Climate Confident
Climate Confident is the podcast for business leaders, policy-makers, and climate tech professionals who want real, practical strategies for cutting emissions and building a resilient low-carbon future.
Every Wednesday at 7am CET, I sit down with the people doing the work, executives, engineers, scientists, founders, and policymakers, to unpack what’s actually driving climate progress across energy, transport, industry, supply chains, food, finance, and more.
This isn’t about vague pledges or greenwash. It’s about what’s working, what isn’t, and what leaders need to understand now to make better decisions faster.
Expect conversations on:
- scalable solutions in energy, mobility, food, industry, and finance
- the politics, markets, and policies shaping the transition
- the technologies and tools improving climate accountability, resilience, and risk management
- hard truths, hidden bottlenecks, bold ideas, and real-world success stories
Subscribers also get Bonus episodes, including highlight reels, analysis, emerging themes I’m seeing across conversations, and other subscriber-only extras.
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Latest Episodes
As Grids Get Cleaner, Building Materials Become the Real Climate Problem
Concrete alone accounts for around 7-8% of global emissions. So what happens when the real climate problem in buildings is no longer just energy, but the materials themselves?In this episode of Climate Confident, I’m joined by
Why the War on Iran Is Accelerating the Shift to Renewables and EVs
What if fossil fuels aren’t energy security at all, but exposure dressed up as realism?This war is making that harder and harder to ignore.In this bonus episode of Climate Confident+, I unpack why the US and Israel’s war again...
Most Food Waste Never Reaches a Plate
What if one of the most effective climate tech moves in hospitality isn’t flashy at all, but simply wasting less food with far better data?In this episode, I’m joined by Olaf van der Veen...
The Infrastructure Was Built for the Climate We Had. Not the Climate We’re Getting
Heat is becoming a business risk in plain sight. And if cooling demand is set to soar, the energy transition has a problem most people still aren’t talking about. In this episode, I’m joined by
Why Fossil Fuel Dependence Is a Terrible Business Model
What if fossil fuels aren’t just polluting, but a standing threat to economic stability?This episode makes the case that the energy transition is now as much about security and cost as it is about climate.In this solo Climate Confide...
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