Send me a message I'm on vacation this week, so I recorded a short episode where I talked about three things: Ratings and reviews for the podcast Some of the recent episodes I published (in case you missed them ,now's a good time to catch-up!) and I previewed some of the upcoming episodes including an incredible episode which I'm hoping will go live April 28th. Listen to the podcast to find out who I'm referring to And that's it. A short episode this week, but as I mentioned you can take that as...
Mar 31, 2021•8 min•Season 1Ep. 18
Send me a message I wanted to have an episode of the podcast where we level set on the importance of sustainability for organisations, so I invited Frank Omare to come on the podcast to frame sustainability from a business perspective. We had a fascinating conversation, I thoroughly enjoyed it. I hope you enjoy it too. If you have any comments/suggestions or questions for the podcast - feel free to leave me a voice message over on my SpeakPipe page , head on over to the Climate 21 Podcast Forum ...
Mar 24, 2021•32 min•Season 1Ep. 17
Send me a message Stopping global emissions is not enough. We have to also find ways to remove CO2 from the atmosphere and sequester it. One of the biggest contributors to global emissions is the production of concrete. Imagine if concrete production could be turned from a carbon emitting process into a carbon sink... That is one idea the Global CO2 initiative is looking into. They have come up with a new way to make concrete that uses CO2 as an ingredient. It is an exciting idea, so I reached o...
Mar 17, 2021•32 min•Season 1Ep. 16
Send me a message The first time I came across Impossible Foods was when I read an article about them in Techcrunch back in 2016 and I was immediately sold on the idea - making protein for people cutting out the animal middle-man is such an excellent concept, and such a win for the planet in terms of land use, energy use, and water use! So when I kicked off this podcast, I was keen to talk to someone from Impossible Foods to hear the story from their perspective. To that end, I reached out and i...
Mar 10, 2021•35 min•Season 1Ep. 15
Send me a message Data is the new currency we're told (some people call it the new oil, I refuse to use that expression given the negative connotations of being associated with oil!). Given that, I'd be remiss not to have an episode of the podcast dedicated to talking about how data, and big data can help with the climate crisis. To that end, I invited Jacob Dencik to come on the podcast. Jacob is the Economic Research Leader at the IBM Institute for Business Value , so who better to discuss thi...
Mar 03, 2021•31 min•Season 1Ep. 14
Send me a message I'm a big fan of the concept of Indoor Vertical Farming , so when I came across the company &ever I reached out to their CSO, Mark Korzilius and asked him to come on the podcast to tell me more about their operations. &ever is a startup in the vertical farming space with a large operation in Kuwait, some interesting hyperlocal operations in Germany, and a larger plant (sorry, bad pun!) opening in Singapore. I loved that in this interview with Mark, he was very realistic...
Feb 24, 2021•35 min•Season 1Ep. 13
Send me a message So much of what's happening in the climate space revolves around geopolitics that I thought it might be interesting to bring an expert in to talk about that. So, I invited Jacob Shapiro to come on the podcast to talk about these issues. Jacob is the Founder and Chief Strategist at Perch Perspectives , as well as the host of the Perch Pod podcast . As we covered the supply chain risk implications of geopolitics in the podcast, I published a lightly edited version of this convers...
Feb 17, 2021•45 min•Season 1Ep. 12
Send me a message Boston Consulting Group is one of the most prestigious management consulting firms in the world. In September 2020 BCG committed to going Net Zero by 2030, and carbon negative thereafter. And they are committing "$400 million over the next decade to enable BCG teams to drive climate and environmental impact across industries and countries". Then in late January of this year (2021) BCG CEO Rich Lesser wrote a post on the World Economic Forum blog titled " Supply chains can be a ...
Feb 10, 2021•40 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Send me a message In the episode of this podcast where I talked to JP Morgan's Head of ESG Debt Capital Markets, Paul O'Connor , Paul mentioned ESG and it's importance. I wanted to dig into this in more detail, especially it's relevance to companies, the reasons for its increasing importance, and why it is suddenly a board level issue. To that end I invited Adam Lyons to come onto the podcast to delve a little deeper into ESG and why organisations need to have this very much top of mind. We had ...
Feb 03, 2021•32 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Send me a message On this week's episode of the Climate 21 podcast we have a slight change of direction - away from the corporate world, and into the world of sport. Specifically powerboat racing. Not very sustainable, right? Well, that depends... The new E1 Series is the first ever world electric powerboat series - yes, electric powerboats. In the same way that Formula 1 car racing brought about many advancements in modern cars, the E1 Series intends to modernise the marine world and push the e...
Jan 27, 2021•36 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Send me a message The investment community has enormous influence on global markets (by directing capital flows) and the climate emissions space is by no means immune to this. I invited J.P. Morgan's Head of EMEA ESG Debt Capital Markets Paul O'Connor to come on the podcast to talk about how this works. I know next to nothing about finance as you can probably tell from the questions I was asking, but Paul was excellent, and explained it all extremely well, so even I could understand, and I learn...
Jan 20, 2021•33 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Send me a message So, Auke Hoekstra is a bit of a legend in the renewable energy, and electric vehicle world. Program Director at NEON research leading a team of 35 PhD's at Eindhoven University of Technology Auke and his team are at the forefront of R&D into clean energy generation, electricity storage, and usage in transportation. However, it is on his Twitter account ( @AukeHoekstra ) where Auke really shines. He regularly posts detailed, carefully researched, Twitter Threads debunking si...
Jan 13, 2021•47 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Send me a message In this week's episode of the podcast I'm talking Prof Stephanie Bertels - Prof Bertels is the Director of the Centre for Corporate Governance and Sustainability SFU Beedie School of Business as well as Founder and Executive Director of The Embedding Project . We had a fascinating conversation covering the reasons why climate change matters to business today now more than ever (spoiler alert - it has to do with the risks to global markets), the setting of climate goals by organ...
Jan 06, 2021•43 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Send me a message The last Climate 21 episode of 2020 Quick announcement - to help serve you the podcast audience better I have created a chat room on my TomRaftery.com website. Just go to TomRaftery.com/climate and there you can leave ideas for topics for upcoming podcasts, speaker suggestions, feedback on episodes, or create your own topic for people to chat about 3 back episodes including: The inaugural episode with SAP Executive Board member Thomas Saueressig where he introduced SAP’s Climat...
Dec 23, 2020•13 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Send me a message Microsoft has a stellar track record when it comes to climate emissions. Microsoft rolled out an internal price on carbon in 2012 - something most major companies today have yet to do. And in January 2020 Microsoft announced its plan to become carbon negative by 2030, and by 2050 to remove from the atmosphere all the carbon Microsoft has been responsible for emitting since it began operations in 1975. Given these audacious commitments, and the stated aim of this podcast to shar...
Dec 16, 2020•44 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Send me a message Fossil fuel companies are in large part responsible for the current climate emergency we find ourselves in - both through the products they produce, and through delaying climate action by governments for as long as they possibly could. Things have changed for the better more recently though. With the signing of the Paris Climate Agreement, with the global rise of renewables, and with an ever increasing number of climate-related disasters, fossil fuel companies (most of them at ...
Dec 09, 2020•30 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Send me a message Welcome to the inaugural episode of the Climate 21 podcast - thank you for your interest. This is a podcast which aims to talk to senior executives, climate scientists, and other interested stakeholders to share successful climate emissions reductions stories/strategies to help inspire others on this important journey. For this first episode I invited SAP Executive Board member Thomas Saueressig to come on the podcast to talk about SAP's Climate 21 initiative (after which this ...
Dec 02, 2020•33 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Send me a message Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, where-ever you are in the world. This is the Climate 21 podcast, and I am your host, Global Vice President for SAP, Tom Raftery. Climate 21 is an initiative by SAP to allow our customers calculate, report, and reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. The climate 21 podcast will showcase best practices and thought leadership by SAP, its customers, partners and competitors (if they’re game) in emissions reductions. I will be interviewing ...
Sep 07, 2020•44 sec•Season 1Ep. 1
