This is the second Q&A episode of the podcast and the question comes from 'Jane' who is involved in a debate at work over Net Zero targets. Here's what I cover in my response:

• What Net Zero really means
• The problems with going for too near a date
• The problems with going too far
• The influence of assets, leadership and culture on the target date
• When to use SBTs to underpin Net Zero
• The dangers of incrementalising stretch targets

I will be weaving more Q&A episodes in alongside the interview episodes, but I need your questions and dilemmas! They can be about any Net Zero/Climate/Sustainability-related subject, but within an organisational context. Like 'Jane', you can choose anonymity if you prefer. Click here to send them in.

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I throughly enjoyed this interview with Sustainability gamification pioneer and Chief Fun Officer of Eco-Action Games, Dr Paula Owen. We discuss the following:

• How guilt-tripping people doesn't work

• What is 'gamification' and why does it work?

• Selling gamification as a concept

• The first rule of gamification is...

• Tensions between fun and gravity in Sustainability

• Becoming a B Corp as an SME

• The importance of resilience in green business ownership

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This week on the Net Zero Business Podcast, I talk to Dr Olli Jones, Head of Sustainability NE at Cundall and co-host of the Future X podcast. We cover a wide range of Sustainability issues including:

• Do architects get Sustainability?

• The threat of 'stranded' high carbon assets is with us now

• Cundall's "Achieving net zero carbon on all our projects by 2030" pledge

• Alternatives to offsetting including Cundall's 'social decarbonisation

• Designing in resilience

• Holistic thinking – how everything is connected

• The joys of fly-fishing and water pollution

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In 2019, the Newcastle Hospitals NHS Trust became the first health organisation in the world to declare a climate emergency. In this interview James Dixon, Associate Director - Sustainability at the Trust, tells Gareth Kane the very personal story behind this landmark move. James reveals how he was suffering climate-related depression and was contemplating civil disobedience - and a potential jail sentence - but was persuaded by his wife to channel his efforts into more practical change in his sphere of influence.

We discuss a wide range of issues including:

• Establishing an internal Sustainability brand

• How declaring a climate emergency opened the floodgates of action

• The importance of building internal and external networks

• "Healthier planet, healthier people" as a motto

• The challenges of delivering change in a 24/7 high profile environment

• How baby Rosie became the first UK baby to be delivered with the help of a low emissions gas & air system

• The carbon footprint of Gareth's hernia

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This is the first Q&A session of the podcast and the question comes from Alice Doyle who faced overt climate change denial in her last job. Here's what I cover in my response:

• How prevalent is climate change denial?
• Why you should never argue climate science with a climate change denier
• How to use Green Jujitsu to reframe your arguments so the other person understands them
• Getting allies on board to help
• Why intransigent climate change denial should be a red flag for your career prospects in an organisation

I intend to start weaving more Q&A episodes in alongside the interview episodes, but I need your questions and dilemmas! They can be about any Net Zero/Climate/Sustainability-related subject, but within an organisational context. You can choose anonymity if you prefer. Click here to send them in.

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In this episode, I speak to Alex Herridge of Skanska who works to deliver Anglia Water's net zero ambitions via the @One Alliance. We cover a huge range of issues including:

• How Anglian Water is directly feeling climate change impacts
• The power of design or as Alex puts it "the magic happens in design"
• Making carbon data available and understandable
• The benefits of being a Chartered Environmentalist
• The advantages of insetting over offsetting
• How water companies' customers uniquely provide them with fuel

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In this episode, I talk to my friend and colleague Anna-Lisa Mills, Managing Director of the SmartCarbon carbon footprinting platform. When I need a footprint done, Anna-Lisa is the first person I call, so she is the obvious choice to dig into this essential part of the Net Zero agenda.

In this wide ranging chat, we cover:

• How writing an essay on climate change at school changed Anna-Lisa's life
• The genesis and development of Smart Carbon platform to meet client needs
• Definitions of carbon footprints etc
• How the TRACC acronym keeps a carbon footprint on track
• Dealing with uncertainty and data (un)availability
• The effect of the Covid-19 pandemic on baselining
• Eco-anxiety and reasons to be cheerful

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In this episode, I speak to Richard Deaville of Balfour Beatty on Sustainability in Construction. Here's a flavour of what we cover:

• Sustainability drivers - the push from investors and pull from clients and the need to attract the best talent
• Blending Net Zero targets and Science-based Targets
• The importance of the right mindset
• Using Green Jujitsu to start Sustainability conversations in a cost-conscious sector
• HS2 example of where Sustainability excellence need not cost more
• The need for green hydrogen for heavy plant
• The 80:20 rule to focus mind on what matters
• Buzzword bingo and why need to be precise in what we mean

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As it's January, I decided it was time for a Janus-like look back at the year just past and forward to the year ahead for business and sustainability. I'm joined by the ever insightful and shrewd James Murray, Editor of Business Green as we compare notes.

Between us we discuss:

• The outcome of COP28
• Our Sustainability heroes and villains of 2023
• The contrasting fortunes of UK EV battery gigafactories
• Whether a crackdown on greenwashing will lead to 'greenhushing'
• The political manoeuvring in the UK and the potential impact of the US election
• The likely impact of the EU's Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) and the Bridgetown Initiative

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In this episode, I speak to Karen Creffield of Frome Medical Practice who is recognised as a front runner on embedding Sustainability into Primary Care. We discuss the following:

• How a scrumpled up piece of paper changed everything
• The synergy between personal health and planetary health
• The climate impacts of inhalers
• Deprescribing medicines and the rise of social prescribing
• The growing influence of Sustainability on recruitment and staff morale
• The power of mindsets

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