Fare Ye Well, Low Carbon Joe – Biden’s Sustainability Legacy Must Live On
“Joe Biden’s legacy as the greatest president for climate and environmental action is etched in stone." Ben Jealous, Executive Director, Sierra Club "President Biden leaves...
Building trust in green marketing with Russ Avery
Jul 19, 2024
In this episode of the Net Zero Business Podcast, I talk to Russ Avery, co-founder of Avery & Brown, a marketing and branding agency specialising...
The green belt is about more than protecting green fields
Jul 17, 2024
There is a huge debate in the UK about how to kickstart housebuilding. The new Labour Government is proposing relaxing rules preventing building on the...
The Climate Blindspot: Why The Media (Largely) Ignores Climate Change
Jul 15, 2024
It was a real jolt to wake yesterday to videos of bullets whizzing past Donald Trump, miraculously only grazing him. Members of his audience were...
Shining a light on offsetting with Nic Alexander
Jul 12, 2024
Are offsets "a dangerous distraction from carbon reductions"? Are they morally abhorrent, akin to murderers buying 'indulgences' from the church in medieval Europe? Or are...
The ‘we’re emitting less carbon than X’ fallacy
Jul 10, 2024
One feature of the recent UK General Election was the Tory Government using the country's admirable decarbonisation achievements so far to attack opponents' proposals to...
After election upheaval, what next for Net Zero in the UK?
Jul 8, 2024
Like most political geeks, I spent most of Thursday night/Friday morning awake in front of the TV, watching the most revolutionary election I can remember...
How to be a Chief Sustainability Officer with Anna Krotova
Jul 5, 2024
This week I talk to Anna Krotova about her fantastic new book, How to be a Chief Sustainability Officer (co-authored with Jennifer Geary), digging into...
The cost of Net Zero? How about the cost of Do Nothing?
Jul 3, 2024
Like much of the world, we're in the jaws of a general election here in the UK with polls opening tomorrow. One of the big...
Green tech needs to work better than other tech
Jul 1, 2024
I'm still recovering from a long weekend in the Lake District with my old schoolfriends – all of us are Dads and normally have a...