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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...

UK Party Politics and the Climate: Where Do They Stand

12th October 2026

So, the UK's political party conference season comes to an end for another year – and it was a pretty tumultuous one, too. As...

The State of Sustainability: The Shift to Resilience, with Vincent Charpiot, Capgemini

9th October 2026

Capgemini's latest survey of the state of coporate sustainability blows away the myth of a Net Zero backlash. Vincent Charpiot joins me on the pod...

Have We Been Sugarcoating Net Zero? More Fool Us

7th October 2026

Last Friday morning I facilitated the latest meeting of the Sustainability Leadership Roundtable. The ostensible theme was decarbonising buildings, but, as always, once we dug...

The X Curve and Sustainability: A Reckoning Beckons

5th October 2026

The news that the UK Government is considering tariffs on imported Chinese EVs seems to have raised eyebrows across the political spectrum. We've been told...

Can Technology Save Us? with Prof Wayne Visser

2nd October 2026

There's a chunk of the environmental movement that uses 'techno-optimist' as an insult. But, as it is high carbon technology that is causing most of...

Andy Burnham’s Jackdaw/Rosebank Conundrum

30th September 2026

For a man who said he was going to tell it like it is in his first leader's conference speech yesterday, UK Prime Minister Andy...

Has the Net Zero Overton Window Shifted?

28th September 2026

The 'Overton window' is political jargon for what is acceptable to talk about publicly at any one time. The window shifts around – in the...

Orange or Green? Burnham’s Big Energy Dilemma

25th September 2026

In the latest of our (usually) 4-weekly round up of news and views on Sustainability, I mull on the fact that not much has changed...

Low Carbon Tech Keeps Surprising Me – In A Brilliant Way

23rd September 2026

Years ago I was at a climate dinner and found myself sitting beside the head of electric vehicles for one of the big car makes....

If not Net Zero, then what?

21st September 2026

When I produced my on-demand Net Zero for Business course three years ago, I suggested the snappiness of the phrase Net Zero was a double...

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