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The Sustainable Futures Report
by Anthony Day
Surviving climate change, resource depletion, the energy crisis - and staying in control
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And finally - time to move on.
This is the Sustainable Futures Report for Thursday, the 30th of November, and finally, it's time to move on. This is the 477th episode and the final episode after 15 years of publication. After careful consideration I've decided that the Sustainable Futures Report will not return. Before I go…
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Having a Think - Back in January
I need to take stock and make the Sustainable Futures Report as relevant and interesting to you the listener as I can. I'm going to develop ideas for the theme and the content. To do that I'm taking a break and aiming to be back in January.
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The Greenpeace Debate with Anthony Day on TalkTV
This is an unexpected bonus edition of the Sustainable Futures Report for Thursday 17th August. Last Saturday, I was asked if I would appear on TalkTV to talk about the Greenpeace action when they sat on the roof of the prime minister's country house in North Yorkshire. You can hear what I said,...
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ACTIONS TO COMBAT CLIMATE CHANGE
Sharon Lashley, managing Director of Climate Action North, explains how to make a difference. Choose things you can achieve. Attempting the impossible will only make you want to give up.
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Why Just Stop Oil calls Rishi Sunak worse than a War Criminal
"Sunak is worse than a war criminal," says Just Stop Oil. "He knows new oil and gas will impose unimaginable suffering and destroy the lives and livelihoods of billions of people. He knows that it will push the world past irreversible tipping points, meaning that the consequences and suffering…
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How Businesses Can Fix the Future
I talk to Solitaire Townsend, co-founder of Futerra, author, sustainability expert and optimist. She explains how the professionals in PR, Marketing, Accountancy, Lobbying and the Legal profession can smooth the way for the fossil industries and major polluters, or use their power to oppose them....
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Solving the Climate Emergency - is it too late?
Thoughts on managing the message, political indifference, the UK's skills and infrastructure problems and a plea to the UN to act on inequality. Also the problems with charging your EV and startling insights from my barber.
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Graphite: why this form of carbon is vital to a low-carbon future.
Everyone knows about lithium, and about how it's used in batteries for almost every electronic device, but lithium is only part of the story. I talk to John DeMaio, CEO Graphex Technologies and President of Graphene Division of the Graphex Group Ltd.
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Just Stop Oil - Right or Wrong?
Just Stop Oil. Are they getting it right or are they getting it wrong? I have a view from inside the oil industry. Can protest and free speech survive in the face of new laws, and legal procedures which can bankrupt protesters without even taking them to court? And a minister resigns just before...
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Net Zero Transition
This week I'm talking about transitions with a webinar from Business Green and a warning from energy company, Ithaca. There's a report and a letter to the prime minister from the Climate Change Committee, and what did happen at that Paris Finance Summit? More worrying news about climate tipping...
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News from All Quarters
There are still many people who are determined to deny the dangers of the climate emergency with refusal to face facts or even by supporting censorship. There are lots of stories at the moment about the climate, principally about soaring sea temperatures, but also about the legacy of wildfires in...
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Watery World
Today we have a follow-up on last week's methane story, a reminder of World Refill Day and I reveal why we're burning more coal this week. In other news I ask who's in the driving seat, or is the seat driving? There's a podcast about the end of the world, but first, let's talk about the warming...
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Methane
Today, I'll bring you items about electric cars, about Western Australia's personality of the year, and about the controversy over the President of COP 28. First, though, I'm going to talk about methane.
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The Global Good
If you work hard on making your organisation sustainable, isn't it nice to be recognised? Karen Sutton founded the Global Good Awards. Here's how it happened.
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Net Zero - and Other Stories
A wide-ranging interview with James Murray, Editor in Chief of Business Green. Our conversation included the role of China, carbon capture and storage, the resignation of the CEO of Verra (the offset certification body) and even the sponsorship by Drax Power of the upcoming Net Zero Festival.
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Getting Warmer
The WMO warns that we will hit 1.5℃ within the next two or three years. How is the legal profession approaching climate issues and climate-damaging clients, and why are cyclists bad for the economy?
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Locking On
Yes, the King's coronation has taken place and we'll hear more about that a bit later. Well, not so much about the coronation itself as about what went on on the sidelines. If you can't stand the heat take it out of the kitchen with new technology which may not be quite as new as some reporters...
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Consumer is King (or Queen)
This week I talk to Tim Clover, CEO and founder of Glow, a consumer research technology company, about how ESG influences consumer choices. Comments also on that book - How to Blow Up a Pipeline - and a warning about the potential dangers of AI.
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The Big One
Extinction Rebellion held a four-day demonstration in Whitehall last weekend. Will it make any difference? Or should we blow up a pipeline?
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Food for Thought
An interview with Leo Taylor, CEO of YumBug. A man who is bringing insect-based cuisine to a pub or restaurant near you.
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Truth & Lies
The Threat from Artificial Intelligence ... and a long promised review of micro-mobility
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Biodiversity - Risks to Directors
Much of our environment is at risk from more than Climate Change. It is at risk from human activity damaging biodiversity, and in some cases driving parts of it to extinction. Who cares and who is responsible? Well increasingly governments care and shareholders care and those who lead major...
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Not a Moment to Lose
The AR6 report from the IPCCwill be the main story today so I'm going to hold over micro mobility and 15 minute communities until I can spend enough time on them to do them justice. But we'll also have time to take a trip to a swimming pool, a cathedral and a secret vault in the Arctic.
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Special Edition - Insurance
I recently had the opportunity to talk to Christophe Bourguignat about insurance in the context of natural disasters and the climate crisis.
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Power of the Press
This week I'm talking about the power of the press, about how the rich view the climate crisis and what are they doing about it, how NASA is saving the world and a different perspective on one of the oil majors. First, we are back to carbon offsets and Verra's U-turn.
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Offsets - The Truth
I promised you more detail on the carbon offset controversy which was started by a report in the press last month. Here's an interview with someone with firsthand knowledge of the market, Chief Impact Officer and co-founder of Compensate, Niklas Kaskeala.
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Regenesis
This week's headline is Regenesis, the title of a book by George Monbiot. I'll tell you what I think and indeed what others think about his latest ideas. I'm also bringing you a few stories that you might have missed; some about food, some about geo-engineering, the threat of a new pandemic and...
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WORDS
Each week I write between 2,000 and 4,000 words to bring you an episode of the Sustainable Futures Report. I also write to the paper from time time and sometimes I get published...
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The Role of Law
Is the law an ass? Or is it something more sinister?
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Just Stop It!
Sustainability news doesn't stop, nor does the weather, nor do GHG emissions. I've a bit of catching up to do, including XR, more extreme weather, wood burning stoves, the government's environmental plan, FOMO and FOFO, the controversy over Verra and carbon offsets, the future for podcasts, the...
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Sustainable Leadership
If we are to preserve a habitable environment and successfully meet the challenge of the climate crisis our organisations need competent, sustainable leadership. I spoke to Clarke Murphy, who knows about these things.
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Save Our Seas
My guest this week, Leonardo Zangrando, wants to save the oceans and wants to inspire 100 million people to help him do that. Sounds a lot, although given that world population passed 8 billion last year is it really a lot? The oceans, he tells us, are the lungs of the planet. Forget the tropical...
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ForestPlanet
Trees are good for the planet. Hank Dearden explains how trees do so much more for us than just sequester carbon. We can all help too!
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Shift to Clean Energy - on Land and Sea
Today I'm talking to Paul Hughes about new applications for batteries. How they can store energy, save energy, save money and cut carbon emissions.
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The Time is RIPE
There are now 8,000 million people (8 billion) across the world. Every one of those has to be fed. The RIPE project has been ongoing for decades at sites in different parts of the world. Its aim is to adapt plants to the harsher future that climate change is creating, to safeguard food supplies.…
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rePurpose Global and your Plastic Footprint
In the final part of our series on the management of waste I bring you an interview with Peter Wang Hjemdahl of rePurpose Global. As I mentioned last week, his organisation aims to help you get your plastic footprint under control. The headline on the website is "Together, rePurpose Global's...
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Christmas Review of the Year
This week I'm looking back on 2022. I've published 62 episodes over the year - about 150,000 words. Thank you for listening and thank you for your feedback. In this episode I'm going to look at what concerned us this time last year and what progress we've made since then. In December last year we...
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The Texas Trash Talker
Waste has a cost. It's a cost to the environment in terms of pollution. It's a cost to the world as lost resources. Increasingly it's a cost to the producer, through the cost of disposal or even through fines. Stacy Savage is Founder & CEO of Zero Waste Strategies. Here's how she helps her…
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Special Edition - Barclays Seven Found Guilty
In April 2021 seven women took hammers and chisels to the office of Barclays Bank in Canary Wharf, London and cracked the glass panels of the facade. They put up posters saying, "In case of climate emergency break glass." They then waited to be arrested. All seven appeared in court this week. All...
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The Material Library of India
The idea of the circular economy is to use, reuse and recycle materials to minimise the amount that we have to take from virgin resources. In an ideal world there is no such thing as a waste. When something is finished with it becomes an input to a new process. We are very far from achieving…
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Cossham on Carbon (and many other things)
To give you some pointers on how to control your carbon footprint I'm talking this time to John Cossham. And not just about being green and cutting carbon, but our wide-ranging discussions included population, changing the system, being vegan or vegetarian, the steady-state economy, doughnut...
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COP27 - It's All Over
It's over. Cop 27 has finished even though it ran on for several days after its scheduled closing. An agreement was reached at the last minute! But where have we heard all this before?
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All Change in Australia
I've been promising you a review of what's been going on from an environmental point of view since Anthony Albanese's Labor government took office in May. I spoke to Dr Simon Wright. He's Director at Simply Sustainable Consulting and Research Principal, Institute for Sustainable Futures (ISF) at...
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Highway to Climate Hell
This week the United Nations climate conference, cop 27, opened and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres set the tone with the warning that, "We are on a highway to climate hell with our foot still on the accelerator." UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak made a U-turn and decided to attend COP27 after...
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Best Foot Forward
Measuring your personal carbon footprint is a first step towards taking action to combat the climate crisis. It's a first step and a small step and there is much more to be done. Recent reports make that abundantly clear. So what's your carbon footprint? (I'll show you mine if you show me yours.)...
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Meat: the Future
Can we produce meat without farming and without slaughtering livestock? I spoke to Daan Luining, co-founder and Chief Technical Officer of Meatable.
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LookingForward
In the news this week: .. a couple of protests and plans for a further crackdown on protesters. Could there be yet another government U-turn, this time in favour of sustainability? There is a video you should see and I'll tell you about upcoming interviews planned for the next few months.…
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Sustainable Oceans
An interview with Daniela Fernandez, founder of the Sustainable Oceans Alliance. Image by rawpixel.com
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Good News!
I've called this one Good News for two reasons, one is that I want to attract your attention and secondly because I don't want the Sustainable Futures Report to be seen as a litany of bad news.
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On the Brink
We're on the brink of massive changes. This week I'm going to talk about the UK government, though not about its financial management. There is a report from the world meteorological organisation as more extreme weather events are reported. A new academic study warns that palm trees face…
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