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The Sustainability & You podcasts are a series of interviews with experts in science, academia, government, business, NGO’s and economists amongst others, all of whom influence and shape the race to net zero. It’s purpose is to create greater awareness and connectivity between all these different actors so that we can accelerate decarbonisation and ESG solutions.
Episodes
Sunday Jun 12, 2022
Sustainability & You Episode 25 - Chris Jackson
Sunday Jun 12, 2022
Sunday Jun 12, 2022
In this episode of the Sustainability & You podcast, Stephanie Glover and I speak with Christopher Jackson, CEO of Protium Green Solutions Ltd, a UK green hydrogen energy services company. Chris originally began working on hydrogen through the World Bank, where his research helped secure the Bank’s first internal funding for Hydrogen & Fuel research in over a decade. Subsequently Chris became an advisor to colleagues within the World Bank and IFC on hydrogen and fuel cell projects. Chris founded Protium in 2019. They build, own, operate and finance green hydrogen and renewable energy infrastructure assets, and from those provide hydrogen as an energy service (HESCO) to customers. The company’s mission is to power businesses with sun, wind and water. We talk about the role of hydrogen in the race to net zero, its use cases, the economic model for rolling it out more widely and the need to educate on its potential. Chris explains to us grass roots up how hydrogen has a critical role to play in the energy mix, and articulates some of the challenges in accelerating its progress, requiring convergence of policy, capital, and private enterprise.
Sustainability & You is a not for profit platform designed to bring together experts, influencers and decision makers in the field of sustainability and climate change. Our mission is to bring together leading voices to explore solutions and accelerate change. We bring together both senior and younger voices so that all those impacted by climate change are heard.
Josephine can be contacted at jrbush@sustineristrategy.com
Monday May 16, 2022
Sustainability & You Episode 24 - Ben Goldsmith
Monday May 16, 2022
Monday May 16, 2022
Sustainability & You is a not for profit platform designed to bring together experts, influencers and decision makers in the field of sustainability and climate change. Our mission is to bring together leading voices to explore solutions and accelerate change. We bring together both senior and younger voices so that all those impacted by climate change are heard.
Josephine can be contacted at jrbush@sustineristrategy.com
Monday May 02, 2022
Sustainability & You Episode 23 - Edward Vaughan Dixon
Monday May 02, 2022
Monday May 02, 2022
Edward shares his view on what ESG means for Real Assets, the Aviva approach to ESG, strategy development and integration. We talk about the role of asset owners and managers in the race to zero, and navigating the plethora of frameworks to be adopted within portfolio management that make real world differences.
Edward shares his journey to the top and what it means to him to lead a team. Inspiring words from a passionate and committed individual to the race to zero.
Josephine can be contacted at jrbush@sustineristrategy.com
Monday Apr 11, 2022
Sustainability & You Episode 22 - Georgia Stewart
Monday Apr 11, 2022
Monday Apr 11, 2022
Sustainability & You is a not for profit platform designed to bring together experts, influencers and decision makers in the field of sustainability and climate change. Our mission is to bring together leading voices to explore solutions and accelerate change. We bring together both senior and younger voices so that all those impacted by climate change are heard.
Josephine can be contacted at jrbush@sustineristrategy.com
Monday Mar 07, 2022
Sustainability & You Episode 21 - Emma Howard Boyd CBE
Monday Mar 07, 2022
Monday Mar 07, 2022
In this episode of the Sustainability & You podcast, we interview Emma Howard Boyd CBE. Emma has been the Chair of the Environment Agency since 2016. She’s also an Ex officio board member of the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, and an Advisor to the Board of Trade. Emma, with a background in finance, is a board member or advisor to many organisations which include The Prince’s Accounting for Sustainability Project, the Green Finance Institute, the Coalition for Climate Resilient Investment, the Centre for Greening Finance and Investment, the Council for Sustainable Business, the European Climate Foundation, and Menhaden PLC. Emma was the UK Commissioner to the Global Commission on Adaptation from 2018 until its sunset in January 2021.
Emma, Tilly and I talk about the role of adaptation finance and the need for more focus, learning, and allocation of capital to adaption initiatives. Against the backdrop of climate change and real life events that bring to life the realities of the science, we talk about what is actually happening in the world and the real stories that evidence real world impacts. Emma shares the challenges and opportunities that we face as governments, organisations, communities and individuals as we look to adapt to this new reality. As a passionate advocate of the central place of and for adaption finance, Emma makes the case eloquently for further focus and data that enables effective policy and decisions. Emma also shares her experience of influential role models and women who have helped to guide and mould her views and behaviours, acting herself then as the role model for the next generation.
Sustainability & You is a not for profit platform designed to bring together experts, influencers and decision makers in the field of sustainability and climate change. Our mission is to bring together leading voices to explore solutions and accelerate change. We bring together both senior and younger voices so that all those impacted by climate change are heard.
Josephine can be contacted at jrbush@sustineristrategy.com
Monday Feb 14, 2022
Sustainability & You Episode 20 - Eric Usher
Monday Feb 14, 2022
Monday Feb 14, 2022
In this Sustainability & You podcast, Stephanie Glover and I interview Eric Usher, Head of the UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative. The UNEP FI is a global partnership bringing together the UN with a global group of banks, insurers and investors working to develop the sustainable finance and responsible investment agendas. Eric oversees governance, strategy and the day to day management of UNEP FI’s work programme and global network development. Eric talks to us about the role of the finance sector in the race to zero, the many alliances the UN has initiated, the challenges and opportunities in deploying capital at pace, public/private initiatives and the role of regulation. Eric also shares the background to his career and the role of individuals in bringing about the change we want to see.
Sustainability & You is a not for profit platform designed to bring together experts, influencers and decision makers in the field of sustainability and climate change. Our mission is to bring together leading voices to explore solutions and accelerate change. We bring together both senior and younger voices so that all those impacted by climate change are heard.
Josephine can be contacted at jrbush@sustineristrategy.com
Monday Jan 24, 2022
Sustainability & You Episode 19 - Dr. Francis Wedin
Monday Jan 24, 2022
Monday Jan 24, 2022
Sustainability & You is a not for profit platform designed to bring together experts, influencers and decision makers in the field of sustainability and climate change. Our mission is to bring together leading voices to explore solutions and accelerate change. We bring together both senior and younger voices so that all those impacted by climate change are heard.
Josephine can be contacted at jrbush@sustineristrategy.com
Monday Nov 29, 2021
Sustainability & You Episode 18 - Anna-Marie Slot
Monday Nov 29, 2021
Monday Nov 29, 2021
In this episode of Sustainability & You, we talk with Anna-Marie Slot. Anna-Marie is a senior partner at the pre-eminent law firm Ashursts. She is head of ESG and sustainability and a partner in their finance practice. She has two decades of experience acting for investment banks and companies in a wide range of corporate finance and securities transactions, including high yield debt offerings, green bonds, liability management and more. We talk about the rising incidence of climate litigation and how this might inform the role of law, financial and corporate decision making, assessments of risk and the approach to liability and opportunity management around evolving strategies. These are especially prevalent thought processes in light of the recent IPCC 6th Assessment report that attributes global warming to anthropogenic causes. In time, this may mean that large corporates may ultimately be attributed their proportionate share of global warming and responsibility for consequential damages that may follow.The role of legislation and the courts is discussed in tandem with other actors who are expected to generate momentum towards net zero.
Sustainability & You is a not for profit platform designed to bring together experts, influencers and decision makers in the field of sustainability and climate change. Our mission is to bring together leading voices to explore solutions and accelerate change. We bring together both senior and younger voices so that all those impacted by climate change are heard.
Josephine can be contacted at jrbush@sustineristrategy.com
Monday Nov 15, 2021
Sustainability & You Episode 17 - Professor Robin Attfield
Monday Nov 15, 2021
Monday Nov 15, 2021
In this episode of Sustainability & You we talk with Professor Robin Attfield, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Cardiff University and also of the Sustainable Places Institute. Robin has taught environmental philosophy for a number of years and written extensively on it. We talk about the foundation stones of philosophical thinking in the field of the environment, including does nature have intrinsic value. We touch on how this might link to ethical thinking, inform policy decision making and ultimately, drive corporate and financial decision making too. With the latest IPCC report referencing the “moral” imperative to invest to drive the decarbonisation of our economy, and many politicians including Joe Biden, incorporating that language into his political speech, now seems like a great time to understand what this really means.
Sustainability & You is a not for profit platform designed to bring together experts, influencers and decision makers in the field of sustainability and climate change. Our mission is to bring together leading voices to explore solutions and accelerate change. We bring together both senior and younger voices so that all those impacted by climate change are heard.
Josephine can be contacted at jrbush@sustineristrategy.com
Monday Oct 25, 2021
Sustainability & You Episode 16 - Professor Martin Siegert
Monday Oct 25, 2021
Monday Oct 25, 2021
In this episode of the Sustainability & You podcast, we speak again to Professor Martin Siegert. Martin was our very first guest on the podcast, and his interview still proves be popular. All testament to his eloquence in relaying the climate science to us so clearly. A glaciologist and leader of the Grantham Institute - Climate Change and Environment, Martin shares his views on the latest IPCC sixth assessment report, what the science tells and can’t yet predict. We discuss what and how we attribute climate change to mankind. We discuss the need for closer connectivity with the finance community so there can be a more meaningful financial response. Martin invites us to connect as a finance community proactively with the new green finance hub housed by the Grantham Institute and others. He is clear that time is running out but we can, with action, bring about change to a 1.5 degree world.
Sustainability & You is a not for profit platform designed to bring together experts, influencers and decision makers in the field of sustainability and climate change. Our mission is to bring together leading voices to explore solutions and accelerate change. We bring together both senior and younger voices so that all those impacted by climate change are heard.
Josephine can be contacted at jrbush@sustineristrategy.com