The world is at a crossroads when it comes to sustainability. The way we produce and consume goods and services is putting increasing pressure on the planet’s finite resources. At the same time, we are faced with the challenge of meeting the needs of a rapidly growing global population. Fortunately…

Creating Certainty In Natural Climate Solutions — Making Natural Carbon Removal Systems a More Investible Climate Solution With COP27’s “breakthrough” moment focusing collective attention on financial compensation and support, I speak with an innovative startup looking to rebuild trust and create some much needed certainty to accelerate carbon removal through natural technology solutions. Just because it’s green and natural doesn’t mean it isn’t a technology. Nature is…

In this article I take a look at defining carbon awareness, talk about global and personal carbon budgets and finish by looking at how businesses could use these to drive accountability of carbon reductions throughout their businesses. Here’s a quick jump-to list for this article: Carbon Awareness Personal Carbon Budgets …

Zero Carbon Forum — Sustainable future for hospitality The panel session moderated by Zero Carbon Forum’s Mark Chapman didn’t hold any punches and gave a lot to think about. There was a lot of good things in this conversation, including the importance of telling stories to inspire people (yes, that was music to my ears!) — in fact…

When you think of the global challenges we are facing and the myriad of inspiring technologies that are being invested in, developed, and deployed where do insurance companies fit in? It wasn’t something that immediately came to my mind, but looking deeper, there is something particularly exciting about this. Insurance in the era of accelerating climate crises Axios…

Beyond Carbon, Employee Engagement and Eco-Anxiety In addition to Scope3/B-Corp obligations for accounting for remote employee’s carbon emissions, there are other reasons why employers should be looking to engage staff in this discussion. First, during the ongoing energy crisis many employees could be struggling to balance energy prices with comfortable, productive working conditions. Engaging staff in…

A digital carbon footprint represents the total amount of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) attributable to the lifetime manufacture, use and end-of-life of the digital products and services we use. However, the generated CO2e is is not equally distributed across that product lifetime. The lifetime CO2 e of a product or…

A digital carbon footprint represents the total amount of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) attributable to the lifetime manufacture, use and end-of-life of the digital products and services we use. This includes the products we buy, such as laptops and mobile phones, and also the services we consume, including streaming video…

Tens of billions of Internet of Things gadgets and devices will cause billions of tons of CO2, what can be done using IOT Edge Computing to mitigate this? I take a look at some numbers and speak with ObjectBox to find out more. Recently I’ve written quite a bit about…