Net Zero Compare Podcast

🎯 In this episode: Hank Dearden joins Net Zero Compare to discuss what makes reforestation credible, why tree planting should not be reduced to a simple tree count, and how companies can support restoration projects without overstating their climate claims. The conversation explores how reforestation can support ecosystems, biodiversity, coastal resilience, local livelihoods, and climate goals wh...

🎯 In this episode: Tom Raftery joins Net Zero Compare to discuss how sustainability is becoming part of core business management, from clean energy economics and supply chain resilience to Scope 3 emissions, procurement, enterprise systems, and AI. The conversation explores why sustainability is increasingly being framed through business priorities such as resilience, efficiency, energy security,...

🎯 In this episode: Helen Neal, Founder of HN Communications and creator of Zena, joins Net Zero Compare to discuss how companies can communicate sustainability progress without falling into greenwashing or greenhushing. The conversation explores why sustainability communication has become more complex as companies face growing expectations from investors, customers, regulators, employees, and oth...

🎯 In this episode: Jason Ethier, Founder of Energytech Cypher, joins Net Zero Compare to discuss why climate tech needs more than innovation. It needs deployment, timing, capital alignment, and the right people to move technologies from promising ideas to real-world impact. The conversation explores the practical realities of scaling climate and energy technologies in markets shaped by regulation...

🎯 In this episode: Gigi Alsaadi, Co-Founder of KanataQ and CRANE Fellow at Prime Coalition, joins Net Zero Compare to discuss how forward-looking greenhouse gas impact modeling can help investors, companies, and sustainability teams assess the future emissions impact of climate solutions. The conversation explores why traditional carbon accounting, which focuses mainly on historical emissions, is...

🎯 In this episode: Vanessa Thompson, Managing Director of The Sustainability Experts, joins Net Zero Compare to discuss how companies can turn sustainability goals into practical business execution. The conversation explores why many ESG initiatives fail after the planning stage, and why sustainability should be treated as a long-term business strategy rather than only a compliance exercise. Thom...

🎯 In this episode: David Gottfried, co-founder of the U.S. Green Building Council, founder of the World Green Building Council, and founder of Regen360, joins Net Zero Compare to discuss why sustainability alone is no longer enough. The conversation explores the evolution of green building, from the early development of LEED certification to the global expansion of measurable sustainability stand...

🎯 In this episode: Kevin T. Taylor, former CFO and Interim CEO of Greentown Labs and founder of the Taylored Stewardship Institute, joins Net Zero Compare to discuss what climate startups need beyond funding to succeed. The conversation explores the often-overlooked systems behind climate innovation, including shared infrastructure, governance, leadership, operational discipline, and ecosystem de...

🎯 In this episode: Dr. Christian Komor, climate author and Earth systems strategist, joins Net Zero Compare to discuss why carbon removal should be treated as climate infrastructure rather than a peripheral technology. The conversation explores one of the central debates in long-term net-zero strategy: whether emissions reduction alone is enough to manage climate risk. Dr. Komor argues that accum...

🎯 In this episode: Chiara Fusar Bassini, PhD candidate at the Hertie School and former renewable energy consultant at enervis energy advisors GmbH, joins Net Zero Compare to discuss how data, market design, and modeling limits shape Europe’s energy transition. The conversation explores a central challenge for energy-market analysis: the gap between how models assume electricity systems behave and...

🎯 In this episode : Arshia Jahangiri, CEO of Solenery, joins Net Zero Compare to explore why clean energy adoption remains complex despite improving technology and stronger financial cases. The conversation focuses on a key challenge in the energy transition: bridging the gap between available solutions and actual implementation. While technologies such as solar, heat pumps, EV chargers, and ener...

🎯 In this episode: Josh Dorfman, co-founder of Plantd, joins Net Zero Compare to explore what separates climate solutions that scale from those that struggle to reach real-world adoption. The conversation focuses on a central challenge in climate innovation: turning technically viable solutions into commercially successful businesses. While many technologies deliver clear environmental benefits,...

🎯 In this episode: Bronwyn Reid joins Net Zero Compare to explore why sustainability strategies often fail at the point of implementation, particularly across complex supply chains. The conversation focuses on the growing gap between ESG commitments and real-world execution. While large organizations increasingly define ambitious sustainability goals, responsibility for delivering them frequently...

🎯 In this episode: Richard Halsall joins Net Zero Compare to discuss how air distribution, not just cooling technology, shapes energy efficiency and indoor performance in buildings. The conversation explores how rising cooling demand is exposing a key gap in HVAC design: while systems have become more efficient at generating heating and cooling, airflow within buildings is often poorly managed. H...

🎯 In this episode: Tim Geller, Co-Founder of Alectro, joins Net Zero Compare to discuss how companies, especially those without dedicated sustainability teams, approach emissions tracking and reporting in practice. The conversation explores the challenges organizations face when starting their sustainability journey, from fragmented data and reliance on spreadsheets to inconsistent methodologies...

🎯 In this episode: Luís Cruz, Co-founder of GreenSeal.dev and Assistant Professor at TU Delft, joins Net Zero Compare to discuss why software sustainability must move beyond reporting and into day-to-day engineering practices. The conversation explores how software, often hidden within Scope 2 and 3 emissions, remains a blind spot in most climate strategies despite the rapid growth of AI and clou...

🎯 In this episode: Loveen Vuppala, Founder of Emit Earth, joins Karol Kaczmarek to discuss why Scope 3 emissions should be treated as operational intelligence rather than a compliance exercise. The conversation explores how the majority of corporate emissions, often 70 to 90%, sit within the supply chain, making procurement a central lever for decarbonization. Vuppala explains that carbon data ca...

🎯 In this episode: Dr. Naeem Turner-Bandele, Founder and CEO of Latimer Enterprises, joins Karol Kaczmarek to discuss the realities of power system planning and the technical constraints that shape modern electricity grids. The conversation explores how electricity systems operate through interconnected layers of generation, transmission, and distribution, all of which must remain balanced in rea...

🎯 In this episode: Gavin Sheppard, CEO of Pinwheel, discusses how companies should move beyond carbon accounting and focus on using emissions data to guide meaningful climate action and investment decisions. The conversation explores the limits of data precision in sustainability reporting, highlighting how organizations can become trapped in “analysis paralysis” when pursuing perfectly accurate...

🎯 In this episode: Ankush Halba, Doctoral Fellow at IIT Roorkee, explains why bioenergy and waste-to-energy projects succeed or fail depending on supply chain design, system boundaries, and financial realism. The conversation explores the critical distinction between biomass-to-energy and waste-to-energy, highlighting how feedstock variability, preprocessing requirements, and emissions accounting...

🎯 In this episode: Kenneth Chester, CEO and host at TechMobility Productions, explains why mobility decarbonization strategies fail when infrastructure, regulation, and execution realities are ignored. The conversation explores how mobility sits at the center of emissions, capital allocation, supply chains, and regulatory exposure, making it far more than a side issue in corporate climate plannin...

🎯 In this episode: Karl Rabe, Founder and Managing Director of WoodenDataCenter and Co-Lead of the Modular Data Center Group at the Open Compute Project Foundation, explains why data center sustainability must begin long before the servers are switched on. The conversation explores how, as renewable electricity reduces operational emissions, the majority of a data center’s footprint shifts to emb...

🎯 In this episode: Clark T. Bell, CEO and Founder of Nano-Yield, explains how nanotechnology is being applied to improve efficiency in modern agriculture. The conversation explores why a significant share of fertilizers, such as nitrogen, never reaches crops, and how Nano-Yield enhances the delivery and absorption of existing inputs rather than replacing them. Bell discusses real-world field data...

🎯 In this episode: Andri Johnston, Digital Sustainability Lead axplains how digital sustainability works in practice inside a global publishing and education organization. The conversation explores where digital emissions actually come from in publishing, why waiting for perfect data slows progress, and how transparent assumptions can unlock action. Johnston discusses improving digital products t...

🎯 In this episode: Lee Stewart , CEO of ESG Strategy, explains why turning ESG commitments into real progress is less about ambition and more about governance, structure, and execution. The conversation explores why sustainability efforts often stall when responsibility is concentrated in small teams, how existing governance and financial processes can be leveraged instead of creating parallel st...