Join David Carlin and Simon Messenger for today's interview with Oliver Dauert, the founder of Wildya.

Forget those "LinkedIn experts"—Oliver is the real deal. He's a genuine authority on biodiversity and nature, boasting deep ecological knowledge gained from years of working in the field.

He dedicates his time to helping businesses grasp the critical importance of nature, not just as a general concept, but as a tangible asset with real value for their operations.

In this episode, Oliver will share his insights and experiences from his work with the private sector through Wildya. He'll explain how businesses can better understand and integrate nature's value into their strategies, demonstrating that ecological health and commercial success aren't mutually exclusive.

Join your hosts, David Carlin and Simon Messenger, as we dive deep into the fascinating and ever-evolving world of solar power.

In this episode, we'll unpack the immense promise of solar energy, exploring its potential to revolutionize the global power sector and provide a sustainable future.

But it's not all sunshine and rainbows; we'll also tackle some of the significant hurdles, including the complex landscape of raw material sourcing and the intricate web of geopolitical dependencies that shape the industry.

Beyond the technological and resource challenges, we'll also examine the recent shifts in policy that could profoundly impact the renewables sector.

Specifically, we'll shine a spotlight on the Trump administration's "Big Beautiful Bill" and discuss its anticipated effects on the trajectory of clean energy development.

Join hosts David Carlin and Simon Messenger today as they welcome Professor Nicky Clayton, a distinguished psychologist specializing in animal behaviour.

Discover the intriguing parallels between animal and human behaviour, and gain insights into the biases that shape our perceptions and how they may be of use to policy makers.

Explore how we project into the future and why distance often reduces our motivation to act. This episode promises to challenge your understanding of behaviour and inspire new ways of thinking about the world around us.

Join David Carlin and Simon Messenger as they delve into the complex role of nuclear power in tackling the climate crisis.

Is it a vital tool for creating a safe, reliable baseload for the grid, or does it present unacceptable risks?

We explore the real dangers and costs associated with nuclear energy, alongside the exciting potential of future technologies like Small Modular Reactors (SMRs).

But the picture isn't black and white (more like fluo): we also examine the emerging physical challenges that climate change itself poses to our reliance on nuclear power and bring you on the brink of meltdowns with the usual terrible puns (thanks David).

Dive into the deep (boo boom) with David Carlin and Simon Messenger as they navigate the turbulent waters of ocean protection in this week's episode.

With the UN Summit on Oceans in Nice drawing to a close and the crucial High Seas Treaty still hanging in the balance, we explore the critical challenges facing our oceans: from the devastating effects of warming and coral bleaching to the looming threats of deep-sea mining and destructive trawling practices, what's going on and what's realistic in terms of protecting the ocean?

Join us as we unpack the urgent need to protect marine biodiversity and discuss what the future holds for our planet's largest ecosystem.

Join David Carlin and Simon Messenger for one very big question this week: adaptation, mitigation, or both?

In this episode, we explore the crucial debate between adapting to climate change's inevitable impacts and mitigating its causes to prevent further damage. Adaptation involves adjusting our lives and infrastructure to withstand changes, while mitigation focuses on reducing emissions to slow climate change.

Both strategies are vital, but where should we focus our efforts for the most effective outcome?

Also, how many kitkats is too many kitkats?! That's an equally big question to discuss!

Join Simon Messenger and David Carlin as they sit down with Mark Campanale, the Founder of Carbon Tracker, a leading think tank analyzing the financial implications of climate change.

Do terms like "carbon budget," "carbon bubble," and "stranded assets" mean very little to you? Or even a bit, but you're not really sure what the global implications are? Then tune in to this podcast episode!

Mark, Simon and David will unpack these critical concepts, exploring how the world's limited carbon budget is creating a potential "carbon bubble" that could lead to trillions of dollars in "stranded assets."

Listen now to gain a deeper understanding of the financial risks of climate change and what we can do about it.

Today's Big Question: what's Big and Beautiful? A bill, apparently!

Making its way through US legislative process is a bill called, without any irony, "One Big Beautiful Bill". It's largely a bill to repeal many of Biden's Inflation Reduction Act decisions, many of which are linked to "green" decisions, and offer new tax breaks (in short).

What might this mean for the average American? What might this mean for global emissions? What's likely to actually make it all the way through to a final Act and governmental decision? Tune in to find out!

[and as an update after we recorded the episode, the Bill did actually fail to advance through the committee though this was more because a few legislators argued the cuts did not go far enough and torpedoed the measure]

Today's episode is a whistle-blow tour of what's been happening in the last few weeks in terms of elections in the world (well, at least the English-speaking world in terms of today's discussion).

There's been a lot of understandable talk about sustainability being on life support in terms of politics and corporate action but a few recent elections show that maybe, after all, the sustainability boat has wind in its sails and momentum is building again in some regions.

Maybe it's a false dawn. And there's definitely clear signals that, even if people support the concept, policies which carry the population will them will be critical or a backlash will happen pretty quickly.

At 12.33pm on Monday 28 April, a large chunk of Spain and Portugal were plunged into chaos by a major blackout. 

So what happened?

Lots of actors and media jumped on a bandwagon to blame net-zero, renewables or the energy transition. Was that fair? What was does this mean in terms of future resilience of renewable-energy based grids? (Spain and Portugal are two of the world's leading nations for renewables)

How can policy makers right now and in the future strengthen interconnectedness between grids yet build up local resilience. What's the role of battery storage in the future? What's the role of AI?

Join us this week for a short deep-dive on what just happened to get some of the answers to these Big Questions!