August 21, 2020

Multiple Approaches To Address The Climate Challenge with James Goudreau, Ep #3

22 minutes

Multinational corporations have the opportunity to play a unique role in the energy transition. Health care company, Novartis is taking that opportunity seriously, moving the needle significantly when it comes to the company’s own carbon footprint and power usage as well as creating opportunities that smaller organizations may be able to utilize to move their power purchases toward renewable energy faster.

James Goudreau is “Head of Climate” for Novartis and our guest on this episode. His experience in the U.S. Navy, serving as a logistics and procurement specialist enabled him to not only understand the inner workings of a large organization’s procurement operations, it also introduced him to the necessary considerations large organizations need to make regarding climate issues. Listen to hear how Novartis is making a difference in the global renewable energy transition.

You will want to hear this episode if you are interested in...

How Jim’s Navy career led him into climate-related issues and planning [05:01]

The internal corporate process of procuring power from a wind farm in Texas [11:15]

Novartis’ physical properties being considered for future energy conversion projects [15:42]

How and why Jim desires to work himself out of a job [17:33]

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Resources & People Mentioned

Guest host: Peter Kelly-Detwiler

Novartis Business Services

Beyond The Meter podcast

Connect with James Goudreau