Another ClimateTech Podcast

Paul Ritch is a recent transplant from the US to Berlin, via two years of world travel. He's one of the forces behind ProVeg Incubator's absolutely brilliant Kickstarting for Good program which your humble podcast host sees as one of the most ambitious and clever programs ever(!) 

Check out some of the ideas they have come up with, which they are ready to support:

🧑🏽‍🍳 World Society of Plant Based Chefs
🎓 Vegan Thesis
☁️ Meta-Funding Organisation
🍏 Nutritionists Fellowship
💅 Accelerator for Social Media Influencers
📣 Marketing & Comms Agency for the Plant-based Movement
☑️ Vegan "Checkoff" Programme
🐦 Early Action Network (EAN)

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It's hard to be an animal lover. Those of us who eat plant-based diets because we don't want to harm animals are also very likely to have cats and dogs at home. And so we end up unwittingly fuelling cruel and unsustainable meat production every day. Dogs can be plant-based--though they don't all take to it--but cats, as obligate carnivores, are the real challenge.

But what if you could feed your pets real meat that didn't come from animals?

That's the promise of BioCraft Pet Nutrition, which makes meat from chicken, mouse, and rabbit cell cultures that will be in commercial pet food as soon as 2025.

Founder and CEO Shannon Falconer talks about her personal mission to make pet food good for animals, people, and the planet.

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Today, ClimatePartner works with more than 6,000 companies in over 60 countries. Manca Jurca  talks about the pivotal role corporations play in mitigating climate change.  

Our conversation highlights the importance of quantifying a company's carbon footprint, transitioning to green energy sources, and investing in green technology. Listen as we discuss the essence of establishing short and long-term reduction goals, investing in nature-based solutions, and the vital role of transparent communication for businesses on their journey towards carbon neutrality.

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My conversation with Arman Anatürk, founder of FoodHack, ClimateHack and HackCapital, a universe that grew out of a single event in Geneva in 2018. 

We talk about new approaches for startups, fund managers, and angels to participate in the capital-hungry universe of climatetech, and how to get more players involved. From micro funds to SPVs, M&A to secondary markets, we cover it all.

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Jeff Katz is a serial entrepreneur who these days invests in climatetech through his company builder and investment vehicle 1.5° Ventures.

In this conversation, Jeff dives into the many structural problems with VC and how it's not set up to tackle the massive challenges around climate change. This interview is packed with insights both for professional investors in the sector as well as climatetech entrepreneurs and how they can avoid falling into all kinds of traps.

Jeff talks about why we don't have time to follow the normal growth trajectories investors and entrepreneurs are used to since climate change is an impatient master. And we talked about how Europe risks losing its edge if it doesn't step up its ambition to deal with our biggest existential threat.

Jeff mentions this CAPEX financing guide for hardware climatetech startups.

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Megan Poinski is a US-based journalist who has covered the food industry the last 7 years. During this time, she has seen some of the biggest changes in how and what we buy, eat, and think about food literally in centuries. We talked about these changes in technology, attitudes, and markets and what excites her about the industry now.

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Markus Linder is a serial tech founder whose company Inoqo evaluates the impact of grocery products on the basis of climate, social impact, animal welfare, and nutrition to help consumers make greener food selections.

We talked about how private label brands can create differentiation by appealing to sustainability-conscious consumers and retailers,  the EU's efforts to fight greenwashing, and how to make smart lifestyle changes to reduce your planetary footprint.

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Art Lapinsch certainly never thought he would be studying law, but after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, he became convinced that energy policy is one of the most crucial and overlooked aspects of global security. He is now studying energy law while sharing his thoughts on the topic through essays, science fiction pieces, and more at Delphi Zero. 

In our meandering conversation we talked about European startup hotspots, knowledge management, and lots of kind of geeky stuff.

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One of the biggest complaints about plant-based meats is that something is missing -- and that something is usually the fat. Some folks out there have been busy toiling away for years to find a way to solve this problem, without needing to kill animals to achieve it. People like Anastasia Krivoruchko, co-founder and CEO at Melt&Marble.

Anastasia talks about her journey from scientist to founder, why Europe is lagging behind in novel foods, and gives a short 101 on precision fermentation.

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I had the immense pleasure of speaking with Richard Heinberg, Senior Fellow at the Post Carbon Institute about his brand spanking new report Welcome to the Great Unraveling: Navigating the Polycrisis of Environmental and Social Breakdown. 

The biggest eye-opener for me? The extra emissions from creating the hardware we need to avoid surpassing emissions limits could ironically cause us to surpass emissions limits. Bottom line: no matter what, we need to reduce emissions as well as green our energy infrastructure.

If it feels like we’re living in an age of multiple crises whose interlinkages we’re only starting to fathom, it’s because we are. Listen as Richard explains how to navigate this new reality.

Books mentioned in this podcast include:

• End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration by Peter Turchin
• The Children of Men by PD James
• And you can find Richard's published works here too

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