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Cleaning Up: Leadership in an Age of Climate Change

Cleaning Up: Leadership in an Age of Climate Change

Michael Liebreich, Bryony Worthington

Once a week, Michael Liebreich and Bryony Worthington have a conversation with a leader in clean energy, mobility, climate finance or sustainable development. Informative, inspiring and fun!
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Cleaning Up: Leadership in an Age of Climate Change - Pioneering Impact Investor - Ep89: Ion Yadigaroglu

Pioneering Impact Investor - Ep89: Ion Yadigaroglu

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06/07/22 • 63 min

Ion Yadigaroglu has been Managing Partner at Capricorn Investment Group since 2004, and is an early investor in iconic technology companies including Tesla, SpaceX, Planet, QuantumScape and Saildrone. Capricorn was born from the desire to demonstrate the huge investment potential that resides in breakthrough commercial solutions to the world’s most pressing problems, and as such is one of the original impact investors.

Prior to Capricorn, Ion was Director of Business Development (M&A) with Koch Industries, executing a range of acquisitions and investments, and a Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Bivio, a software startup in Colorado, and an Analyst at Olsen & Associates, a quantitative forex trader.

Ion was a research fellow at Columbia University and holds a master’s in physics from ETH Zürich in Switzerland and a Ph.D. in Astrophysics from Stanford University. Ion serves on the boards of Twelve and Capricorn, and was a founding member in 2007 of GIIN, the Global Impact Investor Network, and is a Director of non-profits Ceres and MethaneSat.

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Cleaning Up: Leadership in an Age of Climate Change - Free Solar - Ep83: Alex Honnold

Free Solar - Ep83: Alex Honnold

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04/13/22 • 63 min

Alex Honnold is one of the world’s best rock climbers, famous for his free solo ascents of big walls, including his 2017 first free solo of El Capitan in Yosemite.

Alex began studies in engineering at the University of California-Berkeley but dropped out to pursue his passion for climbing, living out of his van. He first attracted attention within the climbing community in 2008 when he became the first climber to free solo Half Dome in Yosemite. In 2012 he established the speed record for the Yosemite Triple Crown, climbing three big walls in under 19 hours. With Hans Florine, Alex climbed the popular Nose of El Capitan, a nearly 3,000-foot granite wall, in a record time of two hours 23 minutes and 51 seconds – a feat National Geographic described as perhaps " the greatest feat of pure rock climbing in the history of the sport."

Alex has been profiled by 60 minutes and the New York Times, appeared on the cover of National Geographic and starred in numerous adventure films. In 2015, together with professional climbing writer David Roberts, he authored Alone on the Wall, the story of seven of his greatest climbing feats up to that year.

In 2012 Alex founded the Honnold Foundation to provide solar power to some of the disadvantaged communities he was coming across in his climbing career. In 2021 the Foundation supported 44 communities across 17 countries with its brand of community-centered innovation catalyzed by solar energy.

Further reading:

Free Solo - trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urRVZ4SW7WU

Free Solo – website

https://films.nationalgeographic.com/free-solo

The Ascent of Alex Honnold – CBS special report with Lara Logan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SR1jwwagtaQ

Eduro Corner – the most exposed move of Alex’s Free Solo climb of El Capitan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blfR33DUqsg

Honnold Foundation

https://www.honnoldfoundation.org/

Project Bo

https://www.projectbo.org/

Project Bo - lessons learned

https://www.liebreich.com/project-bo-saving-lives-in-sierra-leone-with-solar-batteries-and-twitter/

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Cleaning Up: Leadership in an Age of Climate Change - Rounding Up Season 11 - Ep159: Michael Liebreich & Bryony Worthington

Rounding Up Season 11 - Ep159: Michael Liebreich & Bryony Worthington

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04/03/24 • 73 min

Bryony and Michael round up the eleventh season of Cleaning Up this week. They explore the themes running through the episodes, from theories of change to innovation, and discuss the things that surprised them, the moments they liked (or didn't) and reasons for optimism for the transition.

Links:

Ep149: Material World - Ed Conway: https://www.cleaningup.live/material-world-ep149-ed-conway/

Ep150: Selling Sustainability - Solitaire Townsend: https://www.cleaningup.live/selling-sustainability-ep150-solitaire-townsend/

Ep151: Redesigning Mining - Mark Cutifani: https://www.cleaningup.live/redesigning-mining-ep151-mark-cutifani/

Ep152: Can We Have a Habitable Planet? - David Wallace-Wells: https://www.cleaningup.live/can-we-have-an-habitable-planet-ep152-david-wallace-wells/

Ep153: Shedding Light on Energy's Dirty Secrets - Lauri Myllyvirta: https://www.cleaningup.live/shedding-light-on-energys-dirty-secrets-ep153-lauri-myllyvirta/

Ep154: Green Heat (And Cooling) Under Our Feet - Tamsin Lishman: https://www.cleaningup.live/green-heat-and-cooling-under-our-feet-ep154-tamsin-lishman/

Ep155: Extreme Electrochemistry - Prof. Donald Sadoway: https://www.cleaningup.live/extreme-electrochemistry-for-a-sustainable-future-ep155-prof-donald-sadoway/

Ep156: A Magnificent Woman And Her Flying Machines - Bonny Simi: https://www.cleaningup.live/a-magnificent-woman-and-her-flying-machines-ep156-bonny-simi/

A11: The Five Horsemen of the Transition: https://www.cleaningup.live/audioblog-11-net-zero-will-be-harder-than-you-think-and-easier-part-i-harder-1/

A12: The Five Superheroes of the Transition: https://www.cleaningup.live/audioblog-12-net-zero-will-be-harder-than-you-think-and-easier-part-ii-easier/

Ep157: The Methane Hunters - Sebastien Biraud & Sharon Wilson: https://www.cleaningup.live/the-methane-hunters-ep157-dr-sebastien-biraud-sharon-wilson/

Ep 158: Absolutely Electrifying - Saul Griffith: https://www.cleaningup.live/absolutely-electrifying-ep158-saul-griffith/

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Cleaning Up: Leadership in an Age of Climate Change - Rounding Up Season 11 - Ep159: Michael Liebreich & Bryony Worthington

Rounding Up Season 11 - Ep159: Michael Liebreich & Bryony Worthington

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04/03/24 • 68 min

Bryony and Michael round up the eleventh season of Cleaning Up this week. They explore the themes running through the episodes, from theories of change to innovation, and discuss the things that surprised them, the moments they liked (or didn't) and reasons for optimism for the transition.

Links:

Ep149: Material World - Ed Conway: https://www.cleaningup.live/material-world-ep149-ed-conway/

Ep150: Selling Sustainability - Solitaire Townsend: https://www.cleaningup.live/selling-sustainability-ep150-solitaire-townsend/

Ep151: Redesigning Mining - Mark Cutifani: https://www.cleaningup.live/redesigning-mining-ep151-mark-cutifani/

Ep152: Can We Have a Habitable Planet? - David Wallace-Wells: https://www.cleaningup.live/can-we-have-an-habitable-planet-ep152-david-wallace-wells/

Ep153: Shedding Light on Energy's Dirty Secrets - Lauri Myllyvirta: https://www.cleaningup.live/shedding-light-on-energys-dirty-secrets-ep153-lauri-myllyvirta/

Ep154: Green Heat (And Cooling) Under Our Feet - Tamsin Lishman: https://www.cleaningup.live/green-heat-and-cooling-under-our-feet-ep154-tamsin-lishman/

Ep155: Extreme Electrochemistry - Prof. Donald Sadoway: https://www.cleaningup.live/extreme-electrochemistry-for-a-sustainable-future-ep155-prof-donald-sadoway/

Ep156: A Magnificent Woman And Her Flying Machines - Bonny Simi: https://www.cleaningup.live/a-magnificent-woman-and-her-flying-machines-ep156-bonny-simi/

A11: The Five Horsemen of the Transition: https://www.cleaningup.live/audioblog-11-net-zero-will-be-harder-than-you-think-and-easier-part-i-harder-1/

A12: The Five Superheroes of the Transition: https://www.cleaningup.live/audioblog-12-net-zero-will-be-harder-than-you-think-and-easier-part-ii-easier/

Ep157: The Methane Hunters - Sebastien Biraud & Sharon Wilson: https://www.cleaningup.live/the-methane-hunters-ep157-dr-sebastien-biraud-sharon-wilson/

Ep 158: Absolutely Electrifying - Saul Griffith: https://www.cleaningup.live/absolutely-electrifying-ep158-saul-griffith/

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Cleaning Up: Leadership in an Age of Climate Change - Is Shipping the Easiest "Hard-to-Abate" Sector? - Ep143: Johannah Christensen
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11/15/23 • 50 min

This week, Bryony’s guest is Johannah Christensen, CEO of the Global Maritime Forum. The GMF is an international not-for-profit organization, committed to shaping the future of global seaborne trade to increase sustainable long-term economic development and human wellbeing. To do so, it facilitates a wide variety of initiatives and convenes key stakeholders at the Annual Summit. Bryony met Johannah when she was working on shipping for the Environmental Defense Fund. Before becoming CEO in 2021, she was Managing Director, Head of Projects and Programmes, also at GMF. She was also previously a Programme Manager at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

Johannah has a BSc in Business Administration and Modern Languages from Aarhus University and and MSc in Economics and Business Administration from Copenhagen Business School.

Links

The Global Maritime Forum’s Website: https://www.globalmaritimeforum.org

Professor Jim Hansen’s recent paper on aerosol pollution and climate: https://academic.oup.com/oocc/article/3/1/kgad008/7335889?login=false

An article from Oxford’s Smith School on CFDs for shipping: https://www.smithschool.ox.ac.uk/news/contracts-difference-can-aid-shipping-industry-decarbonisation-research

Michael’s most recent version of his famous “Hydrogen Ladder”: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/hydrogen-ladder-version-50-michael-liebreich/

The IMO’s new strategy on reducing greenhouse gas emissions in shipping: https://wwwcdn.imo.org/localresources/en/OurWork/Environment/Documents/annex/MEPC%2080/Annex%2015.pdf

The announcement of the next IMO summit in Tokyo: https://www.globalmaritimeforum.org/press/global-maritime-forum-announces-tokyo-as-2024-annual-summit-host

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Cleaning Up: Leadership in an Age of Climate Change - 'This Is A Narrative War' - How To Win The Climate Argument | Ep172: John Marshall
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07/24/24 • 56 min

Who are the merchants of doubt and how can their narrative be countered? How much money does it cost to get someone to take action on climate change?

This week on Cleaning Up, Bryony Worthington is joined by John Marshall, the founder of the Potential Energy Coalition, a marketing firm that uses data-driven marketing techniques to accelerate the energy transition and climate action. They discuss:

  • How John transitioned from a career in Madison Avenue marketing to founding a non-profit focused on climate change, inspired by his son.
  • Potential Energy Coalition's use of data-driven marketing strategies to identify the most effective messaging and framing to motivate climate action, including leveraging loss aversion and emphasising what people love and fear losing.
  • The importance of using marketing to shape the climate narrative, counter disinformation, and create political space for climate policies.
  • How marketing can be used to promote clean energy solutions like electric vehicles and heat pumps, and the role of the nonprofit sector in supporting pro-climate policies and infrastructure.
  • Insights on global marketing strategies for climate action, highlighting the need to tailor messages to local markets while maintaining a unifying narrative.

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Cleaning Up: Leadership in an Age of Climate Change - In the Engine Room of the Transition - Ep99: Dev Sanyal

In the Engine Room of the Transition - Ep99: Dev Sanyal

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09/14/22 • 56 min

Dev Sanyal is Chief Executive Officer of VARO Energy Group AG, based in Zug, Switzerland. He was appointed to this role effective 1 January 2022. In July 2022, the company announced the ONE VARO Transformation Strategy accelerated by “Engine 1” focussed on Conventional Energies and “Engine 2” focussed on Sustainable Energies, with a commitment to investing two-thirds of capital in Engine 2 businesses and a trebling of earnings for the Group in the next 5 years. VARO will also be Net Zero in Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions by 2040.

Prior to this, Dev had a 32-year career with BP plc including over a decade as a member of the group executive committee and headed gas and low carbon energy globally. Prior to this, he was chief executive, alternative energy and also accountable for BP’s Europe and Asia regions. During his tenure, he built world scale businesses in sustainable energy – solar, offshore wind, onshore wind, hydrogen and gas and power - and led the pivot in the company’s energy transition strategy.

Dev joined BP in 1989 and held a variety of international roles in London, Athens, Istanbul, Vienna and Dubai. Prior to joining the Group Executive Committee, he held the roles of group treasurer and chairman of BP Investment Management and Arco Aluminium, chief executive, Air BP International and chief executive, BP Eastern Mediterranean.

Dev is an independent non-executive director on the board of M&G plc; a member of the energy advisory board of the Government of India; the advisory board of the Centre for European Reform; and the board of overseers of The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, where he obtained a master’s degree in economics and politics. He is a Fellow of the Energy Institute.

Dev was an independent non-executive director on the board of Man Group plc (2013-2022); a member of the Accenture Global Energy Board (2012-2018); Vice Chairman, Centre for China in the World Economy, Tsinghua University (2014-2019); The Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award Foundation Business Leaders Group (2012-2015); and Trustee of the Career Academy Foundation (2007-2013).

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Cleaning Up: Leadership in an Age of Climate Change - From Moore's Law to Moo's Law - Ep136: Jim Mellon

From Moore's Law to Moo's Law - Ep136: Jim Mellon

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07/26/23 • 51 min

This week's guest on Cleaning Up is entrepreneur, author and philanthropist Jim Mellon. Jim is Executive Director at Agronomics, one of the world’s leading investors in cellular agriculture, or lab-grown meat. Bypassing traditional agricultural methods with precision fermentation could have huge implications for CO2 emissions and the climate, and in 2020 Jim wrote Moo’s Law as a guide for fellow investors into what he calls the "new agrarian revolution."

Jim and Michael discuss the latest developments in cellular agriculture - from pet food to leather goods and restaurant-grade sushi - and how far we are from finding lab-grown products on our supermarket shelves.

Links and Related Episodes

Watch Episode 110 with Lord Adair Turner: https://www.cleaningup.live/ep110-adair-turner-lord-of-the-net-zero-transition/

Discover Agronomics and their portfolio companies here: https://agronomics.im/

Read more about Moo’s Law here: https://mooslawbook.com/

Discover Jim’s children’s book, Juno’s Ark, here: https://junosark.com/

Jim spoke to Bloomberg’s In The City podcast in April about Britain’s economic health: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-04-06/podcast-burnbrae-s-jim-mellon-sees-a-bright-future-for-britain-and-the-city?in_source=embedded-checkout-banner#xj4y7vzkg

Guest Bio

Jim worked in Asia and the United States at two fund management companies, GT and Thornton, before establishing his own business in 1991. This business continues today, but Jim no longer works as a fund manager and is instead focused on biotech, clean food and property, with other business interests managed by his family office, the Burnbrae Group. Jim has a special interest in health resilience and longevity science, and is the co-founder of Juvenescence, a company investing in the development of therapies for ageing and the diseases of ageing. Jim also co-founded Agronomics Limited in 2011, an investment company focused on opportunities within the nascent industry of environmentally-friendly and cruelty-free modern foods.

Jim holds a degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Oriel College, Oxford, where he is an honorary fellow and supports the Mellon Scholarship in Ageing and Cell Senescence.

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Cleaning Up: Leadership in an Age of Climate Change - Fake Meat, What’s The Beef? Ep166: Bruce Friedrich

Fake Meat, What’s The Beef? Ep166: Bruce Friedrich

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06/12/24 • 65 min

Has science cracked the code on mass producing realistic meat substitutes? Or are lab-gown alternative proteins an impossible dream? In this week's episode of Cleaning Up, Baroness Bryony Worthington sits down with president of the Good Food Institute, Bruce Friedrich, to explore the future of food. Friedrich details his vision for a more sustainable food system through technologies like plant-based and cultivated meat and outlines the promising progress and significant challenges remaining in scaling these novel proteins. Worthington and Friedrich debate the roles of policy, public opinion, and big agriculture in determining whether alternative proteins can truly transform our food system or remain forever niche.

Links and more:

  • The Good Food Institute (https://gfi.org)
  • TEA of cultivated meat. Future projections for different scenarios (https://cedelft.eu/publications/tea-of-cultivated-meat/)
  • A new land dividend: the opportunity of alternative proteins in Europe (https://green-alliance.org.uk/publication/a-new-land-dividend-the-opportunity-of-alternative-proteins-in-europe/)
  • Recipe for a Livable Planet: Achieving Net Zero Emissions in the Agrifood System: (https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/entities/publication/406c71a3-c13f-49cd-8f3f-a071715858fb)
  • UNEP Report on alternative proteins (https://www.unep.org/resources/whats-cooking-assessment-potential-impacts-selected-novel-alternatives-conventional)
  • Episode 136 with Jim Mellon (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqFPic5iqds)
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Cleaning Up: Leadership in an Age of Climate Change - Women Backing Winners - Ep18: Nancy Pfund

Women Backing Winners - Ep18: Nancy Pfund

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11/11/20 • 67 min

Further reading:

Official Bio

http://www.dblpartners.vc/people/nancy-pfund/

Audio feature: smart finance for a sustainable food system (September 24th 2020) https://www.ft.com/content/ac7e52f5-245c-44b9-ba98-3aee3d899dd9

The Impact 50 list (September 8th 2020) https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbeswealthteam/2020/09/08/impact-50-investors-seeking-profit-and-pushing-for-change-diversified/#5ba25ff13bce

Hawthorn Club Thought Leadership Series - Investing through Disruption (March 2020) https://vimeo.com/413647258

She Made an Early Bet on Tesla. Here’s What Nancy Pfund Sees Now (August 9th 2019) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-09/she-made-an-early-bet-on-tesla-here-s-what-nancy-pfund-sees-now

What impact investor Nancy Pfund is thinking about (August 2nd 2019) https://www.greenbiz.com/article/what-impact-investor-nancy-pfund-thinking-about

Renewables Are Driving Up Electricity Prices. Wait, What? (March 12th 2015) http://www.dblpartners.vc/resource/renewables-are-driving-up-electricity-prices-wait-what/ Red, White and Green: The True Colors of America’s Clean Tech Jobs (September 2012) http://www.dblpartners.vc/2012/09/red-white-and-green/

What Would Jefferson Do? The Historical Role of Federal Subsidies in Shaping America’s Energy Future (September 2011)

https://www.earthtrack.net/document/what-would-jefferson-do-historical-role-federal-subsidies-shaping-america%E2%80%99s-energy-future

THE 2017 INAUGURATION: Empowering a Clean Energy Nation (September 2016) http://www.dblpartners.vc/resource/the-2017-inauguration-empowering-a-clean-energy-nation/ General news about DBL

http://www.dblpartners.vc/category/dbl-in-the-news/

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The podcast is about News, Society, Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Climate, Environment, Energy, News Commentary, Climate Change, Podcasts, Green, Technology, Clean Energy, Economy, Innovation and Sustainability.

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The average episode length on Cleaning Up: Leadership in an Age of Climate Change is 58 minutes.

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