies embark on their sustainability journey, the challenge many face is whether to talk about it and how and when to meaningfully engage with stakeholders.  In this episode, we are talking to Robyn Sefiani, CEO of Sefiani Communications Group. Robyn provides her insights and effective communi...