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Turning Waste Into Fuel - A Chat With Anaergia Founder And CEO Andrew Benedek
30 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a messageThis week's episode of the podcast deals with methane once more.Last week's episode featured a startup in the methane space...
Achieving Energy Independence, Improving Profitability And Reducing Emissions Using Fugitive Methane - A Chat With BennaMann CTO Chris Mann
23 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a messageFugitive methane - what is it? And how can it be turned from a nasty climate emission into a source of energy, reduced emissions, and...
How Your Investments Can Help Solve Climate Change - A Chat With Carbon Collective Co-Founder Zach Stein
16 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a messageInvestment is a hugely important part of the fight against climate change. But where should the money come from?What if the money we ...
Reversing Tropical Rainforest Deforestation - A Chat With Health In Harmony Founder Kinari Webb
09 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a messageClimate and deforestation have always been very closely linked. But how is deforestation linked to human health, and how can improvin...
Climate Interventions - What Are They And Can They Help - A Chat With Prof Wake Smith
02 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a messageHave you come across the term Climate Interventions before? If not, possibly you've heard of Geoengineering.Prof Wake Smith lect...
Decarbonising Supply Chains - A Chat With The Climate Choice Co-Founder Yasha Tarani
23 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a messageA huge portion of an organisation's emissions come from its supply chain.The Climate Choice is a company working to change that ...
Climate Litigation Cases Tracked - A Chat With Drilled, And Damages, Podcasts Host Amy Westervelt
16 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a messageI'm a big fan of Amy Westervelt's Drilled podcast. If you're not familiar, it is a Climate podcast but done like a Net...
Supercharge Me - How To Get To Net Zero - A Chat With Corinne Sawers And Eric Lonergan
09 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a messageThere is a new book on climate which has been recently released which I think is worth paying attention to. It is called Supercharge ...
Investing In Low Carbon Construction Startups - A Chat With Cemex Ventures President Gonzalo Galindo
02 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a messageConcrete and the built environment have an enormous carbon footprint.To find out more about how companies in that space are innovatin...
Planetary-Scale Regeneration - A Chat With Earthshot Labs CEO Troy Carter
26 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a messageGo big or go home - that could easily have been the motto of our last two episodes of this podcast and this week is no different.Toda...
Ecocide - Making Mass Destruction Of Nature An International Crime - A Chat With Jojo Mehta
19 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a messageEcocide is a term that is recently starting to gain a little ground in the public's eye, but what is it, where does it come from...
Making Data Deliver Net Zero - A Chat With Gavin Starks of Icebreaker One
12 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a messageOne of the most interesting companies in the Climate space has to be Icebreaker One. Icebreaker One is working across industries and ...
Final episode of 2021
22 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a messageSo, we've come to our final episode of 2021, but fear not, lots more excellent episodes of the Climate 21 podcast are coming you...
Intelligent Decarbonisation - A Chat With Prof Markus Kraft
15 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a messageWhat is Intelligent Decarbonisation?Intelligent Decarbonisation is the combining of artificial intelligence with cyber physical asset...
Short break - back next week
08 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a messageHi folks, I'm on a short break this week to go back to Ireland to check in on my Dad.Normal programming will resume once again n...
COP 26 Outcomes, The Role Of Data, And The Skills Gap - A Chat With Prof Sally Eaves
01 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a messageI didn't make it to COP 26 but several people I know went so I reached out to one of them, Sally Eaves to discuss her impression...
The Sustainability Imperative With Tom Raftery
24 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a messageWelcome to the 50th episode of the Climate 21 podcast. In this instalment, due to a scheduling snafu, I was without a guest, so I too...
Battery Electric or Hydrogen Fuel Cell? The electrification of transportation - A Chat With James Carter
17 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a messageWelcome to another joint Digital Supply Chain and Climate 21 podcast episode. The reason this is a joint podcast is that today's...
How Much Did The Fossil Fuel Companies Know About Climate Change, And When? A Chat With Ben Franta
10 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a messageStanford doctoral candidate Benjamin (Ben) Franta (aka @BenFranta on Twitter) has a degree in Applied Physics from Harvard, a Law deg...
Carbon Budgets, Carbon Bubbles, And The Risk To The Financial Sector - A Chat With Carbon Tracker's Mark Campanale
03 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a messageI first came across the Carbon Tracker Initiative about 8-9 years ago when they posted a cool short video explaining the concept of a...
Sequestering Carbon, Increasing Biodiversity, And Alleviating Poverty - A Chat With Rebalance Earth's Walid Al Saqqaf
27 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a messageA few weeks back I had IMF Assistant Director Ralph Chami on the podcast talking about how he came up with a way to put a monetary va...
A Chat With Capgemini's Global Head Of Sustainability Dr James Robey
20 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a messageWith a workforce of almost 300,000, Capgemini is one of the world's largest global IT Services and consulting companies.Curious ...
SAP's October Sustainability Summit - A Chat With Anita Varshney
13 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a messageWe in SAP held our first Sustainability Summit in April of this year and it was a resounding success. So much so, that we're hol...
Using Finance To Protect And Enhance Biodiversity While Simultaneously Sequestering Carbon - A Chat With Ralph Chami
06 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a messageIn previous episodes of this podcast, both Prof Sir David King of the Cambridge Centre for Climate Repair and Rob Gardner of St James...
Saving The Planet Is Now A Communications Challenge - A Chat With Dedlyne Co-Founder Huw Bunn
29 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a messageThere's a lot of talk these days about targets - be it Net Zero targets, SDGs, or other targets, but how do we measure progress ...
Is ESG Investing Impactful And/Or Profitable? A Chat With Ken Pucker
22 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a messageThere is a strong appetite in the investment community right now for sustainable funds to invest in but does that investment lead to ...
Building a Sustainable Supply Chain For The High Tech Industry - A Chat With Joe Mulligan
15 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a messageWe (in SAP) are running a webinar on September 22nd titled Building a Sustainable Supply Chain for the High Tech Industry. The idea o...
The Power Of Your Pension To Influence Climate - A Chat With St James' Place Robert Gardner
08 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a messageThere has been a lot in the press recently about activist investors, the increasing importance of ESG, and how big money can move the...
Climate And The Insurance Industry - A Chat With Zurich Insurance's Global Chief Risk Officer Peter Giger
01 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a messageOne of the stakeholders in the climate crisis with the most exposure is the insurance industry, and yet to date, I hadn't invite...
Watershed's Emissions Reduction Platform - A Chat With Taylor Francis
25 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a messageAaaand we're back! Rejuvenated after a couple of week's vacation, in this week's episode of the Climate 21 podcast I t...
August Vacation - Don't Touch That Dial!
04 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a messageKeeping it short and sweet - I'm headed off on vacation for the next few weeks so the podcast is going on a brief break too.I wi...
Using Data And Analytics To Reduce Emissions In The Chemicals Industry - A Chat With Carbon Minds MD Arne Kätelhön
28 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a messageOne of the most difficult industries to reduce emissions in is the chemicals industry. I recently came across Carbon Minds, a company...
Can Sustainable Investing Make A Difference Without Systemic Change - A Chat With Tariq Fancy
21 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a messageI first came across today's podcast guest Tariq Fancy when I read an interview he gave to Peter McKillop on Greenbiz where he ar...
How to measure and manage circular economy initiatives - a chat with Circular IQ's Roy Vercoulen
14 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a messageOne of the issues we have today is that we're using far too many virgin resources in our supply chains. These virgin resources t...
How To Accelerate The Necessary Systemic Change - A Chat With North Star Transition Co-Founder Jyoti Banerjee
07 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a messageChange is hard. We know this. However, however hard change is, systemic change is by definition orders of magnitude harder. But that ...
Helping startups solve the climate crisis - a chat with Plug and Play CEO Saeed Amidi
30 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a messageA couple of episodes of this podcast have featured guests from the financial space, but we've never had someone from the startup...
Sea-level rise - what's coming, and how business can help minimise it - a chat with Prof Maureen Raymo
23 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a messageOn this 30th episode of the podcast, I'm honoured to be joined by renowned climate scientist Professor Maureen Raymo. Maureen is...
Making the world run better, and improving people's lives - a chat with SAP's Gunther Rothermel
16 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a messageIt has been a while since I had anyone from SAP on the podcast, and since SAP recently held its SAP Sustainability Summit, I wanted t...
Mercedes-EQ Formula E Team Lead Ian James Talks Electric Motorsport and the Importance of Data
09 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a messageA couple of week's back on this podcast we chatted with Alejandro Agag, the founder of the Formula E World Championship - the el...
Reducing agriculture's footprint - a Chat with BayWa CIO Tobias Fausch
02 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a messageBavarian agtech company BayWa AG was recognised recently as one of the Top 50 Global Sustainability and Climate Leaders for all the w...
Zero Carbon Electric Motorsports Formula E and Extreme E - a chat with Alejandro Agag
26 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a messageA few months back I hosted Rodi Basso on the podcast where he talked about the E1 Electric Powerboat racing series and it was an exce...
Deloitte and climate emissions reductions - a chat with Marc Van Caeneghem
19 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a messageDeloitte, one of the largest professional services companies in the world announced recently its World Climate Commitment. Given who ...
Climate repair? A chat with Prof Sir David King
12 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a messageMy guest on the podcast this week is Prof Sir David King. An incredibly accomplished scientist with over 500 papers to his name, he h...
What are Green Bonds and how are they helping companies with their sustainability strategies? A chat with Shrey Kohli
05 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a messageThe world of finance is a black box to me. I don't have that money gene. But it is an area that is starting to play an increasin...
A Chat with Bill McDonough - How Design Can Help in the Fight Against Climate Change
28 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a messageOver on the Climate 21 Forums I created for discussions about this podcast a user called Siobhán commented that "I would love t...
The Power of Climate Benchmarks - a chat with David Harris, Group Head of Sustainable Business at the London Stock Exchange Group
21 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a messageThe investment world is changing. Investors are realising that regulations are increasingly mandating for lower carbon products and s...
Reducing Google’s Carbon Footprint - Michael Terrell, Director of Energy at Google
14 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a messageLast week's episode of the podcast with Sandra Pallier and Hannah Smith from ClimateAction.tech looked at the issue of reducing ...
How do we reduce IT's carbon footprint? A chat with Sandra Pallier and Hannah Smith of Climate Action Tech
07 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a messageTechnology has a large and growing carbon footprint. Everything from when you open Google on your phone, to browsing your Instagram f...
Easter vacation 2021 episode
31 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a messageI'm on vacation this week, so I recorded a short episode where I talked about three things:Ratings and reviews for the podcastSo...
The business of sustainability - a chat with Frank Omare
24 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a messageI wanted to have an episode of the podcast where we level set on the importance of sustainability for organisations, so I invited Fra...
Using concrete as a carbon sink? A chat with Prof Volker Sick
17 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a messageStopping global emissions is not enough. We have to also find ways to remove CO2 from the atmosphere and sequester it.One of the bigg...
Impossible Foods quest to reduce the impact of agriculture - a chat with Rebekah Moses
10 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a messageThe first time I came across Impossible Foods was when I read an article about them in Techcrunch back in 2016 and I was immediately ...
The potential of big data and environmental sustainability - a chat with IBM's Jacob Dencik
03 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a messageData is the new currency we're told (some people call it the new oil, I refuse to use that expression given the negative connota...
Can Indoor Vertical Farming help reduce our emissions? A chat with &ever CSO Mark Korzilius
24 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a messageI'm a big fan of the concept of Indoor Vertical Farming, so when I came across the company &ever I reached out to their CSO,...
Climate, geopolitics, and supply chain risk - a chat with Jacob Shapiro
17 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a messageSo much of what's happening in the climate space revolves around geopolitics that I thought it might be interesting to bring an ...
BCG's path to net zero - a chat with Michel Frédeau and Daniel Weise
10 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a messageBoston Consulting Group is one of the most prestigious management consulting firms in the world.In September 2020 BCG committed to go...
The increasing importance of ESG for organisations - a chat with SAP's Adam Lyons
03 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a messageIn the episode of this podcast where I talked to JP Morgan's Head of ESG Debt Capital Markets, Paul O'Connor, Paul mentione...
Electric powerboat racing? A chat with E1 Series CEO Rodi Basso
27 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a messageOn this week's episode of the Climate 21 podcast we have a slight change of direction - away from the corporate world, and into ...
The role of the investment community in climate emissions reductions - a chat with JP Morgan's Paul O'Connor
20 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a messageThe investment community has enormous influence on global markets (by directing capital flows) and the climate emissions space is b...
Renewable energy, storage, and electric transportation - a chat with Auke Hoekstra
13 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a messageSo, Auke Hoekstra is a bit of a legend in the renewable energy, and electric vehicle world. Program Director at NEON research leading...
The importance of Climate related goals for organisations - a chat with Prof Stephanie Bertels
06 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a messageIn this week's episode of the podcast I'm talking Prof Stephanie Bertels - Prof Bertels is the Director of the Centre for C...
Final episode of 2020, upcoming guests, 2020 news, and an ask
23 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a messageThe last Climate 21 episode of 2020Quick announcement - to help serve you the podcast audience better I have created a chat room on m...
Microsoft's incredibly ambitious climate emissions initiative - a chat with Lucas Joppa
16 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a messageMicrosoft has a stellar track record when it comes to climate emissions. Microsoft rolled out an internal price on carbon in 2012 - s...
What are Shell's climate emissions reduction ambitions? A chat with Shell exec committee member Huibert Vigeveno
09 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a messageFossil fuel companies are in large part responsible for the current climate emergency we find ourselves in - both through the product...
Climate 21? What's that? - a chat with SAP Executive Board member Thomas Saueressig
02 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a messageWelcome to the inaugural episode of the Climate 21 podcast - thank you for your interest.This is a podcast which aims to talk to seni...
Climate 21 Intro
07 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Send me a messageGood morning, good afternoon, good evening, where-ever you are in the world. This is the Climate 21 podcast, and I am your host, Glob...