CONVERSATIONS ON CLIMATE

Join us in an enlightening episode of the Conversations on Climate podcast as we delve 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."
 
REFERENCES:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ricky-buch/
https://powertrust.com/about/
 
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.
This podcast 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. 
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Season 3 is presented by Chris Caldwell and produced by UNITED RENEWABLES.
 
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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… 
Nico’s top career advice 
 
REFERENCES:
Harvard Business Review: https://bit.ly/49hqh4q
Linkedin Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickalus
SunCast Podcast: https://mysuncast.com
 
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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Season 3 is presented by Chris Caldwell and produced by UNITED RENEWABLES.
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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."
 
REFERENCES:
https://www.london.edu/faculty-and-research/faculty-profiles/v/vermeulen-f
https://uk.linkedin.com/in/freek-vermeulen-a68617
https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/4558503.Freek_Vermeulen
 
Conversations on Climate is a podcast produced by United Renewables and this episode is in association with London Business School
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. 
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Season 3 is presented by Chris Caldwell and produced by UNITED RENEWABLES.
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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…
 
The highlights of this episode include:
Section one: The CT Green Bank mission 
Section two: How Green Banks train 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
 
REFERENCES:
https://www.ctgreenbank.com
https://cbey.yale.edu/our-community/bryan-garcia
https://cbey.yale.edu/our-community/sara-harari
 
Conversations on Climate is a podcast produced by United Renewables and this episode is in association with Yale Center for Business and the Environment.
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. 
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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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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…"
REFERENCES:
Trinity College Dublin page: https://tinyurl.com/ypskqqfl
Brian's Linkedin page: https://tinyurl.com/ytsoh2ja
 
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 
Conversations on Climate is a podcast produced by United Renewables and this episode is in association with 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.
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Surviving and thriving 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 
Section eight: the attitude fix 
 
REFERENCES:
Costas at LBS
https://uk.linkedin.com/in/costas-markides-b848a31
Costas Markides Books
 
Conversations on Climate is a podcast produced by United Renewables in association with the London Business School Energy Alumni Club. 
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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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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.
 
Please visit: https://www.theclimatesummit.net
 
 
Our series 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. 
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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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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 LBS 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."
REFERENCES:
https://www.london.edu/faculty-and-research/faculty-profiles/m/merson-r
https://www.rupertmerson.com/about-us/the-team
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Books-Rupert-Merson/s?rh=n%3A266239%2Cp_27%3ARupert+Merson
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. 
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We talk about how the scope of the challenge before us is beyond that of any one individual or any one solution. 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.
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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Professor Jane Stout talks to Chris Caldwell about biodiversity, natural capital accounting, and bridging the economy-ecology divide 
So many of the tenets of modern economics – from commodification and simplification to substitution and maximisation – seem to run counter to foundational truths of ecology such as holism, complexity, and the incommensurability of value.  
As we face both the climate crisis and the sixth mass extinction (in large part due to the excesses of capitalism) we have to wonder if there is a way back.  
Can economics and ecology work together again? 
This episode’s guest believes so. Jane Stout - Professor of Botany and VP of Biodiversity and Climate Action at Trinity College Dublin - is a deep domain expert in the academic field of ecology and biodiversity, with over 120 papers and €4 million in research funding to her name.  
She is also a leading figure in influencing nature and climate policy in her home country, particularly by engaging economically as co-founder of Natural Capital Ireland.  
"… you think about your petri dish of soil or your spoonful of soil from the ground … there's connections in that little ecosystem, but there are connections across the whole world and everything's connected."
"… the ecological viewpoint of connectivity about humans being part of nature, about the physical environment and the living environment being intricately intertwined, has, of course, shaped everything I do and everything that I think about."
"… I think being an ecologist gives you a fantastic perspective. It's kind of overwhelming, but it does give you that perspective about the fundamental importance of nature in our lives and that connectivity."
"…and I like to think of sustainability as as as the sort of the wedding cake idea of the environment: the biosphere, the living world underpinning our societies which underpin our economies."
 
REFERENCES:
https://www.tcd.ie/Botany/people/stoutj/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jane-stout-8269401b/
https://www.royensoc.co.uk/about-us/people/professor-jane-stout/
 
This week’s episode includes: 
Section one: the origins of an ecological perspective 
Section two: why biodiversity matters (for business too) 
Section three: confronting global extinction 
Section four: Montreal, 30x30 and the Biodiversity COP breakthrough 
Section five: understanding the climate-biodiversity nexus 
Section six: biocircularity, natural capital, and the limits of growth  
 
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. 
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To take us through the global tax earthquake, in this episode we welcome Marcel Olbert, Assistant Professor of Accounting at London Business School. Marcel is a rising star in the world of sustainable finance academia – and the youngest professor we’ve had on the podcast so far!
An expert in global taxation, disclosure and transparency, and carbon policy design, Marcel is rapidly making his mark publishing fascinating papers on everything from the sustainability of Private Equity to the challenge of regulating tax havens. Be prepared for new angles, unexpected findings, and more than a few unintended consequences!
" …private equity investors still set out to increase returns. And I think the idea is to incorporate ESG performance as part of the financial value creation process … ESG should not be one part or side strategy, but you should fully embrace it …"
REFERENCES:
https://marcelolbert.com
 
https://www.london.edu/faculty-and-research/faculty-profiles/m/marcel-olbert
 
https://www.london.edu/faculty-and-research/faculty-profiles/m/marcel-olbert
https://mbrjournal.com/2022/01/31/mandatory-corporate-carbon-disclosures-and-the-path-to-net-zero/
 
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3837658
 
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