Carbon Clarity

The rise of Artificial Intelligence is changing our world, but at what cost? AI searches consume significantly more energy than standard online queries, and the data centres powering this revolution are transforming into the heavy industry of our age. But how do these energy-hungry giants impact our planet and communities? In this episode, we talk to Anna Dowson, Senior Director of

In this episode, I'm joined by Nigel Banks, Technical Director at Octopus Energy; now the UK's largest energy supplier. We get into all manner of energy and carbon related chat including how Octopus can afford to guarantee that customers on their Zero Bills tariff won't pay anything for energy for an extraordinary 10 years, why moving data centres and other energy hungry industry t

Six months into the Carbon Clarity podcast journey and time for a recap! I'm thrilled to be joined once again by Andrew Chamberlain, MD of Elevated who takes over the question master duties for this episode where we talk about the pod so far, previous guests and the conversations with them. We also talk about where global events leave the carbon agenda right now, how we can still r

The existing buildings challenge. In this episode, I'm joined by Sam McCabe, architect and PassivHaus Designer to discuss the oft repeated fact that 80% of the buildings that will exist in 2050 have already been built and the challenge of how we align them with a Net Zero future. We have a teensy pop at Project Managers who don't give enough time for feasibility work. And architect

In this episode, I'm excited to be joined by Tom Wigg, Senior Advisor, Net Zero Carbon Buildings at the UK Green Building Council to talk all things NZC Buildings Standard. If you're in any way connected to the built environment industry in the UK, you'll have no doubt heard about this new standard, created through the unprecedented collaboration of 9 professional and industry bodi

Risk. It's a language every business should understand but do organisations have climate risk in their lexicon? In this episode I'm joined by founder of Bemari Consulting, Marina Bradford to talk about some of the myths that organisations fall foul of and which mean they aren't as prepared as they should be for a range of climate risks. Find out what's meant by physical and transit

This time I'm super excited to be joined by Anna Sturtivant, a sustainability practitioner with experience in consulting, central government and now a Sustainability Manager at the BBC. I was really interested to dig into the particular challenges facing large and complex organisations when it comes to creating traction for carbon reduction activity - we discuss the importance of r

In this episode I'm thrilled to be joined by my old colleague, Cat Hirst. A sustainability lifer, Cat published her book 'A Regenerative Mindset' last year to cement her place as one of the growing band of expert practitioners who believe sustainability as we know it isn't enough to bring the world back into balance. In this fascinating episode, we explore what it means for a busin

In this episode, I chat to Elina Grigoriou owner and Design and Sustainability Director of Grigoriou Interiors, and the chair of the new Ska Rating board. We explore some great new research, recently published, on the up-front carbon in Cat B fit-outs - an often poorly represented and therefore frequently ignored part of a building's overall carbon impact. We talk about Elina's upb

In this episode I chat to Andrew Chamberlain, MD of Elevated and specialist in non-profit business management. We get into a discussion about the role of membership associations in supporting their members on climate action - we cover the role of signposting, not trying to solve the whole problem, and how framing their role in the conversation can support members. If you're a membe