In this week's Net Hero Podcast, Sumit Bose speaks to Executive Director at Symphony Environmental Michael Stephen about technology that turns ordinary plastic biodegradable

In this podcast I talk about starting your sustainability journey and how sometimes just wanting to start is enough...

Team up. And start.

That's the way to get to net zero says Fitzoy Hutchinson, who is in charge of sustainability for the famous Celtic Manor Resort.

In this brief chat we discuss the issue of supply chains and the challenges of getting emissions down if budgets are tight. Fitzroy has worked in the NHS and now in hospitality, where there are huge challenges and also expectations from their consumers be that patients, or tourists.

He told me how he is trying not to punish his suppliers, rather encourage them to join the Celtic Manor pathway to net zero. We also discuss how to cut back without costing the earth for your organisation.

When I ask Fitzroy his top tip for those trying to cut emissions, he responds adeptly: "What can you do? Do the best you can!"

Come and hear more from Fitzroy when he speaks at the Big Zero Show on July 2nd.

That's how you can navigate your way through this tricky winter, says Anton Roberts, Director of Commercial and Transformation from TotalEnergies.

Pascal Radue, CEO of GE’s Hydro Solutions for GE Renewable Energy spoke to FNZ about the role of hydropower in the current energy crisis.

In this episode I talk to two experts on how to navigate the crazy world of energy prices. With Russia continuing its war the price of energy is more volatile than ever. So what can you do and how can your business or public sector organisation survive ?

For Energy Markets week, Kiran Bose spoke with Gina Cohen, a Natural Gas Consultant for the Technion University in Israel on what the continent can do to combat the ongoing energy crisis.

“There’s not much Europe can do in the short term,” she said.

You work up a sweat as you pound the pedals or the treadmill, 400 calories burned and then... you charge your phone with the energy you generated!

That is already happening thanks to a bright idea from Will Flint the CEO of Energym! listen now to an amazing concept.

Water can cut carbon emissions linked to your organisation – and help reduce energy bills – and this really can involve just a few simple steps. The official water partner for Future Net Zero, Water Plus, outlines how.

In this podcast, Barry McGovaney, Innovation and Technology Manager at Water Plus, the largest water retailer in the UK, covers practical steps that can make a big impact for organisations – large and small. He also shares insight and figures around some of the savings available. 

Dan Hutchins, a Key Account Manager from Water Plus talks to us about how looking at water use can help public sector organisations with the climate emergency challenges to go Net Zero.

In this podcast Sumit speaks to Jeff Allinson from Delta Clean Tech on the issue of carbon capture. Could it be the best way to reduce our damage to the planet without compromising our lifestyles? Or is it a licence to pollute and a pawn used by the rich to demonstrate greenwashed credentials? Listen in and subscribe.

Tony McHardy, who is a people champion on the Executive Committee and Commercial Director at Water Plus, covers steps the company is taking to help reduce impacts on the environment.

Water can be a whizz to help organisations, small and large, reduce impacts they can have. It can also lower energy use.

Barry McGovaney, Innovation and Technology Manager at Water Plus, the largest water retailer in the UK, explains where the carbon emissions are in water at sites.

In this podcast, Kenny Hallet, Head of Sales Development and Nick Parr, Head of Major Business Commercial join the team at Future Net Zero to give a quick market update. They look back at the past few years to talk through the energy market and how we’ve got to where we are now!

They discuss the landscape through covid, the war in Ukraine and an energy crisis to market stability and normality in 2024, touching on how as a business we managed daily spikes, changing consumer appetite for energy procurement and how we’ve diversified our product offering to strike a balance between risk and budget certainty.

What happened with demand destruction as working from home became the norm, is the market evolving so that automation, better data, and flexible consumption become common place and is Kenny about to be replaced by AI!? Listen to find out…

Podcast highlights:

• Kenny has been in the energy industry for 20 years! We couldn’t have anticipated or prepared for the shocks of the last few years. The energy crisis took the market by surprise, it’s been a long recovery buts it’s raised the profile of energy.
• Nick states customers and suppliers have had to understand what the risks are and how to get through these. We saw markets spike on a daily basis, which created a challenging environment for everyone.
• Demand destruction has been significant, and we’ve learnt how to reduce our demand. With a milder winter, we’ve an abundance of storage!
• Current landscape has been stable, so some customers have planned ahead and reforecast in line with usage.
• Talking to your supplier is more important now than ever. We want to take the time to focus and understand people’s needs, some products are complicated, but we can offer reassurance and guidance.

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For further information on anything discussed in the podcast, or if you want to explore our products and get some guidance and support on which one is best for your business, get in touch with our team today.

We’ve a comprehensive product line up to meet your procurement needs and a variety of renewable options to get you stared on the road to net zero.

Karen Brock, who is a Customer Communications and Campaign Lead at Water Plus, the UK’s largest water retailer, explains the benefits for any organisation to look closer at the water they’re using.

On this week's podcast Shidan Gouran of BlueSphere Carbon takes me on a journey into the matrix-like code of carbon credits and blockchain! I find it horribly confusing but could blockchain help clean up this part of the net zero world?

Sumit Bose speaks to Amit Chopra from Schneider Electric on why EVs might just help you beat the energy price crisis.

As the reality of the energy crisis starts to bite this autumn, should manufacturers do more to make products that are automatically as energy efficient as possible. I speak to Lena Henry the Managing Director of Whirlpool in the UK about its net zero commitments and what they are doing to ease the consumer energy burden.

In this podcast I speak to Rupert Pearce the CEO of Highview Power about their 'frozen air' technology for energy storage and how the wider sector must play its part in cutting the wasted energy generation from wind and solar

So how does the NHS go about tackling the net zero challenge?

Well in Manchester they have a plan and I spoke to Sarah Price, who’s in charge of their ambtion of getting to net zero by 2038 and cutting current emissions by half, in just three years!

Do we need to get used to long dry hot summers? Is water soon going to be a precious resource and is all this change weather or climate change. I speak to climate scientist Freya Garry for the definitive answers.

in this episode I look at how digitalisation can be the way to clean up air travel for future generations.

Could energy bills hit £500 a month by winter and is this upwards hike in prices ever going to stop? Find out in this week's podcast with Sumit Bose

The CPRE, the countryside charity has said we have lost about 1400 hectares of prime agricultural land to green energy projects, with more planned. Are we sleepwalking into a planning crisis where we face off food v power?

You must take your supply chain with you if you want to get to net zero.

That's what Matteo Deidda from Lloyds Banking Group told me as we discussed how we can take all businesses on the journey to net zero. Matteo will be speaking at our Pathway to Net Zero talks offering a synopsis of the Lloyds group's ambition to halve its supply chain emissions by the end of this decade.

We discussed how it's important for larger companies not to persecute but encourage and help smaller suppliers who are not as aware of what they can do to reduce emissions.

Listen to our short chat and remember to book one of the last free tickets remaining for the Big Zero Show.

This week Sumit Bose chats with Ellis about Scope 1,2,3 and what it all means and look forward to the Tory leadership race and its effect for net zero

In this week's podcast I speak to Grahame Buss a spokesperson for Just Stop Oil.

You can't have missed their actions from recently running onto the Silverstone Grand Prix track, to gluing themselves to paintings in galleries, painting the steps of the Treasury red and of course, handcuffing onto goal posts!

In this episode Sumit Bose looks back at our inaugural show and discuss the issues that came up

Our oceans are our planet and they are warming up. Latest research from the World Meterological Organization shows the waters are acidifiying and warming at a rate not seen for 26,000 years.

In this podcast I chat to Dr Maxx Dilley, the Director of the Climate Programme, who explained why this is happening, it's implications and thankfully something we can do to halt or even reverse this trend.

This week Prof Thomas Maschmeyer the boss of battery tech firm Gelion, talks the good, bad and ugly of battery tech

Why are they so important in the green transition? – we find out on this week’s future Net Zero podcast

In this episode Sumit Bose speaks to our new young carbon jedi Ellis Hall, he's heading up our carbon partnerships programme and will be out and about meeting as many people as possible, to help businesses on their net zero pathway.

Serhii Dubinevych and Stanislav Zet work together running a company called fuelwell. It is trying to cut emissions on ICE cars and other vehicles by cleaning up the combustion process by almost a fifth. It's great science and a good story. But what is most remarkable is that they are continuing to operate in the midst of the Ukraine war!

It's a big question that the Met Office's Hadley Centre of climate research has been trying to answer by looking back at historical data. Dr Mark McCarthy and his team have looked up historical records going back to the Victorian era and beyond and found that weather extremes are nothing new!

The food we eat. You are what you eat. Eat well be well.

So many phrases revolve around our fundamental need to shove something in our mouths but should there be a new phrase?

Eat for the planet?

In our Pathway to Net Zero sessions at the Big Zero Show, we will be exploring exactly that concept. I spoke to Tom Maidment from Hilton Foods, who will be speaking about the footprint of food used by your business and why it's often ignored by many of us, when looking at our emissions footprint.

However, it can not only be sigificant but also something you can affect directly.

Want to know more, listen in and come along on July 2nd.

In this week's podcast I hear from Mike Gray from GreenClub which is working to make golf more sustainable. It even had me changing my mind so do listen in.

In this podcast Sumit investigates the cost benefit for retrofitting housing stock using new materials as demonstrated by a unique housing project run by Nottingham council.

We've featured so many stories on batteries here on the Net Hero Podcast so it takes something to get us interested. However the work Charlie Welch and his team at ZapBatt based in California is doing did make me take notice.

They're working on using a type of batter that lasts longer, holds more charge and importantly can be reused for far far longer so it causes less environmental damage in terms of having to re-mine the precious metals and minerals.

In this episode find out why one of the UK's poorest boroughs has invested heavily in rooftop solar for a school and how the Ukrainian renewable sector is trying to bravely carry on as infrastructure all around is blown to bits

Stop Russian energy imports say Ukrainian activists and Sumit Bose discusses the future of clean Hydrogen powered rail

In this Net Hero podcast we look at the Ukraine invasion and what the energy sector must do and explore the role of EVs in energy flexibility.

In this week’s podcast with two Gemserv experts, we look to uncover how the heat industry is changing and the key role it has in a low carbon future

Dirt. Soil. Bugs.

Could the answer to tackling climate change be under our feet? The microbiome - in other words the world of bacteria, viruses and fungi that live in soil could be an under used resource in the battle to reduce greenhouse gases according to one British company.

Sumit Bose spoke to Robin Brundle from Technology Minerals about batteries and how we can save the precious resources inside them for future use

We spoke with Urban-Air Port's Ricky Sandhu on the future of eVTOLs - but what are they and would you be willing to take one?

In this week's briefing I chatted to Simon Manley from UNDO, who will be taking us on a journey through carbon removals when he speaks at the Big Zero Show in July.

If you've not heard of carbon removal, it's a bit similar to carbon capture but often involves passive natural resources to grab the carbon out of the air, in the case of UNDO they are using rocks and natural weathering to do the job.

Check out this quick intro into the topic and why it can be a tool used by businesses of all sizes today, to help them on their pathway to net zero.

Catch Simon in person on day One of the show.

We spoke with ENA’s Farina Farrier about how energy networks are set to adapt to the green transition and what this means for the market and infrastructure.

This week we speak to a team of students from Coventry University Business school who have designed a house that is cheap to build from recycled materials for developing nations at risk of flooding from climate change

Can we make cement and concrete less carbon intensive as we try and build a new net zero world?

Sumit Bose speaks to Ian Riley from the World Cement Association about the challenges to make concrete cleaner and even carbon negative