Climate Positive

Nov 14 2024 86 ep. 37 mins 35
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Featuring candid conversations with the leaders, innovators, and changemakers driving our climate positive future. Hosted by Chad Reed, Gil Jenkins, and Hilary Langer.

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Critical Minerals: Made in the USA | Coleman Adams, CFO of Nth Cycle

Nov 14 2024 37 mins  
Critical minerals are absolutely vital for the energy transition. Without nickel, copper, lithium, cobalt and other rare earth elements, we simply cannot produce the solar modules, wind turbines, batteries and other technologies necessary to decarbonize the global economy. It’s no surprise then that demand for these critical minerals is expected to almost triple by 2030. But mi

Insights from a climate and energy reporter’s notebook | Tim McDonnell, Semafor

Oct 30 2024 43 mins  
In this this episode of Climate Positive, hosts Gil Jenkins and Conor Fryer sit down with Tim McDonnell, Climate & Energy Editor at Semafor and the author of Semafor’s Net Zero newsletter, to delve into the current state of climate journalism, real-time energy crises, and the forces driving the energy transition. Tim reflects on how far climate reporting has come, moving past bas

Nature’s Best Hope | Dr. Doug Tallamy

Oct 16 2024 33 mins  
In this episode, Dr. Tallamy and Hilary Langer tap into the world of caterpillars, birds, and native flora to illuminate how individuals can be agents of change and address urgent issues of species loss and ecosystem collapse. From publishing research on insects to reviving his own property that was overrun by non-native plants, Dr. Tallamy's journey has been a fascinating explorat

Climate and the Court | Kevin Poloncarz, Covington & Burling

Sep 26 2024 43 mins  
Over the last few years, the United States has led the world in the fight against climate change by passing some of the most impactful and largest investments in infrastructure and related regulatory reforms ever. Together, the Inflation Reduction Act and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law seek to deploy nearly $1 trillion in climate positive infrastructure investment over the next

Revolutionizing wind power with the world’s largest aircraft | Mark Lundstrom, Founder and CEO of Radia

Sep 12 2024 38 mins  
For the world to meet its growing need for low-cost clean energy and achieve ambitious decarbonization targets, land-based onshore wind energy must be an increasingly large part of the electricity generation mix—potentially as much as 20-41% by 2050, according to BloombergNEF and the International Energy Agency (IEA). But there is a challenge: the most efficient and cost-effectiv

Reimagining the maritime industry to cut emissions | Roger Holm, Wärtsilä

Aug 29 2024 32 mins  
The maritime industry transports over 80% of goods worldwide and is essential to the deployment of climate technologies. At present, the industry contributes approximately 2 to 3% of global emissions, but this figure is projected to grow without major changes to the industry and its ancillary services. However, decarbonizing the maritime industry is unusually challenging. As the pr

Eavor Loop – the underground underdog | Jeanine Vany, Eavor

Aug 08 2024 35 mins  
As the accelerating deployment of variable wind and solar resources pushes us ever closer to Net Zero – or the state whereby we’re not emitting any more greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere than we are simultaneously removing – we increasingly need to deploy both battery storage as well as dispatchable renewable baseload generation. But despite its ability to serve as

HASI leadership in conversation | Jeff Lipson, Marc Pangburn, Susan Nickey

Jul 30 2024 47 mins  
We started the Climate Positive podcast just over three years ago at HASI, seeing an opportunity to contribute our unique perspective to the climate and clean energy podcast scene. As a pure play climate investment firm, we aimed to cultivate a forum for mission-driven leaders, innovators, and changemakers to engage in conversations about the challenges and opportunities on the pat

Transferring tax credits has never been so fun (and easy) | Alfred Johnson, CEO of Crux

Jul 11 2024 37 mins  
For over a century, the U.S. government has provided subsidies – often in the form of tax credits – to support domestic energy production. For renewable energy sources, these tax credits have traditionally subsidized investment (i.e., a project’s capital expenditure) and production (i.e., the amount of energy produced by a project). But the Inflation Reduction Act altered the

Innovation at the grid edge | Barbara Humpton, CEO of Siemens USA

Jun 27 2024 56 mins  
Barbara Humpton, President and CEO of Siemens USA, sits down with Gil Jenkins and Susan Nickey to discuss Siemens' pivotal role in advancing sustainability across industry, infrastructure, and transportation sectors. The conversation dives into Siemens' approach to decarbonization as an engine for growth and spotlights how innovation at the grid edge will be key to delivering a mor