Good Future

Jul 29 2024 97 ep. 38 mins 38

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A podcast about the business of sustainability. John Treadgold interviews business leaders in sustainability, ESG and impact investing who are re-defining economics and building companies as a force for good.

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Hampus Jakobsson: Accidental entrepreneur, to reluctant VC, and now climate investor

Jul 29 2024 76 mins

This week on the podcast I’m excited to be joined by Hampus Jakobsson, his career to discover climate-tech has been a wild ride so far and he has a great knack for story-telling, so I’m sure you’re going to enjoy this one. Hampus is based in Sweden, and he started out as an entrepreneur, bouncing from Sony-Ericsson to Blackberry, building software in the early days of mobil

Tim Buckley: Our clean-energy export advantage, budget winners and investment pathways

Jun 26 2024 36 mins

We’ve long heard the arguments for how and why Australia should be a leader in renewable energy and decarbonisation, and finally, in the 2024 budget, we saw the Treasurer take decisive action, and chart a course for Australia to become a clean energy superpower. Of course we’re not there yet, but on the show today I’m joined by Tim Buckley, an esteemed climate commentator w

Clara Barby: Just Climate and the $1.5B climate strategy decarbonising heavy industry

Jun 03 2024 70 mins

Today’s guest is Clara Barby. She’s been a central player in the impact investment sector for decades. Early on she worked at Acumen, she then moved on to Bridges Fund Management, and she’s currently Senior Partner at Just Climate which was spun-out of Generation Investment Management, the sustainable investment firm launched by none other than Al Gore. Along the way she’

Anjali Nelson: GreenCollar driving natural-capital innovation with Nature Plus biodiversity credits

Oct 09 2023 32 mins

On the podcast today I have Anjali Nelson, she’s General Manager of Operations at GreenCollar, an environmental markets developer that’s leading not only Australia, but the world, in developing nature-based solutions to combat both climate change and biodiversity loss. This is the fourth episode in our series of conversations exploring opportunities to ‘invest in natural cap

Nigel Sharp: A pioneer in the business of biodiversity, farmer, impact investor and conservationist

Oct 02 2023 28 mins

Today we’re approaching the topic of investing in biodiversity, by speaking to Nigel Sharp, he’s a farmer, but he’s also a businessman and a fund manager. And over the past two decades he’s been a pioneer in the ‘Business of Biodiversity’. Nigel is a pioneer in this space, the Tiverton investment vehicle has developed a whole range of agricultural projects on land hol

Tony Goldner: TNFD launch, nature disclosures, and corporate action on biodiversity loss

Sep 19 2023 39 mins

The past decade has seen huge progress in the way companies analyse their exposure to carbon emissions, but far less effort has been put into understanding the complex interactions companies have with nature, and the risks this poses for investors and the health of our environment. If we’re to have a hope of reaching net-zero, we need to reverse the trends of biodiversity loss

Rachel Lowry: How WWF supports investors to value natural-capital and protect biodiversity

Sep 05 2023 52 mins

On the show today we have Rachel Lowry, she’s Chief Conservation Officer at WWF. In this episode she explains why investors need to care about the growing biodiversity crisis, and the challenges of measuring and conserving natural capital. It says a lot about the sustainable investment movement that finally, conservationists and financial services are working together. To ident

Ben Krasnostein & Jodi York: Impact benchmarks & investing in climate-solutions at Kilara Capital

Dec 05 2022 50 mins

We’re moving from theory to practice with Ben Krasnostein and Dr Jodi York from Kilara Capital. They’re an impact investing powerhouse and today, we’re digging into the models and frameworks they employ, but more importantly, how their impact approach can help to both drive-down greenhouse gas emissions, while also boosting financial returns. Ben is founder and managing di

Sarah Gelfand: Measuring impact investment performance with BlueMark

Nov 08 2022 30 mins

In today’s episode we’ve got Sarah Gelfand on the show, she’s Managing Director of BlueMark, an impact verification business that was spun-out of consulting firm Tideline. She works with the world’s leading impact investors, to verify their impact results across both their management practices and their impact performance. And most recently she authored a report called ‘

Dean Hand: Impact Investing at an Inflection Point, The evolution of the GIIN

Oct 19 2022 36 mins

We talk a lot about impact investing on this show, and while we tend to focus on the deals and the companies, we often gloss over the more challenging process of impact measurement and management. Right now is an important time to explore these issues, because the structures of impact investing are at an inflection point. The market has realised the importance of using consistent