Can AI eliminate the Sustainability Reporting burden? with Louis Frank
With booming numbers of reporting regimes – CSRD, EU Taxonomy, Double Materiality, SFDR etc – Sustainability teams increasingly find themselves slogging in the data mines...
Do we really have too much red tape, or too little, or the wrong kind?
Oct 16, 2024
On Monday, the new-ish UK Government hosted an investment summit as an early step to rekindle economic growth in the country. The Independent proclaimed: Sir...
We can’t kick the carbon can down the road…
Oct 14, 2024
I've recently started facilitating Sustainable Business seminars with students at Newcastle Business School. One of the main things I'm getting out of it is being...
Putting the world to rights with Brendan May
Oct 11, 2024
In this week's episode, I discuss the state of Sustainability with one of the sector's leading voices, Brendan May of Robertsbridge. In a wide ranging...
The Litmus Test for Sustainability
Oct 4, 2024
How do you know whether you or your organisation are serious about delivering Sustainability? In this week's episode of the Net Zero Business Podcast, I...
What Sustainability Professionals can learn from Keir Starmer’s woes
Oct 2, 2024
Keir Starmer became UK Prime Minister in July on a wave of public disgruntlement with the previous Conservative regime. Normally, new Prime Ministers get a...
Farewell King Coal, not a moment too soon
Sep 30, 2024
So, as the Ratcliffe-on-Soar power plant closes, today is the first day that the UK has no functioning coal-fired power stations since the first opened...
The Guardian’s Fiona Harvey on Labour’s first three months in (clean) power, international climate politics and COP29
Sep 27, 2024
This week on the podcast, I have a real treat for you. I caught up with my old friend Fiona Harvey, multi-award-winning Environment Editor at...
For politicians, clean power is the easy bit
Sep 25, 2024
We're deep in political party conference season here in the UK and, given I hold a political position in my city, you won't be surprised...
The most efficient machine ever invented…
Sep 23, 2024
I was idly scrolling through Twitter the other day when I saw the question "What is the most under-rated invention?" answered by the Black Swan...