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Climate Confident - Practical Climate Solutions That Cut Emissions

Author: Tom Raftery

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Climate Confident is for business leaders, climate professionals and policymakers who need to understand what is actually cutting emissions—and what it takes to make those solutions work at scale.


Each Wednesday, technology and sustainability analyst, keynote speaker and former SAP Global VP Tom Raftery speaks with the executives, engineers, scientists, founders and policymakers turning climate ambition into measurable progress. Together, they examine the technologies, business models, policies and implementation strategies reshaping energy, transport, industry, supply chains, food and finance.


These are not conversations about distant targets, vague pledges or greenwash. They are candid discussions about what is working, what is failing, where the real bottlenecks lie, and how leaders can make better decisions about decarbonisation, resilience, investment and risk.


You will hear:

  • Proven approaches to reducing emissions
  • Hard-earned lessons from real-world implementation
  • Analysis of the markets, technologies and policies driving the transition
  • Honest examination of costs, trade-offs, setbacks and unintended consequences
  • Practical ideas for turning climate commitments into action


New episodes are published every Wednesday at 7am CET. Subscribers also receive bonus episodes featuring highlights, analysis and emerging themes from across the series.


Follow Climate Confident for practical climate solutions, informed debate and the insights you need to turn ambition into measurable progress.


Guest suggestions and feedback are welcome at [email protected].


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Get in touch - leave me a message How could virtual power plants ease grid congestion? A virtual power plant can coordinate home batteries, rooftop solar and compatible electric vehicles to reduce demand on a constrained part of the grid at peak times. For a utility to rely on that flexibility, the fleet has to deliver the power needed, in the right place, for the duration of the peak. In this episode I speak with Marco Krapels, senior vice president and chief marketing officer at Enphase Ene...
Get in touch - leave me a message Why do Caribbean islands still rely on expensive diesel for electricity? Many have small power systems that buy too little fuel to get the discounts available to larger markets. Switching to another fuel can also mean investing in new infrastructure that is hard to justify at that scale. In this episode I speak with David Gumbs, Director of RMI's Global Islands Programme and former CEO of Anguilla's electricity utility, David Gumbs about what it takes t...
Get in touch - leave me a message Advanced nuclear could have a lithium isotope problem long before it has a commercial power plant. Promising reactor designs need specialist materials that are barely produced at industrial scale. John Elling, CEO of Molten Salt Solutions, joins me to explain why isotope separation matters to both advanced fission and fusion. Getting enough of the right lithium, at a price developers can plan around, is an engineering and investment challenge - not simply a p...
Get in touch - leave me a message AI data centres are creating an extraordinary new demand for electricity. The harder question is whether clean, firm power can be built quickly enough to meet it, without falling back on gas. My guest in this episode is Matt Loszak, co-founder and CEO of Aalo Atomics, which is developing small, factory-built nuclear reactors initially for AI data centres. The bet is that nuclear can move from bespoke megaprojects to repeatable manufactured products, cutting d...
Get in touch - leave me a message Enhanced rock weathering looks deceptively simple: crush suitable rock, spread it on farmland and let chemistry remove CO₂. The harder question is whether you can prove that removal reliably enough to make the economics work. I speak with Chris Zair, Director of Partnerships at UNDO, about what happens when enhanced rock weathering moves from controlled trials into real fields. For buyers, investors and policymakers, the stakes are practical: measurement and ...
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