Cleaning Up. Leadership in an age of climate change.

Once a week Michael Liebreich and Baroness Bryony Worthington have a conversation with a leader in clean energy, mobility, climate finance or sustainable development.

These in-depth interviews are illuminating and inspiring, and with a catalogue of more than 150 episodes, there are few better guides to the net-zero transition.

Recent Episodes

March 13, 2024

Audioblog 12: The Five Superheroes of the Transition

This week, Michael presents the second part of his two-parter for Bloomberg New Energy Finance, exploring the bear and bull cases for the net zero transition. This week is the bull case: the "5 superheroes" of the transition…
March 6, 2024

Audioblog 11: The Five Horsemen of the Transition

Michael is solo this week on Cleaning Up, outlining the "5 horsemen" of the net-zero transition - the five greatest obstacles to the net zero transition. These 5 horsemen are: the economics of energy solutions, the electrica…
Feb. 28, 2024

A Magnificent Woman And Her Flying Machines - Ep156: Bonny Simi

Bryony returns with Bonny Simi, President of Operations at Joby Aviation, where she's working on bringing to market a new civilian electric VTOL (eVTOL) aircraft. Prior to joining the team at Joby, Bonny held several operati…
Feb. 21, 2024

Extreme Electrochemistry for a Sustainable Future - Ep155: Prof Donald Sadoway

Michael returns to talk with legendary educator and inventor, Donald Sadoway, Professor Emeritus of Materials Chemistry at MIT. After earning his PhD in chemical metallurgy in 1977 at the University of Toronto, he joined the…
Feb. 14, 2024

Green Heat (And Cooling) Under Our Feet - Ep154: Tamsin Lishman

Tamsin Lishman joins Bryony this week to talk heat pumps. Tamsin is CEO of Kensa Group, a Cornwall-based manufacturer and installer of ground source heat pumps. Kensa is the UK's only manufacturer of ground source heat pumps…
Feb. 7, 2024

Shedding Light on Energy's Dirty Secrets - Ep153: Lauri Myllyvirta

Michael sits down this week with Lauri Myllyvirta, co-founder and lead analyst at CREA - the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air. After working as a campaigner and then as an analyst at Greenpeace, Lauri helped set u…
Jan. 31, 2024

Can We Have a Habitable Planet? - Ep152: David Wallace-Wells

This week, Bryony is back, this time to talk to David Wallace-Wells. David is an American journalist and author who often writes about climate change. His 2017 article "The Uninhabitable Earth" for New York Magazine was the …
Jan. 24, 2024

Redesigning Mining - Ep151: Mark Cutifani

This week, Michael's guest is Mark Cutifani, chairman of Vale Base Metals and formerly CEO of South African gold mining company, Ashanti, and British mining company, Anglo American. He was born and grew up in Wollongong, A…
Jan. 17, 2024

Selling Sustainability - Ep150: Solitaire Townsend

Bryony returns in Season 11 this week, sitting down with her longtime friend Solitaire Townsend. Solitaire is Co-founder & Chief Solutionist at Futerra, and Trustee of the Solutions Union. She is a renowned sustainability ex…
Jan. 10, 2024

Material World - Ep149: Ed Conway

Kicking-off 2024 and Season 11 is Ed Conway. Ed is the Economics editor at Sky News, covering major UK and international economics, business and political stories. He is also economics columnist for The Times, and has been o…
Dec. 20, 2023

The Second Coming of the Lord Turner - Ep148: Lord Adair Turner

For a second consecutive year-closer, Michael welcomes Lord Adair Turner of Ecchinswell back to Cleaning Up. Lord Turner has combined careers in business, public policy and academia. He chairs the Energy Transitions Commissi…
Dec. 13, 2023

Not the End of the World - Ep147: Dr Hannah Ritchie

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 sustainability, including climate ch…
Dec. 6, 2023

Tackling Super Pollutants - Ep146: Jason Anderson

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 implementing the Paris Agreemen…
Nov. 29, 2023

The Bridgetown Initiator - Ep145: Prof Avinash Persaud

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 Bridgetown Initiative in 2022 which l…
Nov. 22, 2023

Iron-Air Man - Ep144: Mateo Jaramillo

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 will enable the electric syste…
Nov. 15, 2023

Is Shipping the Easiest "Hard-to-Abate" Sector? - Ep143: Johannah Christensen

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 trade to increase sustainable l…
Nov. 8, 2023

Metals Refining - From Mining to Brining: Ep 142 - Alex Grant

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 generation of electrolytic technolog…
Oct. 25, 2023

Lifting the Curtain on Climate Change Denial - Ep 141: Prof Naomi Oreskes

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 on sabbatical from her role in …
Oct. 18, 2023

Power of Data, Data of Power - Ep 140: Quentin Draper Scrimshire

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, data-backed decisions hyper-focu…
Oct. 4, 2023

The Dane who Harnessed the Wind - Ep139: Henrik Stiesdal

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 power", this Danish inventor is behind many of the sector's most importan…
Sept. 20, 2023

Inside the World's Biggest Investor - Ep138: Carine Smith Ihenacho

This week, Michael’s guest is Carine Smith Ihenacho, Chief Governance and Compliance Officer at Norges Bank Investment Group. Norges operate the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund, created to ensure responsible and long-t…
Sept. 6, 2023

Bags of Sustainability - Ep137: Anya Hindmarch

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 voice in the industry on sustainab…
July 26, 2023

From Moore's Law to Moo's Law - Ep136: Jim Mellon

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 agriculture, or lab-grown meat. Bypassing trad…
July 19, 2023

The Climate Venture Adventure - Ep135: Kim Zou

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 weekly readers, providing data-driv…
July 12, 2023

Zaporizhzhia: Nuclear on the Front Lines - Ep134: Chris Gadomski

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 unfolding situation at Zaporizh…
July 5, 2023

The World's Preeminent Energy Economist - Ep133: Fatih Birol

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 guest to Cleaning Up, having ap…
June 28, 2023

Sustainable Street Fighter - Ep132: Jon Burke

This week's guest on Cleaning Up is Jon Burke. For six years, Jon was Councillor for the London Borough of Hackney, ending up as Cabinet Member for Energy, Sustainability, Transport and Public Realm. In the role, he oversaw …
June 21, 2023

Canada's Controversial Queen of Green - Ep131: Tzeporah Berman

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 Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty, a…
June 14, 2023

The Usain Bolt of Solar Power - Ep130: Paddy Padmanathan

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 in reducing the cost of clean e…
May 31, 2023

Cleaning Up vs Still TBD - Ep129: Matt Ferrell

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…
May 24, 2023

How Big Things (Should) Get Done - Ep128: Prof. Bent Flyvbjerg

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…
May 17, 2023

The Clean Tech Network Effect - Ep127: Emily Kirsch

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…
May 10, 2023

Ep126: Marco Alverà "Subsidies Everywhere All at Once"

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…
May 3, 2023

Cleaning Up Audioblog Episode 10: The Next Half-Trillion-Dollar Market – Electrification of Heat

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…
April 26, 2023

Ep125: Kirsty Gogan "Annual Update: All Things Nuclear"

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, …
April 19, 2023

Ep124: Damilola Ogunbiyi "Annual Update: Sustainable Energy for All"

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…
April 12, 2023

Ep123: H.S.H. Prince Albert II of Monaco "The Prince and the Planet"

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…
March 22, 2023

Ep122: Sir Chris Llewellyn-Smith "Solving for Storage"

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…
March 15, 2023

Ep121: Prof. Rob Miller "Jet-Zero Hero"

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…
March 8, 2023

Ep120: Ana Hajduka "Enabling Africa's Green Energy Revolution"

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…
March 1, 2023

Ep 119: Dr Aneeqa Khan "Fusion Energy: The Materials Challenge"

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 …
Feb. 22, 2023

Ep118: Achim Steiner "Sustaining Development"

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…
Feb. 15, 2023

Ep117: Dr. Nawal Al-Hosany "From Oil to Clean Energy - Bridging the Gulf"

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…
Feb. 8, 2023

Ep116: Tom Samson "Small Modular Reactors: Nuclear's Next Act?"

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,…
Feb. 1, 2023

Ep115: Jorgo Chatzimarkakis "Europe's Hydrogen Pusher"

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…
Jan. 25, 2023

Ep114: James DeMuth "Disrupting Manufacturing with Laser Printing"

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…
Jan. 18, 2023

Ep113 Jonathan Maxwell 'Checkpoint 2023: Energy Efficiency Investment'

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…
Jan. 11, 2023

Ep112: Bob Litterman 'Climate Risk, Financial Returns'

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 …
Jan. 4, 2023

Ep111: Daniel Yergin "The World's Most Influential Energy Analyst"

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…
Dec. 30, 2022

Cleaning Up Audioblog Episode 9: "It's a New Year - Time to Face Reality"

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 …
Dec. 21, 2022

Ep110: Adair Turner "Lord of the Net Zero Transition"

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…
Dec. 14, 2022

Cleaning Up Audioblog Episode 8: "The Unbearable Lightness of Hydrogen"

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.
Dec. 7, 2022

Ep109: Ion Yadigaroglu and Dipender Saluja 'Technology Investment and the US Inflation Reduction Act'

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. …
Nov. 30, 2022

Ep108: Meredith Adler "The Power Generation"

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…
Nov. 23, 2022

Ep107: Prof. David Cebon "Thinking in Systems"

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…
Nov. 16, 2022

Ep106: László Varró "Managing Uncertainty: The Scenario Shell Game"

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…
Nov. 9, 2022

Ep105: Nobuo Tanaka "The Race for Clean Energy Dominance"

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…
Oct. 26, 2022

Ep104: Yanis Varoufakis "Power, Markets & Power Markets"

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…
Oct. 19, 2022

Cleaning Up Audioblog Episode 7: After Ukraine - The Great Clean Energy Acceleration

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…
Oct. 12, 2022

Ep103: Dr. Silvia Madeddu "Industrial Heat is Electrifying!"

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…
Oct. 5, 2022

Ep102: Prof. Chris Rapley "Climate Science, Caveman Brain"

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…
Sept. 28, 2022

Ep101: Jonathon Porritt "Britain's Green Grandee"

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…
Sept. 21, 2022

Ep100: Dr Jennifer Holmgren "Brewing up a clean fuel miracle"

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. …
Sept. 14, 2022

Ep99: Dev Sanyal "In the Engine Room of the Transition"

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…
Sept. 7, 2022

Ep98: Bill McKibben "Writer, Activist & Constructive Disruptor"

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…
July 27, 2022

Ep97: Julio Friedmann "The Carbon Wrangler"

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…
July 20, 2022

Ep96: Aksel Lund Svindal "From Skier to Investor - Prepared for Impact"

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…
July 13, 2022

Ep95: Mindy Lubber "The Voice of Sustainable Capitalism"

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…
July 6, 2022

Ep94: Julia Pyke "The Case for GW Nuclear"

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…
June 29, 2022

Ep93: Prof. Roger Pielke Jr. "The Inconvenient Truth about Climate Science"

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…
June 22, 2022

Ep92: Simon Morrish "650 Leagues of HVDC Under the Sea"

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…
June 15, 2022

Ep91: Hannah Jones "Calling the Earthshots"

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…
June 8, 2022

Ep90: Robert Llewellyn "From Red Dwarf to Fully Charged Media Giant"

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…
June 7, 2022

Ep89: Ion Yadigaroglu "Pioneering Impact Investor"

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…
June 1, 2022

Ep88: Patrick Graichen 'Germany's Secretary of State for the Energiewende'

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…
May 25, 2022

Ep87: Francesco La Camera 'The Economist-Diplomat Championing Clean Energy'

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…
May 18, 2022

Ep86: Farhana Yamin "From Climate Law Maker to Superglued Law Breaker"

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…
May 11, 2022

Ep85: John Pettigrew 'Matching Net-Zero Supply and Demand'

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…
May 4, 2022

Ep84: Mark Carney 'Matching Net Zero Supply and Demand'

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…
April 13, 2022

Ep83: Alex Honnold "Free Solar"

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…
April 6, 2022

Ep82: Claire Skinner "The Search for Climate Talent"

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…
March 30, 2022

Cleaning Up Audioblog Episode 6 "Resilience, Ukraine and Net Zero: What Could Possibly Go Wrong"

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…
March 23, 2022

Ep81: Tom Steyer 'An Epiphany Based on Data'

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…
March 16, 2022

Ep80: Emma Pinchbeck 'Energy Security - Deflating the Gasbags'

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…
March 9, 2022

Ep79: Rhian-Mari Thomas 'A Greener Future Made Possible by Finance'

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…
March 8, 2022

Cleaning Up Audioblog Episode 5 'International Women's Day - Towards an Inclusive Transition'

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…
March 2, 2022

Ep78: Emily Shuckburgh 'Maths, Models and Melting Ice'

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…
Feb. 23, 2022

Ep77: Inger Andersen 'Environmental Conscience of the World'

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…
Feb. 16, 2022

Ep76: Tommaso Demarie 'A Quantum of Hope'

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…
Feb. 9, 2022

Ep75: David Turk 'US Net Zero - From Pledge to Policy"

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)…
Feb. 2, 2022

Ep74: Francesco Starace 'Europe's Clean Power Leader'

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…
Jan. 26, 2022

Ep73: Lt Gen Richard Nugee 'Waging War on Climate Change'

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…
Jan. 19, 2022

Ep72: Nathan Gambling 'Solving the Low Carbon Skills Gap'

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…
Jan. 12, 2022

Ep71: Pasquale Romano 'The Man in Charge of Charging'

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…
Jan. 5, 2022

Ep70: Ban Ki-moon 'The Planet's Leading Diplomat'

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…
Dec. 22, 2021

Ep69: Peter Sweatman 'Our Savings Will Save the Planet'

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…
Dec. 15, 2021

Ep68: Amory Lovins 'The Einstein of Energy Efficiency'

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…
Dec. 8, 2021

Ep67: Mariana Mazzucato 'Mission Economist'

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…
Dec. 1, 2021

Ep66: David Sandalow 'US China - strategic rivals, climate partners'

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…
Nov. 24, 2021

Ep65: Dan Doctoroff 'Cities, Service, and Cities-as-a-Service'

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…