New Ventures Podcast

New Ventures Podcast

By Sanjoy Sanyal

Sanjoy Sanyal is an expert in financing clean technology innovation in Asia and Africa.
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# 88 How to reduce food waste?

New Ventures Podcast Dec 08, 2024

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# 90 Reducing the carbon in your tipple.

# 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

Dec 18, 202455:43
# 89 AI is riding on digital innovations

# 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/

Dec 15, 202458:52
# 88 How to reduce food waste?
Dec 08, 202456:31
# 87 Building a new economy
Dec 01, 202451:28
# 86 What is climate consciousness?
Nov 18, 202441:51
# 85 PAYG is vital for Kenyan farmers
Nov 09, 202447:02
# 84 How banks assess climate risks?
Nov 02, 202445:14
# 83 Preparing for the next drought
Oct 30, 202450:33
# 82 Food Security or Nutritional Sufficiency?
Oct 23, 202401:04:25
# 81 Rude awakening in Seychelles
Sep 24, 202447:23
#80 There Is Always Hope.
Sep 13, 202451:16
# 79 Franchisee models for agriculture?

# 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

Aug 29, 202449:30
#78 The future of rice : low carbon?

#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

Aug 08, 202441:38
# 77 Demystifying AI solutions for food
Jul 25, 202443:50
# 76 Celfre Energy and Futurepump – Solar irrigation
Jun 29, 202443:25
# 75 Davis & Shirtliff and Futurepump – Solar irrigation
Jun 28, 202439:41
# 74 Preferred by Nature – Rice
May 23, 202446:56
# 73 WWF Philippines – Sustainable tuna
May 15, 202445:45
# 72 Economic resilience or food security?
May 10, 202450:10
# 71 Community engagement key to food security.
Mar 27, 202447:53
# 70 Cellular food – Anytime soon?

# 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

www.regainparadise.org

Guest : Ambika Hiranandani

Regulatory Affairs and Strategic Partnerships, Senara

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ambika-hiranandani-b4815616b/


Mar 08, 202442:33
# 69 Measuring soil organic carbon.

# 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://soilwatch.eu/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/joona-mikkola/

Feb 26, 202435:29
# 68 Pledging to protect the land.

# 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

www.regainparadise.org

Guest : Edward Zulu - Monitoring and Evaluation Manager, COMACO

Guests Website and contact details : www.itswild.org,

ezulu@itswild.org

Feb 16, 202452:03
# 67 Rainwater is not seeping in.

# 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/

isaacmonjo.chavula@tiyeni.org

https://siwi.org/

kasonde.mulenga@siwi.org

Feb 02, 202443:32
# 66 Sustaining simple pleasures.

# 66 Sustaining simple pleasures.

Dec 14, 202333:16
# 65 Foodtech is not just tech.

# 65 Foodtech is not just tech.

In the last five years, plant based foods have started appearing on supermarket shelves, on restaurant menus and even on the assembly chains of fast food outlets. There is still skepticism however. Customer demand in the US and UK seem to be flattening out and there are no real entry barriers to new companies bringing out new products. It is not unusual for a new industry to stall after initial period of excitement. During the initial period, many new companies rush in and then there is a shake out. A few companies survive and they are able to expand the customer base. The plant food industry may not follow this traditional bloodbath. After all, food tastes are incredibly varied and there can be thousands of plant foods. This points to the need for companies to do marketing 101: segment customers, understand needs, create awareness. Germany can be a role model . Here a fortuitous combination of innovative supermarkets, aware citizenry and intelligent policies have helped hundreds of private label plant based foods to be available in supermarkets.

Sections

Section 1: First 17 minutes introduction to Sonalie, her work and what is broken with the food system.

Section 2: Next 23 minutes about innovation in food systems

Section 3: Last 8 minutes about the participation of large companies

Host - Sanjoy Sanyal, Founder Regain Paradise

www.regainparadise.org

Guest- Sonalie Figueiras - Founder, Green Queen Media

https://www.climatenode.org/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/sonalie-figueiras-green-queen/

Dec 12, 202348:59
# 64 Finding out what’s going on.
Dec 05, 202323:08
# 63 Partnering smaller companies.
Nov 28, 202336:43
# 62 Stopping Land Degradation.
Nov 21, 202342:37
# 61 New food...What's cooking?

# 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

https://sg.linkedin.com/in/yiphonmun/

Nov 08, 202341:02
# 60 Measuring and managing biodiversity
Nov 02, 202338:36
# 59 Usable and Understandable Energy Plans

# 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.

https://www.transitionzero.org/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrecnf/

Oct 25, 202333:49
# 58 To adapt, invest in tuna processing.
Oct 18, 202344:36
# 57 Managing risks, Communicating strategies.
Oct 10, 202339:53
# 56 Using credit lines effectively.

# 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/

Sep 27, 202346:57
# 55 Preparing proactively for climate migration.

# 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/

Sep 18, 202345:04
# 54 PAYG everything is a reality.
Aug 21, 202338:01
# 53 Breaking the cycle of subsistence farming.
Aug 06, 202346:09
# 52 More intelligible ESG Data

# 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/

Jul 27, 202331:08
# 51 Why join a climate programme?

# 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/

Jul 03, 202301:02:13
# 50 Partnering to solve the climate crisis.

# 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/

Jun 08, 202357:22
# 49 The stage is set for climate talent.

# 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

May 09, 202352:25
# 48 Data mining for better mining.

# 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/

Apr 26, 202338:48
# 47 Humanism, Climate Change and Tagore

# 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

Mar 15, 202337:36
# 46 Something priceless out of nothing.

# 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/

Feb 23, 202323:44
# 45 Reinventing investing for climate crisis.

# 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

Jan 30, 202301:00:32
# 44 Rescuing food from being wasted.

# 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/

Jan 13, 202336:00
# 43 Collaboration is must for innovation

# 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/

Dec 20, 202243:47
# 42 Circular Economy & Green Hydrogen

# 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/

Dec 06, 202244:33
# 41 Nurturing businesses to seed investment.

# 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/

Nov 29, 202201:01:33