Let's Talk Sustainable Business

May 02 2024 19

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Let’s Talk Sustainable Business is a solutions-focused podcast which explores sustainability through a business lens. Expect to learn from leaders of global corporates and start up founders about sustainable business models and solutions. The podcast aims to help businesses of all sizes move closer to their sustainability goals by sharing actionable insights from industry leaders.

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S5E13 - Interview with a Corporate Governance Pioneer

May 02 2024 27 mins

Professor Guy Jubb is an Honorary Professor at the University of Edinburgh Business School and Co-Director of the Conference Board's European Corporate Governance Council. A chartered accountant, Guy is a corporate governance pioneer, having worked on investor stewardship and ESG issues since the early 1990s. In this episode, Guy talks about being one of the first people in the UK

S5E12 - A Socially-Focused European Tech Company

Apr 18 2024 21 mins

Genica Schaefgen from Ecosia talks about how customers' privacy is at the core of the business, how Ecosia is the official "planting partner" of debit card company TreeCard - which dedicates 80% of profits earned from merchant transaction fees into planting trees, why the company is very careful who it partners with, and Genica's work with the Social Entrepreneurship Network Germa

S5E11 - Planting Trees By Using a Search Engine

Apr 04 2024 19 mins

Genica Schaefgen is Head of Ecosia Germany, a Berlin-based tech company best known as the "search engine that plants trees". In this episode, Genica explains how using Ecosia contributes to its global tree-planting projects, enabling a tree to be planted "every 1.3 seconds", why Ecosia positions itself as a social business and takes a holistic approach to its biodiversity projects

S5E10 - Reimagining an Industry Value Chain

Mar 21 2024 20 mins

Mari Granström from Origin by Ocean talks about scaling up and reimagining an algae processing value chain, how she feels about EU and global climate and oceans policy, developing collaborative partnerships, and the advice she would give to anyone thinking of setting up a company with a bio-based focus.

S5E9 - Transforming Harmful Algae Into Everyday Goods

Mar 07 2024 20 mins

Mari Granström is the CEO and Founder of Origin by Ocean, a Finnish start-up building a business ecosystem based on farmed and harvested algae, which is turned into ingredients used in the production of everyday consumer goods including in food, cosmetics, detergents, agriculture, textiles and packaging. In this episode we discuss why Mari decided to focus on the processed algae m

S5E8 - EU Greenwashing Legislation's Impact on Companies

Feb 12 2024 26 mins

The European Commission's Małgorzata Gołębiewska talks about how the EU Green Claims Directive aims to "level the playing field" for companies, the recent amendment to the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive, the important role independent verification will play in the future, and also answers a question she often receives - what will the cost be for companies needing to adhe

S5E7 - The EU Green Claims Directive: Tackling Greenwashing

Feb 08 2024 17 mins

Małgorzata Gołębiewska is Team Leader for Environmental Footprint & Green Claims, DG Environment, at the European Commission. She leads the preparation and negotiation for the EU Green Claims Directive, a proposal to help combat greenwashing which sets out requirements on how to substantiate environmental claims and introduces rules on environmental labelling schemes. In this ep

S5E6 - How to meaningfully communicate about sustainability

Jan 25 2024 26 mins

Radley Yeldar's Louise Ayling talks about how reporting standards such as the ESRS can help bridge the 'communications gap' prevalent in sustainability and how they provide an opportunity for companies to talk about their impact in a more transparent and compelling manner. We also discuss some of our favourite sustainability communications campaigns and whether 'greenwashing' rema

S5E5 - Making Sustainability Communications More Credible

Jan 12 2024 20 mins

Louise Ayling is Director of Sustainability and a board member at Radley Yeldar, a creative consultancy specialising in brand, corporate and sustainability communications. In this episode, Louise talks in-depth about Radley Yeldar's practical guide 'Words that Work: Effective Language in Sustainability Communications", which reviewed the sustainability webpages from 50 of Forbes'

S5E4 - Raising awareness of greenwashing, advocating for change

Dec 14 2023 22 mins

Eco-Age's George Harding-Rolls talks about the greenwash.com website he helped set up and its aim to help consumers better identify greenwashing. We also discuss whether companies should become advocates for legislative change in sustainability to "change the rules of the game", rather than focus too much on creating "the perfect green product".