TRACK CHANGES - chats with climate change and sustainability experts

We've demolished one part of the sprawling Track Changes podcasting studio - and we've found two top experts willing to give us pro bono advice on doing our rebuild in a sustainable way! In this special episode, WWF Australia's Monica Richter and TTW Hannah Jones take us through all the steps involved in designing and building a project with less embodied carbon - and they explain why it matters.  Monica Richter is senior manager of Low Carbon Futures at WWF Australia, and Hannah Jones is sustainability lead at engineering consultancy TTW. Monica is also project director at MECLA - the Materials & Embodied Carbon Leaders Alliance. To find out more about embodied carbon and using low-embodied carbon materials, head to the MECLA website!

In June 2026 the ISO Net Zero Aligned Organisations Standard was released for public comment, after a lengthy consensus-based process building on the 2022 ISO Net Zero Guidelines. In this pod episode, Kurt Winter joins us to unpack 5 key aspects to the Net Zero Aligned Organisations Standard; from transition planning, linking to global net zero, and pathways, we dive into the detail underpinning the standard. Kurt Winter was a member on the Australian Standards Committee and was subsequently nominated to the international working group, involved in the consensus process behind the standard's evolution. ISO Release Information: https://www.iso.org/news/2026/06/standard-for-net-zero-alignment Consultation at: https://comment.standards.org.au/

In this panel-pod, three guests discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the reformed Safeguard Mechanism - Australia's main policy for cutting industrial greenhouse gas emissions.  You'll hear how their views of the Safeguard have evolved, their thoughts on the policy's strengths and weaknesses, and their suggestions on how it could be improved. Joining the panel are Tejesh Kashyap, policy and research officer with Beyond Zero Emissions, Grace Tully, principal decarbonisation and industry consultant with Anthesis, and Kurt Winter, director of corporate transition with the Carbon Market Institute.   

In this bonus episode, we take the Track Changes roving mic to Sustainability Business Live, Australia's largest corporate sustainability event. The conference component of Sustainability Business Live featured speakers including Matt Kean, chair of the Climate Change Authority, electrification guru Dr Saul Griffith, Dr Matthew Bell, global head of sustainability consultancy Anthesis, Ronni Kahn AO, founder of OzHarvest, and Freya Williams, chief strategy officer with Revolt. The trade show featured businesses specialising in everything from energy efficiency to professional services, to green finance and investment. We asked sustainability professionals attending the event to tell us the most important thing they've learned in their sustainability careers so far. The answers were fascinating and diverse. Enjoy! (Thanks to Craig, Blandina and the Stirling Media team for organising and hosting Sustainability Business Live. Thanks also to event major sponsor Anthesis for your support.) If you're enjoying the Track Changes podcast, check out our associate podcast called Earthed.  Earthed is a weekly round-up of climate, nature and sustainability news from around Australia.

The Track Changes science and technology division has invented the dejargonator - and Carbon Pulse Asia Pacific editor Mark Tilly has bravely agreed to test it out! We put this episode together because we enjoy hearing climate and environment professionals talking plainly about what they know. And we like hearing them explain difficult concepts (like carbon markets). Mark is a terrific communicator - no surprise given he's an excellent climate and nature journalist. We hope you enjoy the episode!