This week I'm joined by Damian Tow, Director of the Brighton Energy Co-op, to discuss how community based energy systems can thrive in a commercial environment. We discuss:

• The definition of community energy

• How the Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) model works

• Community energy's USP/added social value

• Scale: how small/large can community schemes go

• Skills required

• Government policy (or lack thereof)

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This week, Chief Sustainability & External Affairs Officer at Suez UK Dr Adam Read MBE joins me for a freewheeling and fun conversation broadly around waste/resources management and Net Zero. We talk about:

• The evolution of waste policy
• Public understanding, engagement and behaviour
• The practicalities of a circular economy
• How infrastructure can evolve from linear to circular applications
• Selling green jobs to future generations
• The power of yes

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This week I'm joined by Freddie House of the Sustainability data management platform Sweep to talk data. We discuss:

• The connection between Sustainability and employee engagement
• Reducing the data/reporting burden
• AI: risks and opportunities
• Current volatility in ESG
• The importance of auditability
• Sweep's Climate Contribution Framework and the power of league tables

A white paper on the Climate Contribution Framework can be found here.

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