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. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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

  4. 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/

  5. 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.

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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

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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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    Sustainability and Climate Podcast
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    60
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    Explicit
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