Once a week Michael Liebreich has a conversation with a leader in clean energy, mobility, climate finance or sustainable development. Informative, inspiring and fun!
Recent Episodes
Ep129: Matt Ferrell "Cleaning Up vs Still TBD"
May 31, 2023
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 and sustainable technologies on…
Ep128: Prof. Bent Flyvbjerg "How Big Things (Should) Get Done"
May 24, 2023
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 in the world on the subject of megaprojects. Bent’s latest book, released this year, is…
Ep127: Emily Kirsch "The Clean Tech Network Effect"
May 17, 2023
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 firm that pairs startups in clean en…
Ep126: Marco Alverà "Subsidies Everywhere All at Once"
May 10, 2023
Today’s guest on Cleaning Up is Marco Alverà, CEO of TES. TES are hoping to accelerate the clean energy transition by supplying green hydrogen at scale to clients in the mobility, industry and power sectors. TES’ first major…
Cleaning Up Audioblog Episode 10: The Next Half-Trillion-Dollar Market – Electrification of Heat
May 3, 2023
This week's episode is a recording of Michael's latest blog post for BloombergNEF: The Next Half-Trillion-Dollar Market – Electrification of Heat Our thanks to BloombergNEF for allowing us to record it and share it with o…
Ep125: Kirsty Gogan "Annual Update: All Things Nuclear"
April 26, 2023
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 climate solution accelerator, …
Ep124: Damilola Ogunbiyi "Annual Update: Sustainable Energy for All"
April 19, 2023
Today’s guest on Cleaning Up is Damilola Ogunbiyi. Damilola is CEO of Sustainable Energy for All, the UN partner organization dedicated to achieving Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG7) – access to affordable, reliable, sus…
Ep123: H.S.H. Prince Albert II of Monaco "The Prince and the Planet"
April 12, 2023
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 Prince Albert have a wide-ranging a…
Ep122: Sir Chris Llewellyn-Smith "Solving for Storage"
March 22, 2023
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 requirements as it moves towards a ful…
Ep121: Prof. Rob Miller "Jet-Zero Hero"
March 15, 2023
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 is conducting world-leading res…
Ep120: Ana Hajduka "Enabling Africa's Green Energy Revolution"
March 8, 2023
Today on Cleaning Up, Michael's guest is CEO and Founder of Africa GreenCo, Ana Hajduka. Africa GreenCo are a trading operation and guarantee scheme for power producers in Sub-Saharan Africa to enable and sustain renewable e…
Ep 119: Dr Aneeqa Khan "Fusion Energy: The Materials Challenge"
March 1, 2023
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 the recent fusion breakthrough at …
Ep118: Achim Steiner "Sustaining Development"
Feb. 22, 2023
This week on Cleaning Up, Michael welcomed Achim Steiner, Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme and co-chair of UN Energy. Michael had questions for Achim on UNDP’s roster of initiatives, balancing climat…
Ep117: Dr. Nawal Al-Hosany "From Oil to Clean Energy - Bridging the Gulf"
Feb. 15, 2023
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 promoting an equitable transi…
Ep116: Tom Samson "Small Modular Reactors: Nuclear's Next Act?"
Feb. 8, 2023
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 provide nuclear energy in smaller,…
Ep115: Jorgo Chatzimarkakis "Europe's Hydrogen Pusher"
Feb. 1, 2023
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 Europe is an industry association of m…
Ep114: James DeMuth "Disrupting Manufacturing with Laser Printing"
Jan. 25, 2023
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 licensed laser technology, their a…
Ep113 Jonathan Maxwell 'Checkpoint 2023: Energy Efficiency Investment'
Jan. 18, 2023
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 efficiency. Jonathan is back for t…
Ep112: Bob Litterman 'Climate Risk, Financial Returns'
Jan. 11, 2023
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 which time he became a partner and …
Ep111: Daniel Yergin "The World's Most Influential Energy Analyst"
Jan. 4, 2023
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 leading authorities on energy. A…
Cleaning Up Audioblog Episode 9: "It's a New Year - Time to Face Reality"
Dec. 30, 2022
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 thing. 2. People who disagree with …
Ep110: Adair Turner "Lord of the Net Zero Transition"
Dec. 21, 2022
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 warming to well below 2˚C. From 2…
Cleaning Up Audioblog Episode 8: "The Unbearable Lightness of Hydrogen"
Dec. 14, 2022
This week's episode is a recording of Michael's latest blog post for BloombergNEF: CLICK HERE TO READ THE ORIGINAL POST Our thanks to BloombergNEF for allowing us to record and share it with our Cleaning Up audience.
Ep109: Ion Yadigaroglu and Dipender Saluja 'Technology Investment and the US Inflation Reduction Act'
Dec. 7, 2022
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 our sponsor on Cleaning Up. …
Ep108: Meredith Adler "The Power Generation"
Nov. 30, 2022
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 Executive Director of Student Energy si…
Ep107: Prof. David Cebon "Thinking in Systems"
Nov. 23, 2022
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. Prof. Cebon leads Cambridge Uni…
Ep106: László Varró "Managing Uncertainty: The Scenario Shell Game"
Nov. 16, 2022
László Varró is Vice-President, Global Business Environment at Shell, where he leads their Scenarios Team, and was formerly Chief Economist at the International Energy Agency. Varró joined Shell in 2021, after ten years a…
Ep105: Nobuo Tanaka "The Race for Clean Energy Dominance"
Nov. 9, 2022
Nobuo Tanaka is one of the world’s foremost experts on energy, technology and trade policy. He’s had a near 50-year career in energy, including four years as Executive Director of the International Energy Agency between 2007…
Ep104: Yanis Varoufakis "Power, Markets & Power Markets"
Oct. 26, 2022
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 for Finance in Greece in 201…
Cleaning Up Audioblog Episode 7: After Ukraine - The Great Clean Energy Acceleration
Oct. 19, 2022
This week's episode is a recording of Michael's latest blog post for BloombergNEF: https://about.bnef.com/blog/after-ukraine-the-great-clean-energy-acceleration/ Our thanks to BloombergNEF for allowing us to record it and sh…
Ep103: Dr. Silvia Madeddu "Industrial Heat is Electrifying!"
Oct. 12, 2022
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 edge of research hoping to tr…
Ep102: Prof. Chris Rapley "Climate Science, Caveman Brain"
Oct. 5, 2022
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 Survey and of the Science Museum, and is a pas…
Ep101: Jonathon Porritt "Britain's Green Grandee"
Sept. 28, 2022
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 – including as Director of Friends…
Ep100: Dr Jennifer Holmgren "Brewing up a clean fuel miracle"
Sept. 21, 2022
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 UOP LLC, a Honeywell Company. …
Ep99: Dev Sanyal "In the Engine Room of the Transition"
Sept. 14, 2022
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. Prior to this, Dev had a 32-year career with BP plc including over a decad…
Ep98: Bill McKibben "Writer, Activist & Constructive Disruptor"
Sept. 7, 2022
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 audience about climate change, a…
Ep97: Julio Friedmann "The Carbon Wrangler"
July 27, 2022
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 the Department of Energy where he was respo…
Ep96: Aksel Lund Svindal "From Skier to Investor - Prepared for Impact"
July 20, 2022
Aksel is one of the most successful alpine skiers in history – winning 2 Olympic golds, 5 World Championships, 36 World Cup races and two overall World Cup titles. He began his career as a serial entrepreneur and investor wh…
Ep95: Mindy Lubber "The Voice of Sustainable Capitalism"
July 13, 2022
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 influential investors and co…
Ep94: Julia Pyke "The Case for GW Nuclear"
July 6, 2022
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 cross party MPs, trade unions, wi…
Ep93: Prof. Roger Pielke Jr. "The Inconvenient Truth about Climate Science"
June 29, 2022
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, technology, environment, innovati…
Ep92: Simon Morrish "650 Leagues of HVDC Under the Sea"
June 22, 2022
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 Motors and Skysports) who has inve…
Ep91: Hannah Jones "Calling the Earthshots"
June 15, 2022
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 repair and regenerate the planet in…
Ep90: Robert Llewellyn "From Red Dwarf to Fully Charged Media Giant"
June 8, 2022
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 Channel 4 series Scrapheap Ch…
Ep89: Ion Yadigaroglu "Pioneering Impact Investor"
June 7, 2022
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 Saildrone. Capricorn was born fro…
Ep88: Patrick Graichen 'Germany's Secretary of State for the Energiewende'
June 1, 2022
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 policy. From 2012, Graichen was…
Ep87: Francesco La Camera 'The Economist-Diplomat Championing Clean Energy'
May 25, 2022
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 strategic partnerships with UN or…
Ep86: Farhana Yamin "From Climate Law Maker to Superglued Law Breaker"
May 18, 2022
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, Associate Research Fellow at Chatham Ho…
Ep85: John Pettigrew 'Matching Net-Zero Supply and Demand'
May 11, 2022
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 Executive Vice President for the U…
Ep84: Mark Carney 'Matching Net Zero Supply and Demand'
May 4, 2022
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 COP26, in Glasgow, he launched GF…
Ep83: Alex Honnold "Free Solar"
April 13, 2022
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 studies in engineering at the University of Ca…
Ep82: Claire Skinner "The Search for Climate Talent"
April 6, 2022
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. Claire has more than 20 years of exp…
Cleaning Up Audioblog Episode 6 "Resilience, Ukraine and Net Zero: What Could Possibly Go Wrong"
March 30, 2022
This episode of Cleaning Up is based on a March 2022 blog post written by Michael for BloombergNEF. https://about.bnef.com/blog/liebreich-the-quest-for-resilience-what-could-possibly-go-wrong/ We would like to thank Bloo…
Ep81: Tom Steyer 'An Epiphany Based on Data'
March 23, 2022
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 investment business based in San Franc…
Ep80: Emma Pinchbeck 'Energy Security - Deflating the Gasbags'
March 16, 2022
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 years and was the Head of Climate…
Ep79: Rhian-Mari Thomas 'A Greener Future Made Possible by Finance'
March 9, 2022
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 coalitions of global experts, th…
Cleaning Up Audioblog Episode 5 'International Women's Day - Towards an Inclusive Transition'
March 8, 2022
This episode of Cleaning Up is based on a 2015 blog post written by Michael for BloombergNEF. https://about.bnef.com/blog/liebreich-energy-sector-transformed-must-energy-sector-reformed/ We would like to thank BloombergN…
Ep78: Emily Shuckburgh 'Maths, Models and Melting Ice'
March 2, 2022
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 the Cambridge Institute for Sustain…
Ep77: Inger Andersen 'Environmental Conscience of the World'
Feb. 23, 2022
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 the International Union for Conse…
Ep76: Tommaso Demarie 'A Quantum of Hope'
Feb. 16, 2022
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 quantum information and computation. Befor…
Ep75: David Turk 'US Net Zero - From Pledge to Policy"
Feb. 9, 2022
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 International Energy Agency (IEA)…
Ep74: Francesco Starace 'Europe's Clean Power Leader'
Feb. 2, 2022
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 - between 2008 and 2014 he led Enel’s re…
Ep73: Lt Gen Richard Nugee 'Waging War on Climate Change'
Jan. 26, 2022
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 military. He was first commissione…
Ep72: Nathan Gambling 'Solving the Low Carbon Skills Gap'
Jan. 19, 2022
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 studies and is regarded as a le…
Ep71: Pasquale Romano 'The Man in Charge of Charging'
Jan. 12, 2022
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 than 30 years of technology industry le…
Ep70: Ban Ki-moon 'The Planet's Leading Diplomat'
Jan. 5, 2022
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 National Council on Climate and Air Qu…
Ep69: Peter Sweatman 'Our Savings Will Save the Planet'
Dec. 22, 2021
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 Innovation and Energy Efficiency worki…
Ep68: Amory Lovins 'The Einstein of Energy Efficiency'
Dec. 15, 2021
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 is a an author of 31 books and mor…
Ep67: Mariana Mazzucato 'Mission Economist'
Dec. 8, 2021
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 & Public Purpose (IIPP). She i…
Ep66: David Sandalow 'US China - strategic rivals, climate partners'
Dec. 1, 2021
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 Columbia University. He founded an…
Ep65: Dan Doctoroff 'Cities, Service, and Cities-as-a-Service'
Nov. 24, 2021
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 working at Bloomberg L.P. first as…
Ep64: Guy Turner 'Good COP, bad COP?'
Nov. 17, 2021
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 spent his first 15 years in consul…
Ep63: Glen Peters 'The Past, Present & Future of CO2 Emissions'
Nov. 10, 2021
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 Peters is a worldwide authority …
Ep62: Damilola Ogunbiyi 'Energy - The red Thread Through the SDGs'
Nov. 3, 2021
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. Ogunbiyi has extensive experience in t…
Ep61: Julia King 'Engineering the UK’s Net Zero Transition'
Oct. 27, 2021
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 academia as a Rolls-Royce fellow a…
Ep60: Todd Stern 'President Obama's climate negotiator'
Oct. 20, 2021
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. Todd’s political career started…
Ep 59: Alain Ebobissé 'Meeting Africa's Infrastructure Needs'
Oct. 13, 2021
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 Bank Group’s Global Infrastructur…
Ep 58: John Redfern 'Cracking the Geothermal Code'
Oct. 11, 2021
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 and oil service companiess inc…
Ep 57: Julie Klinger 'Rare Earths, Real Insight'
Oct. 6, 2021
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 "Rare Earth Frontiers: From Terr…
Ep 56: The Rt Hon The Lord Mayor William Russell 'Greening the City of London'
Sept. 29, 2021
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. Before leaving for public serv…
Ep55: Elizabeth Wathuti 'Planting the Seeds of Inspiration'
Sept. 22, 2021
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 tree seedlings in Kenya. S…
Ep 54: Laurence Tubiana 'The Éminence Grise of the Paris Agreement'
Sept. 15, 2021
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 Expertise France (The French public …
Ep53: Eamon Ryan 'Ireland's Jolly Green Giant'
Sept. 8, 2021
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 1998 when he was co-opted to Dublin…
Ep52: Tony Abbott 'Green Trade or Green Trade-Off'
Sept. 1, 2021
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 the UK Board of Trade alongsi…
Cleaning Up Audioblog Episode 4: Separating Hype from Hydrogen – Part Two: The Demand Side
Aug. 11, 2021
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/ We would like to thank BloombergN…
Cleaning Up Audioblog Episode 3: Separating Hype from Hydrogen – Part One: The Supply Side
Aug. 4, 2021
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-one-the-supply-side/ We would like to thank Bloombe…
Cleaning Up Audioblog Episode 2: Climate Action – It’s The Trade, Stupid
July 28, 2021
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 BloombergNEF for allowing us…
Ep51: Yousef Alshammari 'Saudi Arabia's net zero conundrum'
July 21, 2021
Dr. Yousef Alshammari, is the CEO and Head of Oil Research at CMarkits. He is a former Research Fellow in energy economics at OPEC. He obtained his PhD in Chemical Engineering from Imperial College London where he worke…
Ep50: Lord John Browne 'Beyond Net Zero'
July 14, 2021
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 Group Chief Executive of BP from 1995 t…
Ep49: Johan Rockström 'Pushing Planetary Boundaries'
July 7, 2021
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 recognized scientist on global sustainabi…
Ep48: Nick Stern 'Planetary Crisis? Call an Economist!'
June 30, 2021
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 Climate Change Economics and Pol…
Ep47: Gina Domanig 'Open to Innovation'
June 23, 2021
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 the following portfolio companies: G…
Ep46: Angelina Galiteva 'California's Clean Energy Dream'
June 16, 2021
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 founder & Chair of the Board of Renewa…
Ep45: Catherine McKenna 'Powering Canada Past Coal'
June 9, 2021
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 years. Her ministerial man…
Ep44: James Thornton 'Enforcing the Laws of Nature'
June 2, 2021
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 issues such as biodiversity l…
Ep43: Nigel Topping 'Racing to Zero'
May 26, 2021
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 bigger role for non-state actors…
Ep42: Thomas Nowak 'Pumping Heat'
May 19, 2021
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 a solar power plant. In …
Ep41: Sharan Burrow 'Just Transition or Just Talk?'
May 12, 2021
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 national affiliates and is the …
Cleaning Up Audioblog - Episode 1: Climate and Finance, Lessons from a Time Machine
May 5, 2021
This episode of Cleaning Up is based on a March 2021 blog written by Michael for BloombergNEF https://about.bnef.com/blog/liebreich-climate-and-finance-lessons-from-a-time-machine/ We would like to thank BloombergNEF for a…
Ep40: Naoko Ishii 'Global Environment Facilitator'
April 28, 2021
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 putting academia at the forefr…
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