46 episodes

A weekly podcast that covers the range of topics within Environmental, Social, and Governance within ESG. The format is a 30 minute interview with leaders who promote, create, and manage ESG related activities.

ESG Matters Amath Gomis

    • Business
    • 4.4 • 12 Ratings

A weekly podcast that covers the range of topics within Environmental, Social, and Governance within ESG. The format is a 30 minute interview with leaders who promote, create, and manage ESG related activities.

    ESG Matters: Interview with Eddy Badrina CEO of Eden Green Technology

    ESG Matters: Interview with Eddy Badrina CEO of Eden Green Technology

    Eddy Badrina is the CEO of Eden Green Technology, a vertical farming technology company that helps folks around the world sustainably grow large amounts of food using less land, water, and energy. Outside of his leadership position at Eden Green, he is a board member at Seed Effect, a micro-lending non-profit focused on fostering economic stability.  We discussed, the impact of climate change on farmland, and farming, and how we vertical farming can be a solution to food insecurity.  

    • 22 min
    ESG Matters: Interview with Richard Blundell Sustainability Leader | Entrepreneur/CEO | Board Member | Educator | Mentor | TEDx Speaker

    ESG Matters: Interview with Richard Blundell Sustainability Leader | Entrepreneur/CEO | Board Member | Educator | Mentor | TEDx Speaker

    Richard Blundell, is a Global Sustainability, and Innovation leader with over 40 years of executive management experience in the technology sector. Richard led the Cleantech Venture Services Group, the largest tech hub in Canada, comprised of 250 startups focused on Sustainability/ESG. Richard provides senior leadership to cleantech ventures dedicated to smart cities, bio-pesticide, e-waste recycling, water and wastewater treatment, electric vehicle, public transportation, indoor air treatment, environmental services, ESG expert networks, regenerative agriculture, and life sciences. 

    In this episode we discuss the landscape of current and pending ESG regulations, how this ever changing landscape presents opportunities for businesses that can adapt, and how governments across the world can work with the private sector to create meaning and sustainable change. 

    For more information: https://thesustainabilityleader.com/

    • 23 min
    ESG Matters: Interview with William Szamosszegi, CEO & Founder at Sazmining

    ESG Matters: Interview with William Szamosszegi, CEO & Founder at Sazmining

    I interview, William Szamosszegi, CEO &  Founder at Sazmining . William's goal is simple: Improve humanity’s relationship with both money and energy. He and his team at Sazmining provide an economic incentive to capture harmful emissions such as methane. Their hydroelectric hosting facilities sustainably power bitcoin mining rigs for use by retail investors. We discuss, clean energy as it relates to the production of cryptocurrency, blockchain technology aiding in the auditing of cardon offets, and how regulation is necessary for the space. 

    • 23 min
    ESG Matters: Interview with Charles Ashwanden, Crux's ESG Lead

    ESG Matters: Interview with Charles Ashwanden, Crux's ESG Lead

    I interview, Charles Ashwanden, Crux's Asset Management and ESG Lead.  Crux offers a managed data engineering service that helps organizations scale their most critical data delivery, operations, and transformation needs. Ashwanden discusses, ESG governance, data collection, the increasing scrunity of ESG data by regulators, and challenges on data usage.

    • 27 min
    ESG Matters: Interview with Tony Calandro

    ESG Matters: Interview with Tony Calandro

    In this episode, I interview Tony Calandro,  founder of Purposeful Strategies. Purposeful Strategies is a values-centric consultancy founded on the principle that business can be a force for good and that customers are more loyal to brands that are aligned with their values. Calandro discusses the backlash against corporate ESG practices, sometimes deemed "Woke Capitalism".  More specifically, its origins, how professionals in the space should respond, and is there legitimacy in the critique of ESG. 

    • 21 min
    ESG Matters: Interview with Martial Combari, Director of Structured Finance at Metrus Energy

    ESG Matters: Interview with Martial Combari, Director of Structured Finance at Metrus Energy

    In this interview with Martial Combari, Director of Structured Finance at Metrus Energy, he discusses the trends in sustainable energy finance,  how sustainable finance differs from traditional finance, the challenges of financing sustainablity projects, and  how developing economies can meet the demands of sustainable finance and growing their economies. 

    • 27 min

Customer Reviews

4.4 out of 5
12 Ratings

12 Ratings

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If the first casualty is truth, the next casualty is trust

Literally first show I listen to this happens:

Interviewer: “How’d you get started in your career?”

Guest: “I lied.”

Interviewer: “That’s great.”

Credibility of both now gone. Not giving up just yet, but….

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