Nature Positive Podcast

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At Svarmi, we enjoy learning about how organisations around world are taking tangible steps towards a nature positive future. This podcast contains our discussions with leaders across different fields, where we learn about their plans for aligning their business with existing and emerging nature-related disclosure frameworks, stakeholder engagement and management of risks and opportunities. Intro/Outro Music: Limbo by Hakon.

  1. 12/15/2025

    Carolina García Arbeláez - CEO & Co-founder at MYZELIO

    Bringing a deep background across corporate sustainability, innovation, nature, and law (and much more), we managed to sit down with Carolina García Arbeláez, CEO & Co-founder at MYZELIO and former Nature Director at AB InBev. She shares her experience on successfully building nature and climate-focused initiatives across various geographies, forms of cooperation, and sizes of entities, as well as reflecting on the god-like powers that are being created with new technology and the impact it can have on humans, the planet, and our cohabitants.

    43 min

  2. 07/30/2025

    Renat Heuberger

    To anyone involved with environmental markets, carbon credits and corporate sustainability, South Pole founder & former CEO Renat Heuberger needs not introduction. Still, we made him retrace his step and tell us about lessons learned and how he sees the coming years in environmental markets, action for nature restoration and climate action, and the importance of building a business case.

    35 min

  3. 03/31/2025

    Drones, nature data & the origin of Svarmi with Tryggvi Stefansson

    Svarmi's founder & CTO FINALLY joins me for a chat, hopefully not the last one. We talk about how he started Svarmi, how drones proved useful for nature/environmental data collection and how things evolved from there as well as some of the opportunities we see for improvement in the way we manage and make use of data, including but not limited to data collected in the field when preparing large infrastructure such as for environmental impact assessments (EIAs).

    51 min

  4. 02/25/2025

    Macro Cycles with Marco

    Marco Hirsbrunner, Co-Founder & COO of Terra Ventures and Co-Founder & former COO of South Pole, tells us about his experience in building and running a sustainability-focused company in different macro environments.

    38 min

  5. 09/30/2024

    Deforestation Regulation

    Snjolaug & Kolbeinn discuss existing and emerging requirements for corporates to demonstrate they are not contributing to deforestation, including the EU Deforestation Regulation, and how companies can tackle this topic.

    34 min

  6. 08/14/2024

    Building Blocks of a Good Nature Strategy

    Snjolaug & Kolbeinn discuss the building blocks of corporate nature strategies.

    32 min

  7. 05/21/2024

    Rene Velasquez on Carbon Markets & Nature

    Rene Velasquez, managing partner at Valeterra, shares his extensive experience in carbon markets, emphasizing the importance of both avoidance and removal credits to meet climate goals.  He discusses the need for trust and integrity, the role of exchanges in providing transparency, and the necessity of ongoing investments in environmental projects. Rene also highlights the critical nexus between nature and climate, stressing the importance of protecting biodiversity to enhance carbon sequestration and climate resilience.

    51 min

  8. 02/06/2024

    2023 Overview

    Dr. Snjólaug Ólafsdóttir and Kolbeinn Hilmarsson go through 2023 highlights in the field of corporate sustainability and particularly nature assessment and reporting.

    25 min
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At Svarmi, we enjoy learning about how organisations around world are taking tangible steps towards a nature positive future. This podcast contains our discussions with leaders across different fields, where we learn about their plans for aligning their business with existing and emerging nature-related disclosure frameworks, stakeholder engagement and management of risks and opportunities. Intro/Outro Music: Limbo by Hakon.

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