The Net Zero Business Podcast

Ever since the 1992 Earth Summit, we have been urged to "Think Global, Act Local". All too often this slogan has manifested itself in small scale projects, but what about creating sustainable cities? In this episode I talk place-based Sustainability with Florian Wupperfeld, world-leading placemaking/social sustainability expert and CEO of LCD Ventures, a UK-based data-driven urban innovation company offering placemaking services and socially sustainable solutions.

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Management Peter Drucker said "culture eats strategy for breakfast" and nowhere is this more true than in Sustainability. You can have the best strategy in the world, but if people aren't bought into Sustainability then nothing will change. Here I explain why so many people fail to engage with Sustainability and why standard engagement techniques often fail. I call my approach Green Jujitsu and I explain how the idea developed over many years of experience.

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In this episode, I'm joined by two hugely experienced doctors and Sustainability champions Matt Sawyer and Mike Tomson who have edited a new book, Environmentally Sustainable Primary Care. Our discussion takes in the huge and complex overlap between healthcare and planetary care, how to engage busy people and the challenges/opportunities for small businesses to embrace Sustainability.

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With booming numbers of reporting regimes – CSRD, EU Taxonomy, Double Materiality, SFDR etc – Sustainability teams increasingly find themselves slogging in the data mines rather than delivering the Net Zero wins they actually want to report on. Given the sudden blossoming of AI, can this new technology alleviate the reporting burden and, if so, at what cost? In this episode of the Net Zero Business Podcast, I dig into the details with Louis Frank, CEO and founder of Fingreen.ai.

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Frankly, I'm struggling to sum this episode up! Brendan May of Robertsbridge has been one of the leading voices on Sustainability for decades and in this conversation we cover the current UK political context, the difficulties with transition, the threat of culture war populism, the unintended consequences of not doing things (eg offsetting, nuclear, palm oil), the success and failure of NGO campaigns and deep sea mining of transition metals.

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In this episode, I lay out what I call the Litmus Test of Sustainability. No spoilers, you will have to listen to hear what it is!

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Keir Starmer's Labour Party won a crushing victory in July's UK General Election on the back of a 'green growth' economic strategy, but how is this measuring up in practice? Fresh from the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool, Fiona Harvey, the Guardian's multi-award-winning Environment Editor, joins me to run the rule over the new Government's policies both national and international, which leads us neatly on to preview the coming COP29 climate change summit in Azerbaijan. Fiona has been attending COPs since 2004, so is the perfect person to cover everything from the complexities of climate finance to who's best dressed.

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With agriculture being responsible for 11% of the UK's carbon emissions, declining biodiversity and polluted water course, is there a Sustainable alternative to modern industrial agriculture? Doug Wanstall of Beyond Zero joins me to explain how regenerative agriculture works, how he is funding projects via voluntary carbon credits and what the forthcoming UK carbon code is intended to do.

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Is the future uninsurable? In this episode, Claudine Blamey, Chief Sustainability Officer of insurance giant Aviva, explains that the warning signs are there to be seen with some insurers starting to pull out of areas hit by extreme weather. We also delve into Aviva's breakthrough temperate rainforest restoration project as a form of offsetting, the importance of leadership, the power of volunteering, and the risks and opportunities of the climate transition.

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And after our August compilation episodes of the Net Zero Business Podcast, we are back with a bang in the form of Jasper Steinhausen, author of Making Sustainability Profitable, aimed at Small and Medium Sized Enterprises in the manufacturing sector. I felt a real meeting of minds as we compare and contrast Jasper's sustainability sweetspot with mine and delve into mindsets, unleashing creativity and the circular economy. Almost everything Jasper says is not only very wise but eminently quotable and I thoroughly enjoyed re-listening during the production process.

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