Net Hero Podcast – With Sumit Bose

We’ve all seen the rise of Science Based Targets (SBTI) as the measure of how net zero a company is. Lots of big companies prove their ESG credentials by signing up to the targets and measure their emissions reductions success against them. That’s all well and good if you have a department of trained specialists to track everything but what about the vast majorities of businesses? More than 95% of...

This week I speak to Dr Jan Rosenow, someone I respect very much, who has been looking for years at the state of sustainability and net zero. He is Director at the Regulatory Assistance Project and has been studying the picture across Europe and wider, when it comes to progressing towards our 2050 target. I put it to him there is a global divide on net zero and we explored what nations are doing t...

Are you net zero enough? And if not does that make you a heretic? That’s the question that is the subject of this podcast where I speak to Marc Cortez, green energy businessman and author. Net zero has become a mainstream topic lately and there seems to be a narrative that you need to do it now and only one way, that is electrify everything using renewable power. Anyone with any other views, howev...

This week's podcast is one of the ones I love. An entrepreneur with a vision to do something radical, to help the planet and us. Charlie Paton and his colleagues have been working for two decades on creating agricultural solutions for arid lands using seawater! Their seawater greenhouses, which can be made of canvas not just glass, use desalinated sea water to bring barren deserts into life. The w...

Foresight Sustainable Forestry Company Plc has a mission, plant lots of trees.   Nothing new in that, however as its co-lead fund manager, Richard Kelly told me, timber afforestation - creating woods on disused land isn't just good for the planet but also for generating profits.   They have acquired 50 sites across the country, mainly low value land and are converting the sites to become timber fo...

Dirt. Earth. Soil. Salvation! In this week's podcast I ask whether the answer to our emissions problems is literally under our feet! Jim Mann thinks so. He's the boss of environmental carbon capture company UNDO, which is using the science of geology to use the soil to capture excess carbon. They are spreading a type of pulversied rock called Basalt, onto farmland it then reacts with the CO2 in th...

Join Jenny Collins, Key Account Manager and Susan Carstairs, TPI Business Development Manager, who were both part of the Big Zero Show 2023, as they outline key things to keep in mind when it comes to  managing water better – and how thinking more about use and noting meter reads during a year, if the meter is safe to access , can help to lower energy use, lower running costs and reduce risks to s...

Getting older often means downsizing, finding a retirement village or home. But what if it meant living a cleaner, greener, net zero life? Ian Holloway is co founder of Burnham Waters retirement village in Essex. It's a whole new concept for older life, with freehold eco homes complete with EV chargers and heat pumps, all set in plenty of countryside to offer a natural carbon sink. The homes are b...

Please listen in, as Sumit Bose looks back at and gives you a snapshot of what was discussed at The Big Zero Show 2023. Guests include Jon Butterworth from National Gas, Mayor of the Midlands Andy Street, green guru and founder of Good Energy, Juliet Davenport, Cordi O’Hara boss of National Grid  and many of the delegates who came to the show.

In the final podcast before our Big Zero Show Sumit Bose speaks with Mark Rose from TotalEnergies Gas and Power. TotalEnergies is, like many of the gas majors, changing radically. It's setting net zero targets, divesting investments into renewable power and exploring green gas. 

Money. It's a gas. Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash... Those famous lyrics now seem to have different connotation, for our net zero future. But can investing in the right net zero tech actually make you a stash like Pink Floyd said? In this podcast I talk to Rebecca Howard from Coventry Building Society.  We discuss the green lending world and how making energy efficient spending co...

Nuclear energy is low carbon, the government has even said it's sustainable. It's a vital part of our net zero future but there is always one real issue, the waste. There is no doubt nuclear fuel waste is an enormous problem but one man thinks he has the answer. Listen to my chat with Stefano Buono a former CERN scientist, who has set up a newcleo, a company which believes it can elmininate huge a...

When it was not trendy to be green, Juliet Davenport had an idea. A commercial idea to make renewable power supply a reality for customers who cared. No one thought going green would be financially successful, yet it's now the way of the world. I was delighted to speak to her about the journey, why she started it and how you too, can do good and still make money. She reveals the secrets in her new...

This week on the podcast it's another one of our brilliant speakers at the Big Zero Show, Detective Superintendent Vanessa Eyles. She tells me all about cybercrime and why hackers and criminals, see net zero as an opportunity. What can you do to protect your organisation, how can we keep safe and ensure your data, which is the new gold, is locked away? We explore ransomware, how to deal with keepi...

As we build up to the Big Zero Show on June 20th, I'll be chatting to some of the experts who are speaking at the event. This episode it's Gabriel Davies from Orsted an expert in the emerging field of 'floating wind'. We look forward to her session, discuss the ways offshore wind power works now and what lies in store if floating wind starts to scale. We'll talk power, the environmental cost of co...

A carbon capture expert speaks to Sumit Bose about the technology is ready to become an affordable solution for society

In this week’s podcast, Sumit Bose speaks to Nathan Bennett from Renewable UK about the wind power potential for the UK, legislative levers and if we are on track to hit our goals.

Sumit Bose talks to the boss of the REA, Nina Skorupska, about the place of renewable energy in society now  

Can they really be the cleaner way to decarbonise transport? Sumit Bose explores this fascinating subject with Markus Speith from Siemens Energy, who have been building a prototype e-fuel facility in Chile.

This week as an Easter treat I caught up with former Energy Minister Claire Perry O'Neill. She was a speaker at our events pre-pandemic and played a huge role in getting COP26 to Glasgow. She now works as a consultant and net zero advocate and is supporting a company called Terrascope, which is helping companies with ESG measurement and strategy. We caught up on that, technology and of course poli...

In this episode of the Net Hero Podcast Sumit Bose and Ellis Hall chat about how net zero has progressed in terms of business and politics over the past year.

In this episode of the Net Hero Podcast Sumit asks nuclear expert and advocate, Caroline Longman to justify why the chancellor has give nuclear the status of ‘sustainable’ energy - is it really so?

Can everyone have access to the EV market? Software company eDRV thinks they can shake up the market to be more equitable.  

This week Sumit Bose speaks to Chris Skidmore MP whose Net Zero Blueprint was published last month and they discuss the state of our progress and why he still feels optimistic we can hit the 2050 target. But the main subject of the podcast is climate science of the oceans. With work already showing we can create antibiotics from ocean algae and bacteria, therefore cutting the emissions of pharmace...

With housing the biggest challenge to decarbonisation and very little being done about revamping housing stock, is the answer to build every new home to be net zero? And what's it like to live in such a place? Listen in as Ian Pritchett from Greencore explains what they have done and the challenges that exist.