New Ventures Podcast
By Sanjoy Sanyal
New Ventures Podcast Dec 08, 2024
# 90 Reducing the carbon in your tipple.
Diageo is reducing its emissions by innovating in its packaging. It is trying to introduce circular economy in the traditional glass bottles. The company is also trying to use new types of material: aluminum and paper. At the same time, Diageo faces climate risks. Agricultural commodities and water are the inputs to manufacturing your favour beverages. In response, Diageo is supporting regenerative agriculture and water conservation projects.
Innovation involves working thoughtfully with partners (start-ups and non-profits). It also involves crucially a high tolerance of failure. Mark Sandys is the Chief Innovation Officer at Diageo, the British multinational alcohol beverage company.
Sections
Section 1: First 18 minutes : Getting to know Mark and understand Diageo’s approach to innovation.
Section 2: Next 31 minutes about Diageo’s innovations in packaging.
Section 3: Last six minutes about climate risks and Diageo’s response.
Host : Sanjoy Sanyal, Founder Regain Paradise
www.regainparadise.org
Guest : Mark Sandys
Chief Innovation Officer, Diageo
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-sandys-b629b6b8/
https://www.diageo.com/en
# 89 AI is riding on digital innovations
Digital innovation in agriculture is already bringing solutions to farmers that helps them use their mobile phones to obtain a range of useful services. They can get information about product prices and advice on pest control. They can also buy farm inputs as well sell their products. Almost always underbanked, they can also get credit. Is AI adding an extra fizz to these solutions? We discussed with Daniele Tricarico about the GSMA report AI for Africa: Use cases delivering impact.
We learnt that AI is adding an extra layer of additional benefits to these existing solutions and also helping develop some new solutions (such as better weather predictions and tracking food security). Both machine learning and generative AI are being used in these applications. Grant capital is available to develop initial pilots. Local talent who knows the agricultural landscape and brainy young people who work on the data and the programming are there as well. Companies are working around the problem of lack of data. Partnerships of start-ups with large IT companies and with mobile networks is critical to deployment of solutions.
Sections
Section 1: First 5 minutes : introduction
Section 2: Next 54 minutes the AI use cases in food and agriculture
Host : Sanjoy Sanyal, Founder Regain Paradise
New Ventures
www.regainparadise.org
Guest : Daniele Tricarico
Senior Director, Central Insights & Monitoring & Evaluation, Mobile for Development
https://www.linkedin.com/in/danieletricarico/
https://www.gsma.com/solutions-and-impact/connectivity-for-good/mobile-for-development/gsma_people/daniele-tricarico/
# 88 How to reduce food waste?
Too much food is wasted by consumers. Reducing this wastage is important. It is good for the climate and for one’s own wallet, not to mention the conscience.
Everybody agrees that it is important and yet reducing food waste is hard. People waste food not because they don’t care but often they do not know better ways to buy, store, cook and eat. Luckily, there are a whole set of tools from the discipline of psychology to help people become aware and have the right skills and behaviour.
Dr. Sophie Attwood behavioural scientist and a thought leader on sustainable food and heath choices. She holds a doctorate degree from the University of Cambridge and has worked with the global think tank WRI. In the podcast she also touches upon how companies who are developing solutions for the problem of food waste and selling plant based meats could market their products.
Sections
Section 1: First 8 minutes : introduction
Section 2: Next 34 minutes about food waste: how much, why and how to solve the problem?
Section 3 : Last 6 minutes about plant based meats.
Host : Sanjoy Sanyal, Founder Regain Paradise
Guest : Dr. Sophie Attwood
Behavioural Science Consultant
# 87 Building a new economy
The World Fair Trade Organisation certifies small and medium enterprises which practice fair trade principles. Chief among them is that 50% of their profits are contributed towards a cause. The objective of WFTO is to prove that innovation and entrepreneurship is consistent with stakeholder capitalism. Innovation – the process of increasing productivity – is not just restricted to a shareholder capitalist system. WFTO members include food processing enterprises both in the Global North and Global South.
Leida Rijnhout, based in the Netherlands, is the Chief Executive of the World Fair Trade Organisation. She has extensive experience in Netherlands and in the world of non-profits before finding her entrepreneurial calling at WFTO.
Sections
Section 1: First 25 minutes about WFTO certification
Section 2: Next 25 minutes about WFTO enterprises in practice
Host : Sanjoy Sanyal, Founder Regain Paradise
Guest : Leida Rijnhout Chief Executive
World Fair Trade Organisation
https://wfto.com/
# 86 What is climate consciousness?
Rabindranath Tagore, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913 was also a leading thinker on education. The central tenets of his thoughts on education were learning among nature, striking a balance of the arts and science in the curriculum and internalising a spirit of internationalism. Tagore was also a practical man and he put his ideas in action by setting up a school for children and an University.
His ideas on education are key to creating the consciousness that is needed for to solve the climate crisis and (if we ever get out of this mess) avoid creating a similar crisis again. AI may help in reviving Tagore’s thoughts in the 21st century.
Section
Section 1: First 20 minutes about Tagore’s thoughts on education.
Section 2: Next 20 minutes about how Tagore implemented his ideas on education.
Host : Sanjoy Sanyal,
Founder Regain Paradise
Guest : Dr. Tom Kane
Programme Director
MSc: Business Analytics
https://www.stir.ac.uk/people/1376839
# 85 PAYG is vital for Kenyan farmers
In Kenya there has been droughts for the last four out of 5 seasons. Most farmers depend only rains and are very vulnerable to changing weather. SunCulture provides irrigation solution to small holder farmers. The challenge is to make the product affordable to farmers. This means right sizing the pumps, working with suppliers to reduce costs and providing financing solutions. It also means using subsidies such as results based financing and carbon credits efficiently.
Hack Stiernblad is the Chief Growth Officer of SunCulture responsible for market expansion and raising donor funds. SunCulture provides solar irrigation solutions to farmers in Kenya and is now expanding to Uganda and Côte d'Ivoire.
Sections
Section 1: First 7 minutes about Hack and SunCulture.
Section 2: Next 40 minutes about SunCulture’s product and business.
Host : Sanjoy Sanyal, Founder Regain Paradise
New Ventures
Guest : Hack Stiernblad Chief Growth Officer
hack.stiernblad@sunculture.com
https://sunculture.io/https://www.linkedin.com/in/hack-stiernblad-8276819a/?originalSubdomain=se
# 84 How banks assess climate risks?
# 83 Preparing for the next drought
With climate change El Nino droughts will become more frequent and more intense. To be fore warned is to be fore armed. Warnings will have to be taken seriously and farmers should not plant their seeds hoping that rains will come only to face a total crop failure. Kvuno, a social enterprise spun out of Solidaridad, the international NGO, is developing a digital database of farmers in Southern Africa. This digital platform can be used to provide inform and help farmers learn how to adapt to the changing weather patterns. It can also be used to provide farm inputs and finance products such as loans and insurance. Both non-profits and commercial organisations can reach small holder farmers using the digital platform.
Sections
Section 1: First 20 minutes introductions and the drought in Southern Africa.
Section 2: Next 20 minutes about what Kvuno does and how it will help.
Host: Sanjoy Sanyal, Founder Regain Paradise
Guest : Joshua Chela Business Development Lead
Kvuno
# 82 Food Security or Nutritional Sufficiency?
A child substantially shorter than their age in the first three years often fails to reach their full potential. It is often caused by poor nutrition. Save the Children, an international NGO with roots in the UK, has been implementing a three year project in Bangladesh with support from the European Union and UK AID to reduce stunting. Reducing stunting involves household members changing their behaviour. Unfortunately, climate change is making it harder.
Sections
Section 1: First 20 minutes about the context and how the project was structured
Section 2: Next 40 minutes about the project lessons and results
Host :
Sanjoy Sanyal, Founder Regain Paradise www.regainparadise.org
Guest:
Sheikh Shahed Rahman Ex Chief of Party, Suchana pogram, Save the Children in Bangladesh https://www.linkedin.com/in/sheikh-shahed-rahman-4a036635/?originalSubdomain=bd
Rubaiyath Sarwar Managing Director, Innovision Consulting https://innovision-bd.com/team/md-rubaiyath-sarwar/
# 81 Rude awakening in Seychelles
Seychelles is the richest country in Africa but as a small island country it is also being impacted severely by climate change. Sadly it is not just climate changed caused by humanity as a whole, it is the damage to the environment that is caused by the individuals living in and visiting the islands. The environment damage is making it hard to grow food and the island is becoming more dependent on imported food.
A GEF funded project is trying to reverse this using an integrated approach called Ridge to Reef. Listen to Johan Mendez, an international water expert who has made Seychelles his home explain the project.
Sections
Section 1: First 16 minutes about Johan and the issues in Seychelles.
Section 2: Next 31 minutes about the Ridge to Reef project.
Host: Sanjoy Sanyal, Founder Regain Paradise
Guest: Johan Mendez, Seychelles based hydrogeologist
https://www.facebook.com/BaieLazareWS/oyunchimeg.amartuvshin@gggi.org
#80 There Is Always Hope.
A top down infrastructural project, in the Aral Sea area, goes terribly wrong. Instead of increasing cotton production and prosperity, the project leads to unprecedented droughts and poverty.
The Global Green Growth Institute is implementing a project funded by the South Korean government to rehabilitate the region. Oyunchimeg Amartuvshin, Senior Program Development Officer, Central Asia of the Global Green Growth Institute takes us into the details of the project.
Sections
Section 1: First 15 minutes about Oyuna, GGGI and the Aral Sea problem.
Section 2: Next 35 minutes about GGGI’s project
Host: Sanjoy Sanyal, Founder Regain Paradise.
Guest : Oyunchimeg Amartuvshin, Senior Program Development Officer, Central Asia of the Global Green Growth Institute
https://gggi.org/oyunchimeg.amartuvshin@gggi.org
# 79 Franchisee models for agriculture?
The Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture helps small holder farmers access quality inputs and sell products at fair prices. To do that the foundation has developed the Farmers Hub, a franchisee based business model which helps both agri-entrepreneurs and businesses to invest in products that serve small holder farmers. This approach has helped farmers adopt new technologies for paddy, mangoes and vegetables. The access to better markets and improved technologies is helping improve income.
Sections
Section 1: First 34 minutes about the approach of the Syngenta Foundation’s Farmers Hub approach.
Section 2: Next 15 minutes about how the approach works in various parts in Bangladesh.
Host : Sanjoy Sanyal, Founder Regain Paradise
www.regainparadise.org
Guest : Abdur Rouf
Program Development Lead at Syngenta Foundation for
Sustainable Agriculture
Guests : https://www.syngentafoundation.org/
abdur.rouf@syngenta.com
WA: +880 17 4890 4373
#78 The future of rice : low carbon?
Saran Song is the CEO of Amru Rice, Camobodia’s
largest producer and exporter of organic rice from Cambodia. In this podcast he talks about the contract farming business model, the advantages that farmers can derive from growing organic and sustainable rice and peers into the future of rice.
Sections
Section 1 : First 10 minutes introducing Saran and his company Amru Rice
Section 2 : Next 31 minutes about the how and the whys of organic and sustainable rice
Host : Sanjoy Sanyal, Founder Regain Paradise
www.regainparadise.org
Guest : Saran Song
CEO – Amru Rice
https://amrurice.com.kh/
ceo@amrurice.com.kh
WA: +855 12303 016
# 77 Demystifying AI solutions for food
Heather Couture is an international consultant in computer vision (applying artificial intelligence to images). In this episode, she explains the different types of modern artificial intelligence and its use in a variety of food-related applications. It is used for monitoring crops and trees in fields and automating activities such as harvesting and spraying inputs. Artificial intelligence is also applied for monitoring aquaculture, preventing food waste and predicting weather events.
Sections
Section 1 : First 15 minutes Helen introduces herself and help you understand what AI terms really mean.
Section 2 : Up to 32 minutes AI applications in agriculture
Section 3 : Up to 38 minutes other food security applications.
Section 4 : Broader questions on the use of AI for emerging countries.
Host : Sanjoy Sanyal, Founder Regain Paradise
New Ventures Website
Guest : Heather Couture
Founder & Computer Vision Consultant
Pixel Scientia Labs LLC
https://pixelscientia.com/newsletter/
https://pixelscientia.com/podcast/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/hdcouture/
# 76 Celfre Energy and Futurepump – Solar irrigation
Futurepump is a small company from the UK with a factory in India manufacturing solar pumps. One of its partners in Africa is Celfre Energy, an even smaller company, which operates in Zimbabwe. Celfre Energy started by importing one Futurepump and creating awareness among farmers. It raised grants and then used the money to import a container load of pumps. This was the first time that farmers were being introduced to a solar pump product in the company. The fact that Futurepump’s product comes with a warranty of ten years and is simple to use has helped farmers to use them. Even in the middle of the terrible drought in Zimbabwe, this product can create real impact.
Sections
Section 1: First 18 minutes about Celfre Energy and its partnership with Futurepump.
Section 2: Last 15 minutes about the impact of the partnership.
Host: Sanjoy Sanyal, Founder Regain Paradise
New Ventures Website www.regainparadise.org
Guest: Isaiah Nyakusendwa
Founder & CEO, Celfre Energy
Helen Yapp, Operations Director, Futurepump
Guests Website and contact
details. nyakusendwai@regatta.co.zw
# 75 Davis & Shirtliff and Futurepump – Solar irrigation
Futurepump is a small company from the UK with a factory in the UK manufacturing solar pumps. It is distributing its product in Africa through Davis & Shirtliff, a large company with a 78 year old history. The partnership is bringing the pumps to small holder farmers across 11 countries in Africa. As climate change is having a “real negative impact” on farmers, solar irrigation pumps help farmers “take backs some control.” Partnerships between start-ups developing innovative products and large companies are key to bringing climate products to the market.
But partnerships are not easy to build. In the case of Davis & Shirtliff, the robustness of the product of Futurepump and its ten year warranty was crucial to build trust between the two companies.
Sections
Section 1: First 9 minutes about Davis & Shirtliff and Futurepump
Section 2: Next 15 minutes about lessons from the partnership
Section 3: Last 15 minutes about the impact of the partnership
Host : Sanjoy Sanyal, Founder Regain Paradise New Ventures
Guest : Stephen Wambua, Group Irrigation Manager, Davis & Shirtliff
Helen Yapp, Operations Director, Futurepump
Guests details.
# 74 Preferred by Nature – Rice
Rice millers in the Central and East Java provinces in Indonesia are facing a shortage of paddy from farmers. Production has been impacted by changing rainfall patterns, pest attacks and the occasional non-availability of pesticides and fertilisers. The industry association Indonesia Rice Millers and Traders Association -PERPADI has partnered with Preferred by Nature, an international NGO to implement sustainable rice practices for both farmers and millers. For farmers this means practices that optimise the use of chemical inputs (even if they do not go fully organic) and water. For millers this means shifting to electricity instead of using diesel. By making these changes, both farmers and millers can decrease costs. The side benefit is carbon and methane emissions are reduced. The project is financed by a grant from SWITCH Asia, a programme of the EU to promote sustainable consumption and production. Sections
Section 1: First 23 minutes about how the project by Preferred by Nature, its goals and activities
Section 2: Next 13 minutes about building partnerships to take it further
Host: Sanjoy Sanyal, Founder Regain Paradise
New Ventures Website
Guest : Angga Maulana Yusuf
Lead Project Manager in the SWITCH Asia Low
Carbon Rice project
amaulana@preferredbynature.org
# 73 WWF Philippines – Sustainable tuna
Fishing methods of small-scale fishers are more sustainable because they capture less bycatch (fish that is discarded). Unfortunately, like in many places of the world, the livelihoods of small-scale fishers in the Occidental Mindoro province in Philippines are vulnerable both to climate change and overfishing by large fleets. The fishing community supplies both domestic and export markets. WWF Philippines was able to utilise this linkage with export markets to help implement a project (with EU financing) that help connect the fishing communities with local food processing companies. The fishing association has obtained the Marine Stewardship Certification. WWF Philippines is now working with community members – especially women – to start businesses that help diversify income.
Sections
Section 1 : First 23 minutes about how WWF Philippines was able to get the MSC certification for the fishers
Section 2 : Next 23 minutes about efforts to diversify incomes and create alternative livelihoods
Host : Sanjoy Sanyal, Founder Regain Paradise New Ventures Website : www.regainparadise.org
Guest : Melody Melo-Rijk, Project Manager Project Manager, WWF Philippines
https://sustainabletuna.wwf.org.ph/
# 72 Economic resilience or food security?
Description: Small fishing communities in South Africa (and many other parts of the world) have often been discriminated against. First there is colonisation and (in the case of South Africa) the apartheid regime. Then there is the interest of national governments to create an industrial fishing sector. And yet these communities live on thanks to the strong bonds to the ocean and age-old cultural traditions. A new threat has now emerged: climate change. Climate change is leading to erosion, flooding and hurricanes. Green energy infrastructure projects (needed to reduce global emissions) threaten the fragile ecosystem and livelihoods of these vulnerable people. Would the quest to save the planet sacrifice people?
Sections
Section 1: First 24 minutes about the threats to the small scale fishing communities in South Africa
Section 2: Is there a better future?
Host : Sanjoy Sanyal, Founder Regain Paradise
Guest : Prof. Merle Sowman, Professor Emerita
: Menka Vansant, Doctoral Researcher
Environmental and Geographical Science, University of Cape Town
# 71 Community engagement key to food security.
Bangladesh is acutely vulnerable to the climate crisis. BRAC, the world’s largest NGO is implementing adaptation clinics in very vulnerable areas. The process involves understanding the specific problem the community is facing and then implementing a solution, while taking the community along. The results are extremely encouraging.
Sections
Section 1: First 25 minutes about BRAC’s approach
Section 2: Next 20 minutes about how this approach is applied to the various geographies
Host: Sanjoy Sanyal, Founder Regain Paradise
Guest : Tausif Ahmed Qurashi
Senior Programme Manager, Climate Change Programme
# 70 Cellular food – Anytime soon?
Cellular meat is not going to flood your supermarket shelves anytime soon. Across the world, only four companies have got regulatory approval. They are organising tasting sessions in restaurants and “pop ups” but it will take several years for companies to scale up manufacturing processes to produce sufficient volumes of products at reasonable costs (even assuming that it is only the adventurous, conscious and rich customers who will be the early adopters of cell based meat and dairy products.
But cell based meat, milk and seafood can wean customers off the real thing in a way that plant based foods cannot. The plant based foods is a rapidly growing industry and is an 11 billion dollar in the world. Plant based meats have environmental benefits over conventional meat but it is hard for these “fake meats” to cater to the aspirational and cultural aspects of a meat dish. Which is where cell based meat comes in.
Some countries are taking proactive steps in developing regulation for this food innovation. Singapore which imports almost its food is doing so because it wants to secure food supplies (grow 30% of its food by 2030). One company has received regulatory approval. Netherlands wants to remain a food exporter even as they hit net zero targets. The US is another front runner and has given regulatory approval to two countries.
The encouraging thing is that regulators are innovating around the regulatory process itself. User friendly websites are encouraging companies to get in touch.. Enquiries and responses are promptly answered. Regulators are righty concerned about safety and health of consumers and go through a process that takes a year to two to understand the product and the production process, assess the risks and develop risk mitigation processes. However, the process is collaborative with regulators acknowledging that they are learning along with the companies. Most importantly the regulators appreciate that the companies they are dealing with are start-ups and do not have an army of lawyers. They are going out of their way to make the whole process transparent. Some of them are even making previous application drafts available so that companies can develop better applications.
Sections
Section 1: First 12 minutes Ambika’s background, why cell-based food and a global overview Section 2: Next 30 minutes regulation and government support.
Host : Sanjoy Sanyal, Founder Regain Paradise
New Ventures Website
Guest : Ambika Hiranandani
Regulatory Affairs and Strategic Partnerships, Senara
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ambika-hiranandani-b4815616b/
# 69 Measuring soil organic carbon.
A rancher in South America is worried about the condition of his land. He knows that improving the soil condition will help in growing more grass which his livestock can feed on. He wants to leave his land in a better state to his children so that they can inherit his profession as well and decides to more regenerative practices. A NGO in East Africa has been already working in improving the agricultural practices of thousands of small holder farmers. This allows them to grow more food and not cut down forest trees in an effort to feed their families. Farmers like these know the true benefit of “soil organic carbon”. It helps increase soil fertility and improve biodiversity in the lands they live in. The voluntary carbon market which provides financial incentives to farmers to sequester carbon provides only additional benefits to these important gains. International organizations implementing large land restoration projects that help generate carbon credits need to remember that for these projects have to generate positive socio-economic benefits to local communities if the benefits of carbon sequestration have to be positive. Soilwatch works with international organisations and carbon project developers to develop carbon projects. It tries to incorporate elements that help improve food security in these projects. The services include creating baseline of biomass in and above the soil, modelling how much carbon will be sequestered, designing project activities that help in achieving the goals and monitoring and verifying the amount of carbon sequestered. The process of doing this requires deep scientific expertise. The team at Soilwatch includes agricultural experts, ecological economists, data scientists and behavioral science experts. They use AI and machine language tools to identify cropland from satellite images. But AI is not only the only arsenal at their disposal. To answer important questions like how much carbon is going to be sequestered if the temperature rises by 1 degree C there is a long history of statistical ecological tools that are available. The important thing is to do the right tool and the right data source for the problem at hand. Sections Section 1: First 5 minutes Joona’s background and starting Soilwatch Section 2: Upto 22 minutes what Soilwtach does. Section 3: Last 13 minutes about examples of Soilwatch’s projects Host Sanjoy Sanyal, Founder Regain Paradise www.regainparadise.org Guest Joona Mikkola Chief Scientist, Soilwatch
https://www.linkedin.com/in/joona-mikkola/
# 68 Pledging to protect the land.
The Luangwa region and the Kafue regions in Zambia hosts some of the finest national parks in the world. Unfortunately, these forests and the wildlife are under threat. An average farming family who lives near these areas cuts down 60 to 70 big trees in a year just to use as firewood for cooking food. Falling soil fertility and a growing population is forcing them to cut down more trees and convert to farmlands. More recurrent droughts and floods, because of climate change is making the situation worse. To protect the forests and the wildlife, Community Markets for Conservation (COMACO), a Zambian NGO is working with farmers so that they have the right incentives not to destroy the forests and poach the animals.
COMACO helps farmers learn agricultural practices to get more yield of the traditional crops they are already growing such as maize, beans, groundnuts and soya beans. They also introduce them to produce new practices: beekeeping, mushroom farming and caterpillar farming (dried caterpillars fried with tomatoes and onions is a local delicacy to be eaten with maize or cassava flour). They help farmers practice agro forestry with a tree species that helps fix nitrogen to the soil and prevent the depletion of soil fertility. The twigs of these trees can also be used as firewood. Efficient cookstoves and sustainable hoes (that does not disturb the organic component in the soil) are provided free. COMACO then buys farm products from the farmers by paying them a premium, processes them into items like peanut butter and dried mushrooms. Most of the proceeds are ploughed back into the communities.
COMACO is financed by a mixture of debts and grants. Some of the grants are for broader purposes but many are for specific projects. In partnership with the Stockholm International Water Institute, COMACO is digitizing all farmer records. The organization has also made some progress with carbon finance. They started developing a carbon finance project in 2012 to sell them to the World Bank. One more project is being developed with Acorn Rabobank. So far US$ 4.9 million of carbon credits has come to the communities.
COMACO uses market-based mechanisms to create impact but is itself structured as a non-profit. This allows it to meet pledges to remote communities. It would not have been able to do what it does, if it were not a community-focused non-profit.
Sections
Section 1: First 38 minutes about what COMACO does in Zambia
Section 2: Next 12 minutes about impact, partnerships and funding.
Host: Sanjoy Sanyal, Founder Regain Paradise
New Ventures Website
Guest : Edward Zulu - Monitoring and Evaluation Manager, COMACO
Guests Website and contact details : www.itswild.org,
# 67 Rainwater is not seeping in.
Years of repeated tilling the same piece of land with a hand
hoe has compacted the soil in Malawi into a hard layer.
Plant roots cannot penetrate this “hard pan” and they grow
laterally, instead of vertically. Rainwater does not penetrate
the soil either but rushes along the furrows created in the
land, washing away the top soil. This is drastically reducing
agricultural production plummeting Malawi, whose
youthful population is dependent on agriculture, into crisis.
Climate crisis is making things worse. There are heavy
periods of rain, followed by dry spells and more frequent
cyclones. Standing crops are swept away and heavy rain
exacerbates soil erosion. Spells of drought makes plants,
already deprived of soil moisture, wither.
The solution is simple. Break down the hard pan of the soil.
Create deep beds and plant the crops there so that they are protected from storms. Rainwater seeps into the soil so that the soil has enough moisture during droughts. Tiyeni, a
local Malawi NGO has been training farmers on this
technique of “deep bed farming” for more than a decade.
They work with government extension workers who in turn
work with lead farmers who demonstrate these techniques
to other farmers.. Some of them have quadrupled their
yields. Tiyeni has worked with 30,000 farmers across the
county.
It does not cost too much money to train farmers. Isaac
Chavula feels that with about 450 million Malawian
Kwachas (less than US$ 300k) they can cover a lot of the
country. He also thinks it is a “lot of money”. That is
because funding for Tiyeni has been hard to come by – the
funding they get is from projects they do with universities
or companies. They are partnering with SIWI to raise the
profile of rainfed farming. Most of Sub-Saharan Africa’s
land is not irrigated. Governments have too little money to
invest in large irrigation projects. If all farmers in Malawi
could adopt deep bed farming, there may not be need to
spend a lot of money either in solving the looming problem
of food security.
Sections
Section 1: First 20 minutes introduction to the problem of agriculture in Malawi and the solution to the problem , Deep Bed Farming
Section 2: Next 23 minutes on what needs to be done so
that Malawi farmers have access to the solution.
Host: Sanjoy Sanyal, Founder Regain Paradise
Website www.regainparadise.org
Guest : Isaac Monjo Chavula, Country Director, Tiyeni
Kasonde Mulenga, Programme Manager, SIWI
Guests Website and contact
details. https://www.tiyeni.org/
# 66 Sustaining simple pleasures.
The wine and the alcohol industry has been around for millennia and obviously is not the major cause of climate change. But then like every other industry it has to reduce its emissions and environmental impact. More importantly, the wine industry is being impacted by unpredictable weather events. Drought, sudden frost and wildfires are affecting the quantity and quality of grapes. Transporting wine requires a lot of energy. Glasses are heavy to ship around. Transporting bulk wine across the continents, selling wine in paper cartons, reducing the weight of glasses and using completely recycled bottles are all part of the solution. To adapt to climate change, wine makers are growing different types of grapes, growing them in
different regions, conserving water and discarding monoculture. Consumers care about sustainability but companies need to give them great tasting products which are also produced sustainability. It will be unfair to deprive a hard working person of a simple pleasure in the name of sustainability.
Sections
Section 1: First 10 minutes introduction to David and the sustainability commitment of Direct Wines
Section 2: Next 14 minutes about how the wine industry’s mitigation and adaptation approach.
Section 3: Last 8 minutes about consumer perception towards sustainability.
Host : Sanjoy Sanyal, Founder Regain Paradise
Guest : David Gates
CEO Direct Wines
# 65 Foodtech is not just tech.
# 64 Finding out what’s going on.
# 63 Partnering smaller companies.
# 62 Stopping Land Degradation.
In the Sahel, farmers do not have the money to buy
chemical fertilisers. They use organic methods of farming
which works well when they do. Unfortunately, the
temperatures in the Sahel are already more than global
averages. Rainfall is scarce but when it does the downpours
are heavy. The top soil is often carried away, making the
soil infertile. People clear forests to grow food. Without
trees the ability of the soil to retain water reduces. Well
thought out agro forestry projects where communities plant
indigenous trees can break this vicious cycle. Tree Aid, an
international charity, raises money to support local
communities. It works with local organisations to help
implement these projects. The non-timber forest products
are sold in export and domestic markets. The trees also
grow food that provides vital nutrition.
Sections
Section 1: First 13 minutes about Sahel, Tree Aid and Tom.
Section 2: Next 16 minutes about the projects done by Tree
Aid .
Section 3: Last 13 minutes reflections on how to expand the impact
Host: Sanjoy Sanyal, Founder Regain Paradise
Guest: Tom Skirrow, CEO Tree Aid
https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-skirrow-06a90b36/
# 61 New food...What's cooking?
There are six subsectors to the alternative protein industry.
Plant based meats, precision fermentation and cellular meat
are the main ones. Plant based “mock meat” has been
around in Asia for centuries. There are relatively less
technological barriers to get products out but companies
will still have to overcome taste, nutrition, cost and
regulatory barriers before products reach mass markets.
Precision fermentation should come next. Cellular meat is
farther down the path. For precision fermentation, the
technology has to be adopted from the pharmaceutical
industry. But costs have to come down drastically. With the
public issue of Impossible Foods, many investors started
getting interested in the sector. What followed was a hype
cycle with companies being able to raise large amounts of
capital at high valuations. Things have settled down since
then. Investors must understand that the alternative protein
products will need a few decades to reach a mass market.
As the new food-tech industry grows, people working in the
current food industry will see losses of jobs and livelihoods.
But like with any new technology, new types of jobs will be
created and there will be opportunities for small niches
growing food using regenerative methods. And it would offer the consumer more choices.
Sections
Section 1: First 4 minutes about Hon Mun Yip and how he got involved in investing in food-tech.
Section 2: Next 18 minutes about Hon Mun Yip’s investors in each sub sector of the industry and which sub-sectors. .
Section 3: Last 18 minutes reflections on the current slowdown in investing and peering into the future
Host: Sanjoy Sanyal, Founder Regain Paradise
New Ventures Website www.regainparadise.org
Guest : Hon Mun Yip
Investor, Food Tech and Alternative Protein
# 60 Measuring and managing biodiversity
The Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures
(TNFD) is driving the demand for AI software. Some
companies also want to go beyond just meeting the
standards and genuinely develop a nature strategy. Xylo
Systems, helps energy and property companies understand
baseline biodiversity data, analyse possible impacts and
develop potential projects. They do so by integrating both
open source data as well as data from proprietary remote
monitoring sources. Artificial Intelligence and Machine
Learning helps in processing large volumes of image and
video data, create an ecosystem level analysis by spotting
patterns and then communicating this complex information
into easily understood reports.
Sections
Section 1: First 15 minutes about the background and what is driving the market.
Section 2: Next 15 minutes about Xylo’s approach and
examples of where the software has been used
Section 3: Last 7 minutes reflections
Host : Sanjoy Sanyal, Founder Regain Paradise
New Ventures Website www.regainparadise.org
Guest : Jada Andersen
Co-founder and CTO, Xylo Systems Australia
# 59 Usable and Understandable Energy Plans
Transition Zero has used artificial intelligence to measure
emissions from coal and gas power plants. It has trained
software to learn from satellite images and verified
published emissions. The trained software can then estimate
emissions only from satellite pictures of power plants where
the published data is not available or needs to be verified. It
is now helping countries develop net zero ambition plans.
Satellite data provides a variety of inputs to the modelling
software both on physical infrastructure (electricity grid
infrastructure, renewable energy assets) and natural
infrastructure(biodiversity and landscapes). Artificial
intelligence can rapidly develop multiple versions of plans.
taking into consideration all these multiple inputs and
applying various constraints. Traditional energy modelling,
on the other hand can take into consideration only a limited
number of variables. TransitionZero also make its data in
open format so that other modellers can use it freely. This
helps in smaller countries of the Global South develop
robust plans that they can use to evaluate their plans to net
zero without relying on expensive consultants whose
opaque tools are not as useful either.
Sections Section 1: First 18 minutes about TransitionZero and its offerings
Section 2: Next 15 minutes about applications and uses.
Host : Sanjoy Sanyal, Founder Regain Paradise
New Ventures Website www.regainparadise.org
Guest Name André Ferreira
Data Scientist, TransitionZero
Website and contact details.
# 58 To adapt, invest in tuna processing.
Arnab Sengupta has worked with about six agricultural commodities and knows a lot about tuna. Tuna is consumed fresh and in canned forms. It is caught in the deep sea near some of the small island developing states and then processed in Thailand or Ecuador. The processing industry employs a lot of people because the fish has to be cleaned perfectly in a way that has not been mechanised. The industry, by working with non-profits, scientists and governments, has addressed many of the concerns with regard to over-fishing. Climate change is, however, making its presence felt. It is too early to predict the future (and indeed if one could do so commodity traders would make a killing) but one thing is probably certain: species will migrate both away from where they are caught now and also deeper into the ocean. This will increase fishing costs and reduce revenue for the countries that sell fishing rights.
Sections Section 1: First 18 minutes about Arnab and the tuna industry
Section 2: Next 25 minutes about climate change and overfishing concerns and how the industry is responding
Host : Sanjoy Sanyal, Founder Regain Paradise
New Ventures Website www.regainparadise.org
Guest Name : Arnab Sengupta
https://www.linkedin.com/in/arnabsengupta/
Website : arnab@cantab.net
# 57 Managing risks, Communicating strategies.
The Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive are complex (climate is only one of the five pillars of sustainability) and that creates the need for software to manage the process of meeting the new standards. Metabolic a consultancy used its experience of working with clients to develop Link a product that enables users start with data that they have and identify hotspots and define projects with the aim of managing impact and risk. Link also helps managers to communicate a science based story inside and outside the organisation. The ultimate vision is to help organisations collaborate with others to address problems. Upcoming standards are driving the adoption of software but companies – especially those in the food and apparel industries – are cognizant of the need for getting it right and not just tick the boxes.
Sections
Section 1: First 8 minutes about Pieter and his company Metabolic
Section 2: Next 31 minutes about the software Link that allows organisations assess nature and biodiversity impacts risks and impacts.
Host
Sanjoy Sanyal, Founder Regain Paradise
New Ventures Website
Guest
Pieter van Exter
Director of Product, Metabolic Software
Guests Website and contact details.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/pieter-van-exter/
# 56 Using credit lines effectively.
Credit lines are a very common instrument of moving climate finance from international development financial institutions to intermediaries in developing countries.
Unfortunately and very surprisingly, not all of these lines get utilised. Rainer and Sanjoy who have worked with credit lines for many years explain how credit lines can be made more effective. The market needs to be assessed, potential products tested, the processes have to be thought through and there needs to be far better coordination between teams within the local financial intermediary.
Technical Assistance should also be more strategically deployed and one key criterion is reusability of interventions and continuous improvement.
Sections Section 1: First 6 minutes about lines of credit and their importance in climate finance.
Section 2: Next 18 minutes about how to make lines of credit more successful and effective.
Section 3: Last 22 minutes about how to make best use of Technical Assistance.
Host - Sanjoy Sanyal, Founder Regain Paradise
New Ventures Website www.regainparadise.org
Guest Name Rainer Agster
Founder, aimplifin GmbH
Website- https://de.linkedin.com/in/raineragster
https://www.aimplifin.eu/
# 55 Preparing proactively for climate migration.
A small country like Bangladesh is vulnerable to both extreme events and slow deterioration of living conditions due to climate change. People migrate in droves when extreme events occur, they migrate in trickles as agriculture and fishing becomes unviable. The Climate Bridge Fund, supported by the German Development Bank, and implemented by BRAC, the world’s largest NGO aims at increasing the resilience of people as they migrate to urban areas.
They fund two types of projects. Some projects are implemented by small NGOs who work in informal settlements to improve sanitation conditions and help people seek new livelihood projects. Other projects implemented by BRAC itself help develop nationwide climate adaptation strategies. These projects need to be implemented with urgency but they do not cost the earth.
Sections Section 1: First 16 minutes to understand why people are moving on account of climate impacts?
Section 2: Next 28 minutes about the Climate Bridge Fund
Host : Sanjoy Sanyal, Founder Regain Paradise
New Ventures Website www.regainparadise.org
Guest Name : Dr Md. Golam Rabbani
Head of Climate Bridge Fund Secretariat at BRAC
Guests Website and contact details. : rabbani.golam@brac.net
https://www.brac.net/program/climate-bridge-fund/
# 54 PAYG everything is a reality.
BBOXX started selling small solar home systems in Rwanda thirteen years back. It was heady times as several entrepreneurs from the Western world rushed to provide modern electricity to millions of customers in Africa . The industry soon attracted enormous global investor interest.
Like all hype cycles, reality dawned as some of these companies collapsed.
Listen to this podcast with Christopher Baker-Brian of the BBOXX , a company which has lived to tell the tale.
Sections In these 35 minutes we discuss:
The storms the company has come through. How the applications of the pay as you go technology has expanded ?
How many things have been solved but the problem of local currency debt has not been ?
Host Name : Sanjoy Sanyal, Founder Regain Paradise
New Ventures Website www.regainparadise.org
Guest Name : Christopher Baker-Brian
Co-founder and MD Product Division
Guests Website and contact
details. @cbakerbrian
https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisbakerbrian/
# 53 Breaking the cycle of subsistence farming.
A very small part of arable land in Africa is irrigated and with climate change already happening, there is neither time nor money to build grand irrigation projects. What can be done, however, is to collect rainwater, which now comes in sudden heavy downpours, using age-old techniques. Add on solutions that measure soil moisture, predict weather and connect farmers to market and you can transform agriculture in Africa. Requires a commitment to support local organisations and foster partnerships for the next thirty years.
Listen to this podcast with Anton Earle of the Stockholm International Water Institute which is implementing a rain fed agriculture project in the Zambezi river basin.
Sections Section 1: First 15 minutes about the climate change impacts in the Zambezi river basin
Section 2: Last 30 minutes about how only rainwater can be used to transform agriculture if the correct conditions exist
Host : Sanjoy Sanyal, Founder Regain Paradise
New Ventures Website www.regainparadise.org
Guest : Anton Earle
Director of African Regional Centre at SIWI
https://siwi.org/transforming-investment-in-africas-rainfed-agriculture-tiara/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/anton-earle-20427611/
# 52 More intelligible ESG Data
Michael Poisson helps us understand the types of companies in the crowded ESG scoring industry. The industry is very crowded with various types of companies offering different data products based on the customer needs. Incoming regulations will lead to standardised products. Companies use broadly two types of approaches. One way is to make sense of publicly available data and the other is to use technology such as artificial intelligence and quantitative modelling. To some extent, these approaches are merging not least because all publicly available
information cannot be believed.
I host this podcast with Michael Poisson, Managing Director of IdealRatings which has the world’s largest database of ESG scores of public companies with my co-host Raven McMenemie of Eden Smith Group, a specialist data staffing and consulting business.
Sections Section 1: First 20 minutes about the ESG industry and ongoing trends
Section 2: Last 10 minutes about how AI can be changing the industry and managing a ESG data company
Host: Sanjoy Sanyal, Founder Regain Paradise. www.regainparadise.org
and Raven McMenemie www.https://edensmith.group/
Guest : Michael Poisson Managing Director, IdealRatings
Author at the ESG Data Revolution: Sustainable Fuel for Tomorrow’s Business
Guests Website and contact details.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelpoisson/
https://www.idealratings.com/
# 51 Why join a climate programme?
What you learn at a world class incubator? In this podcast , two entrepreneurs reflect on the time they spent at Carbon 13, Cambridge’s climate venture builder. Why did they apply? What happened when they meet their other cohort members? Did the experience help them? What is the progress they have made since then?
Finally, it seems to boil down to know to the maximum; “Know myself”
Sections Section 1: First 20 minutes about the businesses of Andy and Natalia
Section 2: About their experiences in Carbon 13
Host: Sanjoy Sanyal, Founder Regain Paradise
New Ventures Website www.regainparadise.org
Guest Name : 1. Andy Hale , CEO and Co-Founder at xtonnes, https://www.linkedin.com/in/drandrewhale/
2. Natalia Dorfman, CEO and Co-Founder at Kita, https://www.linkedin.com/in/natalia-dorfman/
# 50 Partnering to solve the climate crisis.
Human wildlife conflict has social causes and is being exacerbated by climate change. Solving it requires an integrated approach. Technology is key but you cannot air drop it in these frontiers of climate change. To make real impact organisations of different types must come together and their funders will have to support these partnerships. Listen to this fascinating podcast to know how software technology is being tested among the Masai tribes in a partnership between two very different organisations and understand how these unusual partnerships can be nurtured to meet the twin crises in biodiversity and climate crises.
Sections Section 1: First 20 minutes about the nature of the problem that is being tackled.
Section 2: Next 15 minutes on the solution.
Section 3: Last 11 minutes on how these projects can be supported
Host Name : Sanjoy Sanyal, Founder Regain Paradise
New Ventures Website www.regainparadise.org
Guest Name : 1. Dr. Irene Amoke
Executive Director, Kenya Wildlife Trust
https://www.kenyawildlifetrust.org/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-irene-amoke-a61a9241/
2. James Alden
Founder, Climate Edge
http://www.climate-edge.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-alden-7a1b699a/
# 49 The stage is set for climate talent.
Deep Science Ventures is building climate businesses with a plan. What is required to reverse global warming? What are the constraints in reaching outcomes? What technology solutions can remove these constraints? Who are the best people to develop the technology? How can we give them opportunity to think about the problem?
Listen to this fascinating podcast about they are building companies in Direct Air Capture and Renewable Energy from these first principles.
Sections Section 1: First 18 P minutes on the Deep Science Ventures approach
Section 2: Next 35 minutes on the approach in action
Sanjoy Sanyal, Founder Regain Paradise
New Ventures Website www.regainparadise.com
Guest : Pina Fritz, Ph.D Head of Scoping Climate. Deep Science Ventures
Adam Tomassi-Russell Director Climate & Energy. Deep Science Ventures
Website
https://deepscienceventures.com/
Contact details
https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-tomassi-russell-75363352/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/pina-fritz-phd-8896499b
# 48 Data mining for better mining.
The mining industry contributes more than 4 per cent of the global greenhouse gas emissions. That is about the share of cement and chemicals & amp; petrochemicals taken together. It also consumes water in areas where it is in short supply. Things can get worse. The transition to electric vehicles and renewable energy will increase the demand for minerals and rare earths several times over. Ore quality is declining and companies are digging deep to meet the increased demand. Listen to this podcast to know how IntelliSense is using artificial intelligence to help mining operations not only reduce the use of energy, water and chemicals but also become more profitable.
Sections Section 1: First 12 minutes in understanding the problem
Section 2: Next 14 minutes about examples of IntelliSense’s solution
Section 3: Understanding AI and peering into the future
Host: Sanjoy Sanyal, Founder Regain Paradise
New Ventures Website www.regainparadise.org
Guest Name and Designation Sam Bose, Founder & CEO, IntelliSense.io
Guests Website and contact details : https://www.intellisense.io/, https://www.linkedin.com/in/sambose/
# 47 Humanism, Climate Change and Tagore
Can the tools that we have – science, technology and business – address the issues that we face from climate change? After all, these are the very things that has brought us to this problem. So it is right to be skeptical. But then in the limited time these tools are all that we have. It is not practical to think that we will build everything afresh . This difficult problem can be solved if we use the same tools with a different mindset. This is why the philosophy of Rabindranath Tagore, the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913 may need to be resurrected.
Sections Section 1: First 13 minutes introducing Rabindranath Tagore.
Section 2: Next 24 minutes about his philosophy and why it is important in this time.
Host : Sanjoy Sanyal, Founder Regain Paradise
New Ventures Website www.regainparadise.com
Guest Name : Dr. Bashabi Fraser, Professor Emerita of English & Creative Writing
Director, Scottish Centre of Tagore Studies (ScoTs)
Edinburgh Napier University
Guests Website and contact details. https://scotstagore.org/bashabifraserwriter@gmail.com
# 46 Something priceless out of nothing.
2 people attract 15 volunteers. These 15 volunteers are supported by people across the UK. Seeing the success of this first group, scores of groups spring up across the UK and the world all working on recycling plastic waste for products such as survival blankets for people who have nothing else to keep warm during the winter. The groups partner with corporate organisations, charities and public bodies. Scaling this organisation does not take money, it needs “admin time”. Is this how future of climate business should look like?
Sections Section 1: First 6 minutes about the
Section 2: Next 17 minutes about how our organisation works
Host : Sanjoy Sanyal, Founder Regain Paradise
New Ventures Website www.regainparadise.com
Guest : Pen Huston, Founder, Crisp Packet Project
Guests Website : https://crisppacketproject.com/
# 45 Reinventing investing for climate crisis.
Description: Suppose millions of people come together to fund innovations that have the highest impact on solving the climate crisis. The areas they target are the priority areas science is telling us to focus on, not just the VC flavour of the year. The innovations they support are examined by intelligent common people as well as by experts. The innovators license out the technology so that solutions scale rapidly. That is what Time for Planet is trying to build and making progress on.
Sections Section 1: First 22 minutes about how Time for Planet is reinventing investing
Section 2: Next 23 minutes about what climate innovations Time for Planet is supporting and how.
Section 3: The impact Time for Planet can create.
Sanjoy Sanyal, Founder Regain Paradise
Website : www.regainparadise.com
Guest Name : Cecile Duranton, Managing Director, Time for Planet
Guests Website and contact details : https://join-time.com/en
# 44 Rescuing food from being wasted.
Wasted food leads to a greenhouse gas emissions. Not only is food waste causing global warming but climate change will lead to greater food waste. Extreme events will damage crops. Unseasonal flowering will lead to short term surpluses. Food is wasted because as consumers we have some unsustainable habits and because retailers are seeking efficiency. Oddbox provides growers an option to sell the fruits and vegetables rejected by retailers and compensates them for cost of growing.
Sections Section 1: First 17 minutes about “what” is Oddbox doing
Section 2: Next 18 minutes about “why” food is wasted and “how” Oddbox’s solution is creating impact
Sanjoy Sanyal, Founder Regain Paradise
New Ventures Website www.regainparadise.com
Guest Emilie Vanpoperinghe, Founder Oddbox
Guests Website and contact details. https://www.oddbox.co.uk/
# 43 Collaboration is must for innovation
The inside story behind the dramatic drop in renewable energy prices is often quite mundane. In this podcast, we discuss how nitty gritty technical and commercial details led to the rapid decline of offshore wind prices in the UK. The story is really that of a trusted organization bringing together industry players to collaboratively explore solutions to common problems. The Carbon Trust is now expanding the approach to floating wind and expanding the integration of wind energy to existing infrastructure. In promoting innovation in energy access it is trying some of these same tools on the energy access situation in Africa. Here it is using challenge funds to support a broad range of initiatives, collaborative approaches and an educational programme on energy access.
Sections Section 1: First 5 minutes about The Carbon Trust, the organisation
Section 2: Till 22 minutes about The Carbon Trust’s work in energy access
Section 3: Last 21 minutes about The Carbon Trust’s work in offshore wind
Name Sanjoy Sanyal, Founder Regain Paradise
New Ventures Website www.regainparadise.com
Guest Name Angus Vantoch-Wood, Senior Manger, Carbon Trust
Guests Website and contact details. https://www.carbontrust.com/ https://www.preo.org/
# 42 Circular Economy & Green Hydrogen
Green hydrogen is necessary to decarbonise industry. It is possible to make green hydrogen from electrolysis process from renewable energy but the UK government has given out grants to test various ways of making green hydrogen from biomass. A few of them will go to the demonstration stage in the next few years. Post demonstration they can go to commercial stage. Depending on which technology makes its way down this path, green hydrogen can be produced much more cheaply and help both the agriculture and industrial sectors in the UK. Phoebus Power is experimenting with ways to use waste biomass and make green hydrogen. The ability to experiment with innovative approaches is what makes UK’s green hydrogen policy ambitious.
Sections Section 1: First 11 minutes about the various ways of producing green hydrogen and how the UK government is trying to explore the use of biomass.
Section 2: Till 38 minutes about what exactly Phoebus Power is trying to do with the grant and what could happen if they are successful.
Section 3: Last 9 minutes about other clean energy businesses Ravinder is involved in.
Host : Sanjoy Sanyal, Founder Regain Paradise
New Ventures Website www.regainparadise.com
Guest : Ravinder Shan, CEO Phoebus Power
Guests Website and contact details. https://www.phoebuspower.com/, https://www.linkedin.com/in/rshan/
# 41 Nurturing businesses to seed investment.
Helping climate businesses to get their first customers and the first seed investment is a very tough job. The Greenhouse at the at the Centre for Climate Change Innovation gets it done for about 60 to 70% of the companies they support during a twelve month process. More creditable: most companies they have supported are still in business defying the high mortality rates of start-ups. In this podcast, Naveed Chaudhry talks about the incubation process, the types of companies supported, the angel investing ecosystem in the UK. He goes on to provide two critical insights: specialised VC investors should be ready to invest large amounts in climate but not to chase market share and entrepreneurs should not chase grants and competitions at the expense of their own business.
Sections Section 1: First 29 minutes about what the incubator works.
Section 2: Upto 41 minutes on the impact created
Section 3: Investment patterns and ecosystem lessons
Sanjoy Sanyal, Founder Regain Paradise
New Ventures Website www.regainparadise.com
Guest Name : Naveed Chaudhry, Co-Founder & Head of The Greenhouse at the Centre for Climate Change Innovation
Guests Website and contact details : n.chaudhry@imperial.ac.uk
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/grantham/innovation/what-we-do/the-greenhouse/