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What if the most powerful climate work happening right now is buried in spreadsheets, smart meters and standards committees?

In this episode, Jack and Ellie chat with Andrew Griffiths, co-founder of the Carbon Accounting Alliance and Director of Policy & Partnerships at Planet Mark. Andrew lifts the lid on a fast-growing global community of carbon accountants who quietly underpin the net zero transition for more than 200,000 organisations worldwide.

From the Wild West of early carbon footprints to building shared standards, professional qualifications and automated data flows, Andrew explains why good carbon accounting is to climate action what financial accounting is to business survival, and why SMEs must be part of the story.

Topics covered include:

• What carbon accounting is and why it matters to every business
• How and why the Carbon Accounting Alliance exploded globally in 3 years
• The data headache: suppliers, smart meters and open carbon data
• Professionalising the sector with shared standards and qualifications
• Real-world stories: from knife-crime medals to low-carbon industry shifts
• How better carbon data unlocks green finance and de-risks businesses

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What if loneliness isn’t a personal failing, but a human signal we’ve all been taught to ignore?

In this episode, Jack and Ellie chat with Hannah Beatrice from Marmalade Trust, the award‑winning UK charity behind Loneliness Awareness Week. They explore what loneliness really is (and isn’t), why it’s not just “an old people at Christmas” issue, and how workplaces and communities can design for genuine connection.

Hannah shares the story of Marmalade Trust’s beginnings with one Christmas lunch in Bristol, how that’s grown into a global campaign reaching millions, and why understanding loneliness as a natural emotion, like hunger or thirst, is the first step to tackling it.

Topics covered include:

• What loneliness really is (and why it’s not the same as being alone)
• The stigma and shame that stop adults talking about feeling lonely
• Key life moments that trigger loneliness
• Why 16–24 year olds are now the loneliest age group in the UK
• How hybrid/remote work can impact connection and what helps
• Practical ways employers and communities can reduce loneliness

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What if real climate power isn't with politicians or protest groups, but with the millions of quietly worried people who don't know where to start?

In this episode, Jack and Ellie chat with Karen Jaques from the Climate Majority Project, an initiative on a mission to mobilise the silent majority into meaningful, local, collective climate action.

Karen shares how years working with business leaders, and watching climate risk creep into every supply chain, pushed her to focus on resilience, community and "don't try this on your own" climate action.

From neighbourhoods bulk retrofitting homes and building their own wind turbines, to teachers talking honestly with kids, to businesses asking to be more regulated, this episode explores a radically practical, deeply human approach to climate action.

Topics covered include:

• The “silent majority” who care but feel stuck
• How to depolarise climate action and welcome everyone
• The Safer campaign and people-led local projects
• Real UK stories: retrofit streets, community wind turbines
• Why facts alone fail and what to do with climate anxiety
• How local action builds pressure for national change

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