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Join us for this enlightening episode of the Conversations on Climate podcast as we delve into the intricate relationship between climate change, food production, and sustainable farming practices.
In this episode, we are honoured to have Kelly Price, an AgriTech entrepreneur with a diverse background ranging from biology and cancer research to tackling food waste, share her insights on the pressing issues facing our planet and our plates. Kelly challenges us to adopt the curiosity of a three-year-old and question why the true cost of food production, especially those contributing to the destruction of vital ecosystems like the Amazon, is not reflected in our food prices.
She highlights the invisible link between healthy planets and healthy people, emphasising the detrimental effects of nitrogen and pesticides on our waterways and the urgent need for a shift towards sustainable farming practices. Discover why many farmers, despite their deep connection to the land, find themselves trapped in a cycle of using harmful chemicals to ensure crop yield, driven by economic pressures and a system that favours short-term gains over long-term sustainability. Kelly also sheds light on the innovative solutions being developed by her company, Agreed Earth, which aims to reduce nitrogen loss through satellite data, offering a beacon of hope for aligning economic incentives with environmental stewardship.
This episode is a must-listen for anyone interested in understanding the complex dynamics of food production, the impact of agriculture on climate change, and the potential for technology and traditional farming practices to coexist and lead us towards a more sustainable and resilient food system. Whether you’re a concerned citizen, a farmer looking for sustainable practices, or someone interested in the intersection of technology and agriculture, this conversation offers valuable insights and a call to action to rethink our approach to food and farming for the sake of our planet and future generations.
Conversations on Climate is a podcast brought to you by United Renewables We bring together the best minds from academia and business, to offer their experience and expertise in the face of climate change –from game theorists to corporate diplomats, and oil industry veterans to micro-algae entrepreneurs.
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We listen to thinkers, researchers, policymakers, and business leaders. They discuss a diversity of ideas and solutions to global climate and environmental issues and why they matter.
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Comments Off on Season 3: Episode 3 – in conversation with Ricky Buch
Today’s enlightening Conversations on Climate podcast episode delves into the transformative world of energy transition and corporate-led renewable energy procurement.
This episode is presented in collaboration with the Yale School of Business and the Environment, In this special recording from Yale’s inspiring campus, we engage with Ricky Buch, the visionary co-founder and CTO of Power Trust, whose innovative platform is reshaping how global giants like Netflix and Salesforce approach energy procurement, fostering sustainable micro-projects in developing countries.
Discover the compelling story of climate action across different regions, as we explore the significant impact of voluntary renewable energy procurement on global decarbonisation efforts.
During this conversation, Ricky shares insightful perspectives on the challenges and opportunities in accelerating the energy transition in emerging markets, emphasising the crucial role of corporate commitment and the innovative financial models that are making a tangible difference in underserved communities.
“…I would say it’s that corporate led, voluntary renewable procurement remains a significant driver for grid decarbonisation globally…”
“…bring people together because we all have that common mission… And I think that’s that’s a powerful driving force.”
Conversations on Climate is a podcast produced by United Renewables and this episode is in association with the YALE Center for Business and the Environment.
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Season 3 is presented by Chris Caldwell and produced by UNITED RENEWABLES.
Comments Off on Season 3: Episode 2 – in conversation with Nico Johnson
Today we sit down with Nico Johnson the founder of SunCast Media and host of Suncast, the highly respected solar energy podcast that has hit 650 episodes and counting.
A solar veteran with experience in development, sales, marketing, and executive coaching, Nico is one of the most connected and astute observers of the booming US market.
“We’re in this head-on chicken race with destiny…”
“…Entities in the energy sector have to eventually embrace renewables – who’s going to build the bridges…?”
“How many times in your marketing have you intentionally injected stress?”
“Most of us are not doing it to get rich. We’re doing it to enrich the world for the next ten generations. And so I think I would introduce myself or characterise my role in the industry as a storyteller.”
In this insightful episode, we cover:
Nico’s road from the Peace Corps to podcasting
Sales and creativity: “I’m an exceptionally good door opener. I’m not a very good closer!”
Renewables and hydrogen – the dangers of a divisive conversation
Where are the curated career paths into renewables?
Do we still need supportive policy once we hit grid parity?
Finding your tribe in the green space
Why new grads are choosing renewables over tech
The surprising roots of the LatAm solar boom
When will batteries become a commodity? Sooner than you’d think…
Conversations on Climate is a podcast brought to you by United Renewables We bring together the best minds from academia and business, to offer their experience and expertise in the face of climate change –from game theorists to corporate diplomats, and oil industry veterans to micro-algae entrepreneurs.
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Comments Off on Season 3: Episode 1 – in conversation with Professor Freek Vermeulen
THREE words to describe this episode’s conversation with Freek:
Eclectic – Myth-busting – Storytelling
Everyone likes to think of themselves as a highly evolved person – and a great leader to. But strip away the jargon, polish and pretence…and aren’t we’re all just a bunch of naked apes?
Only now they’re in charge of the most powerful organisations and technologies in the history of the planet – and it turns out they are as naked as we are.
This episode digs into the truth of organisational culture – and draws its lessons from some surprising places.
What do a tribe of Papua New Guinean cannibals have to teach us about the perils of Total Quality Management?
Which other sacred cows of might actually be ‘idea viruses?’
And is your firm secretly infected?
Freek Vermeulen is Director of Strategy, and Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, at London Business School.
His erudite, bubble-bursting books include Breaking Bad Habits, and Business Exposed: the Naked Truth about What Really Goes On in the World of Business.
HIGHLIGHTS OF THIS FASCINATING EPISODE INCLUDE:
GIVING YOUR PRODUCT AWAY IS GOOD FOR YOUR PAYING CUSTOMERS TOO. Aravind Eye Care began no-charge cataract treatment for India’s poorest – and outcomes soared for their richer customers too. Could this surprising message help get subsidised green tech to the global South?
SOME MANAGEMENT THEORIES CAN BECOME VIRUSES. Survival of the fittest doesn’t always apply in business, especially when good ideas are championed out of context – like Total Quality Management. Bad ideas can spread faster than they kill.
LESSONS FROM THE BABY-MAKERS: DO HARD THINGS ON PURPOSE. Freek’s study of IVF shows that incentivising ‘selection at the gate’ hurts long-term competitiveness. ESG metrics and divestment could stop firms taking on hard-to-decarbonise problems.
PUBLIC MARKETS PUNISH JARGON. Freek’s analysis of 1,300+ deals shows that CEO ‘management speak’ – even well-intentioned – turns investors off. Leaders who use ESG jargon risk eroding trust in their own useful climate action.
“… because we imitate this high performing firm, including the practices that may have contributed nothing to them being high performers…harmful management practices, just like cultural practices, including eating deceased relatives and like viruses can spread and survive…”
“…and suddenly the world of business isn’t as simple as that either …therefore not being judgmental or angry at people, but helping to understand the context and changing the context for people in organisations so that they don’t make these wrong choices anymore. That’s actually what’s important.”
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Comments Off on Season 2: Special Episode – AI and Climate Change
In this enlightening keynote speech at Trinity College Dublin, Chris Caldwell United Renewables CEO, clean tech investor, renewables entrepreneur, and podcast host, delves into the complex relationship between artificial intelligence (AI) and climate change.
Returning to his alma mater after 24 years, Caldwell shares insights on how AI is shaping our world, both as a tool for environmental progress and a potential threat to sustainability.
Key Highlights:
AI’s Role in Decarbonisation: Discover how AI accelerates our ability to tackle climate change, from predicting deforestation hotspots to revolutionising battery testing for electric vehicles.
The Attention Economy: Caldwell explores the challenges of an information-saturated world and how AI’s rise to cultural prominence reflects our collective concerns.
AI’s Environmental Footprint: Uncover the hidden costs of AI’s energy consumption and its impact on global carbon emissions.
The Jevons Paradox: Learn how increased efficiency in technology can lead to greater overall consumption, posing challenges for sustainability.
AI and the Market Economy: A critical look at how private firms dominate the AI landscape, potentially steering its applications towards less sustainable paths.
The Techno-fix Paradox: Caldwell warns against relying on future technological solutions for climate change, advocating for immediate action and responsibility.
Join Chris Caldwell in this thought-provoking session as he navigates the paradoxes of AI and climate change, urging us to rethink our values and the role of technology in shaping a sustainable future.
If you enjoyed watching this episode you might like to watch the other keynote speeches in this season.
Conversations on Climate is a podcast produced by United Renewables in association with the London Business School Energy Alumni Club. It brings together the best minds from academia and business, to offer their experience and expertise in the face of climate change –from game theorists to corporate diplomats, and oil industry veterans to micro-algae entrepreneurs. For more top-quality interviews with our incredible guests, subscribe to our YouTube channel or follow us on Twitter. We’d love to have you join us!
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Comments Off on Season2: Episode 20 – in conversation with CT Green Bank
Introducing Bryan Garcia and Sara Harari
The CT Green Bank was the first of its kind in the US and has generated over $2.4bn in green investment and abated millions of tonnes of CO2e by de-risking private finance, bringing stakeholders together, and pioneering approaches to local clean investment.
Its President and Founder is Bryan Garcia, and Sara Harari is Associate Director of Innovation and Strategy Advisor to the President.
The fascinating conversation with Chris Caldwell takes place at Yale and covers a wide range of questions and delivers us an amazing insight into the philosophy of Green Banks and this Green Bank in particular:
… having a vision of a planet protected by the love of humanity, is that you can’t have environmentalism without humanitarianism.
… you can’t save the trees by avoiding people. It is fundamentally about caring about each other. If we do that, then we are going to solve the climate crisis. But we have to be able to put our arms around each other first and then mobilize capital investment … to deliver the results that we’re after.
But I think that’s, you know, the vision of the Connecticut Green Bank…
Highlights of this episode include:
Section one: The CT Green Bank mission
Section two: How Green Bank trains private markets
Section three: From renewables to environmental infrastructure
Section four: Innovation and climate justice at the local level
Section five: Selling cleantech in red states: spreading the Green Bank model
Section six: IRA: layered incentives and smart design
Section seven: Financing climate resilience
Section eight: Elections, wishlists, and sourcing meaning
Conversations on Climate is a podcast produced by United Renewables and this episode is in association with Yale Center for Business and the Environment.
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Season 2 is presented by Chris Caldwell and produced by UNITED RENEWABLES in association with LONDON BUSINESS SCHOOL, ALUMNI ENERGY CLUB.
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Comments Off on Season 2: Episode 19 – in conversation with Brian Caulfield
Professor Brian Caulfield wants us to do everything, everywhere, all at once.
Transport makes up a huge part of our emissions – around 20-25% in Ireland and the UK, and closer to 40% in the US.
Knocking those numbers down is no easy task. A system as complex and inter-dynamic as our transport network is a big beast: and there are so many competing visions.
Should we get behind a big public transport push – a metro for every city?
Is the answer self-driving EV’s? Or redesigning cities to be car-free?
Should we use big data for efficient car-sharing? Or is the answer behaviour change, under the cosh of mandated charges and zoning laws?
This episode’s guest understands that complexity better than anyone. And his number one policy priority?
Do it all – now!
Introducing Brian Caulfield
This week’s guest is a leader in the field of sustainable transport science. Brian Caulfield is Professor in Transportation, and Head of Civil, Structural, and Environmental Engineering at Trinity College Dublin, where he works on the frontier of decarbonising transport systems.
As well as academia – with over two hundred papers and €7m in research grants to his name – Brian is also active in the policy world, addressing the Citizen’s Assembly and working as an advisor to the Climate Change Advisory Council of Ireland.
“… we’re doing this for a greater good and we’re trying to make all these changes to make our cities and everything else better and more clean, more healthy…”
“… I think that the key thing that I would say to the listeners is to listen, engage, and proactively engage. And because it’s going to impact upon all of us…”
In this episode:
the science of transportation
emissions, COVID and business-as-usual
transport beyond climate
our low-emission transport future
health, inequality and storytelling
sustainable transport policy: the good, the bad and the ugly
self-driving cars – a solution looking for a problem?
the tricky politics of the car
lessons from Brazil
REFERENCES:
Trinity College Dublin page: https://tinyurl.com/ypskqqfl
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Comments Off on Season 2: Episode 18 – in conversation with Costas Markides
Unveiling the Darkest Secret: Navigating Continuous Disruption with Costas Markides
How to Survive and thrive in the age of continuous disruption.
In this engaging episode, Chris Caldwell delves into a thought-provoking discussion with Costas Markides, a seasoned Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at London Business School, currently holding the Robert P Bauman Chair of Strategic Leadership.
Change, Change, Change!
The constant of change.
This single word encapsulates our modern existence – a signal, an invitation, a diagnosis, a directive.
But is change truly constant?
Perhaps this era is uniquely different.
This is the perspective of our guest this week. We’ve entered an era Costas describes as ‘continuous disruption.’
And of all these disruptions that create a sense of permanent urgency, climate change is the greatest.
Luckily, Costas has a few ideas about how to thrive – as well as survive – in this new age.
From winning hearts and minds to segmenting audiences, embracing innovation at scale, and breaking free from stagnant environments – we explore strategies to navigate these challenges effectively.
Throughout such a successful career, it’s no surprise that Costas has won all sorts of awards and honours for his teaching, whilst also publishing half-a-dozen books, from All The Right Moves: A Guide to Crafting a Breakthrough Strategy in 2000 to Organising for the New Normal: Preparing your Company for the Journey of Continuous Disruption in 2021.
” …why is it that some companies responded well to digital disruption and some fail … and one of the major findings is that it’s not necessarily the strategy that they follow and it’s not necessarily the leadership … but it was the attitude …”
This week’s episode:
Section one: continuous disruption
Section two: mobilising people for climate
Section three: segmenting the green message
Section four: the knowing/doing gap
Section five: creativity, innovation, and behavioural barriers to change
Section six: can big firms be radical?
Section seven: innovation at the bottom of the pyramid
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Comments Off on Season 2: Episode 17 – The Climate Summit 2023 – Embracing The Circular Economy
In this episode, Chris Caldwell, CEO of UNITED RENEWABLES and host of the Conversations on Climate Podcast, moderates a distinguished panel of guests at the 2023 Climate Summit at Trinity College, Dublin.
They discuss all aspects of the circular economy and the calibre of guests leads to a fascinating discussion.
Panelists:
David Callaway
Founder, Callaway Climate Insights
David Callaway is founder and Editor-in-Chief of Callaway Climate Insights. He is the former president of the World Editors Forum, Editor-in-Chief of USA Today and MarketWatch, and CEO of TheStreet Inc.
Richard Ali
Director Corporate Affairs, Strategy, and Stakeholder Relations at Tetra Pak
Richard is the Director of Corporate Affairs, Strategy, and Stakeholder Relations at Tetra Pak. Prior to Tetra Pak, Richard held leadership positions in the private, public, and association sectors. He has strategic and hands-on experience covering sustainability, strategy development, communications, policy, and advocacy. He is practiced in continuous improvement, good governance, and risk mitigation.
He currently represents the European packaging sector in the European Union’s European Food Security Crisis Preparedness and Response Mechanism (EFSCM) and was a member of the steering committee, which established 4evergreen, wood-fiber’s circularity platform.
Richard is a graduate and post-graduate of the University of Reading and is an alumnus of The Prince of Wales’s Business & Sustainability Programme.
Jackie King
Executive Director, Ibec Global
Jackie King is an international business leader with over two decades building high-performing teams and transforming organisations for the future. An expert in managing risk for organizations with international exposure, Jackie has worked with executives, their boards, and public-sector officials in every sector of the global economy to protect and enhance reputation and deliver results for business and communities.
Jackie currently leads Brussels-based Ibec Global, Europe’s leading English-speaking, globally networked business organisation, and the international business division of Ibec – Ireland’s largest and most influential business advocacy and representative organisation.
Before joining Ibec, Jackie spent three years as the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce – Canada’s largest and most activated business network. Prior to the Canadian Chamber, Jackie spent 19 years with international public relations and public affairs consultancy Hill + Knowlton Strategies (H+K), where in Canada she rose through the ranks from intern to national executive leadership as Senior Vice President and General Manager.
Jackie has served on several boards in Canada and Ireland, most recently joining the boards of Chapter Zero Ireland and I-Form. Passionate about giving back, Jackie has volunteered for numerous organisations including youth sports teams, homeless shelters, women’s charities, charities for under privileged kids and teens, and cancer charities.
Jane Stout
Vice President for Biodiversity and Climate Action, Trinity College Dublin
Jane is Professor of Ecology in the School of Natural Sciences, and is the Vice-President for Biodiversity and Climate Action at Trinity College Dublin.
Her expertise is in the fields of ecology and biodiversity, and in connecting human and natural ecosystems, particularly through urban and agricultural land management, and the Natural Capital approach.
Jane is an internationally renowned expert on pollinator and pollination ecology, and a prominent voice for biodiversity and its value. She co-founded the successful conservation initiative, the All-Ireland Pollinator Plan, and the not-for-profit company, Natural Capital Ireland.
THIS EPISODE of Conversations on Climate Podcast Series was produced by United Renewables in association with The Climate Summit, Trinity College, Dublin.
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Season 2 is presented by Chris Caldwell and produced by UNITED RENEWABLES in association with LONDON BUSINESS SCHOOL, ALUMNI ENERGY CLUB.
Comments Off on Season 2: Episode 16 – In conversation with Professor Rupert Merson
How to Develop a Business Strategy for Your Business.
Rupert Merson is an adjunct Professor in the Department of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at London Business School. He has been teaching growth, governance, and turnarounds at LBS for twenty-five years, and has written several books across a wide range of subjects.
Outside of the London Business School, he was an accountant, Director, and eventually Partner at BDO Stoy Hayward until 2009, when he set up his own successful advisory shop specialising in helping family firms around the world.
The theme of this episode resides “deep in the human psyche.” It’s about what matters most. And it has clues for sustainability too.
What can family firms teach us about a long-term approach to business?
How can we best mediate intergenerational conflict?
And what works to preserve unique purpose and values in times of transition?
This week’s episode includes:
Section one: The importance of intellectual diversity
Section two: growing pains and changing attitudes
Section three: clarity, purpose, and communication for growth
Section four: Why do we start businesses?
Section five: Family firms: modelling climate conflict and transition
Section six: Teaching the corporate turnaround
“… there’s Eisenhower’s line, isn’t there? … that plans are useless, but planning is important … For me, that’s the thing that’s most meaningful … it doesn’t mean it’s been a waste of time doing the planning because your plan will be wrong.”
“… planning is an act of lifting your head up and thinking about the future. If you do lift your head up and think about the future, doesn’t mean it’s going to work out well for you. But I venture to suggest is a lot more likely to end that well for you than if you take the view that because plans are always going to be wrong, the act of planning is not worth doing in the first place.”
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