Smarter Impact

Climate action is already paying off, and can pay off even more, so how do we juggle our maelstrom of democracy in shifting geopolitics, powerful leaders stepping back from a climate agenda and the golden opportunity of our global net zero transition? Join Rebecca Mikula-Wright and I from the recent Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC) summit, as we discuss what you need to do as a leader in yo...

Given what we know about climate change, how do you pay a pension 40 years from now? And why is focusing on oil and gas companies misguided? What do you think? And would you agree that Net Zero isn't about divestment, particularly when you own a slice of everything, everywhere? Join David Russell and I, as we get into the best fiduciary interests of pension funds, and how the Transition Pathw...

Where should we be spending our tax money for the betterment of the nation? How do we subsidise every unit of fossil fuel production and burning across the world, and what do we do about this 'grey discount' aka 'green premium'? What's China up to and what does Australia do when competing with them directly is a mugs game? Join Tim Buckley of the Climate Energy Finance thi...

The current economy is not working. You know this. So what does transitioning to a truly functioning society look like? And for those who say 'well that's too costly' - Sandrine Dixson-Declève calls bullshit. Together we discuss causes for hope, how societies are responding to the pain of a post 1.5 degree warming world, and what is needed from our Government and Citizen leaders. If...

".. 2.6 trillion in harmful subsidies is spent from governments globally, plus five to six trillion of direct private investment - this is three times the amount of money that we are spending on armaments and weapons to fight each other in the world. We are spending three times more to fight nature! " - Marco Lambertini, Convener of the Nature Positive Initiative . Join Marco and I for o...

Find yourself in a post-truth, post-science world?  Join Blair Please and I as we get into what to do about it, and cover a wide range of topics; Dis- and misinformation, poisoning the well of public discussion, fake and bot profiles inserting prepared comments to misdirect voices of change. The acquisition of the Wall Street Journal, the potential implications on the information coming through to...

Who would have thought that the accounting system developed at the beginning of the industrial revolution that sparked climate change, will be the same solution we use to fight climate change?  Join me to dive into Activity Based Costing with Lea Patterson , President of the Pilbara Group and Chair of the Consortium for Advanced Management - International (CAM-I) , where we go into things such as;...

Join Will Martindale from Canbury Insights and I for a deep dive into Responsible Investment, his latest book and questions that matter, including; How do we enable investors to spend their time doing things that have more meaning? How are people are trying to shift the normative interpretation of what we mean by responsible and sustainable, rather than argue in favour of concessionary investing,...

Join the Chair of the Global Steering Group for Impact Investment and I for this deep discussion on our changing world; ".. There are a lot of areas in public policy where government really struggles;  keeping people out of prison, keeping children out of care, homelessness.  My view is 'Come on we're failing, let's open the door and try to find new, better solutions' It&a...

".. Companies are saying data is the new oil - a lot of companies have really, really cool data that they just need to learn how to put into a story. And that's what Digital PR is, putting that data into a story to then get publications to pick that up and link to you, not mention you, link to you, because that builds your brand." - Harry Sanders, Founder of StudioHawk. Join me for...

Q. What is the problem you want to solve, what's the impact you want to have in the world, and how does entrepreneurial thinking help you? Join Julia Spicer OAM and I as we discuss the challenge and opportunities of our time, and the similarities and shared understandings of community, whether you are in America, Canada, Uganda or Zambia. Julie takes us into; - her passion for alternative inv...

"We're on the threshold of a paradigm shift in our economic system - within 2 to 3 years companies will be mandated in some countries to publish impact statements that show their revenues, their costs and their impact. When that happens the whole economic system will shift. Consumers, talent, investors and government will know which companies are delivering positive impact." Join Si...

".. We wanted the world to know Silicon Valley didn’t have a monopoly on entrepreneurship, and that we wouldn’t judge the citizens of a nation based on their geopolitics - the raw talent in Silicon Valley is not genetic or unique, it was a combination of factors untapped in large parts of the world, and we set out to create that globally - this was our theory of change.." - Jonathan Ortm...

How would the Head of Climate Risk for the United Nations get to Net Zero by 2035?  Find out, and lots, lots more. "In the same way we don't give people medals for not robbing banks, the goal is to drive impact, avoiding greenwashing means that what you're saying and what you're doing are consistent." - David Carlin, Head of Climate Risk & TCFD for the United Nations E...

I'm pleased to introduce Professor Durreen Shahnaz, discussing her soon to be released book 'The Defiant Optimist - Daring to fight global inequality, reinvent finance and invest in women' - it's a deeply personal tale of challenge and family dynamics, a childhood marred in protest and war during the birth of a new nation (Bangladesh), and a growing awareness of the power of su...

"There is no doubt in my mind that if we continue on the path we are going, there will come a time when we will have no choice but to come together to deal with climate change, but by then it would be far too late." - Mr Anote Tong, Former President of the Republic of Kiribati.   Join me from the conclusion of the Climate Investor Forum, held by Climate Zeitgeist, for this short intervie...

Welcome to the final conversation in my contributor series to our recent report 'No More Greenwashing: Driving evidence-based practice in ESG & Impact Investing', with Dr Jodi York . Jodi is the Chief Impact Officer at Kilara Capital , Principal of ImpactAbility Solutions , Chair of the Climate Impact Committee with the Climate Venture Capital Fund in New Zealand, part of the Social...

Introducing Rosemary Addis , Founding Partner of Mondiale Impact and Ambassador for The Global Steering Group for Impact Investment (GSG) , in the next of my contributor conversations for 'No more greenwashing: Driving evidence-based practice in ESG & Impact Investing'. We discuss the idea of perfect being the enemy of good, which came up during my conversation with Cliff Prior quoti...

Introducing Terence Jeyaretnam, the next contributor featured in our recent release 'No More Greenwashing: Driving evidance-based practice in ESG & Impact Investing' (which you can download for free at http://bit.ly/nomoregreenwashing ).  Terence works across a great variety of groups aligned with creating positive impact in the world, and his positions include: - APAC Leader & P...

Join myself and Kristin Siegel, Head of EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) from https://toniic.com - the global action community for impact investing - as we discuss our latest report No More Greenwashing: Driving evidence-based practice in ESG & Impact Investing which you can get for free at http://bit.ly/nomoregreenwashing Smarter Impact is hosted by http://linkedin.com/in/philipbateman a...

Meet Lyle Wildes, the real life Breaking Bad / Walter White, a philosophy professor that acquired a brain injury crashing his truck into a bridge, losing all empathy, becoming a drug dealer making synthetic cocaine, being arrested and spending twenty years in jail, enabling him to discover the key to reducing recidivism; 85% of inmates have 3 or more ACE (Adverse Childhood Experience) factors, com...

To conincidence with the launch of our new report 'No more greenwashing - Driving evidence-based practice in ESG & Impact Investing', I've done a series of interviews with the contributors, the first of which is Cliff Prior, Chief Executive Officer of The Global Steering Group for Impact Investment (GSG). This report is an overview of regulatory initiatives in Australia, the UK...

Join Mark Williamson, Executive General Manager of the Clean Energy Regulator and myself from Victorian State Energy Summit with thanks to the Smart Energy Council. We discussed the soon to be formed Australian Carbon Exchange, the new Guarantee of Origin program for our upcoming hydrogen economy which will eventually spread to ammonia, aluminium and steel, the specific role of the Clean Energy Re...

Join Paul Holthus, CEO of the World Ocean Council and I from the 2022 APAC Impact Investment Summit, as we discuss the purpose and scale of the World Ocean Council in creating industry leadership in keeping the global ocean healthy, such as by lowering emissions by reducing biofouling on vessels, and the need and opportunity for investing in and developing port reception facilities to tackle broad...

"Cascading, compounding and aggregating" - I caught up with Rosemary Addis at the close of the recent Impact Investment Summit Asia Pacific , and in this episode we begin by talking about the last two years since we met in person, science, intersectionality, COVID and climate impacts, the latest IPCC report, our slip backwards in poverty and education and the impact this has on our abili...