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In this podcast we are discussing challenges and opportunities of turning climate awareness to climate action. The episodes from Ready, Steady, Green! aim to inspire everyone to step up and step out in their lives and in their community, to make sustainability sustainable. 

  1. Will India's development while decarbonising serve as a model? - Vikram Gandhi, Harvard Professor of Business

    6d ago

    Will India's development while decarbonising serve as a model? - Vikram Gandhi, Harvard Professor of Business

    Send us Fan Mail Vikram Gandhi  argues why private capital is needed to create a sustainable world. He explains why do Harvard students look at sustainability challenges as business opportunities, what the key lessons from India are about developing while decarbonising and gives insights to addressing the climate crisis as a collective action problem. Vikram is a professor at the Harvard Business School. With a background in investment banking he has extensive experience in the international markets and an interest in public policy and philanthropy. At the Harvard Business School he teaches in the MBA and Executive Education Programmes.  He has developed two MBA courses in the MBA – Sustainable Investing and Development While Decarbonizing: India's Path to Net Zero. He advises the public, private and social sectors to bring Institutional, high net worth and development capital to India and Asia. He is actively involved in impact investing as a professor,  investor and policy advocate. NOTES 4:20: about Asha Ventures: https://ashaventures.in/people 5:00: what makes one successful in investment banking and then turning them to academia and philanthropy 6:20: without private capital at scale, philanthropy and government spending on their own will not create a sustainable world  8:55: fiduciary capital vs. value based investing 11:40: how to focus on the ESG metrics that really matter 19:30: about the Harvard MBA course: Development while Decarbonising - India's Path to Net Zero  20:00: how does India’s carbon emission is built of power generation, steel and cement production, agriculture, mobility and real estate 21:20: how do you achieve low emission growth  22:00: how India became a renewable energy giant by having 50% of its total energy production capacity of renewable sources 26:13: those companies getting ahead of the curve who realise that sustainability is a business opportunity, not only an obligation enforced on them by government 29:00: much of India’s flourishing start-up ecosystem is around cleantech 32:20: Rapid fire quiz: - Mitigation (vs adaptation) - Microplastics - Market failures 34:00 solving the microplastics crisis requires a public - private partnership approach 34:50: problems occurring of short-termism 36:10: about the tragedy of the horizons problem, and the tragedy of the commons problem  37:30: a significant portion of my students are looking at starting companies that are part of the energy transition, new technologies, or infrastructure building  38:00: about the Inflation Reduction Act of the USA: https://www.energy.gov/edf/inflation-reduction-act-2022 38:30: US companies still going ahead implementing their sustainability plans 41:35: how to address the climate crisis as a collective action problem 44:25: similarly to the tobacco industry, investors, might divest of oil and gas if they see that the actual litigation risk is high   If you liked the episode, make sure to follow Ready, Steady, Green! on your favourite podcast channel, share the episode with your friends and invite others to listen. You can catch up with our earlier episodes and tell who would you like to hear next. Help us get the message through: We must act on sustainability now!   This was Gabor Sarlos, with Ready, Steady, Green! podcasting: Ready, Steady, Green news and views: LinkedIn action: COPmitment

    48 min
  2. Are European green policies competing with clean technologies from China? Benedek Jávor, European green politician

    May 18

    Are European green policies competing with clean technologies from China? Benedek Jávor, European green politician

    Send us Fan Mail Benedek Jávor argues that European green policies need to be more effective. How does the social contract with farmers influence the landscape? Is it sustainable that green policies are developed in Europe while related technologies are all pioneered by China? How can a climate tax be turned fair and generate a just prosperity? Benedek is a Hungarian biologist, environmentalist and green politician. Currently he is Head of the Representation of Budapest to the EU. Between 2014-2019 he was Member of the European Parliament, and the first vice-chair of the Committee for Environment, Public Health and Food Safety; green coordinator and substitute member of the Committee of  Industry, Research and Energy; as well as the Budgetary Control Committee. As MEP he focused on climate-, environmental and energy-policy, anti-corruption policy and Roma inclusion during his term there. Previously he was also member of the Hungarian National Assembly and one of the founding green politicians of the country. Notes:  7:17: European Green Deal: https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/priorities-2019-2024/european-green-deal_en 7:56: European Climate Law setting 2050 as the deadline for Europe’s economy and society to become climate neutral: https://climate.ec.europa.eu/eu-action/european-climate-law_en Also: legally binding target of net zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2050. 9:35: European climate policy and climate diplomacy: https://www.eeas.europa.eu/eeas/eu-energy-and-climate-diplomacy-%E2%80%93-strengthening-sovereignty-and-advancing-global-clean-transition_en 10:10: China climate leadership: https://unfccc.int/news/un-climate-chief-in-beijing-china-s-climate-leadership-is-helping-accelerate-the-global-energy 12:20: China as the biggest emitter of GHGs: https://interactive.carbonbrief.org/the-carbon-brief-profile-china/index.html 14:10: China setting the trend globally in electric mobility: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHxZM5dOAg8 19:40: the dilemma of choice regarding European agricultural development and the social contract with farmers: https://agriculture.ec.europa.eu/cap-my-country/sustainability/socially-sustainable-cap_en 24:20: research study (in Hungarian) about people’s perception of the environment and the green transition: https://mmaa.hu/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Zold_Fordulat-tanulmany_A4.pdf Igazságos Zöld Átállás – Jávor Benedek bemutatta a tanulmányt   - Zöld Hang 26:45:  we need at least two Earths to live at the current levels 33:05: the green transition is the solution to your social and economic concerns 32.30: Austrian minister of Environment, Leonore Gewessler https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonore_Gewessler and the redistribution of environment tax revenues in Austria, based on social needs: https://greenfiscalpolicy.org/austria-announces-carbon-tax-offset-by-reduction-in-other-taxes/ vs. 35:25 the planned introduction of the climate tax in France and the gilets jaunts movement: https://hir.harvard.edu/frances-yellow-vest-movement-and-the-global-debate-on-climate-change/ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2210422421000587 36:10: rapid fire quiz: Life style Limits to growth Life cycle assessment37:50: the game changing book of Limits to Growth by Dennis and Daniela Meadows 42:00: the transformation of green politics and the ‘mixed fortunes’ of green parties in Europe: https://eu.boell.org/en/2024/12/19/2024-review-green-parties-face-mixed-fortunes-amid-anti-government-backlash 47:30: boost to green politics leading to social transition and a more just, more fair, more sustainable and more democratic society If you liked the episode, make sure to follow Ready, Steady, Green! on your favourite podcast channel, share the episode with your friends and invite others to listen. You can catch up with our earlier episodes and tell who would you like to hear next. Help us get the message through: We must act on sustainability now!   This was Gabor Sarlos, with Ready, Steady, Green! podcasting: Ready, Steady, Green news and views: LinkedIn action: COPmitment

    49 min
  3. Why increased risk literacy is key to managing climate challenges - Rodrigo Souza, risk management academic

    May 6

    Why increased risk literacy is key to managing climate challenges - Rodrigo Souza, risk management academic

    Send us Fan Mail Rodrigo explains how we should manage climate risks, warns that with the current trajectory, a society level climate chaos could happen by 2035? and argues why better risk literacy could help us all plan our future. Rodrigo Souza is a senior lecturer in accounting and risk management at the Business School of the University of Roehampton. He has a significant professional and academic experience risk management, corporate governance, internal controls and internal and external auditing, and related areas including cost and management control accounting. He is especially interested in the implementation of risk management in relation to controllership, audit, corporate governance, environmental management and business planning. Highlights of the episode: 10:23: Irreversible climate change might be happening much sooner than 2050. People, governments, institutions, and individuals must think about climate resilience.  11:53: David Spiegelhalter from Cambridge University, a statistician from the Royal Society, talks about risk literacy: https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.1191181 12:53 report from the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries about the IPCC report and about climate change fundamentally affecting human life taking place as early as 2035: https://actuaries.org.uk/media/gebdhxzi/climate-emergency-final-report.pdf https://actuaries.org.uk/media/isvotyer/parasol-lost.pdf 14:45: climate change as an interconnected risk 17:30: about availability bias 21:20: about the importance of changing the rhetoric and the framing of climate change 22:34: it is essential to move from observation mode to action mode 23:00 rapid fire quiz with letter 'K': Key Performance Indicators, KPIsKyoto Protocol, and in general, global agreementsNote: 24:10: Larry Fink pronouncement earier this year: https://www.cnbc.com/video/2026/04/14/watch-cnbcs-full-interview-with-blackrock-ceo-larry-fink.html 24:20: adding another ‘E’, Economic, before ESG, Environmental, Social and Governance 24:35 People, planet and profit vs people, planet and prosperity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnu_xGel2xg https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeroenkraaijenbrink/2019/12/10/what-the-3ps-of-the-triple-bottom-line-really-mean/ 29:18: So, for instance, for the first time in history, neuroscientists have verified that the IQ of people is decreasing with AI: https://thequantumrecord.com/philosophy-of-technology/global-iq-decline-rise-of-ai-assisted-thinking/ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd6xz12j6pzo 30:11: AI as a global challenge to climate change 30:49: Oxford professor, Juliane Reinecke, about the desirable worlds: https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:2e91cff1-bda2-43fa-86dc-b1e6d48c48b4/files/s2514nn59z 37:14: why it is important to become risk literate in the everyday life 39:02: further research and paralels to earlier crises: https://www.aicpa-cima.com/resources/download/building-and-enhancing-organisational-resilience-before-and-after-covid-19 If you liked the episode, make sure to follow Ready, Steady, Green! on your favourite podcast channel, share the episode with your friends and invite others to listen. You can catch up with our earlier episodes and tell who would you like to hear next. Help us get the message through: We must act on sustainability now!   This was Gabor Sarlos, with Ready, Steady, Green! podcasting: Ready, Steady, Green news and views: LinkedIn action: COPmitment

    43 min

  4. Apr 26

    Building Climate Resilience in UK Firms - invitation to join the workshop on the 29 April

    Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the latest episode of Ready, Steady, Green. This time we share a short snippet, to extend invitation to an event that is happening the last week of April in London, at the University of Roehampton. On the 29 April, 10.00-4.00pm London time, the hybrid workshop on ‘Climate Resilience in UK Firms’  invites finance managers, management accountants and risk managers to discuss critical and topical issues related to climate change. In this teaser episode we discuss what challenges does the climate crisis bring to companies and why the development of a Climate Resilience Toolkit is essential for them to prosper. I am joined in the studio by Rodrigo Souza, a senior lecturer in finance at the Business School of the University of Roehampton who is one of the co-organisors of the event.  For the detailed programme and to register: https://climate-resilience.uk/ https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/climate-resilience-and-emerging-risks-turning-threats-into-opportunities-tickets-1985270060192 If you liked the episode, make sure to follow Ready, Steady, Green! on your favourite podcast channel, share the episode with your friends and invite others to listen. You can catch up with our earlier episodes and tell who would you like to hear next. Help us get the message through: We must act on sustainability now!   This was Gabor Sarlos, with Ready, Steady, Green! podcasting: Ready, Steady, Green news and views: LinkedIn action: COPmitment

    5 min
  5. Why can renewable energy inherently lead to energy injustice? Chitzi Ogbumgbada, environmental law specialist

    Apr 9

    Why can renewable energy inherently lead to energy injustice? Chitzi Ogbumgbada, environmental law specialist

    Send us Fan Mail Chitzi Ogbumgbada argues why governments should ensure energy security, how the African communitarian approach addresses renewable energy injustices, and why the individual actions of countries will never bring us even close to the goals of the Paris agreement. Chitzi is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Exeter. His PhD thesis developed an African communitarian approach to global energy justice and demonstrated how this approach could be operationalised through international climate law and international human rights law to address renewable energy injustices. His primary research interests lie at the intersection of international energy and environmental law and are mainly concerned with how legal obligations interact with issues like climate change, energy security, and clean energy, conceptualised through the energy justice framework developed along African philosophy.  5:13: UK Climate Change Act: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2008/27/contents 9:15: about consultation with the community to secure extracting of critical minerals in Cornwall 10:15: about the Niger delta and how neglecting led to vice and violence 14:00 free market versus welfarism 17:30: about the distribution of renewable energy benefits across international communities 19:20: COP28, Dubai: the first Global Stocktake: https://unfccc.int/topics/global-stocktake 22:20: why it is so difficult to phase out fossil fuels 27:00: about options that save the planet and are gentle on the wallet 29:20: Rapid Fire game with words starting with ‘I’, the 9th letter of the alphabet IPCCIndustrialisationInaction31:50: there should not be any conflict between industrialisation and conservation 32:55: it is our actions that have caused us climate change and it is our inaction that stops us addressing this issue 34:50: about the African communitarian approach to energy justice 35:40: about the leading professors of the political philosophy of African communitarian approach Professor Thaddeus Metz: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thaddeusmetz/ Professor Kwame Gyekye: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwame_Gyekye The essence of African comm: relationalism: how we relate to others 44:30: incorporating energy justice in the law school curriculum If you liked the episode, make sure to follow Ready, Steady, Green! on your favourite podcast channel, share the episode with your friends and invite others to listen. You can catch up with our earlier episodes and tell who would you like to hear next. Help us get the message through: We must act on sustainability now!   This was Gabor Sarlos, with Ready, Steady, Green! podcasting: Ready, Steady, Green news and views: LinkedIn action: COPmitment

    53 min
  6. Why does your organisation's climate credibility matter? Simon King, senior partner at Edenseven

    Mar 25

    Why does your organisation's climate credibility matter? Simon King, senior partner at Edenseven

    Send us Fan Mail Simon King argues how one can make sustainability the competitive edge of their organisation, why climate credibility matters for young people, if sustainability is primarily a management or a technological issue and why local authorities cannot afford to follow net zero. Simon is a senior partner in Edenseven, a management consultancy firm that helps companies of all sizes achieve their sustainability goals and work towards net zero emissions. Edenseven provides sustainability solutions across a diverse range of industries in both the public and private sectors, for example focusing on buildings, electricity, supply chain, and transport. They develop effective strategies informed by data to ensure quantifiable results that deliver carbon reduction, cost savings, compliance with regulations, and enhanced credibility with stakeholders. Highlights 7:50: About the 3 scopes of carbon emissions 12:25: about Science Based Targets Initiatives (SBTI) 17:40: how should we overcome the bareer that local authorities cannot afford becoming Net Zero 29:20:  78% of millennials, and it's even higher on Gen. Z will consider the climate credibility of the organisation they apply to work for 31:00: University of Roehampton launching both an MSc Business Analytics and a BSc Business Data Analytics programme 40:10: why nature based solutions need to be part of the toolkit 42:00: controversies around carbon offsets  43:10: Rapid Fire with letter 'H', the 8th letter of the alphabet: Heat pumpsHeat wavesHydrocarbons46:00: the wet bulb temperature and the human body  52:02: the biggest thing every individual can do is advocating for change  55:45: the analogy of mandatory seat belts and banning indoor smoking should encourage governments to mandate climate actions as well 58: 41: how carbon border adjustment (CBA) coudl contribute to people paying the full price of products and stop exporting carbon emissions to poorer countries If you liked the episode, make sure to follow Ready, Steady, Green! on your favourite podcast channel, share the episode with your friends and invite others to listen. You can catch up with our earlier episodes and tell who would you like to hear next. Help us get the message through: We must act on sustainability now!   This was Gabor Sarlos, with Ready, Steady, Green! podcasting: Ready, Steady, Green news and views: LinkedIn action: COPmitment

    1h 2m
  7. Will women show the future of sustainable farming? Veronica White, environmental social scientist

    Mar 9

    Will women show the future of sustainable farming? Veronica White, environmental social scientist

    Send us Fan Mail Veronica White explains what makes one bike across the UK, and interview over fifty farming women across the UK. Is there a pattern for sustainable farming in England? How can farms contribute to sustaining food security? Are farmers to adapt more nature-friendly farming practices? How shall we prioritise between competing demands for land use? Veronica is an ESRC funded PhD student at the University of Exeter, exploring visions of the future of farming in England. She describes herself as a creative and passionate environmental social scientist, researching visions for the future of farming and food production in England. Veronica advocates sustainable farming through sharing her journey across 85 days, 2000+ miles, and 50 interviews with farming women. Episode notes: 3:55: the birth of the idea of cycling around the UK and interviewing farming women 6:30: the mental and physical challenge of cycling and interviewing every day 13:00: the split of roles between women and men in farming might be surprising 15:10: how surprising it is to see the differences between the farms. No two farms are similar 18:40: with climate change happening, is there a future for farming in the UK? 19:50: food security, education of the public and  competing demand for land us are farmers’ top concerns 23:15: farming as an aging industry but with strong potential to attract young people 29:00: the route for farms to produce, process and sell locally 33:00: are field trips important to understand sustainable farming? 36:10: Rapid-fire terms with ‘G’, the 7th letter of the alphabet: Global warmingGreen spacesGreenwashing - in relation to ‘farmwashing’41:55: supermarkets making up as if milk and eggs came from those cute little farms Farmers fighting against farmwashing: https://www.sustainweb.org/news/sep24-farmers-against-farmwashing-campaign/ 42:40: the research group Center for Climate Communication and Data Science: https://c3ds.ex.ac.uk/ 44:40: individuals should support local farmers and cut back on meat 47:30: through taxing and regulation, companies should be forced to do more to save the planet 50:40: your power to vote and support those who really mean sustainability  52:20: The Farming Futures Cycle Tour: https://youtu.be/iDPS9EYVxHY?si=qWfXCFqmsHqHBJas If you liked the episode, make sure to follow Ready, Steady, Green! on your favourite podcast channel, share the episode with your friends and invite others to listen. You can catch up with our earlier episodes and tell who would you like to hear next. Help us get the message through: We must act on sustainability now!   This was Gabor Sarlos, with Ready, Steady, Green! podcasting: Ready, Steady, Green news and views: LinkedIn action: COPmitment

    54 min

  8. Feb 16

    Why should we solve the climate problems, instead of just analysing them? Leo Rayman, founder of EdenLab

    Send us Fan Mail Leo Rayman argues why it is both a moral duty and a career advancement opportunity to come up with sustainability solutions, why the atmosphere of a climate tech conference is different to a sustainability conference; how the ability to control the local things will lead to controlling the big stuff; why innovation should not be a dilemma but the fundamental focus and why putting a degrowth in the diary of company management will never work. Leo is the founder & CEO of EdenLab (edenlab.co) and the former CEO at Grey Consulting. His main focus is to make sustainability something that leaders and customers want to do, and to how, through communications and marketing, sustainability can be made more engaging and exciting. He is working with company managements to reinvent their businesses successfully. Highlights of the Episode 2:40: EdenLab: https://www.edenlab.co/whoweare 24:45: why sustainability communication often fails and how it could be made to stick. 25:55: John Marshall pioneering simple climate messages: https://www.ted.com/speakers/john_marshall 26:30: why we should be talking about energy security and comfort, instead of grid flexibility and kilowatt hours 30:47: the innovation dilemma of large companies, as explained by Clayton Christensen, https://www.christenseninstitute.org/theory/disruptive-innovation/ 31:20: what the food system will be like in 2036? 31:55: living the new frugal experience and on future back thinking 36:30: Rapid-fire quiz of the day: thoughts about the key words with the 6th letter of the alphabet, ‘F’: Fossil fuelFast fashionFull cost pricing37:12: living off the back of ancient sunshine instead of today's sunshine 37:30: reframing fashion through vintage 38:48: the National Bureau of Economic Research on the real cost of carbon:  https://www.nber.org/papers/w32544 The social cost of carbon: https://www.rff.org/topics/scc/ https://www.energymonitor.ai/features/could-the-global-cost-of-climate-change-really-be-six-times-worse-than-thought/ 39:26: proposed carbon take back obligation: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/12/fossil-fuel-producers-must-be-forced-to-take-back-carbon-say-scientists 42:06: living in the period of ‘in the Meanwhile’ 42:50: ‘Power Station’ film: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt38567062/ 44:42: Copmitment, 52 video threads of climate positive actions: copmitment.com/actions 47:20: the importance of thinking of an abundant positive future 48:52: why individual regenerative resets make a difference If you liked the episode, make sure to follow Ready, Steady, Green! on your favourite podcast channel, share the episode with your friends and invite others to listen. You can catch up with our earlier episodes and tell who would you like to hear next. Help us get the message through: We must act on sustainability now!   This was Gabor Sarlos, with Ready, Steady, Green! podcasting: Ready, Steady, Green news and views: LinkedIn action: COPmitment

    53 min
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In this podcast we are discussing challenges and opportunities of turning climate awareness to climate action. The episodes from Ready, Steady, Green! aim to inspire everyone to step up and step out in their lives and in their community, to make sustainability sustainable. 

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    Gabor Sarlos
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
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