Net Zero Compare Podcast

Interviews + explainers for the energy transition, without the greenwash. Hear from innovators across climate tech and sustainability (battery chemists, hydrogen founders, marine energy, EV charging, carbon markets), then get buyer’s-guide clarity on tools like carbon accounting, ESG monitoring and supply-chain solutions. Straight facts, business outcomes, real-world adoption.🌐 netzerocompare.com

Net Zero Compare Podcast is a news podcast hosted by Net Zero Compare, with 51 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Episode #52

  Albert Slap on Why Property Climate Risk Requires More Than a Hazard Score

  Aug 14, 20261h 45m

  In this episode: Albert Slap, President of RiskFootprint, joins Net Zero Compare to discuss why physical climate risk is becoming increasingly important for property owners, investors, lenders, insurers, and businesses with physical assets. The conversation explores why traditional property due diligence, environmental assessments, and flood-zone maps may not capture the full picture of natural-hazard exposure. Slap explains that understanding risk requires looking beyond regional hazard data to the vulnerability of individual buildings, including factors such as construction type, elevation, drainage, roof strength, building systems, and previous resilience improvements. He also discusses the limitations of simplified climate-risk scores and why companies should pay closer attention to hazard-specific data, expected losses, and potential downtime. The episode highlights the ASTM Property Resilience Assessment framework as a practical way to identify hazards, evaluate vulnerability, and assess measures such as flood barriers, stronger roofing, improved drainage, and the relocation of mechanical or electrical equipment. For companies managing large portfolios, Slap recommends screening assets first, then prioritizing strategically important high-risk properties for more detailed assessment and investment. The discussion also examines how resilience can support insurance, financing, asset value, business continuity, and long-term capital planning. A key takeaway is that physical climate risk should not be treated only as an ESG reporting exercise. The real value comes from connecting climate-risk data with practical decisions at the asset level. Read the full article: https://netzerocompare.com/podcasts/net-zero-compare-podcast/albert-slap-riskfootprint Guest: Albert Slap, President of RiskFootprint ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/albert-slap-740182a6 Interview by: Karol Kaczmarek, Co-Founder of Net Zero Compare ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/karol-kaczmarek-39a29651/⁠ #AlbertSlap #RiskFootprint #ClimateRisk #PhysicalClimateRisk #ClimateResilience #RealEstate #RiskManagement #ESG #SustainableFinance #NetZero #NetZeroCompare *** At Net Zero Compare, we deliver clear, data-backed insights for decision-makers navigating ESG reporting, net-zero compliance, and clean energy adoption. https://netzerocompare.com Contact us: info@netzerocompare.com Explore the Academy: https://netzerocompare.com/academy Read more insights: https://netzerocompare.com/articles

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  Episode #51

  Wayne Visser on How Businesses Can Separate Climate Technology Progress From Hype

  Aug 7, 20261h 6mS1

  In this episode: Wayne Visser joins Net Zero Compare to discuss how businesses can distinguish genuinely transformative climate technologies from hype and identify solutions that are ready to scale. The conversation explores the technologies reshaping energy, industry, food, mobility, construction, and environmental management, drawing on ideas from Visser’s forthcoming book, Technologies of Hope: An Earth-Saving Mission . He explains that promising climate technologies should be evaluated not simply by how innovative they sound, but by whether they can deliver meaningful environmental improvements, reduce costs, improve performance, and achieve widespread adoption. Visser highlights solar power, wind energy, battery storage, and electric vehicles as technologies that have already moved well beyond the experimental stage. At the same time, challenges such as grid capacity, permitting, infrastructure, supply chains, and political resistance can still determine how quickly they scale. The discussion also examines harder-to-abate sectors including steel, cement, chemicals, plastics, and construction materials. Technologies such as electric arc furnaces, green hydrogen, lower-carbon cement, bioplastics, and engineered timber could significantly reduce emissions, but many still face cost, infrastructure, or adoption barriers. Another key theme is the growing role of environmental data, AI, and robotics. Earth information systems can help companies monitor deforestation, methane emissions, biodiversity, and climate risks, while AI and robotics are creating practical applications in precision agriculture, waste sorting, reforestation, logistics, and environmental monitoring. Visser also emphasizes that no climate technology is impact-free. Batteries, renewable energy systems, digital infrastructure, and electric vehicles all require materials, energy, water, land, and supply chains. The goal is therefore not to search for perfect technologies, but to compare alternatives, understand lifecycle impacts, manage risks, and continue improving performance. For companies, the main takeaway is to build a repeatable process for evaluating emerging technologies. Businesses should look at technical readiness, market adoption, cost trends, infrastructure requirements, lifecycle impacts, data quality, and relevance to their core operations. Visser encourages organizations to experiment through pilots and partnerships, invest early where a technology could transform their market, and avoid chasing trends that lack evidence of real-world value. Read the full article: https://netzerocompare.com/podcasts/net-zero-compare-podcast/wayne-visser-cambridge-institute-for-sustainability-leadership Guest: Wayne Visser, Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership https://www.linkedin.com/in/waynevisser/ Interview by: Karol Kaczmarek, Co-Founder of Net Zero Compare https://www.linkedin.com/in/karol-kaczmarek-39a29651/ #WayneVisser #ClimateTechnology #CleanTechnology #RenewableEnergy #EnergyStorage #ArtificialIntelligence #GreenHydrogen #SustainableInnovation #NetZero #NetZeroCompare *** At Net Zero Compare, we deliver clear, data-backed insights for decision-makers navigating ESG reporting, net-zero compliance, and clean energy adoption. https://netzerocompare.com Contact us: info@netzerocompare.com Explore the Academy: https://netzerocompare.com/academy Read more insights: https://netzerocompare.com/articles

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  Episode #50

  Frédéric Pouyot on Why Systems Thinking Is the Missing Piece of Sustainable Infrastructure

  Jul 31, 20261h 13mS1

  In this episode: Frédéric Pouyot joins Net Zero Compare to discuss why systems thinking is essential for sustainable infrastructure and the transition to net zero. The conversation explores how buildings, energy, finance, mobility, infrastructure, and communities are interconnected and why sustainability initiatives often underperform when treated as separate challenges. Pouyot explains that effective sustainability begins with better design and planning, rather than immediately selecting technologies such as solar panels, heat pumps, or battery storage. Using buildings as an example, he discusses how orientation, insulation, shading, natural ventilation, landscaping, and an efficient building envelope can reduce energy demand before renewable technologies are installed. This can lower operating costs, reduce the size of mechanical systems, improve occupant comfort, and strengthen long-term asset performance. The episode also examines life-cycle economics. Pouyot argues that organizations should look beyond the lowest upfront price and consider energy use, maintenance, durability, operating costs, financing, and total cost of ownership. Higher-quality materials or systems may cost more initially but can deliver greater financial and environmental value over several decades. The discussion also covers affordable housing, renewable energy integration, resilient communities, workforce development, and Indigenous participation. Pouyot emphasizes that sustainable projects should improve quality of life and ensure that local communities benefit economically and socially from development. Another key theme is the need to break down organizational silos. Sustainable infrastructure requires collaboration between engineers, architects, financiers, developers, policymakers, environmental specialists, and communities. The main takeaway is that net zero depends not only on cleaner technologies, but on integrated planning that connects environmental performance, financial viability, infrastructure design, and social outcomes. Read the full article: https://netzerocompare.com/podcasts/net-zero-compare-podcast/frederic-pouyot-gpeks Guest: Frédéric Pouyot, Founder of GPEKS, Green Projects Environment Knowledge Systems https://www.linkedin.com/in/frederic-pouyot/ Interview by: Karol Kaczmarek, Co-Founder of Net Zero Compare https://www.linkedin.com/in/karol-kaczmarek-39a29651/ #FredericPouyot #SystemsThinking #SustainableInfrastructure #SustainableBuildings #EnergyEfficiency #RenewableEnergy #CommunityResilience #NetZero #NetZeroCompare *** At Net Zero Compare, we deliver clear, data-backed insights for decision-makers navigating ESG reporting, net-zero compliance, and clean energy adoption. https://netzerocompare.com Contact us: info@netzerocompare.com Explore the Academy: https://netzerocompare.com/academy Read more insights: https://netzerocompare.com/articles

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  Episode #49

  Manuj Aggarwal on AI Can Support Sustainability, But Only When Companies Start With the Right Problem

  Jul 24, 202647 minS1

  In this episode: Manuj Aggarwal joins Net Zero Compare to discuss how artificial intelligence can support sustainability, ESG reporting, supply-chain oversight, emissions reduction, and operational efficiency. The conversation explores why companies should begin with a clearly defined business problem rather than adopting AI simply because it is available. Aggarwal explains that successful projects depend on reliable data, measurable objectives, clear ownership, privacy controls, governance, and human oversight. The episode examines how AI can identify operational waste, connect fragmented information across departments, improve supplier visibility, support ESG data collection, and flag missing or inconsistent information. It also considers applications in energy optimisation, predictive maintenance, transport planning, procurement analysis, emissions forecasting, and reporting. At the same time, the discussion highlights the limits of the technology. AI cannot make poor-quality data reliable, verify inaccurate supplier claims, or remove corporate responsibility for compliance and public disclosures. Sustainability and ESG professionals must still validate sources, review assumptions, check calculations, and approve final outputs. Aggarwal also discusses the difference between public and private AI systems, the risks of sharing sensitive company data, and the need to connect private tools to an organization’s own knowledge and processes. The conversation further addresses AI’s environmental footprint and the importance of comparing its energy and infrastructure demands with the operational or sustainability benefits it creates. The episode also explains why many AI pilots fail to move into normal business operations. Common barriers include unclear objectives, weak data, limited employee adoption, underestimated costs, poor ownership, and insufficient implementation planning. The main takeaway is that AI can improve decision-making, reporting, resource efficiency, and supply-chain visibility, but only when it is connected to a genuine business need and supported by credible data, strong governance, clear accountability, and qualified human review. Read the full article: https://netzerocompare.com/podcasts/net-zero-compare-podcast/manuj-aggarwal-tetranoodle-technologies Guest: Manuj Aggarwal, Founder and Chief Innovation Officer of TetraNoodle Technologies https://www.linkedin.com/in/manujaggarwal/ Interview by: Karol Kaczmarek, Co-Founder of Net Zero Compare https://www.linkedin.com/in/karol-kaczmarek-39a29651/ #ManujAggarwal #ArtificialIntelligence #AISustainability #ESGReporting #SupplyChainSustainability #ResponsibleAI #DataGovernance #EnergyEfficiency #RiskManagement #NetZeroCompare *** At Net Zero Compare, we deliver clear, data-backed insights for decision-makers navigating ESG reporting, net-zero compliance, and clean energy adoption. https://netzerocompare.com Contact us: info@netzerocompare.com Explore the Academy: https://netzerocompare.com/academy Read more insights: https://netzerocompare.com/articles

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  Episode #48

  Anita Renda Kellogg on Why Geopolitical Risk Now Belongs in Corporate Sustainability Strategy

  Jul 17, 202650 minS1

  🎯 In this episode: Dr. Anita Renda Kellogg joins Net Zero Compare to discuss why sustainability strategy can no longer be separated from energy security, critical minerals, trade policy, supply chain resilience, and geopolitical risk. The conversation explores how clean energy technologies, electrification, batteries, grid infrastructure, and renewable energy projects depend on complex global supply chains. Dr. Kellogg explains that the main vulnerability is often not where critical minerals are mined, but where they are processed. When processing capacity is concentrated in a small number of countries, companies can become exposed to export restrictions, trade disputes, sanctions, logistics disruptions, and rapidly changing policy. A key focus of the episode is supply chain visibility. Many businesses understand their direct suppliers but have limited insight into the lower tiers where critical materials, components, and processing dependencies may sit. For sustainability, ESG, procurement, and risk teams, this means a seemingly low-carbon product may still carry significant geopolitical, labor, emissions, or supply-security risks. The discussion also examines why companies are reconsidering just-in-time supply chains. Although lean inventory and low-cost sourcing can improve efficiency, disruptions can create far greater costs through delayed production, emergency procurement, price volatility, and missed customer commitments. Dr. Kellogg highlights the need to assess the full cost of risk, not only the initial purchase price. The episode covers practical responses such as supplier diversification, friend-shoring, ally-shoring, strategic inventory, long-term sourcing agreements, and alternative materials. It also explains why relying on a single “trusted” market may still create concentration risk. For ESG and sustainability teams, the conversation offers an important message: emissions data, Scope 3 mapping, supplier due diligence, and geopolitical risk analysis should not operate as separate exercises. The same supply chain visibility needed for credible carbon accounting can also reveal vulnerabilities that affect business continuity and the delivery of climate commitments. The episode shows that a credible sustainability strategy must answer more than how a company will reduce emissions. It must also consider whether the organization can reliably access the materials, suppliers, energy, infrastructure, and policy support required to achieve its goals in an increasingly uncertain world. Note: Dr. Kellogg’s views are her own and do not represent National Defense University, the U.S. Department of Defense, or the U.S. government. 🔗 Read the full article: https://netzerocompare.com/podcasts/net-zero-compare-podcast/anita-kellogg-national-defense-university 📍 Guest: Dr. Anita Renda Kellogg, Assistant Professor at National Defense University and host of Kellogg’s Global Politics https://www.linkedin.com/in/arkellogg 🎙 Interview by: Karol Kaczmarek, Co-Founder of Net Zero Compare https://www.linkedin.com/in/karol-kaczmarek-39a29651/ #AnitaRendaKellogg #CriticalMinerals #SupplyChainResilience #EnergySecurity #GeopoliticalRisk #ESGReporting #Sustainability #CleanEnergy #TradePolicy #RiskManagement #Scope3 #NetZeroCompare *** At Net Zero Compare, we deliver clear, data-backed insights for decision-makers navigating ESG reporting, net-zero compliance, and clean energy adoption. 🌐 https://netzerocompare.com 📩 Contact us: info@netzerocompare.com 📚 Explore the Academy: https://netzerocompare.com/academy 📰 Read more insights: https://netzerocompare.com/articles

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