Decarb Connect
120 episodes - English - Latest episode: 10 days ago -Examining the strategies and deployments around decarbonisation in hard to abate sectors, we speak with CEOs, heads of corporate strategy, CTOs, Innovation/R&D, project directors & heads of carbon management from around the world. Hosted by Alex Cameron of the Decarbonization Leaders Network and Decarb Connect & produced by Janno Media.
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Bruno Fux, Siam City Cement: Driving decarbonisation and sustainability at Siam City Cement
April 18, 2024 07:30 - 39 minutes - 90.2 MBIn this week’s podcast, Bruno Fux joins Alex Cameron to discuss the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead for decarbonisation in Vietnam, and specifically his plans for Siam City Cement. considering the country's commitment to net zero emissions by 2050. You’ll hear a comparison of Siam City Cement's initiatives vs those in regions benefiting from more robust policy incentives and will hear about the company's proactive steps towards lowering emissions and increasing circula...
Steve Meller, Founder & CEO, CH4 Global: Reducing methane in cattle with the twin focus of radical climate impact plus a profitable, marketable and scalable tech platform
April 04, 2024 10:00 - 54 minutes - 74.7 MBSteve Meller, Founder and CEO of CH4 Global, joined Alex to talk about the scale up of his company which is focused on massively reducing methane emissions from cattle using a seaweed technology. Steve Meller brings experience from the corporate, entrepreneurial and academic world to his leadership of CH4 Global – all are playing their part from the selection of the tech, the selection of the team and the essential core of a product that is commercially profitable from first sa...
Characterizing the opportunity and unique challenges for India’s clean energy transition: Jai Asundi of CSTEP
March 14, 2024 08:30 - 53 minutes - 42.8 MBIndia’s watershed moment in climate-terms was the Paris COP where commitments were made on co2 sequestration, co2 intensity and renewables. More recently at COP Last year more commitments were made including hitting Net Zero by 2070. India is a developing industrial nation that needs to balance the right of a population to seek better overall living standards but which also needs to find the right response to internal and external calls for supporting its own industrials as th...
What industrials need to know about co2 transport and storage with Malc Kent, CGG
February 29, 2024 11:28 - 56 minutes - 51.5 MBCCS drives discussion whether you’re for it, against it or just hope it’s a solution you’ll be able to use. In this episode, Alex Cameron talks with Malc Kent to get to the heart of the questions that industrial members of the Decarbonization Leaders Network ask, specifically: o What do we really know about the safety and security of long term underground storage? o Are we learning much from previous project successes, failures or issues? o Could industrials store co2 und...
Turning £66m seed money into £200m+ of co investment (and growing): The Transforming Foundation Industries Challenge
February 01, 2024 08:00 - 47 minutes - 65.1 MBThis episode steps back to the early innovation cycle that is still needed to accelerate industrial decarbonisation. Bruce Adderley joins the podcast to explore how the £66m of the TFI Challenge in the UK has had an amplified effect, securing £200m+ of co-investment for collaborations across steel, cement, chem, glass and more of the foundation industries. Whether you are UK-based or not, listen in these takeaways including: - How govt grants can be used to drive nov...
Point Source Carbon Capture: Amines, MOFs, Membranes – Understanding the pro’s and con’s with Erica Nemser of CMS
January 18, 2024 10:41 - 37 minutes - 50.9 MBIf you’re an industrial or an investor exploring the Carbon Capture space, listen in to this conversation with Erica Nemser, CEO of Compact Membrane System, and Alex Cameron, CEO of Decarb Connect. You’ll hear about the growing ecosystem, types of point source carbon capture technology – and also will get the inside story on how CMS is scaling its solution and business. Erica brings a background as an economist and a former McKinsey leader to her leadership of CMS and has scaled ...
Abby Smith, Team Pennsylvania: The essential role of a neutral convener in driving forward state-wide decarbonization opportunities
January 04, 2024 08:00 - 39 minutes - 53.8 MBTeam Pennsylvania (Team PA) has 27 years of history as a non-partisan organisation convening public-private partnerships are critical economic opportunities. Abby Smith joins Alex to talk about what the role of neutral convener can do to accelerate non-partisan pathways around decarbonization (and other issues) and just what it is that they do to bring vastly different voices to the table to work out how to get great outcomes for Pennsylvania as a state. Given that the st...
National Highways – how a major buyer can work with industry and contractors to build a market for low carbon strategic materials
December 21, 2023 09:00 - 42 minutes - 59.1 MBNational Highways owns the strategy for a significant proportion of the UK’s roads and are a major buyer of asphalt, cement and steel. In this podcast you’ll join Alex Cameron, Founder of Decarb Connect, in conversation with the Executive Director of Procurement, Malcolm Dare, and the Director of Environmental Sustainability, Steve Elderkin, to learn how they are driving the adoption of lower carbon materials. Whether you’re UK-based or not, the goal of this conversation is to ...
Arun Gupta, CEO, Skyven How to scale technology that’s critical to industrial decarbonization?
December 07, 2023 09:00 - 38 minutes - 52.7 MBThe typical belief around industrial net zero is that industrial processes are “hard-to-abate” because of complex processes which require additional tech and because at-scale projects are financially unattractive. But what if there was already an example of financing-in-action and technology that can remove barriers to decarbonization more quickly? Listen in to this conversation with Arun Gupta, CEO of the decade-old Skyven and hear about how their approach to decarbonization ha...
The Rt Hon. Chris Skidmore, MP: Can the UK retain a global leadership role in Net Zero?
November 23, 2023 08:30 - 38 minutes - 53 MBChris was first elected to Kingswood Constituency in 2010 and still serves there, the area he grew up in. He took on the portfolio for Minister of Energy in 2019 and since then has had a specific focus on how the UK can really lead on climate issues and deliver net zero. With its 2019 legislation, the UK became the first G7 country to commit to net zero – but is this leadership role being maintained or wasted? By 2050, the UK is legally required to have reduced its greenhouse g...
What to expect from COP28 with Anand Gopal, Executive Director, Energy Innovation
November 09, 2023 08:00 - 42 minutes - 58.7 MBTo kick off the new series of Decarb Connect’s podcast, join Alex Cameron and Anand Gopal, Executive Director of Policy Research at Energy innovation, to explore their expectations of COP28 and how industrial decarbonisation could be pushed forward at the meeting. Whether you’re 100% focused in the climate space or not, there’s no escaping the media coverage of the COP series – and this year’s location and chairman are bringing a lot of different views to the fore even before t...
Marty Neese, CEO of Verdagy: Reasons for Green H2 Optimism (and its path to fossil parity)
August 31, 2023 07:00 - 39 minutes - 54.9 MBGreen hydrogen is one of the climate technologies that has its fair share of detractors and supporters. In this episode we explore some of the common assumptions about green h2 and identify the reasons we can be positive about its future. Decarbonisation leaders in steel, glass and a range of sectors have their sights set on hydrogen as their future fuel solution – barriers to adoption are receding, but what’s the timeline for this market to really have an impact? Marty Nee...
Scott Harden | Schneider Electric: The role of the Prosumer in accelerating the energy transition - what solutions will enable a more resilient and flexible grid?
August 17, 2023 08:00 - 31 minutes - 43.3 MBScott Harden, CTO of Innovation at Schneider Electric, leads the technology roadmap for Innovation across Schneider Electric, which as all our listeners will know is a leader in the sustainability. Scott joins the podcast to talk about the prosumer and its impact in the energy transition. Our core discussion centers on the need for electrification and increased resilience across the grid (both are key to industrials targeting decarbonization), so listen in to hear our wide rangi...
Martin Keighley, CEO of CarbonFree: Creating a global market that decarbonises critical materials utilizing co2 reuse
August 03, 2023 10:41 - 35 minutes - 48.8 MBCreating a global market that decarbonises critical materials: CarbonFree and the co2 reuse market Join Alex Cameron and the CEO of CarbonFree, Martin Keighley (the Former CEO of Tata Chemicals US) to talk about co2 reuse and how to decarbonise critical materials. You'll hear about how the market opportunity for converting co2 into key materials - and specifically will hear from martin on CarbonFree’s SkyCycleTM product which captures and utilizes carbon emissions from hard-to-...
Brenmiller Energy: Leveraging the EU’s green industrial plan to scale long term energy storage business models
July 13, 2023 08:00 - 47 minutes - 64.7 MBDoron Brenmiller, Chief Business Officer, joins Alex to talk about thermal energy storage but also how Brenmiller and its tech, listed on Nasdaq, have leveraged EU incentives to develop commercial projects and to scale With many different pots of incentives and cash within the EU industrial plan and other innovation funds, we wanted to talk with a company who has made use of these to help scale their projects. Listen in to learn how Doron has ensured that the 10 year old ...
Accelerating the path to sustainable concrete - Concrete Sustainability Council
July 03, 2023 09:19 - 37 minutes - 34.6 MBJoining Alex Cameron, Founder of Decarb Connect, are Christian Artelt, Senior Manager Sustainable Construction & Public Affairs, Heidelberg Materials and Michael Scharpf, Head of Sustainable Construction, Holcim. Episode Sponsor: Janno Media Concrete is the most widely used manmade material and, by volume, one of the major sources of CO2 globally. Listen in to find out how effective labelling around sustainability is helping drive procurement sustainable concrete products. ...
BlackRock: Leveraging climate metrics to catalyze investment flow
June 15, 2023 08:04 - 44 minutes - 61.8 MBEwa Jackson joins Alex to talk about climate metrics and their role in accelerating the flow of capital into climate tech (including industrial applications) Ewa Jackson, Managing Director of Sustainable and Transition Solutions at BlackRock, joins Alex Cameron of Decarb Connect to explore how the landscape for investment in decarbonisation and energy transition is maturing and the need for the right sets of metrics and data to really improve investor understanding and allocatio...
The evolution of the CCS value chain
June 01, 2023 08:00 - 44 minutes - 61.8 MBA couple of months ago we produced a report with Gaffney Cline that looked at the evolution of the Carbon Capture and Storage Value Chain. Today I’m joined by Mark Wilkie and Nick Fulford of Gaffney Cline. We’ll dig into the findings a little but also hear how their perspective is continuing to evolve. If you’re working on industrial decarbonisation than most likely carbon capture is one of the elements of your plans that you’re developing. Listen in to this episode with Mark W...
Heat pump innovation: Decarbonising industrial steam and heat
May 18, 2023 09:07 - 31 minutes - 43.4 MBAndrei Klochko joins Alex to explore how heat pump technology is scaling to take on the heat and steam requirements of industry For many working on decarbonisation of industry, the typical roadmap includes renewables, ccus, hydrogen and energy efficiency. But with heat pump tech stepping up to the industrial landscape, this podcast is a chance to hear from an innovator already working on industrial levels of heat and steam production. Right now, Airthium supports industrial...
Exploring Shopify’s perspective and approach around the growing Carbon Dioxide Removals (CDR) market
April 06, 2023 08:00 - 48 minutes - 66.3 MBJoin Alex and Stacy Kauk, Head of Sustainability for Shopify, to explore what the CDR market is along with the approach that Shopify is taking in supporting carbon dioxide removals. Stacy Kauk joined Shopify in January 2020, and as Head of Sustainability, Stacy’s role is to ensure that the millions of businesses and customers using Shopify’s platform are working together in the fight against climate change. Stacy talks with Alex about the Shopify Sustainability Fund, and i...
Planning an energy transition project: How Project Resop utilises data and local government/utilities/industry stakeholder collaboration to reduce co2
March 23, 2023 08:30 - 36 minutes - 50.2 MBHow can multi-party projects leverage data effectively to deliver an energy transition project? Join Lily Cairns Haylor and Alex Cameron to find out how local government and local stakeholders can collaborate to drive systems-level change. Join Lily Cairns Haylor and Alex Cameron to talk about how collaboration and the right data and modelling capabilities can speed up the deployment of much-needed energy transition projects. You’ll hear about Project RESOP, one of the ene...
Developing carbon negative materials to decarbonize global manufacturing supply chains
February 02, 2023 15:25 - 43 minutes - 39.6 MBWith net zero targets being set across the industrial landscape, there’s a growing sense that companies are having a bit of a reality check on what this will mean for their supply chains etc. One particular area of focus is on the footprint and impact of different materials used across supply chains – and this is where John Bissell and the team at Origin Materials steps in. Listen in to this week’s podcast to hear John and Alex Cameron, Founder of Decarb Connect, explore the pr...
How is Wyoming, a major fossil fuel state, creating the foundations and infrastructure for a future Hydrogen market??
January 12, 2023 09:23 - 44 minutes - 60.7 MBNo matter where you’re based in the world, national policy only gets you so far in the creation of low carbon economies. This week we talk with Eugene Holubnyak of the H2 Research Center at the University of Wyoming to learn about the state’s journey towards a competitive hydrogen economy. Wyoming is the US’s largest coal producing state, a major producer of crude oil, and natural gas too — so as a state firmly rooted in the fossil fuel economy what could a transition to a low ...
Part 3 of the Energy Crisis & Decarbonisation Series: Craig Golinowski talks Underinvestment, the Energy Crisis and Policy Durability
December 15, 2022 08:00 - 33 minutes - 45.7 MB40bn tonnes a year of GHGs is a massive issue that people on all sides of the political spectrum are committed to tackling. But are our international policies up to the task? Can we get around the historic lack of investment in energy that has both created a reliance on key products/markets and is now effectively pushing some countries to spend even more on fossil fuels? And is it realistic to make the big switch to renewables or do we have to rethink and re-engage with existing fue...
Energy Crisis Part 3 - Craig Golinowski talks Underinvestment, the Energy Crisis and Policy Durability
December 15, 2022 08:00 - 33 minutes - 45.7 MB40bn tonnes a year of GHGs is a massive issue that people on all sides of the political spectrum are committed to tackling. But are our international policies up to the task? Can we get around the historic lack of investment in energy that has both created a reliance on key products/markets and is now effectively pushing some countries to spend even more on fossil fuels? And is it realistic to make the big switch to renewables or do we have to rethink and re-engage with existing fue...
Energy Crisis Part 2 - Decarbonising industry through the energy crisis - finding the opportunities
December 01, 2022 09:58 - 31 minutes - 43.5 MBJerome Lucaes joins Alex Cameron to talk about the impact of the European energy crisis on industrial co2 strategies. Jerome brings plenty of experience from both RUSAL and Rio Tinto and critical industries on the creation of high-value net zero strategies. Jerome Lucaes is the former Head of Marketing and Sustainability for RUSAL and now leads FFZero which advises industrials on net zero strategy and execution. He joins Alex Cameron, Founder of Decarb Connect, as part of the p...
Decarbonising industry through the energy crisis – part 2 - finding the opportunities
December 01, 2022 09:58 - 31 minutes - 43.5 MBJerome Lucaes joins Alex Cameron to talk about the impact of the European energy crisis on industrial co2 strategies. Jerome brings plenty of experience from both RUSAL and Rio Tinto and critical industries on the creation of high-value net zero strategies. Jerome Lucaes is the former Head of Marketing and Sustainability for RUSAL and now leads FFZero which advises industrials on net zero strategy and execution. He joins Alex Cameron, Founder of Decarb Connect, as part of the p...
Reducing steel’s co2 by 95% - the H2 Green Steel experience
November 17, 2022 09:48 - 36 minutes - 50.1 MBSteel is responsible for 8% of global co2 each year, and contributes as much as 40% of all industrial co2. Listen in to hear Kajsa Ryttberg-Wallgren’s insights into the at-scale green steel project she’s tasked with and the potential for transforming the global steel value chain. With every ton of steel emitting (on average) 1.85 tons of co2, the industry contributes around 8% of co2 globally. It’s also one of our most essential materials used across all developed and developin...
Microscale carbon capture and the decarbonisation of heating systems
November 10, 2022 08:00 - 27 minutes - 62.8 MBJaeson Cardiff, Founder & CEO of CleanO2, talks with Alex about how they are pursuing the decarbonisation of heat. You’ll explore what microscale carbon capture is and the impact it can have across the millions of appliances in buildings (from hospitals to hotels, condos and other sites). You’ll also find out how their technology captures carbon dioxide emissions from building heating systems and the decision to showcase the opportunity for sequestering co2 by converting it to pea...
Energy Crisis Part 1 - How does the energy crisis impact energy transition for industrials?
October 27, 2022 08:56 - 36 minutes - 49.8 MBOver the next couple of months, we’ll host a number of guests talking about their perspective on the energy and inflation crisis and its impact on decarbonisation and energy transition plans. In this first conversation on the issue, Ben Moens joins from Engie Impact and explores the impact of the energy crisis on industrials. The discussion explores how alternative fuels (including a return to more fossil fuels in the short term) could play out, the potential for high gas price...
Energy Crisis Part 1 How does the energy crisis impact energy transition for industrials?
October 27, 2022 08:56 - 36 minutes - 49.8 MBOver the next couple of months, we’ll host a number of guests talking about their perspective on the energy and inflation crisis and its impact on decarbonisation and energy transition plans. In this first conversation on the issue, Ben Moens joins from Engie Impact and explores the impact of the energy crisis on industrials. The discussion explores how alternative fuels (including a return to more fossil fuels in the short term) could play out, the potential for high gas price...
Accelerating global government commitments to green steel and green cement procurement
October 07, 2022 15:19 - 27 minutes - 38.2 MBRana Ghoneim, Head of Energy Systems & Decarbonization Unit, UNIDO (UN’s Industrial Development Organisation), first joined the podcast ahead of COP26 in Glasgow where she was launching the Green Public Procurement Pledge. Governments buy as much as 40% of these key materials for major projects around the world, so getting commitments from countries such as India, the UK, the US and many more is an important way to put this spending power to good use. Getting public procurement pro...
Disrupting Foundation Industries: Material Evolution
September 08, 2022 08:28 - 24 minutes - 33.3 MBConcrete is the most used man-made material on earth and with the cement industry contributes 8% of co2 emissions due to the sheer volume used. Liz Gilligan is co-founder and CEO of Material Evolution, a disruptive force in the concrete sector producing a low carbon replacement for cement that can reduce (and soon strip out) co2. The conversation covers what it takes to disrupt a long-established industry, how machine learning combines with waste recycling to create direct repl...
How do you drive decarbonization when resource or capacity-constrained?
August 18, 2022 09:37 - 40 minutes - 55.7 MBListen in to learn about a decarbonisation solution for industrials looking to effect change in the short term. Janice Tran, Co-Founder and CEO of Kanin Energy, talks with Alex about how waste-heat-to-energy can act as an in-road for industrials seeking to decarbonise. Janice talks about how tech like this can help fund further decarbonisation plans as well as having an impact on your co2 footprint. You’ll also hear about their recently announced collaboration with Tallgrass Energy ...
What is green hydrogen’s role in the energy transition?
August 04, 2022 08:10 - 48 minutes - 67 MBElectrification won’t be straight forward for all industries, especially those with high industrial heat requirements. Energy-intensive manufacturers around the world are curious about the potential for green hydrogen as one of the potential routes they could take. Join Alex Cameron in conversation with Lorenzo Ducci and Filippo Bartoloni of ENEL Green Power to explore how they build scalable projects (including NEXTHy in Sicily) and the collaborations that can bring green h2 to com...
Investing in the system as well as the technology to drive decarbonisation
July 21, 2022 09:15 - 51 minutes - 70.7 MBWhilst many investors focus purely on the teams and technology when investing, Systemiq Capital is placing capital where it can influence the overall industrial system as well as making a dent in emissions. Join Irena Spazzapan, Managing Partner of Systemiq Capital, and Alex Cameron, Founder of Decarb Connect, to hear how a systemic approach to investment leads their portfolio and find out about their investments in Brimstone and Charm in particular. Irena’s past experience as...
How could carbon market changes revolutionise cement production in the next 3 years?
June 23, 2022 07:30 - 26 minutes - 36 MBDavid Boyd from Carbon Re joins Alex to talk about how cement manufacturers will need to step up to the changes in ETS rules that lie ahead. Cement producers have so far avoided significant negative impact of carbon taxes on their co2 output as their free allowances have largely balanced their typical average emissions - they only have to buy credits if they emit more than average, and they can sell credits if they emit less than usual. But changes on the horizon will mean that ...
Disrupting old school feedstocks with new, plant-based materials
June 16, 2022 08:00 - 33 minutes - 46.2 MBWendy Owens, Founder & CEO of Hexas, joins Alex to talk about how regenerative, plant-based raw materials can ultimately replace wood and fossil fuel-based materials in a variety of sectors. With applications in energy, chemicals, packaging, textiles, composites, structural/non-structural products, bioremediation, and more, Wendy talks about Hexas’ farm-to-fiber platform for the reliable delivery of their XanoFiber product. With multiple applications and the ability to grow crops f...
How to engage industrials as a key partner in scaling negative emissions tech
June 02, 2022 07:30 - 43 minutes - 60.3 MBInvestment in climate tech is rising – but do we yet have the best possible (and scalable) solutions to complex decarbonisation challenges? Benjamin Tincq, Co Founder of Marble Studios, talks with Alex about the need for disruptive tech that targets the most critical problems, tech that is created for the issue rather than a tech in search of an issue. The conversation takes in examples of key negative emissions technologies, the need to match the critical problems we face to t...
Focusing on the U of CCUS – how CarbonCure reuses co2 in the concrete sector
May 19, 2022 08:00 - 36 minutes - 50.6 MBCarbonCure has been a favourite of investors and a winner of the XPrize – for ten years they have worked hard to help the concrete sector reduce co2 footprints by working specifically on reuse of co2 within the product mix. Sean Monkman joins Alex Cameron to talk about permanent co2 removals, how to scale as a disruptor in the decarbonisation space and talks about why customers will accept green premiums when positioned effectively. We talk about the next for stackable solutions...
John O’Donnell, Rondo: Making renewables a reliable option for industrial heat
May 12, 2022 08:30 - 32 minutes - 45.2 MBThink that renewables can’t sustain high industrial heat? Listen in to learn how storing energy as heat is allowing companies that rely on high industrial heat to reconsider renewables as a cheap and emission-free fuel source. Summary: John O’Donnell joins Alex to look at how renewables could become a competitive option for fuelling energy-intensive and high heat processes. With industrial emissions being the biggest contributors to co2, being able to reliably use renewables to...
Investing in renewables and advanced climate tech to decarbonise cement
April 21, 2022 07:30 - 28 minutes - 39.1 MBCemex Ventures is one of a number of high-profile CVCs who are investing to bring innovation into their companies – but also with an view to decarbonising energy-intensive processes. Gonzalo Galindo, President of Cemex Ventures, talks about their investment strategy with a particular focus on renewables and how even the most energy-intensive chemical and combustion processes can make use of emerging tech in this space. With the average decarb pilot in harder-to-abate sectors co...
Brett Perlman, CEO, Center for Houston’s Future
March 31, 2022 07:00 - 25 minutes - 35.2 MBHouston is not just the ideological center of the energy sector in the US but also in the region around it houses a large proportion of the US’s petchem and industrial complex. In this conversation, Alex talks with Brett Perlman, CEO of the Center for Houston’s Future about how stakeholders from across the city and greater Houston area are coming together to create the projects that could transform Houston’s economy, and move it from fossil fuels to hubs focused on hydrogen, ccus, e...
Waste pressure is everywhere in the energy system – how can we convert it to clean energy?
March 24, 2022 08:00 - 39 minutes - 54.3 MBWith up to 51% of energy generated for industrial use being wasted, disruptors across the ecosystem are tackling that stat in different ways. Mihir talks about the opportunity for tackling one part of this – the waste pressure that is created throughout pipeline infrastructure, power generation and industrial processes and the potential for converted it into clean energy. As well as looking at the market opportunity, the conversation also looks to the benefits in decarbonization and...
Trevor Best, CEO and Co-Founder, Syzygy: Scaling photocatalysis to decarbonize high value products from hydrogen to ammonia (and more)
March 03, 2022 08:00 - 31 minutes - 42.6 MBHouston, known for being the oil and gas capital of the US, is fast becoming a key centre of gravity for clean tech and energy transition IP. Syzygy is one of a number of early-stage disruptors calling the city their home, and we were fortunate to have Trevor Best, CEO, in conversation with Alex to talk about their photocatalysis technology and route to industrial scale. Listen in to hear about the applications for their novel catalyst and reactor platform, including production...
Creating large scale renewable projects that are profitable and drive a triple bottom line
February 24, 2022 09:08 - 38 minutes - 53.1 MBInterContinental Energy focuses on both renewable projects of scale and the triple bottom line of their projects. Join Alex and Alicia Eastman to explore the origin of their mega-scale project structures and the opportunity to convert renewables to hydrogen and ammonia for use in industrial and maritime environments. They talk about how large projects act as market makers, why in-country value brings long term value to the project owners and investors – and we look at the opportunit...
Completing the first BECCS project in the UK – with Will Gardiner, CEO of Drax Group
February 10, 2022 09:00 - 31 minutes - 43.5 MBWill Gardiner has been a key architect of Drax Group's strategy to create a flexible, low-carbon, customer-focused power company. Alex and Will talk about the results from COP26, but also what’s needed next to keep the goal of 1.5 alive. They explore a little of what’s needed from international policy, how Drax’s global operations are expanding to meet the decarbonization opportunity and Will’s thoughts on renewables, voluntary carbon markets and the need for more support of permane...
What would drive North American industry to invest in net zero?
January 27, 2022 09:28 - 47 minutes - 65 MBWith governments and markets taking different approaches to industrial decarbonization around the world, Nick Fulford joins Alex Cameron to talk about the different challenges those approaches are yielding and how the US/Canadian approach is unfolding. They explore the North American focus on market forces, the impact of 45Q and other incentives and also look at how business models could emerge in CCUS and other tech despite the challenges that lie ahead. Now based in Hous...
Could CCS own the radical middle ground in the energy transition?
January 06, 2022 09:00 - 39 minutes - 54.5 MBCraig Golinowski of Carbon Infrastructure Partners discussions the need for other tech to balance out renewables so that we avoid further energy crises and allow for a full transition. Is CCUS the radical middle ground? Summary: Craig Golinowski joins Alex to talk about the concept of the carbon paradox, and what role CCUS needs to play in the energy transition. Find out about the concept of the paradox being seen in the transition to renewables where, without solving interm...
Lord Adair Turner talks about what has to happen in the 2020s for Net Zero to be achievable
December 30, 2021 09:00 - 45 minutes - 63.2 MBListen in and explore the momentum being seen right now, with more than 70% of global GDP covered by a net zero target, and the routes critical industries are taking to decarbonize. You’ll hear thoughts on the innovative mechanisms that global capital markets and policy are developing, and you’ll get his insights on the urgent need for huge amounts of zero carbon electricity and infrastructure to support essential solutions. Lord Turner has a background spanning the corporate ...