Climate change requires industries to align capital and business intentions with solutions to tackle it. The finance industry is quickly acknowledging and acting upon the urgency of the climate crisis. Who better to discuss the opportunities and challenges in scaling sustainability performance than Alison Rose, CEO of NatWest and David Giampaolo, CEO of Pi Capital. We will unpack the incentives, consider the risks and forecast the road ahead.

In our conversation with Ben Goldsmith, a long-time and passionate environmental campaigner and green investor, and Ben Hart, a carbon reduction and natural capital specialist, we will address the business imperative of restoring global biodiversity, uncover the commercial opportunities and highlight the key levers to navigating nature restoration with high impact and integrity.

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Book recommendations:

• Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet by George Monbiot

Useful links:

• Highlands Rewilding (Bunloit Estate): https://www.highlandsrewilding.co.uk/

• Knepp Wildland: https://knepp.co.uk/home

• Wessex Water, Entrade: https://www.entrade.co.uk/

• Nestlé and Unilever Financial Times article: https://www.ft.com/content/d0224863-6071-436d-a628-d7f3a71cb36f

In today’s episode we talk to Hugh Lewis, Head of Sustainability at Gousto, a food tech unicorn company on a quest to make sure every meal leaves the world better off. We boil down the key sustainability challenges facing the food industry and talk through the ingredients to Gousto’s success in cutting emissions, saving food waste and reducing packaging- all whilst accelerating business growth.

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In this episode we speak to Judith Batchelar and Stephen Mackenzie whose unrivalled experience makes them uniquely equipped to guide us through the food sector’s decarbonisation hurdles. We bring the greatest sustainability challenges facing the food industry to the table, outlining the business steps to overcome these; namely, pragmatic data consolidation, multi-stakeholder collaboration, holistic impact acknowledgement and ruthless prioritisation. Tune in to hear how your business can accelerate their path to net zero.

Book recommendations:

• How to Avoid a Climate Disaster, Bill Gates

• Eating to Extinction, Dan Saladino

• Saving Us, Katharine Hayho

Useful links:

• UK Food Systems GHG Emissions

• WRAP’s Scope 3 Protocols

• The Courtauld Commitment 2030

The future of fashion isn’t fast... By Rotation is putting the brakes on the fast fashion consumer habit, resetting the narrative from buying new to sharing new.

Eshita Kabra, is the mastermind behind By Rotation, the fastest growing UK digital fashion rental and resale platform. In this episode, Saif Hameed, CEO of Altruistiq and Eshita Kabra, CEO of By Rotation sit down and discuss how By Rotation is disrupting the market and empowering a community discerning fashionistas with the tools to be mindful consumers and crucially, look fantastic whilst doing so.

Dubbed as the ‘Instagram of fashion rental’, Eshita reveals how technology has enabled a community of eco-conscious ‘rotators’ to evolve. We dive into the financial, environmental and style benefits that users gain whilst spotlighting the current and future industry wide uptake of the circular fashion model. Tune in to find out how By Rotation is putting an end to fast fashion.

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Ever considered where all the world’s toys end up? Brace yourself for the ugly truth... currently, one in four toys are unloved within one week of purchase, destined to become clutter and then landfill.

So who is reshaping this market? Enter Nigel Phan, CEO and founder of Whirli, a toy sharing platform that has caught the attention of parents around the world for its pioneering approach to sustainable consumerism, enabling parents to borrow preloved ‘swappable’ toys versus buying new.

In this week’s episode we unpack the notion of the share economy, determining the consumer appetite and market potential for sustainable consumerism. We debunk myths about buying second hand, spotlight Whirli’s innovative approach and dive into the benefits of a circular retail model for the planet, parents and children.

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Navigating the voluntary carbon market is no mean feat. Who better to guide us through than a true pioneer within the carbon offset space.

Enter, Brennan Spellacy, Co- Founder and CEO of Patch.

We bring you this podcast to cut through the noise and shed some light on voluntary carbon markets, exploring its scaleable potential to reconcile humankind’s climate conundrum.

Tune in as we dive into the murky space around carbon offsets; the role they play in reaching the world’s net zero goals, the opportunity that technology provides in accelerating this journey and how the space is evolving with increased demand and regulation.

Thanks to Brennan Spellacy for sharing his unique and rich experience with us. Patch is an API solution to climate change, enabling businesses and end users alike to neutralise their unavoidable emissions via a diverse, global network of projects.

Can we break our addiction to single use packaging? As public pressure grows, the race to eliminate waste is on. So who is driving this sustainable transition?

Enter, Safia Qureshi, CEO and Founder of CLUBZERØ. CLUBZERØ's packaging solution has carved out a new landscape for retailers to overcome current sustainability shortfalls and proactively embrace a circular lifeline with returnable packaging.

In this episode we dive into the challenges and incentives of transitioning to a zero waste model, the scaleability of the reuse model and the potential that innovative designs and initiatives have in disrupting society’s unhealthy packaging habit.

According to the Ellen MacArthur foundation, roughly a quarter of the 348 million tons of annual plastic production worldwide now goes into packaging, making it the single biggest use of the material. Safia’s mission to rethink our relationship with packaging offers a timely and critical insight into solving this urgent issue.

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Join Saif Hameed (Founder & CEO of Altruistiq) and Rob Kaplan (Founder Circulate Capital) as they discuss plastic waste, recycling and closed loops in our first episode of This is Altruistiq.