Climate and Finance, Lessons from a Time Machine - Cleaning Up Audioblog - Episode 1 from 2023-12-14T10:08:45.382423

Enforcing the Laws of Nature - Ep44: James Thornton from 2023-12-14T10:08:45.375896

James Thornton is the CEO and founder of ClientEarth, a leading environmental law organisation in Europe. Since its establishment in 2007, ClientEarth tackled world’s most pressing environmental...

Powering Canada Past Coal - Ep45: Catherine McKenna from 2023-12-14T10:08:45.373028

Catherine McKenna is a Canadian Liberal politician serving as the Minister of Infrastructure and Communities since 2019. Before that she was the Minister of Environment and Climate Change for 4 ...

Pushing Planetary Boundaries - Ep49: Johan Rockström from 2023-12-14T10:08:45.365177

Johan Rockström is Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and Professor in Earth System Science at the University of Potsdam.

He is an internationally recogniz...

Separating Hype from Hydrogen – Part One: The Supply Side - Cleaning Up Audioblog Episode 3 from 2023-12-14T10:08:45.358462

This episode of Cleaning Up is based on a October 2020 blog written by Michael for BloombergNEF

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Green Trade or Green Trade-Off - Ep52: Tony Abbott from 2023-12-14T10:08:45.354279

Tony Abbott was the Australian PM between 2013 and 2015, the leader of the Liberal Party between 2009 and 2015 and an MP for Warringah between 1994 and 2019. He currently serves as an advisor to...

Ireland's Jolly Green Giant - Ep53: Eamon Ryan from 2023-12-14T10:08:45.350694

Eamon Ryan is the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, Minister for Transport in the Irish government and leader of the Green Party.

Eamon’s political career began in ...

Rare Earths, Real Insight - Ep 57: Julie Klinger from 2023-12-14T10:08:45.343915

Julie Klinger is an Assistant Professor of Geographer at the University of Delaware and also affiliated with the university's new Minerals, Materials and Society Program. She is the author of "R...

Energy - The Red Thread Through the SDGs - Ep62: Damilola Ogunbiyi from 2023-12-14T10:08:45.333927

Damilola Ogunbiyi is the CEO of Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL), Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Sustainable Energy for All and Co-Chair of UN-Energy

Mrs. Ogun...

US China - strategic rivals, climate partners - Ep66: David Sandalow from 2023-12-14T10:08:45.317518

David Sandalow is the Inaugural Fellow at the Center on Global Energy Policy and co-Director of the Energy and Environment Concentration at the School of International and Public Affairs at Colu...

Mission Economist - Ep67: Mariana Mazzucato from 2023-12-14T10:08:45.313439

Mariana Mazzucato (PhD) is Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value at University College London (UCL),  where she is Founding Director of the UCL Institute for Innovation & Pub...

The Planet's Leading Diplomat - Ep70: Ban Ki-moon from 2023-12-14T10:08:45.305765

Ban Ki-moon was the 8th Secretary General of the UN. He is the Chairman of Ban Ki-moon Foundation for a Better Future.

In April 2019, Mr. Ban was elected as the Chairman of Presidential Na...

Europe's Clean Power Leader - Ep74: Francesco Starace from 2023-12-14T10:08:45.293871

Francesco Starace is Chief Executive Officer and General Manager of Enel.

Before becoming the CEO in 2014, Francesco spent 14 years at Enel, holding a number of executive positions...

US Net Zero - From Pledge to Policy - Ep75: David Turk from 2023-12-14T10:08:45.290177

David Turk serves as Deputy Secretary in the US Department of Energy.

Before joining President Biden’s administration in 2021, David spent over 4 years as Deputy Executive Director of the ...

Maths, Models and Melting Ice - Ep78: Emily Shuckburgh from 2023-12-14T10:08:45.282481

Professor Emily Shuckburgh OBE is Director of Cambridge Zero, the University of Cambridge's major climate change initiative.  

Emily is a climate scientist and mathematician, a Fellow of t...

International Women's Day - Towards an Inclusive Transition - Cleaning Up Audioblog Episode 5 from 2023-12-14T10:08:45.279119

A Greener Future Made Possible by Finance - Ep79: Rhian-Mari Thomas from 2023-12-14T10:08:45.276111

Rhian-Mari Thomas is Chief Executive of the Green Finance Institute. The Institute sits at the nexus of the public and private sectors, the Green Finance Institute convenes and leads sectoral co...

The Search for Climate Talent - Ep82: Claire Skinner from 2023-12-14T10:08:45.269390

Claire Skinner is a partner in Heidrick & Struggles' London office and leader of the Europe region. She is a member of the firm’s CEO & Board, Industrial, and Private Equity practices.

Cla...

The 130 trillion-dollar man - Ep84: Mark Carney from 2023-12-14T10:08:45.265197

Mark Carney is one of the towering figures of climate finance. 

In 2020 Mark became the UN Special Envoy on Climate Action and Finance, and the adviser to the UK on finance for COP 26. At ...

Germany's Secretary of State for the Energiewende - Ep88: Patrick Graichen from 2023-12-14T10:08:45.258281

Patrick Graichen is a State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action. He has held this post since 15 December 2021 and is responsible for energy and climate poli...

Pioneering Impact Investor - Ep89: Ion Yadigaroglu from 2023-12-14T10:08:45.254638

Ion Yadigaroglu has been Managing Partner at Capricorn Investment Group since 2004, and is an early investor in iconic technology companies including Tesla, SpaceX, Planet, QuantumScape and Sail...

From Red Dwarf to Fully Charged Media Giant - Ep90: Robert Llewellyn from 2023-12-14T10:08:45.250629

Robert Llewellyn is the joint CEO of the Fully Charged Show.

Robert Llewellyn is most commonly known for playing the role of Kryten for 30 years in the BBC hit series Red Dwarf. He hosted ...

The Case for GW Nuclear - Ep94: Julia Pyke from 2023-12-14T10:08:45.240133

Julia is currently leading the introduction of private financing into new nuclear in the UK – Sizewell C is the path finder project. This involves working cooperatively with Government, with cro...

Writer, Activist&Constructive Disruptor - Ep98: Bill McKibben from 2023-12-14T10:08:45.226059

Bill McKibben is founder of Third Act, which organizes people over the age of 60 for action on climate and justice. His 1989 book The End of Nature is regarded as the first book for a general au...

Climate Science, Caveman Brain - Ep102: Prof. Chris Rapley from 2023-12-14T10:08:45.216150

Professor Chris Rapley CBE is Professor of Climate Science at University College London’s Department of Earth Sciences. He served previously as Director of the British Antarctic...

The Race for Clean Energy Dominance - Ep105: Nobuo Tanaka from 2023-12-14T10:08:45.206039

Technology Investment and the US Inflation Reduction Act - Ep109: Ion Yadigaroglu and Dipender Saluja from 2023-12-14T10:08:45.196133

Dipender Saluja and Ion Yadigaroglu are Partners at Capricorn Investment Group. Capricorn is a sustainable investment group, one of the largest mission-aligned investment firms in the world, and...

The World's Most Influential Energy Analyst - Ep111: Daniel Yergin from 2023-12-14T10:08:45.185229

Cleaning Up begins the new year and its eighth season in conversation with Daniel Yergin. Yergin, Vice Chairman of S&P Global, is a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and one of the world’s leadin...

Europe's Hydrogen Pusher - Ep115: Jorgo Chatzimarkakis from 2023-12-14T10:08:45.174921

This week, Michael invites Jorgo Chatzimarkakis, CEO of Hydrogen Europe, to debate the importance of hydrogen in powering Europe and the world towards a decarbonized economy. 

Hydrogen Eur...

Small Modular Reactors: Nuclear's Next Act? - Ep116: Tom Samson from 2023-12-14T10:08:45.171376

This week on Cleaning Up, Michael welcomes Tom Samson, CEO of Rolls-Royce SMR. Rolls-Royce SMR are among a raft of new companies innovating in the field of Small Modular Reactors, hoping to prov...

Fusion Energy: The Materials Challenge - Ep 119: Dr Aneeqa Khan from 2023-12-14T10:08:45.163380

This week on Cleaning Up, Michael welcomes Dr Aneeqa Khan, Manchester-ISIS Neutron and Muon Source Research Fellow in Nuclear Fusion.

Aneeqa had insights to offer on the significance of th...

Enabling Africa's Green Energy Revolution - Ep120: Ana Hajduka from 2023-12-14T10:08:45.158948

Today on Cleaning Up, Michael's guest is CEO and Founder of Africa GreenCo, Ana Hajduka. Africa GreenCo provide a trading operation and guarantee scheme for power producers in Sub-Saharan Africa...

Cleaning Up Audioblog Episode 10: The Next Half-Trillion-Dollar Market – Electrification of Heat from 2023-12-14T10:08:45.143676

This week's episode is a recording of Michael's latest blog post for BloombergNEF:

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The World's Preeminent Energy Economist - Ep133: Fatih Birol from 2023-12-14T10:08:45.126434

This week’s guest is Fatih Birol, Executive Director of the International Energy Agency and one of the world’s foremost energy economists. Fatih has been in-post since 2015, and is a returning g...

Bags of Sustainability - Ep137: Anya Hindmarch from 2023-12-14T10:08:45.116456

Cleaning Up is back for its 10th season, and to start proceedings in style, Michael's first guest is Anya Hindmarch. Anya is one of Britain’s most celebrated fashion designers and a leading voic...

The Dane who Harnessed the Wind - Ep139: Henrik Stiesdal from 2023-12-14T10:08:45.109838

This week, Michael’s guest is Henrik Stiesdal, former CTO of Siemens Gamesa and a pioneer of wind turbine technology. Nicknamed "The Godfather of Wind", this Danish inventor is behind many of th...

Metals Refining - From Mining to Brining: Ep142 - Alex Grant from 2023-12-14T10:08:45.102359

This week, Michael is back in the host seat to talk to Alex Grant all about the groundbreaking work going on at Magrathea Metals. Alex is co-founder and CEO at Magrathea, developing a new genera...

Tackling Super Pollutants - Ep146: Jason Anderson from 2023-12-14T10:08:45.088051

This week, Bryony speaks with Jason Anderson, Senior Program Director at ClimateWorks, who oversees the Governance & Diplomacy and Super Pollutant programs. His work spans efforts ranging from i...

Not the End of the World - Ep147: Dr Hannah Ritchie from 2023-12-13T18:00

Dr Hannah Ritchie is a data scientist and science communicator. Her focus is on the largest problems that shape our world, and how to solve them. Most of her work focuses on environmental sustai...

The Bridgetown Initiator - Ep145: Prof Avinash Persaud from 2023-11-29T18:00

Professor Avinash Persaud is special envoy to the Prime Minister of Barbados Mia Mottley and emeritus professor at Gresham College in the UK. He, along with PM Mottley, helped design the Bridget...

Iron-Air Man - Ep144: Mateo Jaramillo from 2023-11-22T18:00

Mateo Jaramillo is Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Form Energy, a company developing, commercializing, and manufacturing breakthrough low-cost, multi-day energy storage solutions that ...

Is Shipping the Easiest"Hard-to-Abate"Sector? - Ep143: Johannah Christensen from 2023-11-15T18:00

This week, Bryony’s guest is Johannah Christensen, CEO of the Global Maritime Forum. The GMF is an international not-for-profit organization, committed to shaping the future of global seaborne t...

Lifting the Curtain on Climate Change Denial - Ep141: Prof Naomi Oreskes from 2023-10-25T17:00

This week, Michael has invited his good friend Baroness Bryony Worthington to guest-host Cleaning Up! Bryony was the lead author of the UK’s ground-breaking 2008 Climate Change Act, and is now o...

Power of Data, Data of Power - Ep140: Quentin Draper Scrimshire from 2023-10-18T17:00

This week, Michael’s guest is Quentin Draper-Scrimshire, co-founder and CEO of Modo Energy. Modo, founded in 2019, are accelerating the energy transition by enabling companies to make better, da...

Inside the World's Biggest Investor - Ep138: Carine Smith Ihenacho from 2023-09-20T17:00

This week, Michael’s guest is Carine Smith Ihenacho, Chief Governance and Compliance Officer at Norges Bank Investment Group. NBIM operate the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund, created to e...

From Moore's Law to Moo's Law - Ep136: Jim Mellon from 2023-07-26T17:00

This week's guest on Cleaning Up is entrepreneur, author and philanthropist Jim Mellon. Jim is Executive Director at Agronomics, one of the world’s leading investors in cellular agricultu...

The Climate Venture Adventure - Ep135: Kim Zou from 2023-07-19T17:00

This week on Cleaning Up, Michael welcomes Kim Zou, CEO and co-founder of CTVC (Climate Tech VC). Launched in 2020, CTVC is a leading climate innovation resource and newsletter with 50,000 weekl...

Zaporizhzhia: Nuclear on the Front Lines - Ep134: Chris Gadomski from 2023-07-12T17:00

This week’s guest on Cleaning Up is Chris Gadomski, Lead Nuclear Analyst at BloombergNEF and adjunct assistant professor at NYU’s Centre for Global Affairs. Chris joined Michael to discuss the u...

Sustainable Street Fighter - Ep132: Jon Burke from 2023-06-28T17:00

Make sure you like, subscribe, and share Cleaning Up. We're growing fast on LinkedIn, and we'd love for you tell your professional network about us: Listen

Canada's Controversial Queen of Green - Ep131: Tzeporah Berman from 2023-06-21T17:00

This week's guest on Cleaning Up is Tzeporah Berman. Tzeporah has been leading environmental campaigns in her native Canada and beyond for over thirty years. Today, she is Chair of the Fossil Fu...

The Usain Bolt of Solar Power - Ep130: Paddy Padmanathan from 2023-06-14T17:00

This week’s guest on Cleaning Up is Paddy Padmanathan, the person who may have done more than any other to usher in the age of low-cost renewables. As CEO of ACWA Power, Paddy was instrumental i...

Cleaning Up vs Still TBD - Ep129: Matt Ferrell from 2023-05-31T17:00

This week’s guest on Cleaning Up is Matt Ferrell. Matt is host of the hugely popular Undecided YouTube channel and the podcast Still to be Determined, both of which explore the impact of smart a...

How Big Things (Should) Get Done - Ep128: Prof. Bent Flyvbjerg from 2023-05-24T17:00

This week’s guest on Cleaning Up is Bent Flyvbjerg. Bent is Emeritus Professor at the University of Oxford and is the most cited scholar...

The Clean Tech Network Effect - Ep127: Emily Kirsch from 2023-05-17T17:00

This week’s guest on Cleaning Up is Emily Kirsch, Founder and CEO of Powerhouse and Managing Partner of Powerhouse Ventures. Powerhouse, based out of Oakland, California, is an innovation...

Subsidies Everywhere All at Once - Ep126: Marco Alverà from 2023-05-10T17:00

Today’s guest on Cleaning Up is Marco Alverà, CEO of TES. TES are hoping to accelerate the clean energy transition by supplying green hy...

Annual Update: All Things Nuclear - Ep125: Kirsty Gogan from 2023-04-26T17:00

This time on Cleaning Up, Michael welcomes Kirsty Gogan back to the show to update us on developments across the world of nuclear energy. Kirsty is co-CEO and founder of TerraPraxis, an NGO and ...

Annual Update: Sustainable Energy for All - Ep124: Damilola Ogunbiyi from 2023-04-19T17:00

Today’s guest on Cleaning Up is Damilola Ogunbiyi. Damilola is CEO of Sustainable Energy for All, the UN partner organization dedicated to achieving Listen

H.S.H. Prince Albert II of Monaco: The Prince and the Planet - Ep123 from 2023-04-12T17:00

Cleaning Up: Leadership in an Age of Climate Change has the great privilege of welcoming H.S.H. Prince Albert II of Monaco to launch our ninth season.

For our 123rd episode, Michael and Pr...

Solving for Storage - Ep122: Sir Chris Llewellyn-Smith from 2023-03-22T18:00

This time on Cleaning Up, Michael hosts Professor Sir Chris Llewellyn Smith, one of the UK's greatest living physicists, for a fascinating and detailed dive into the UK's energy storage requirem...

Jet-Zero Hero - Ep121: Prof. Rob Miller from 2023-03-15T18:00

Michael’s guest for Episode 121 of Cleaning Up is Rob Miller, Professor of Aerothermal Engineering at the University of Cambridge and Director of the Whittle Laboratory. The Whittle Laboratory i...

Sustaining Development - Ep118: Achim Steiner from 2023-02-22T18:00

This week on Cleaning Up, Michael welcomes Achim Steiner, Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme and co-chair of UN Energy. Michael had questions for Steiner on UNDP’s roster ...

From Oil to Clean Energy - Bridging the Gulf - Ep117: Dr. Nawal Al-Hosany from 2023-02-15T18:00

This week on Cleaning Up, Michael welcomes Dr. Nawal Al-Hosany, UAE’s Permanent Representative to the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), for a wide-ranging discussion on IRENA’s work...

Disrupting Manufacturing with Laser Printing - Ep114: James DeMuth from 2023-01-25T18:00

This week on Cleaning Up, Michael is joined by James DeMuth. James is co-founder and CEO of Seurat Technologies, a specialist in 3D metal printing, or Additive Manufacturing. With their own lice...

Checkpoint 2023: Energy Efficiency Investment - Ep113: Jonathan Maxwell from 2023-01-18T18:00

This week’s episode of Cleaning Up sees the return of Jonathan Maxwell, Founder and CEO of Sustainable Development Capital Limited (SDCL), one of the world’s biggest investors in energy efficien...

Climate Risk, Financial Returns - Ep112: Bob Litterman from 2023-01-11T18:00

This week on Cleaning Up, Michael hosts Bob Litterman, founding partner at Kepos Capital and Chairman of the Kepos Capital Risk Committee. Litterman spent 23 years at Goldman Sachs, during whic...

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It's a New Year - Time to Face Reality - Cleaning Up Audioblog Episode 9: from 2022-12-30T18:00

This week, it's a special, bonus episode of Cleaning Up. Michael has some essential messages to keep in mind at the dawn of the new year:

1. Climate action is neither doomed nor a sure thi...

Lord of the Net Zero Transition - Ep110: Adair Turner from 2022-12-21T18:00

Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell, is Chair of the Energy Transitions Commission, a global coalition of major companies, investors and experts identifying pathways to limit global warmin...

The Unbearable Lightness of Hydrogen - Cleaning Up Audioblog Episode 8: from 2022-12-14T18:00

This week's episode is a recording of Michael's latest blog post for BloombergNEF: 

https://about.bnef.com/blog/liebreich-the-unbearable-lightness-of-hydrogen/

Our thanks to Bloomber...

The Power Generation - Ep108: Meredith Adler from 2022-11-30T18:00

Meredith Adler is Executive Director of Student Energy, a global youth-led organization empowering young people to accelerate the sustainable energy transition.

Adler has served as Executi...

Thinking in Systems - Ep107: Prof. David Cebon from 2022-11-23T18:00

David Cebon is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Cambridge, Director of the Centre for Sustainable Road Freight, and a founding member of the Hydrogen Science Coalition. P...

Managing Uncertainty: The Scenario Shell Game - Ep106: László Varró from 2022-11-16T18:00

Ordered as referenced during the show:

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Yanis Varoufakis: Power, Markets&Power Markets - Ep104 from 2022-10-26T17:00

Yanis Varoufakis is an academic economist and politician. He’s a member of Greek Parliament, Founder and Secretary-General of MeRA25, a left-wing political party, and famously served as Minister...

After Ukraine - The Great Clean Energy Acceleration - Cleaning Up Audioblog Episode 7 from 2022-10-19T17:00

This week's episode is a recording of Michael's latest blog post for BloombergNEF:

https://...

Industrial Heat is Electrifying! Ep103: Dr. Silvia Madeddu from 2022-10-12T17:00

Dr Silvia Madeddu is a scientist and expert in decarbonisation strategies for energy-intensive industries. Dr Madeddu has a particular area of expertise in industrial heat, and is at the cutting...

Britain's Green Grandee - Ep101: Jonathon Porritt from 2022-09-28T17:00

Jonathon Porritt has been on the front line of environmental campaigning for more than 45 years. He has worked tirelessly to promote the solutions to today’s converging environmental crises – in...

Brewing up a clean fuel miracle - Ep100: Dr. Jennifer Holmgren from 2022-09-21T17:00

Dr. Jennifer Holmgren is CEO of carbon recycling company, LanzaTech. Prior to joining LanzaTech, Dr. Holmgren was VP and General Manager of the Renewable Energy and Chemicals business unit at UO...

In the Engine Room of the Transition - Ep99: Dev Sanyal from 2022-09-14T17:00

Dev Sanyal is Chief Executive Officer of VARO Energy Group AG, based in Zug, Switzerland. He was appointed to this role effective 1 January 2022. In July 2022, the company announced the ONE VARO...

The Carbon Wrangler - Ep97: Julio Friedmann from 2022-07-27T17:00

Dr. Julio Friedmann is Chief Scientist and Chief Carbon Wrangler at Carbon Direct. 

He recently served as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Office of Fossil Energy at th...

From Skier to Investor - Prepared for Impact - Ep96: Aksel Lund Svindal from 2022-07-20T17:00

The Voice of Sustainable Capitalism - Ep95: Mindy Lubber from 2022-07-13T17:00

Mindy Lubber is the CEO and President of the sustainability nonprofit organization Ceres. She leads an all-women executive leadership team and more than 160 employees working to mobilize the most i...

The Inconvenient Truth about Climate Science - Ep93: Prof. Roger Pielke Jr. from 2022-06-29T17:00

Roger Pielke, Jr. has been on the faculty of the University of Colorado Boulder since 2001, where he teaches and writes on a diverse range of policy and governance issues related to science, tec...

650 Leagues of HVDC Under the Sea - Ep92: Simon Morrish from 2022-06-22T17:00

Simon Morrish is the CEO and founder of Xlinks, CEO of Ground Control and Partner at Levitate Capital.

Simon is a serial entrepreneur (he is the founder of amongst others, Xlinks, Future M...

Calling the Earthshots - Ep91: Hannah Jones from 2022-06-15T17:00

Hannah Jones is the CEO of The Earthshot Prize, a prize and a platform founded by HRH Prince William and the Royal Foundation in 2020 to search, spotlight and scale solutions that can help repai...

The Economist-Diplomat Championing Clean Energy - Ep87: Francesco La Camera from 2022-05-25T17:00

Francesco La Camera has been the Director-General of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) since April 2019.

Under Francesco’s leadership the Agency has forged a series of new ...

From Climate Law Maker to Superglued Law Breaker - Ep86: Farhana Yamin from 2022-05-18T17:00

Farhana Yamin is an international climate change lawyer, public speaker, author and social justice activist.

Farhana is a Visiting Professor at the University of the Arts in London, Associ...

Matching Net-Zero Supply and Demand - Ep85: John Pettigrew from 2022-05-11T17:00

John joined National Grid in 1991 and during his time at the company has held a variety of senior management roles, including UK Director of Engineering in 2003, Chief Operating Officer and Exec...

Free Solar - Ep83: Alex Honnold from 2022-04-13T17:00

Alex Honnold is one of the world’s best rock climbers, famous for his free solo ascents of big walls, including his 2017 first free solo of El Capitan in Yosemite.

Alex began studi...

Resilience, Ukraine and Net Zero: What Could Possibly Go Wrong - Cleaning Up Audioblog Episode 6 from 2022-03-30T17:00

This episode of Cleaning Up is based on a March 2022 blog post written by Michael for BloombergNEF.

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An Epiphany Based on Data - Ep81: Tom Steyer from 2022-03-23T18:00

Tom Steyer is Co-Executive Chair of Galvanize Climate Solutions, a mission-driven investment platform.

Tom Steyer founded and ran Farallon Capital Management, a multi-strategy global inves...

Energy Security - Deflating the Gasbags - Ep80: Emma Pinchbeck from 2022-03-16T18:00

Emma Pinchbeck has been the Chief Executive of Energy UK, the trade association for the energy industry since July 2020.

 Before taking up this post she was Deputy CEO of RenewableUK for 4...

Environmental Conscience of the World - Ep77: Inger Andersen from 2022-02-23T18:00

Inger Andersen is Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme.

From 2015 until 2019, Inger was the Director-General of ...

Ep44: James Thornton 'Enforcing the Laws of Nature' from 2022-02-22T01:38:54.166139

James Thornton is the CEO and founder of ClientEarth, a leading environmental law organisation in Europe. Since its establishment in 2007, ClientEarth tackled world’s most pressing environmental is...

A Quantum of Hope - Ep76: Tommaso Demarie from 2022-02-16T18:00

Tommaso Demarie (PhD) is co-founder and CEO of Entropica Labs, a company working on optimisation with and for quantum computing.  

Tommaso has 12 years of experience in the field of quantu...

Waging War on Climate Change - Ep73: Lt Gen Richard Nugee from 2022-01-26T18:00

Lieutenant General (Retd) Richard Nugee is the lead author of the UK Ministry of Defence’s Climate Change and Sustainability Strategic Approach report.

Richard spent over 35 years in the m...

Solving the Low Carbon Skills Gap - Ep72: Nathan Gambling from 2022-01-19T18:00

Nathan Gambling is a heating engineer and lecturer who has taught in colleges and a prison. As well as industry, teaching and assessing qualifications he has a psychology degree in Behavioural s...

The Man in Charge of Charging - Ep71: Pasquale Romano from 2022-01-12T18:00

Pasquale Romano is President and Chief Executive Officer of ChargePoint and a member of the company’s board of directors.

Pasquale joined ChargePoint in February of 2011, bringing more tha...

Our Savings Will Save the Planet - Ep69: Peter Sweatman from 2021-12-22T18:00

Peter Sweatman is the founder and Chief Executive of Climate Strategy & Partners (@ClimateSt and www.climatestrategy.com), a strategic consulting group in Clean Energy, Clean Technology Innovati...

The Einstein of Energy Efficiency - Ep68: Amory Lovins from 2021-12-15T18:00

Amory Lovins is Cofounder and Chairman Emeritus of the Rocky Mountain Institute. Apart from co-founding the Institute in 1982 he served as its Chief Scientist between 2007 and 2019. 

Amory...

Cities, Service, and Cities-as-a-Service - Ep65: Dan Doctoroff from 2021-11-24T18:00

Dan Doctoroff is the Founder and CEO of Sidewalk Labs, an Alphabet company that works with cities to address key urban problems.

Before founding Sidewalk Labs in 2015, Dan spent 6 years wo...

Good COP, bad COP? Ep64: Guy Turner from 2021-11-17T18:00

Guy Turner is the founder and CEO of Trove Research and an expert on carbon markets.

Guy has 30 years’ experience in research and strategy in sustainability and the energy transition. He s...

The Past, Present&Future of CO2 Emissions - Ep63: Glen Peters from 2021-11-10T18:00

Glen Peters is Research Director at Center for International Climate Research (CICERO) in Oslo. Previously he was a post-doctoral researcher at the Industrial Ecology Programme at NTNU.

Dr...

Engineering the UK’s Net Zero Transition - Ep61: Julia King from 2021-10-27T17:00

Professor Dame Julia King (Baroness Brown of Cambridge) DBE, FRS, FREng is an engineer, crossbench member of the House of Lords and Chair of The Carbon Trust.

Julia started her career in a...

President Obama's Climate Negotiator - Ep60: Todd Stern from 2021-10-20T17:00

Todd Stern is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, best known for leading the US delegation at COP21 in his capacity as Special Envoy for Climate Change at the Department of State.

Meeting Africa's Infrastructure Needs - Ep 59: Alain Ebobissé from 2021-10-13T17:00

Alain Ebobissé is a specialist in the financing and development of infrastructure and CEO  of Africa50. Prior to joining the organization, Mr. Ebobissé served as the Global Head of the World Ban...

Cracking the Geothermal Code - Ep 58: John Redfern from 2021-10-10T23:00

John Redfern is an investor, advisor and serial entrepreneur in the data analytics, oil service and energy tech verticals. John spent his career in executive roles at multiple international oil ...

Greening the City of London - Ep 56: The Rt Hon The Lord Mayor William Russell from 2021-09-29T17:00

William Russel was elected as Alderman for the Ward of Bread Street in 2013 and served as Sheriff of the City of London in 2016-17. He has been the Lord Mayor of the City of London since 2019. Listen

Planting the Seeds of Inspiration - Ep55: Elizabeth Wathuti from 2021-09-22T17:00

Elizabeth Wathuti is a Kenyan environment and climate activist and founder of the Green Generation Initiative, which nurtures young people to be environmentally conscious and has planted 30,000 ...

The Éminence Grise of the Paris Agreement - Ep 54: Laurence Tubiana from 2021-09-15T17:00

Laurence Tubiana is CEO of the European Climate Foundation (ECF). In addition, she is the Chair of the Board of Governors at the French Development Agency (AFD), the Chair of the Board at Expert...

Separating Hype from Hydrogen – Part Two: The Demand Side - Cleaning Up Audioblog Episode 4 from 2021-08-11T17:00

This episode of Cleaning Up is based on a October 2020 blog written by Michael for BloombergNEF

https://about.bnef.com/blog/liebreich-separating-hype-from-hydrogen-part-two-the-demand-side...

Climate Action – It’s The Trade, Stupid - Cleaning Up Audioblog Episode 2 from 2021-07-28T17:00

This episode of Cleaning Up is based on a June 2021 blog written by Michael for BloombergNEF https://about.bnef.com/blog/liebreich-climate-action-its-the-trade-stupid/ We would like to thank Blo...

Saudi Arabia's Net-Zero Conundrum - Ep51: Yousef Alshammari from 2021-07-21T17:00

Dr. Yousef Alshammari, is the CEO and Head of Oil Research at CMarkits, London UK. He is a former Research Fellow in energy economics at the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)....

Beyond Net Zero - Ep50: Lord John Browne from 2021-07-14T17:00

Lord Browne is a Senior Advisor at General Atlantic on climate and Net Zero, providing strategic support and advice to the firm’s investment teams and portfolio companies.  

He served as G...

Ep3: Antony Slumbers 'Real Estate in the Crosshairs' from 2021-07-10T22:11:42.599369

Why human skills matter in an intensely more technological world? Are we going to return to our offices when the pandemic is over, or is remote work the new normal?
Will office space become a s...

Ep7: Bertrand Piccard 'A Good and Exciting Life' from 2021-07-10T22:11:42.595855

According to Wikipedia, Bertrand Piccard is a Swiss psychiatrist and balloonist. This is something of an understatement. Bertrand did indeed qualify as a psychiatrist from the University of Lausann...

Ep8: Roger Dennis 'The Price of Resilience' from 2021-07-10T22:11:42.594755

What does a futurist do? Does it include dealing with jetpacks? Or is it more about helping organisations to become more resilient? Cool as jetpacks might be, our Episode 8 guest, Roger Dennis...

Ep12: Ramez Naam 'Seeing the Future' from 2021-07-10T22:11:42.589219

How did Ramez Naam spot the exponential cost trends in renewables? How should we tailor our messaging to convince different audiences we need to act on climate change? Why are forecasters so often ...

Ep16: Dr Kandeh K. Yumkella 'Sustainable Energy for All' from 2021-07-10T22:11:42.585707

How did Kandeh Kolleh Yumkella impact the Sustainable Development Goals? How has he influenced energy's position in development? Dr Kandeh Kolleh Yumkella – known as KKY in his native Sierra Leone...

Ep17: Prof. Ernest J. Moniz 'Innovation and Power' from 2021-07-10T22:11:42.584790

What would Professor Ernest Moniz, 13th United States Secretary of Energy, say to the 16th Secretary who will be appointed in the coming months?

Would he, as the architect of the JCPOA (k...

Ep21: Claude Turmes ‘Clean Energy Coalition-builder' from 2021-07-10T22:11:42.554466

What happens behind the scenes of the EU Parliament? One of the leading figures in European politics, Claude Turmes, the Minister for Energy and Minister for Spatial Planning in Luxembourg, joins M...

Ep22: Robin Chase ‘Mobility, Cities and Social Entrepreneurship’ from 2021-07-10T22:11:42.553508

What is the future of urban transportation in the world’s cities? Will autonomous cars revolutionize our lives? Meet the woman behind the world’s largest car sharing company, Robin Chase, the trans...

Ep25: Bryony Worthington 'Putting the Act into climate action' from 2021-07-10T22:11:42.550620

How do we get climate at the forefront of politics? How can we good data influence the climate transition? In the first episode of the second season of Cleaning Up, Michael Liebreich speaks to Bryo...

Ep29: Steven Chu 'Nobel Hero talks Net Zero' from 2021-07-10T22:11:42.546655

This week, we welcome Steven Chu, Professor of Physics and Physiology at Stanford University, and the 1997 co-recipient of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics to Cleaning Up. Professor Chu was was the ...

Ep33: Rt Hon Amber Rudd 'Leading the way from Westminster to Paris' from 2021-07-10T22:11:42.538571

From the core of British politics, Amber Rudd joins Michael Liebreich for a conversation. She is the former MP for Hastings and Rye representing the Conservative party, the Home Secretary for 2 yea...

Happy International Women’s Day! from 2021-07-10T22:11:42.537685

Today is International Women’s Day. We want to take the time to highlight some of the incredible women who are leading the world’s pivot to net-zero. From politics to finance and diplomacy, these w...

Planetary Crisis? Call an Economist! - Ep48: Nick Stern from 2021-06-30T17:00

Professor Lord Nicholas Stern is the IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government, Chairman of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, Chair of the Centre for Cl...

Open to Innovation - Ep47: Gina Domanig from 2021-06-23T17:00

Gina Domanig is the Managing Partner and founder of Emerald Technology Ventures, the first independent cleantech venture capital fund in Europe.  

Gina currently serves on the boards of th...

California's Clean Energy Dream - Ep46: Angelina Galiteva from 2021-06-16T17:00

Angelina Galiteva has been appointed Chair of the California Independent System Operator’s Board of Governors in 2020, after a decade spent on the Board as a member.  

Angelina is the foun...

Ep43: Nigel Topping 'Racing to Zero' from 2021-05-26T14:00

Nigel Topping was appointed UK High Level Champion for Climate Action in January 2020. His role involves bringing together different stakeholders in the #racetozero. His vision is to create a bigge...

Racing to Zero - Ep43: Nigel Topping from 2021-05-26T14:00

Nigel Topping was appointed UK High Level Champion for Climate Action in January 2020. His role involves bringing together different stakeholders in the #racetozero. His vision is to create a bi...

Ep42: Thomas Nowak 'Pumping Heat' from 2021-05-19T17:00

Thomas Nowak is the Secretary General of the European Heat Pump Association - he’s an expert on heating and electricity. Thomas is a man who walks the talk – he’s a proud owner of a heat pump and ...

Pumping Heat - Ep42: Thomas Nowak from 2021-05-19T17:00

Thomas Nowak is the Secretary General of the European Heat Pump Association  - he’s an expert on heating and electricity. Thomas is a man who walks the talk – he’s a proud owner of a heat pump a...

Ep41: Sharan Burrow 'Just Transition or Just Talk?' from 2021-05-12T17:00

Sharan Burrow has been the General Secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation since 2010. In her role she represents 200 million workers in 163 countries and territories with 331 nati...

Just Transition or Just Talk? - Ep41: Sharan Burrow from 2021-05-12T17:00

Further reading: 

Official Bio 
https://www.ituc-csi.org/sharan-burrow-6329?lang=en

 How to fix a broken ...

Ep41: Sharan Burrow'Just Transition or Just Talk?' from 2021-05-12T17:00

Further reading: 

Official Bio 
https://www.ituc-csi.org/sharan-burrow-6329?lang=en

 How to fix a broken ...

Ep40: Naoko Ishii 'Global Environment Facilitator' from 2021-04-28T17:00

Naoko Ishii is a professor, executive vice president and Director of the Center for Global Commons at the University of Tokyo since August 2020. The Center for Global Commons has the mission of put...

Global Environment Facilitator - Ep40: Naoko Ishii from 2021-04-28T17:00

Naoko Ishii is a professor, executive vice president and Director of the Center for Global Commons at the University of Tokyo since August 2020. The Center for Global Commons has the mission of ...

The Argument That Never Happened - Ep39: Debate Special with Gareth Wyn Jones and Ben Goldsmith from 2021-04-22T17:00

It’s a first here on Cleaning Up, our very own debate special. Today we will be joined by Ben Goldsmith and Gareth Wyn-Jones to discuss farming and agricultural policy. Please welcome them both,...

A Masterclass in Climate Geopolitics - Ep38: Tony Blair from 2021-04-14T17:00

Tony Blair, UK Prime Minister from 1997 to 2007 and Executive Chairman of the Tony Blair Institute, joins Michael Liebreich for the first episode of Season 3.  

Tony Blair was the UK Prime...

Ep37: Teresa Ribera 'Driving the Ecological Transition' from 2021-03-31T17:00

Teresa Ribera, Deputy Prime Minister in the Spanish government and the Minister for the Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge, is joining us this week on Cleaning Up. She has played a key...

Ep36: Prof. Jim Skea 'It's climate, Jim, but not as we know it.' from 2021-03-24T18:00

This week, Michael Liebreich is joined by Professor Jim Skea from Imperial College London’s Centre for Environmental Policy and the co-author of the seminal IPCC 2018 Special Report on Global Warmi...

Ep35: Kate Hampton 'Investing in Climate Activism' from 2021-03-17T18:00

This week our guest on Cleaning Up is Kate Hampton, the CEO of the Children's Investment Fund Foundation and a long-time expert in sustainable finance and the carbon markets.

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Ep34: Kristian Ruby 'Electrifying Almost Everything for Net-Zero' from 2021-03-10T18:00

This week, Kristian Ruby, the Secretary-General of Eurelectric since 2017, will be joining us for a conversation. Eurelectric is a pan-European organisation with the aim of representing the common ...

Ep32: Greg Jackson 'Building the Billion-Customer Energy Company' from 2021-02-24T18:00

Joining Cleaning Up today is start-up legend, Greg Jackson. Greg is CEO and founder of Octopus Energy whose mission is to bring ‘power to the people’ by supplying their customers with 100% green el...

Ep31: Emma Howard Boyd 'Climate Change? We'll be in Floods.' from 2021-02-17T18:00

Emma Howard Boyd is one of the leading voices in the UK’s Environment scene. As the Chair of the Environment Agency, she is at the forefront of the current environment agenda. This week, Michael an...

Ep30: Claire Perry O'Neill 'Ecopragmatism and Policy Innovation' from 2021-02-10T18:00

Having first met in Business School in Harvard, Claire Perry O'Neill and Michael Liebreich go back a long way. However, he has never been surprised at how much she's achieved since then. From finan...

Ep28: Fatih Birol 'Setting the World's Energy Agenda' from 2021-01-27T18:00

Named one of the most influential people in the energy sector by the Forbes magazine and the energy personality of the year by the Financial Times in 2017, Fatih Birol is one of the most important ...

Ep27: Beverley Gower-Jones 'Clean Growth Funder' from 2021-01-20T18:00

Beverley Gower-Jones is the leading figure in the cleantech start-up world. She is the Managing Partner at the Clean Growth Fund which invests in the UK's most promising early-stage, clean growth v...

Ep26: Minister Zac Goldsmith 'Environmental leadership in a post-Brexit world' from 2021-01-13T18:00

More than any other single person, Zac Goldsmith - or The Right Honourable Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park as he is properly known – is responsible for the UK Conservative Party’s relatively recent...

Ep24: Holiday Special - A Look Back at Season One from 2020-12-23T18:00

2020 has been a strange and difficult year. In the midst of the global pandemic, Michael decided to reach out to some familiar faces in global climate leadership not only to catch up but also to di...

Ep23: James Cameron 'Trade and Sustainability - the Radical in a Suit' from 2020-12-16T18:00

Last but not least, our concluding episode of 2020 is with James Cameron. No not the director, but he is doing radical things in a suit (this will make more sense once you press play). Find out why...

Ep20: Richenda Van Leeuwen 'A Life of Energy Access and Inclusion' from 2020-11-25T18:00

As a 10 year old girl, Richenda Van Leeuwen saw a solar panel at the Centre of Alternative Technology on a rainy day in Wales. This would serve as her first point of inspiration for the career ahea...

Ep19: Mike Bennetts 'Leadership from the Heart of the Problem' from 2020-11-18T18:00

From CEO of Z Energy to founding the Climate Leaders Coalition, Mike Bennetts has had an immense impact on New Zealand’s position in reducing emissions in the country. Mike and Michael sit down fro...

Ep18: Nancy Pfund 'Women backing Winners' from 2020-11-11T18:00

How can venture capital be used to promote social change and environmental improvement? As a leading venture capitalist of her time and one of the early investors in Tesla, find out the drive behin...

Ep15: Auke Hoekstra 'The Debunker-in-Chief' from 2020-10-28T18:00

How can we use data modelling to predict the future of zero-emission energy? This week, Auke Hoekstra discusses the SparkCity model, dealing with, adoption of electric vehicles, charging infrastruc...

Ep14: Jonathan Maxwell 'Cheaper, Cleaner, More Reliable' from 2020-10-21T17:00

How much energy are data centres using worldwide? Why have lamps been a massive infrastructure revolution? From food waste in olive production in Spain to air pollution, Michael welcomes Jonathan M...

Ep13: Morgan Bazilian 'Poet of the Low-Carbon Transition' from 2020-10-14T17:00

How to estimate amount of oil produced in Syria by Daesh using satellite photos of night time lights? How, using the same technique, can we measure reliability of access to energy? How to provide r...

Ep11: Jon Dee 'From Celebrity to Action' from 2020-09-30T17:00

How to get members of bands such as Queen, Pink Floyd, Rush, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple together to help a country devastated by an earthquake? How helpful can celebrities be in the clean energy tr...

Ep10: Angela Francis 'A Green Deal without the Yellow Vests' from 2020-09-23T17:00:04

What does Brexit mean for the climate transition?
What will COPs 30 to 50 be about (and why is it trade?)
What should environmentalists do instead of giving somebody who's got a pile of pr...

Ep9: Jigar Shah 'Creating Climate Wealth' from 2020-09-16T17:00:10

How does one come up with a brand new clean energy business model? Why if energy transition is the 'biggest wealth creation opportunity of our lifetimes' many have been slow to get on board? What w...

Ep6: Christiana Figueres 'To Paris and Beyond' from 2020-08-26T17:00:14

What does it take to turn a demoralised organisation around? How to convince 195 states to sign up to the Paris agreement? What does Christiana Figueres have to say about RCP8.5 and those still bel...

Ep5: Kirsty Gogan 'Fighting for Nuclear' from 2020-08-19T17:00:03

What role (if any) should nuclear play in a low carbon future? Should we build more large-scale light-water reactors despite high costs? Is nuclear safe? Kirsty Gogan, a leading voice on nuclear po...

Ep4: Barbara Buchner 'Counting the Climate Cash' from 2020-08-12T17:00:16

How much is being invested in climate action around the world? Where and in which sectors are the investments concentrated? How much is needed to get us on track for net zero? If it wasn’t for our ...

Ep2: Rachel Kyte "Investing in climate leadership " from 2020-07-29T17:00:07

What is stopping us from providing affordable and reliable energy for all? What is the role of graduate education in addressing the racial inequalities still so manifest in the US? What does leader...

Ep1: Prof. Cameron Hepburn "Building back better" from 2020-07-22T16:36:36

What makes a green stimulus? What might a better metric for economic performance than GDP look like? Who is the faster cyclist, Michael Liebreich or Cameron Hepburn, Dean of the Smith School at Oxf...