Net Hero Podcast – With Sumit Bose

The pathway to net zero can be broken down into four simple steps - Review, Reduce, Renew, Rebalance.

The pathway to net zero can be broken down into four simple steps - Review, Reduce, Renew, Rebalance.
 
That's the suggestion from Simon Alsbury, Managing Director of Energise, who spoke to future Net Zero News Editor Jonny Bairstow in the first of a series of podcasts titled 'Counting Carbon'.

Muntons and its 100-year sustainable journey

Muntons is a family run business, established in 1921 and Group Managing Director, Mark Tyldesley told me what makes the Suffolk based maltsters so special: “We’re a malt and malt ingredients business.  Essentially, we buy barley, turn it into malt and then sell it to brewing and distilling industries and the food sector. We’re in beers like BrewDog and lots of confectionary; it’s a fabulous business that many consumers will be familiar with, but they just don’t know it.”

Clean energy strategies 'must be holistically integrated with wider commercial objectives'

Clean energy strategies must be holistically integrated with wider commercial objectives.
That's the suggestion from Stuart Duncan, Distributed Energy Strategic Sales Manager at Centrica Business Solutions, who explained how the firm is helping customers manage the challenge of aligning business objectives to an overarching energy strategy.

To make any real progress on tackling Scope 1 emissions, businesses need to start decarbonising heat

To make any real progress on tackling Scope 1 emissions, businesses need to start decarbonising heat.
That's the suggestion from Stuart Reid, Managing Director of Projects at AMP Clean Energy, who told future Net Zero Founder Sumit Bose that a "very interesting time" is fast approaching as businesses' journeys towards net zero begin in earnest.

'Customers need to be offered the right solutions at the right time in order to decarbonise heat'

Customers need to be offered the right solutions at the right time in order to effectively and practically decarbonise the UK's heat networks.
That's the suggestion from Ian Cameron, Head of Customer Service and Innovation at UK Power Networks, who in a conversation with future Net Zero Founder Sumit Bose, noted heat is the single biggest source of carbon emissions across the country and outlined the practical steps that need to be taken to start moving towards changing this.

Gaia Says No! Episode 12 - Epilogue

Gaia Says No! Episode 11 – Sting in the tail?

In the penultimate episode we discuss how the planet could reap revenge on us if we continue to harm the biosphere
 

How UK Power Networks Services is helping UPS to electrify its fleet

UPS is working towards electrifying its fleet and UK Power Networks Services is helping them on that journey.
future Net Zero's Jonny Bairstow spoke to Claire Thompson-Sage, Sustainable Development Co-ordinator at UPS, and Alan Thompson, Head of Energy Technology Consulting at UK Power Networks Services, to find out more about the obstacles faced along the way and how they are being overcome.
Listen to the full podcast to find out more...
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'It makes no sense to talk about hydrogen without talking about ramping up renewables'

It makes no sense to talk about hydrogen without talking about ramping up renewable energy generation.
That was the statement underlined by Kaiserwetter's Rene Mono in a recent interview with future Net Zero Founder Sumit Bose, who stressed clean energy technologies such as wind and solar power "must go hand-in-hand" with the use of the gas as a tool for decarbonisation.

Alicia Charennat, foldAI

Smart sensors in forests could help give us a picture of their health and ability to capture carbon, says foldAI