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Dr. Daniel Fiorino, a Distinguished Executive in Residence in the Department of Public Administration and Policy, is the Director of the Center for Environmental Policy in the School of Public Affairs at American University. He is the author of the “Clean Energy Transition: Policies and Politics for A Zero-Carbon World.”  The world needs to move quickly from dirty to clean energy because of the health risks, inefficient and expensive energy sources like coal and the deterioration of the climate and the planet.   To improve the energy system, people must use energy as efficiently as possible, generate electricity through renewable sources, and electrify all the other end-uses, such as cars, trucks and other modes of transportation. The Biden Inflation Reduction Act is a major step toward clean energy. For decades, the United Nations has led the way to convene countries to work together to battle climate change.

Pushpendra Mehta meets with Craig Jeffery, Managing Partner of Strategic Treasurer, and Jack Large, Editor of CTMfile, to review the latest treasury news and developments. Topics of discussion include the following:

• The United Kingdom enters mourning for Queen Elizabeth II, delaying interest rate meetings
• Australia hikes rates for a fifth month
• Hedge funds “bet US$37 billion against Italian debt”
• Emerging markets worried as China’s yuan weakens
• Recession now expected for Germany in 2023
• JP Morgan evaluates shifting its operations from Germany to London due to blackout concerns
• UK businesses to receive provisional energy relief, but concerns about zero-carbon persist

In this fiercely non-partisan episode, Rich brings back energy expert Fred Gallagher, the CEO and Managing Director of Canadian Vitality Pathway to talk about Hydrogen Energy and its use to strive for zero emission.

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The carbon impact of the water industry is an intricate topic. 

Over the past days, we've been reviewing different aspects of the race to Net Zero:

S5E7 - Austin Alexander 

S5E8 - Stephane Bessadi 

S5E9 - Maria Manidaki 

S5E10 - Susan Moisio 

Today, I tried to summarize in a short format everything you'd like to know about the transformation of the water sector to cope with the new carbon pledges.

This was a hot topic during this year's Global Water Summit - organized by Global Water Intelligence, where I had the pleasure and the honor to host a panel with the guests you'll hear today.

The topic also came up in my discussions with:

S5E4 - Victoria Edwards 

S3E13 - David Lloyd Owen 

You can test out the Asian Development Bank's STEEP tool here 

So, when do you want to take a pledge? Zero carbon by 2050? Zero emissions by 2025? Net Zero straight away? It's time to act!

➡️ Check my full series on net zero water 

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with 🎙️ Stephane Bessadi - Senior Procurement Specialist for the Asian Development Bank 

💧 The Asian Development Bank (ADB) commits to a prosperous, inclusive, resilient, and sustainable Asia and Pacific Region. 

What we covered: 

🌎  How to build more efficient, inclusive, and climate friendly water and wastewater projects 

⚡ How water challenges often come hand in hand with energy struggles - and how to kill two birds with one stone 

💻 How STEEP was built from pilot studies and field data, enriched with operational feedback 

🤖 How digital solutions and new technologies support the transition towards higher energy efficiency 

💧 How the population's welfare is highly interlinked with water quality - especially in developing countries 

💰 Getting value for money, assessing technologies, supporting innovation, partnering with private sector companies, acting with pedagogy... and much more!

🔥 ... and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥 

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with 🎙️ Alena Fargere, Principal at SWEN Capital Partners and co-founder of the first European investment fund dedicated to renewable gases. 

💧 SWEN Capital Partners, a benchmark player in sustainable investments in private equity, just announced the first closing of its second SWEN Impact Fund for Transition (SWIFT 2). It will be a direct contribution to decarbonizing the economy and creating jobs in France.

This episode is the first part of a Hydrogen Economy trilogy! 

What we covered: 

👴 How Hydrogen is around for a while and how it already is quite a big market 

🔥 How Hydrogen may still be perceived as quite risky by the traditional investment space, and how SWEN Capital intends to move the needle by being the first mover  

💰 How there is plenty of capital on the markets today, and how the challenge is to redirect it to its highest impact 

🏦 How the first investment wave in the Hydrogen Economy will unleash further development of the Hydrogen market and players 

📉 How exactly like for renewable energies, scale effects will make Green Hydrogen profitable in the long run 

💪 How SWEN Capital's SWIFT 1 and SWIFT 2 closed and delivered much faster than expected  

🪙 How impact investing is not a charity and how you can be doing good and moving the needle while seeking profitability 

🏗️ How the challenge lies in building and developing suitable business models 

🌬️ How government incentives shall bring a strong tailwind to kick off the Hydrogen Economy, and what may be the best approach  

🍏 How Hydrogen markets start from a carbon-intensive addiction to grey hydrogen and how this may change with blue hydrogen (carbon capture) and green hydrogen (electrolysis from renewables) 

🧑‍🔬 How Hydrogen is fit for many purposes and how it could swiftly become a tool to decarbonize our economy  

🔋 How at the end of the day, Hydrogen is an energy carrier, and how we always strived in a world featuring multiple energies 

🍃 Mixing batteries and fuel cells, reducing the stress on natural resources, building an energy portfolio... and much more! 

🔥 ... and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥  

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As we lurch towards irreversible climate chaos, how can we begin to pull back from the edge?  This week, we look specifically at the area of transport: how can we be mobile and yet reach the 3 Zeroes of Death, Emissions and Carbon?  What would it mean to live in an area with fair, free, extensive public transport? And how can we make this happen. Our lively, inspiring conversation with Dr John Whitelegg has answers. 

Dr John Whitelegg, BA PhD LLB, is visiting professor, School of the Built Environment, Liverpool John Moores University and was formerly professor of geography and head of department at Lancaster University and a staff member of the global science policy organisation, the Stockholm Environment Institute. He has worked with the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Energy and the Environment (Germany) and is an associate of the Kassel Centre for Mobility Culture (Germany) and a board member of the Californian organisation “Transportation Choices for Sustainable Communities”.

John has edited the journal “World Transport Policy and Practice for 25 years and has written 10 books. In the most recent book Mobility, he presents an evidence-based case for a transformation of the totality of transport and mobility policy to achieve three zeroes (zero carbon, zero deaths and injuries and zero air pollution). He has also worked extensively on practical measures to achieve 100% decarbonisation of land transport.

In this episode, we talk at length about what needs to happen in our transport systems to bring about the three zeroes of death, emissions and carbon.  John has travelled widely and worked in Germany, Sweden, and the outer Hebrides as well as many locations in the UK.  He has a coherent set of ideas of what needs to be done - and we considered some of the ways ordinary people can begin to make these happen.  

Foundation for Integrated Transport: https://integratedtransport.co.uk/
Center for Research into Energy Demand Solutions: https://www.creds.ac.uk/
West Oxfordshire Community Transport: https://www.woct.org.uk/
South Shropshire Climate Action Group: https://southshropshireclimateaction.org/
Trust the People: https://www.trustthepeople.earth/the-course
Article on Car free cities UK - 1: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/jan/26/city-entres-end-of-road-for-cars-brighton-bristol-york
Article on Car free cities UK - 2: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/dec/31/york-to-ban-private-cars-from-city-centre-within-three-years