Mission Shunya

Kevin Houston , co-founder of Carbon Masters joins Girish Shivakumar on this episode to share his entrepreneurial journey. The product, Carbonlites is India's very first compressed biogas brand and it is used for cooking and transportation. The output slurry is also used as an organic fertilizer. Their latest solution of getting Bio CNG through sewage treatment could be a game changer in terms of waste processing.  

Are you interested in setting up a decentralised unit anywhere in the world? Carbon Masters can help you with the complete process. 

More information on Kevin and Carbon Masters: https://carbonmasters.co.uk/ 

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How can you reach your net zero goals if you can’t directly invest in a project? Carbonfund.org enables businesses and individuals go carbon neutral.  Brian McFarland, Senior Vice President of Carbon Offset Projects joins Girish Shivakumar on this episode to share the story of Carbonfund.org

More information on Brian & CarbonFund: https://carbonfund.org/ 

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Vishal Pandya, co-founder of REConnect Energy, an entrepreneur who has built India’s leading energy analytics platform joins Girish Shivakumar to share the REConnect story. It’s a very a candid and engaging conversation on entrepreneurship in clean-tech sector and the 10 year journey of REConnect Energy.

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On this episode Girish Shivakumar is joined by Sagar Gubbi, Managing Partner at Ecoforge Advisors, who shares the story of Ecoforge and how they are working to enable access to technology and capital in the developing world to combat the impact of Climate Change. Ecoforge works in the developing countries with investors and aid agencies in delivering sustainability projects and ‘forging’ relationships with cleantech entrepreneurs.

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“We want to eliminate single-use plastic bags” reads a statement on the website of Solubag, a company based out of Chile. 

Roberto Astete, Co-Founder joins Girish Shivakumar on this episode to share the story of conceptualising alternative products to single use plastics. The products from Solubag are soluble in warm and cold water distinctively. 

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What are the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certifications all about?Is a planned, managed forest area really sustainable?Can the status quo be changed? 
On this podcast episode Amar Deshpande (aka Amar Vyas), Country Manager for FSC in India joins Girish Shivakumar to discuss sustainable forestry and FSC's role in it. 
Amar is also a passionate storyteller and founder of Gaatha Story (https://gaathastory.in/podcasts/). Connect with Amar - https://twitter.com/MeAmarVyas

Show notes and references https://bit.ly/2GHM3q5

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Discussing the global transition to net zero emissions is one of the themes of Mission Shunya (Shunya =Zero). Recently, ClimateWorks Australia, published the Decarbonisation Futures study that outlined the trajectory for Australia to get to net zero by 2050. Climateworks Australia’s primary goal through the study is to enable Australia reach its net zero emissions by 2050.  

Tom Yankos who led the study team joins Girish Shivakumar on this podcast episode.

ClimateWorks: https://www.climateworksaustralia.org/
Link to report: https://bit.ly/3mXKaFR 

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Carbon Initiative Forum (CIF) aims to create climate change awareness at grassroots level. Why is it important? How do they go about doing it? How can you get involved?

On this episode Sandeep Roy Choudhury joins Girish Shivakumar to share his journey of building VNV advisory services and working on projects of impact and having a positive impact on communities.  

The action item for this episode is to check the Carbon Footprint Calculator, an easy tool available on the homepage (https://bit.ly/35AWHbZ). By providing accurate inputs of all your activities you can estimate your carbon footprint.

Links to connect with Sandeep: https://bit.ly/2DULpUw | VNV: https://bit.ly/2RkDX8a | Carbon Initiative Forum https://bit.ly/35AWHbZ 

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In the last few years we have come across commitments from a range of global corporations committing to going 100% RE, reducing their emissions to net zero or in fact turning to net positive. What are the targets based on, how realistic are these targets from the timeline perspective. We will discuss more of this on this episode. 

Thaddeus Anim-Somuah who has done a lot of work in the sustainability space particularly being an active campaigner for European Union’s New Green Deal joins Girish Shivakumar on this episode. He also leads the sustainability initiatives for a large chemical company.

Links to connect with Thaddeus: https://bit.ly/31GqIor 

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How can behavioural economics and nudge be used to create awareness on environmental issues among children?

Amishi Parasrampuria from Upcycler’s lab joins Girish Shivakumar to share the story of how products and games are designed with intent to make play based learning more impactful. 

Link to connect with Upcycler’s Lab: https://upcyclerslab.com/ 

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