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. 23h ago

    Fixing Who Gets Capital: David Reiling on the Net Zero Deposit Fund|S4E18

    What if the money sitting in your bank account could help finance a cleaner economy and strengthen underserved communities at the same time? In this episode of the Sustainability & Climate Podcast, Labake and Tobi sit down with David Reiling, CEO of Sunrise Banks, to explore the thinking behind the Net Zero Deposit Fund and a bigger question at the heart of finance: who gets access to capital? David shares lessons from community banking, the relationship between deposits and lending, and how financial institutions can direct capital towards communities and businesses that have historically struggled to access it. The conversation explores whether doing good and doing well really have to be competing ideas, how banks can connect climate action with community impact, and what it takes to rethink the role money can play in building a more inclusive and sustainable economy. In this episode: community banking, access to capital, the Net Zero Deposit Fund, climate finance, sustainable banking, financial inclusion, impact investing and the future of responsible finance. Featuring: David Reiling, CEO, Sunrise BanksHosted by: Labake Ajiboye-Richard & Tobi Aigbogun

  2. Sep 8

    The Year Climate Change Stopped Being Abstract | 2026 Wildfires, Drought & Floods S4S17

    No guests this week, just Tobi and Labake talking through the extreme weather events defining 2026 so far: wildfires and drought across Europe, record flash flooding in Japan, an intensifying typhoon season across Asia, and the flooding that hits Lagos every rainy season without fail. We get into the numbers: 600,494 hectares burned across the EU since January; June 2026 ranking as the second-warmest month on record for combined land and ocean temperatures; and $12 billion in US weather and climate disasters in just the first six months of the year. We also talk about why the same events hit Global South countries harder, even when Global North headlines get the coverage. But we wanted this one to be personal too. What's actually changed in our day-to-day, from water meters to AC decisions to the small routines that used to feel seasonal and now feel constant. And we close on the question we keep coming back to: what can each of us actually do differently before next summer? Follow the show for new episodes every and find us on all socials @sustclimatepodcast to keep the conversation going.

  3. Aug 14

    Buildings, Not Cars: The 40% of Emissions Nobody Talks About|S4E15

    Nearly 40% of global emissions come from buildings, more than every car, plane and truck combined. Tobi and Labake sit down with Scott Tew of Trane Technologies to unpack why that number stays invisible, what's really slowing deployment when the technology already exists, and how AI is now optimising over 16,000 buildings in real time. Plus: the one policy change Scott says would move the needle faster than anything else on the table, and his advice for the next generation of CEOs.

  4. Jul 31

    Dirk Voeste (Volkswagen): Why "Zero Impact" Isn't Ambitious Enough for Climate Change |S4E14

    Dirk Voeste, Chief Sustainability Officer at Volkswagen Group, trained as a biologist and worked in space science before this, running a closed biological system experiment (an aquarium tank with fish and snails) to study how ecosystems survive on limited resources. That's the lens he brings to running sustainability across 650,000 employees and 12 brands. We get into why Volkswagen decided zero impact wasn't good enough and built "regenerate+" around the idea of giving back more than the business takes, the €100 billion used-parts market VW is calling an untapped profit pool, and the CSO's actual playbook for getting a workforce that size to care: anchor it in board pay, fund employee-led projects (up to €20 million a year), and repeat the story until it sticks. His rule for other CSOs facing internal resistance: come with a tool, not a stick. Hosted by Oluwatobi Emmanuel Aigbogun and Labake Ajiboye-Richard.

  5. Jul 17

    Helen Clarkson: 'The Politics Must Follow the Economics'|S4E13

    Helen Clarkson has spent two decades building the coalitions that turn corporate climate pledges into actual procurement, and her argument in this conversation is blunt: the economics have already shifted, and politics has no choice but to catch up. We get into how to tell a company that genuinely means its climate commitments from one just following the crowd, and why the gap between signing up to something like RE100 and actually buying clean energy is where most companies quietly fall short. She breaks down why energy security, not conscience, is now the argument moving boardrooms, why policy keeps lagging behind, what business has already figured out, and why she still insists on saying the word climate even when it has become politically inconvenient to say it. There's also a genuinely surprising story about a rooftop solar boom in Pakistan, built entirely from the bottom up, that cut diesel sales by more than a third in a single year. Helen Clarkson is CEO of The Climate Group and holds an OBE for her work supporting the UK's COP26 presidency. Before any of that, she spent years doing humanitarian fieldwork with Médecins Sans Frontières across conflict zones in Congo, Sudan, Burundi, Pakistan and Nigeria. #SustainabilityAndClimatePodcast #ClimateLeadership #TheClimateGroup #RE100 #NetZero #EnergySecurity #COP26

  6. Jun 12

    The 100-Year-Old Process That's Feeding the World and Destroying It| S4E11

    Nobody talks about ammonia. But it feeds half the world, it is the most credible zero-carbon maritime fuel on the planet, and the process used to make it has been largely unchanged for a century. Karen Baert, co-founder and CEO of Ammobia, is changing that. Her company has built a modular reactor that cuts production costs by up to 50 per cent, runs at a fraction of conventional pressure, and can be deployed anywhere, including close to the farmers and ports that need it most. In this episode, Tobi and Labake sit down with Karen to explore why cost is the real climate battleground, what decentralised ammonia means for African food security, and why this overlooked molecule might be the most consequential material in the energy transition. Read Karen's blog post referenced in this episode: https://www.ammobia.co/news-and-press/low-carbon-ammonia-just-hit-cost-parity-with-fossil-fueled-ammonia-will-it-last Find Ammobia at www.ammobia.co LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ammobia-inc/

  7. 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.

  8. 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

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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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  • Creator
    Sustainability and Climate Podcast
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    62
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