Sustainability and Climate Podcast

Sustainability and Climate Podcast
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Welcome to the sustainability and climate podcast, where we dive deep into the pressing environmental issues of our time. Join us as we explore the latest news, trends, and solutions related to sustainability, climate change, and environmental conservation. On each episode, we will interview experts from various fields, including environmental science, policy, and activism, to provide insights into the most critical sustainability challenges facing our planet. We will cover topics such as renewable energy, sustainable agriculture, circular economy, biodiversity conservation, and more.

  1. May 29

    The Battery That Glows at 2,400°C and Costs 10x Less Than Lithium| S4E10

    Solar and wind are now cheaper than fossil fuels, but the transition has a problem nobody has fully solved: storage. The sun doesn't always shine, and the wind doesn't always blow, and we still can't bank clean energy at the scale the grid needs. That gap is the defining challenge of this decade. This episode looks at Fourth Power, a Boston company storing energy as heat in carbon blocks heated to 2,400 degrees Celsius, then converting it back to electricity at a fraction of the cost of lithium-ion. Backed by Bill Gates, Munich Re, and DCVC, the company is bringing its first demonstration system online this year. We dig into why storage is the real bottleneck, what makes a new technology bankable, and what it takes to get a breakthrough out of the lab and onto the grid. Our Guest is Christina Belsito, Head of Corporate Growth at Fourth Power.

    24 min

  2. May 15

    The $7 Trillion Nature Risk Nobody Is Pricing | Megan Pillsbury, Founder and CEO of Dunya Analytics| S4E9

    The next great risk in global finance is not climate. It is nature. In February 2026, the landmark IPBES Business and Biodiversity Report revealed that more than $7 trillion in global financial flows harm nature each year, while fewer than 1% of public companies disclose their biodiversity impacts. The regulatory window is closing fast. CSRD is in force. TNFD is the new global standard. GRI 101 came into effect this year. And almost no business is ready. Megan Pillsbury is the Founder and CEO of Dunya Analytics, the science-based nature risk analytics platform reshaping how companies measure, manage, and act on biodiversity. A former fintech leader at Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, she helped drive the acquisition of The Climate Service by S&P Global before building Dunya as a public benefit corporation. In this conversation, she unpacks why biodiversity risk differs from carbon risk, where hidden exposures sit within global supply chains, what the nature-positive economy actually looks like, and the single first step every CFO, board, and sustainability leader should take in the next 30 days. A great episode for anyone working in sustainability, ESG, climate finance, supply chain strategy, or corporate sustainability leadership in 2026 and beyond. Learn more: dunya-analytics.com #Biodiversity #NatureRisk #TNFD #CSRD #ESG #SustainableFinance #ClimateTech #IPBES #DunyaAnalytics

    1h 4m

  3. May 1

    From the Streets to Parliament: Fatima Ibrahim on Building Unstoppable Climate Power | S4E8

    What does it actually take to force climate action from a political system that was never built to deliver it? In this episode, we sit down with Fatima Ibrahim, co-founder and co-director of  ⁨@GNDRising⁩  (Green New Deal UK and Green New Deal Rising. One of the most compelling and uncompromising voices in the global climate justice movement today. Fatima co-founded the UK hub of the Green New Deal in 2019 to organise and amplify a generation frustrated by the prioritisation of capitalism over climate concerns. Since then, she has helped lead one of the most tactically sophisticated youth climate campaigns in British political history, bringing innovative electoral strategies and organising young people to break through and win the change we need in climate campaigning. We go deep on what a people-powered Green New Deal really looks like, why climate justice and economic justice are inseparable, and what it takes to build a movement that translates street power into political power. We talked about the Labour government's energy transition, the North Sea oil field controversy, the fight for green jobs, and whether the UK is serious about leading on climate or just performing it. As Fatima said when she won the 2020 Global Citizen Prize UK Hero Award: "Climate science tells us that we have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to change the future, but time is running out." This conversation is for everyone who refuses to let that window close. Guest: Fatima Ibrahim — Co-Director, Green New Deal UK & Green New Deal Rising Website: gndrising.org Instagram: @gndrising — instagram.com/gndrising

    52 min

  4. Apr 10

    He Knows Why Your Sustainability Strategy Isn’t Working | Gunther Rothermel | S4E7

    Most organisations have the data. Most have set the targets. The harder, more uncomfortable question is why so few are actually changing their behaviour. Gunther Rothermel is one of the most credible voices at the intersection of enterprise technology and climate action. With over two decades at SAP building sustainability products used by some of the world’s largest companies, he has developed a rare and unsentimental clarity about where progress actually comes from. It does not come from better dashboards or sharper ESG reports. It comes from leaders who are willing to treat sustainability as the strategic core of how they run their business, not a compliance obligation bolted on at the end. In this episode, Tobi Aigbogun and Labake Ajiboye-Richard press Gunther on the questions that rarely get asked in polished conference settings: Who specifically is failing to act and why? What does a genuine C-suite mindset shift look like, and how do you tell it apart from performance? Where is AI in sustainability creating real leverage, and where is it just expensive noise? And for the sustainability leader who has been pushing hard without getting traction, what is the single most important move to make right now? Our co-host Labake Ajiboye-Richard is also the Editor of the Africa Sustainability Magazine by The AR Initiative. Read the latest volume: https://www.arinitiative.org/magazines/africa-sustainability-magazine-volume-vi

    1h 4m

  5. Mar 27

    The Room Where Change Happens: Santiago Lefevbre on Scaling the Ecosytem of Changemakers | S4E6

    In 2017, Santiago Lefebvre started ChangeNOW with a hundred climate solutions and one room. Nine editions later, he opens the Grand Palais in Paris to 40,000 people from 140 countries. But here is the thing he told us that we cannot stop thinking about: the solutions to our planetary crisis already exist. Every single one of them. What the world is missing is not the ideas. It is the ecosystem to deploy them at scale. That conviction is what led Santiago to found ChangeNOW which is now the world’s largest climate solutions summit, bringing together 1,000 sustainable innovations and more than 1,200 impact investors under one roof. Last year alone, nearly 1,400 investor-founder meetings were arranged through its Dealflow Lounge, making it one of the most powerful platforms for climate action and green investment in the world. In this episode, we sit down with Santiago just days before ChangeNOW 2026 opens in Paris.  We explore what it takes to build a climate ecosystem rather than just an event, why brilliant clean technology innovations fail to scale, what impact investors keep getting wrong, and why the cultural transition may be the hardest and most important part of the sustainability transition.  Whether you are a climate entrepreneur, impact investor, sustainability leader, or someone who simply believes the world can be fixed, this conversation is for you. This is a conversation about infrastructure. About courage. About the room where change actually happens. Watch, Like, Share and Subscribe!!

    54 min

  6. Mar 26

    Terminal Velocity: Heathrow, Net Zero & the Race Aviation Can’t Afford to Lose | S4E5

    Can the world’s most connected airport cut its carbon footprint and build a brand new runway at the same time? Buckle up. Because Heathrow is doing exactly that, and this episode is where it gets real. In the Season 4 premiere of the Sustainability and Climate Podcast, Tobi Aigbogun and Labake Ajiboye-Richard go deep with Nigel Milton, Chief Communications and Sustainability Officer at Heathrow Airport, one of the most influential voices in sustainable aviation today. We’re talking SAF, Scope 3, net zero targets, the third runway, and what honest climate leadership actually sounds like when the whole world is watching your every move. Flight carbon at Heathrow is already 7% below 2019 levels. The airport has committed £80 million to boost Sustainable Aviation Fuel uptake in 2026, targeting 5.6% of all fuel used, two full percentage points above the UK government mandate. Heathrow’s 2030 goal is a 15% carbon reduction. That is not a press release. That is a programme with teeth. And then there’s the third runway. The £49 billion expansion that would increase capacity by 88%. Far from being a contradiction, Heathrow’s case is that a modern, expanded airport, built with SAF infrastructure embedded from day one and the cleanest aircraft in the fleet, puts the UK in position to lead global aviation decarbonisation rather than watch it happen from the sidelines. Connectivity and climate do not have to be enemies. Nigel tells us why. We recorded this episode while Middle East airspace was being rerouted around military strikes, forcing hundreds of long-haul flights onto longer, dirtier paths. Weeks of progress, undone in 48 hours by geopolitics nobody could control. It is the perfect illustration of why infrastructure, strategy, and political will all have to move together. From SAF policy and the UK SAF Bill to Scope 3 influence, greenwashing accusations, and the 2050 net zero commitment for aviation, this conversation goes to the places most people in the sector are still afraid to go. Openly. Honestly. With data. Read the data behind this episode: Heathrow 2025 Sustainability Performance Data Book: https://www.heathrow.com/content/dam/heathrow/web/common/documents/company/heathrow-2-0-sustainability/reports/2025/2025_Sustainability_Performance_Data_Book.pdf Heathrow Sustainability Strategy (Connecting People and Planet): https://www.heathrow.com/company/about-heathrow/heathrow-sustainability-strategy/sustainability-strategy​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

    46 min
  7. The Man Who Greened the NBA, MLB & the Oscars | S4E4

    Mar 24

    The Man Who Greened the NBA, MLB & the Oscars | S4E4

    The sports industry generates $2.3 trillion a year. Climate change could wipe out $1.6 trillion of it. In this episode, we sit down with the man who saw it coming before almost anyone else did. Dr. Allen Hershkowitz is an environmental scientist, and Founding Chairman of Sport and Sustainability International. He co-founded the Green Sports Alliance, served as Environmental Science Advisor to the New York Yankees, the first role of its kind in professional sports, and built sustainability programmes for the NBA, NHL, MLB, MLS, and USTA. He greened the Oscars. He greened the Grammys. He greened Broadway. Sports Business Journal named him one of the fifty most influential people in sports. They call him The Godfather of Greening. In this conversation, we explore why sport has become one of the most powerful platforms for climate communication on Earth, what it actually took to walk into league boardrooms and make powerful people care, the $1.6 trillion financial threat now facing the global sports economy, why the 2026 FIFA World Cup is projected to be the most polluting tournament in history, the growing gap between climate pledges and real accountability in sport, and what meaningful climate communication looks like when political leadership goes quiet. This is not a conversation about recycling bins and solar panels. This is a conversation about the future of sport, the future of the planet, and the extraordinary power of one person refusing to stay comfortable. The game is bigger than the scoreboard. ABOUT OUR GUEST Dr. Allen Hershkowitz: Environmental Scientist | Founding Chairman, Sport and Sustainability International | Co-Founder, Green Sports Alliance | Environmental Science Advisor, New York Yankees Sport and Sustainability International: https://www.sasustainability.com Green Sports Alliance: https://www.greensportsalliance.org EcoAthletes Profile: https://www.ecoathletes.org/news/dr-allen-hershkowitz-green-sports-founding-father-latestluminary-to-support-ecoathletes

    55 min

  8. Mar 16

    What If Carbon Was Never the Enemy? | S4E3

    What does a truly circular carbon economy look like, and how close are we to actually getting there? In this episode of the Sustainability and Climate Podcast, we sit down with Dr Jennifer Holmgren, CEO of LanzaTech, one of the most innovative clean technology companies in the world.LanzaTech has pioneered a process that captures carbon emissions from industrial sources and recycles them into sustainable aviation fuel, chemicals, and other products. Rather than simply reducing emissions, their technology puts carbon back to work, creating a circular system that challenges everything we thought we knew about waste and energy.This is one of the most important conversations we have had on this podcast. Whether you work in energy, aviation, policy, or sustainability, this episode will change how you think about carbon.Subscribe, share, and join the conversation.About Our GuestDr. Jennifer Holmgren — Chairman & CEO, LanzaTech | Chair, LanzaJet Board of Directors | Member, National Academy of Engineering | 50+ US PatentsLanzaTech: https://lanzatech.comLanzaJet: https://lanzajet.comInvestor Relations: https://investor.lanzatech.com

    43 min
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Welcome to the sustainability and climate podcast, where we dive deep into the pressing environmental issues of our time. Join us as we explore the latest news, trends, and solutions related to sustainability, climate change, and environmental conservation. On each episode, we will interview experts from various fields, including environmental science, policy, and activism, to provide insights into the most critical sustainability challenges facing our planet. We will cover topics such as renewable energy, sustainable agriculture, circular economy, biodiversity conservation, and more.

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