Cascading innovation across multinationals with Carolina Garcia Arbelaez | S4 Ep10

06/01/22 • 37 min

This week, Carolina Garcia Arbelaez, Global Sustainability and Innovation Director at Anheuser-Busch InBev, joins Will Sarni and Tom Freyberg to talk about:
- Her origin story from Colombia, with a legal background but moving into a position at the World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
- Having a “eureka moment”, looking from the outside in on multinationals and realising that the private sector has the power to drive change, at scale
- The development of the 100+ Accelerator, now in partnership with Unilever, the Coca-Cola Company and Colgate Palmolive, and the way they’re seeing this as collaboration over competition.
- An innovation focus on single plastics, with the Corona Plastic Free Challenge
- And finally, we address the elephant in the room: biodiversity loss and the role of multinationals.
And much much more!
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Special thanks to this season's sponsor, Raymond James.
And our charity partner, Frank Water.
And thanks to our knowledge partners: British Water, WWF, Water Alliance, DCU Water Institute, SurplusWater25, Earth and Environmental Science at Berkeley Lab, Water Foundry and Atlantean Media.

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Finding the right water investment with Avent Bezuidenhoudt | S4 Ep.9

This week, Avent Bezuidenhoudt, Head of investment at Earth Capital joins Will and Tom to talk about being new to the world of water, the ‘Cinderella, unloved industry’, and her origins in Durban.
Plus listen to discussions on:
- Avent's 25 years of experience in investing, portfolio management and corporate finance advisory
- The reality of water scarcity in Cape Town after its ‘Day Zero’ incident
- Opportunities in innovations addressing water demand at the source.
- Earth Capital’s offering of the Earth Dividend, an in-house developed proprietary tool that the fund uses as part of its due diligence when evaluating potential companies to invest in
- The company's “sustainability fitness check” that rates companies in 5 areas: natural resources, ecosystem services, pollution, social & economic, and also society & governance.
Plus much, much more!
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Overcoming apathy to water to achieve the SDGs with Dr Patrick Moriarty | S4 Ep.11

It's the season finale and joining Will and Tom this week is Dr Patrick Moriarty, CEO of think-tank IRC.

A civil engineer and expert in water resource management, Patrick has over 20 years experience of in a broad range of issues around water, and its use in improving human wellbeing.

In our conversation, Patrick gives an honest and much-needed commentary on the reality of meeting the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, including access to all water and sanitation.
Plus:
- Patrick talks about one of the reasons he believes we are failing to meet the SDGs is due to the apathy toward water, particularly from a governments point of view
- We discuss the need for partnerships and collective action, including an alliance with Water for People with a 2030 strategy
- And we chat about the role of digital, in which Patrick describes the “data deserts” where there are gaps not only in water availability and assets but also in the skills needed to create actional insights from data.
And much, much more.
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