In this week's edition of the Net Zero Business Podcast, I talk to Anna Krotova, co-author of a great new book entitled How to be a Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO). As I say, this is one of the best books I've read on Sustainability and Leadership (second only to my own Green Executive 😉). Watch and learn all about the hot new role in Sustainability.

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This week's podcast is a long version of a response I gave to a client in a workshop recently. I lay out how I open every workshop I do with a new audience to bring them on board and my subjective assessment is that it works 99%+ of the time! Like all my change management for Sustainability, I employ approaches that take into consideration human psychology - one of my maxims is that the biggest barrier to Sustainability is just six inches wide, the space between our ears.

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This week I talk to the wonderful Lucy Siegle (BBC TV, Guardian, Observer and many more) on communicating Sustainability through mainstream media and her particular interests in sewage and Sustainable fashion. Laced with gossip and hard hitting realities, we discuss:

• Why recycling is such a critical engagement point with the public
• Standing up to intimidation from vested interest groups
• The influence of Blue Planet II on the public's perception of plastic
• Why sewage has cut through in the current UK general election
• Effective protesting and picking the right target
• Sustainability in the fashion industry and the threat of "Sheinification"
• Individual versus corporate responsibility (ie supply and demand)

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When I first started the Net Zero Business Podcast,, I knew I wanted to get Mark on as he always inspires me with his unique insights. Fresh from a cold water swimming session, he doesn't disappoint – here's what we cover:

• Getting Sustainability stuff done in a large organisation
• Driving change as an external agent
• The threat of misinformation and conspiracy theories
• Friendly fire in the green movement
• Mark's book: You can't make money from a dead planet: the Sustainable method of driving profits
• The use of meditation in innovation and strategy
• Mark's philosophy for Sustainability Consulting

That list is an inadequate summary of a conversation which also includes the meaning of the band name Gorillaz and the origin of the phrase "the penny drops." - do not miss this one!

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In this episode of the Net Zero Business Podcast, I talk to Prof Colin Herron of Newcastle University about the transition to electric vehicles and many of the myths surrounding them. Its a highly entertaining chat with an expert who doesn't pull their punches:

• Why battery production is the key factor to EV uptake
• The need for charging infrastructure
• The economics of Vehicle to Grid (V2G) technology
• Why the hydrogen economy will never happen
• The impact of Rishi Sunak's change to the EV vehicle mandate
• Busting popular EV myths

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In this episode of the Net Zero Business Podcast, I talk to ISO standard expert and podcaster Mel Blackmore of Blackmore's UK and Carbonology. In our discussion, we cover:

• How to choose from the myriad of environmental standards
• The most important question to ask before starting
• Integrating ISO standards seamlessly into the organisation
• The ISO14068 net zero/carbon neutrality standard, its origins and how it works
• Differences between ISO14068 and its predecessor PAS2060
• How the standard addresses offsetting
• The financial risk of relying on offsets

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Tobias describes himself modestly as "a guy who tries to do some useful stuff", but in this interview he shows how much of an understatement that is. We talk about:

• Setting up the Innovation Forum to support business in Sustainability

• The perils of calling your business 'ethical'

• Sustainable textiles and agriculture – are farmers right to be angry?

• Conspiracy Theorists and Sustainability

• Producing insect protein in an industrial ecology-style symbiotic cluster

• Making the wine industry sustainable

• Learning by failing

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Another Q&A episode of the pod this week. I was asked how to get people away from incremental/quick wins thinking and focus on big bold changes to hit Net Zero. Here's what I cover in my answer:

• Why ISO14001 can't deliver on Net Zero
• Why 80:20 thinking is required in both engagement and strategy
• The power of backcasting
• But why and to whom quick wins do matter
• How to pursue both strategic and incremental change simultaneously

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