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On Demand: 12½ Kick Ass Sustainability Ideas for 2026

26th January 2026

Here's the recording of my annual Net Zero Business Academy taster, 12½ Kick Ass Sustainability Ideas. Those 12½ KASIs are the usual mix of old...

What an opportunity to drive decarbonisation and energy security

9th March 2026

So we're into week 2 of the US/Israeli attack on Iran and the Strait of Hormuz is still blockaded. Oil and gas prices are continuing...

Transformers: the hidden workhorses of Net Zero with Ayah Alfawaris

6th March 2026

If we didn't have transformers on our electricity grid to step up and step down voltages then we would get nothing out of it; everything...

As gas prices soar again, are renewables really ‘unpredictable’?

4th March 2026

It's hard to think about anything other than the crisis in the Gulf (I tried, reader, but I failed). The main domestic manifestation is a...

Conflict, Energy Security and the ‘Paradox of Plenty’

2nd March 2026

Following the US/Israeli attack on Iran on Friday, shipping through the Straits of Hormuz has ground to halt as Iran and its proxies hit back...

Learn to Love Offsetting: Rule 9 of 10 for Corporate Sustainability

27th February 2026

Last year I published 10 Rules for Corporate Sustainability to mark the 200th edition of The Low Carbon Agenda (yes, that’s 200…). The ebook is...

More low carbon signal, less noise in Washington (the original one)

25th February 2026

This morning I was at the Washington Business Centre, in the middle of the town's sprawling automotive industrial estate, judging entries for the North East...

Lend me your ears! Ozone, climate change and Donald Trump

23rd February 2026

I now have a bit less ear than I woke up with on Friday morning. Later that day, a friendly and highly professional bunch of...

Turning Trauma into Purpose with Stuart Green

20th February 2026

In 2017, Stuart Green suffered the kind of loss we all dread. His wife Mia, a human rights and environmental lawyer, was brutally murdered by...

AI and Net Zero: I have thoughts…

19th February 2026

Back in 1993, I coded a recurrent neural network as my final year degree project (the only part of my finals where I got a...

Change-making or box-ticking? Sustainability doesn’t have to be a grind

16th February 2026

I was bemused last week by a light-hearted post on LinkedIn listing the rights of passage of junior Sustainability professionals - eg "Sending out 700...

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