This is Altruistiq: Recent Episodes

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The science is clear, the world is in an unprecedented climate crisis. The time to turn heads and drive positive change has never been more important. Join us as we explore the unique inflection points of the world's change agents, unpacking the lessons from their rich experience in the sustainability space. Be part of their stories. This is Altruistiq.

To find out how Altruistiq can support your business in its sustainable transition or to keep up to date with timely and relevant sustainability news, head over to our website https://www.altruistiq.com/.

In this live recording, Saif Hameed and Henry Dimbleby unpack the regulatory direction of sustainability in the UK food & beverage space. Here’s what to expect in this session:-The main sustainability priorities for the UK Govt going forward-How a focus on emissions will play out vs nutrition-How F&B companies should think about biodiversity as an impact metric-How F&B companies should approach evolving standards, frameworks and regulationsIf you have any questions for Saif, join the State of Sustainability live conversation on Saif's Linkedin and submit your questions here.

In this live recording, Saif Hameed addresses sustainability-related questions, providing practical and actionable advice on the below topics:

Sustainability data vs financial data
Sustainability measurement tool - building vs buying
What to consider when building a sustainability team

If you have any questions for Saif, join the State of Sustainability live conversation on Saif's Linkedin and submit your questions here.

Businesses are struggling to prioritise and deliver against sustainability targets.

Only one in ten corporates feel they have an ‘actionable’ sustainability strategy (source).

Jamie Dujardin sits down with Jean-Philippe Laborde, Managing Director at Tilda, to understand how organisations can best move the needle on sustainability to contribute to long-term competitive advantage and major change.

What we cover:

-How to prioritise sustainability initiatives within your strategy, taking into account sustainability and business impact

-Practical tips for engaging suppliers as ‘partners’ in your sustainability journey

-Advice for scaling up & financing sustainability pilots to drive long-term competitive advantage

Don’t forget to check out these links:

Tilda’s 2022 Impact Report-How to build an internal business case for sustainability

Unpacking the key levers that business leaders can pull to boost corporate sustainability performance. We speak to Gabrielle Ginér, Head of Environment at BT Group, to understand how the telecoms giant is overcoming decarbonisation hurdles to power the UK’s road to net zero.

We will cover:

How to engage suppliers in your decarbonisation journey
Best practice for collaboration
How to leverage the business opportunity
How to think about Scope 4 from a business perspective
Key technological innovations to boost sustainability performance
Overcoming sustainability data challenges
Sustainability leadership - tips to driving internal buy in

In economic uncertainty, sustainability professionals should focus on communicating the business benefits of reducing food waste, more so than ideological reasoning.

With Food Waste Action Week underway, we are excited to share our latest roundtable recording where Sue Riley, Senior Sector Specialist at WRAP explains how to build a compelling business case for food waste to unlock the narrative across all different stakeholders.

Eager to take action? Find out more via the links below.

WRAPs Food Waste Toolkit: https://wrap.org.uk/taking-action/food-drink/initiatives/food-waste-reduction-roadmap

Food Waste Action Week: https://www.lovefoodhatewaste.com/take-action-save-food/food-waste-action-week

Love Food Hate Waste Campaign: https://lovefoodhatewaste.com/

To understand how Bloom & Wild is lightening their material footprint whilst meeting growing consumer demand, we speak with Sibbe Krol, Head of Sustainability at Bloom & Wild.

We will cover:

Building your sustainability strategy: what drives a corporate net zero pathway
Overcoming sustainability data challenges: Top tips for gathering supplier data and improving the rigour of your materiality assessment
Credible communication: Key steps to bringing consumers along with you on your sustainability journey
Prioritisation: Navigating commercial and sustainability trade-offs

Bloom & Wild has used technology to turn the flower industry on its head to become one of the most loved and trusted flower delivery brands in the market.

Get in touch if you want to continue the conversation via our website: www.altruistiq.com!

Cutting waste is rising up the business and sustainability agenda given the significant commercial (cost savings, improved reputation) and environmental opportunities (GHG emission reductions, water quality improvement). Hugh's keynote talk outlines what tackling food waste looks like in practice and how companies can strategically prioritise high-impact reduction initiatives.

What will be covered:

How to approach food waste reduction

-Food waste reduction challenges to be aware of

-The key levers for navigating these challenges

Hugh Lewis is Head of Sustainability at Gousto, a unicorn recipe box delivery company built on the founding principle of cutting food waste,

2023 is set to be a huge year for land-related emissions reporting, with SBTi requiring Forest, Land and Agriculture (FLAG) targets from April onwards, and the GHG Protocol releasing their official Land Sector and Removals guidance in the second half of the year. This podcast outlines what your company needs to know and do to stay ahead of the regulatory curve. In this episode, you will learn:

-Who needs to consider land-related emissions

-What land-related emissions are

-Why your company should account for these emissions

Incoming regulations to be aware of
How to start thinking about measuring land-based emissions

Read our blog post here.

Ellen Fay, the co-founder of the Sustainable Soil Alliance observed that “soil is crucial to the health of everything else. We can't deliver on any of our environmental targets if we don't deliver for soil”.

In our conversation with Tim Mead, Non-exec and former CEO of Yeo Valley Organic and Becky Wilson, Technical Director at Farm Carbon Toolkit, we will dig into the truth of this statement and address the key levers that businesses and farmers can take to scale soil health initiatives.

We will uncover:

The challenges and opportunities of soil carbon measurement
The commercial opportunities for actors across the value chain (farmers through to retailers)
What a future farming system looks like

In our latest episode of This is Altruistiq we are joined by two veterans in the food sector to dig into sustainable sourcing and building a future food system.

As a resource-intensive industry, heavily reliant on fossil fuels, water and nutrient extractive with a track record of being cash poor and risk-averse, the agricultural and food sector needs a disruption. In our conversation with Andy Farnworth, Managing Director at Sysco and Philipp Saumweber, Managing Director of Sunridge Partners and founder of Sun Drop Farms, we will uncover system trends towards a healthier product and planet, address the issues with conventional farming and unpack the opportunities for sourcing, production and distribution innovations.

LUSH Cosmetics are pioneers at integrating regeneration into supply chains, partnering 13 years ago with communities and organisations around the world that were applying a more holistic approach to agriculture. Ruth shares key learnings and insights that businesses should consider when building a regenerative supply chain.

Nature restoration plays a critical role in mitigating climate change. However, it is not rising up the political and business agenda as quickly as decarbonisation. Ben’s keynote talk underscores the importance and potential that nature restoration can have when addressed in parallel with decarbonisation.

Climate change requires industries to align capital and business intentions with solutions to tackle it. The finance industry is quickly acknowledging and acting upon the urgency of the climate crisis. Who better to discuss the opportunities and challenges in scaling sustainability performance than Alison Rose, CEO of NatWest and David Giampaolo, CEO of Pi Capital. We will unpack the incentives, consider the risks and forecast the road ahead.

In our conversation with Ben Goldsmith, a long-time and passionate environmental campaigner and green investor, and Ben Hart, a carbon reduction and natural capital specialist, we will address the business imperative of restoring global biodiversity, uncover the commercial opportunities and highlight the key levers to navigating nature restoration with high impact and integrity.

Listen in!

Book recommendations:

Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet by George Monbiot

Useful links:

Highlands Rewilding (Bunloit Estate): https://www.highlandsrewilding.co.uk/
Knepp Wildland: https://knepp.co.uk/home
Wessex Water, Entrade: https://www.entrade.co.uk/
Nestlé and Unilever Financial Times article: https://www.ft.com/content/d0224863-6071-436d-a628-d7f3a71cb36f

In today’s episode we talk to Hugh Lewis, Head of Sustainability at Gousto, a food tech unicorn company on a quest to make sure every meal leaves the world better off. We boil down the key sustainability challenges facing the food industry and talk through the ingredients to Gousto’s success in cutting emissions, saving food waste and reducing packaging- all whilst accelerating business growth.

Ready to unbox Gousto’s sustainability journey? Tune in.

In this episode we speak to Judith Batchelar and Stephen Mackenzie whose unrivalled experience makes them uniquely equipped to guide us through the food sector’s decarbonisation hurdles. We bring the greatest sustainability challenges facing the food industry to the table, outlining the business steps to overcome these; namely, pragmatic data consolidation, multi-stakeholder collaboration, holistic impact acknowledgement and ruthless prioritisation. Tune in to hear how your business can accelerate their path to net zero.

Book recommendations:

How to Avoid a Climate Disaster, Bill Gates
Eating to Extinction, Dan Saladino
Saving Us, Katharine Hayho

Useful links:

UK Food Systems GHG Emissions - https://wrap.org.uk/resources/report/uk-food-system-ghg-emissions
WRAP’s Scope 3 Protocols - https://wrap.org.uk/resources/guide/scope-3-ghg-measurement-and-reporting-protocols-food-and-drink
The Courtauld Commitment 2030 - https://wrap.org.uk/taking-action/food-drink/initiatives/courtauld-commitment

The future of fashion isn’t fast... By Rotation is putting the brakes on the fast fashion consumer habit, resetting the narrative from buying new to sharing new.

Eshita Kabra, is the mastermind behind By Rotation, the fastest growing UK digital fashion rental and resale platform. In this episode, Saif Hameed, CEO of Altruistiq and Eshita Kabra, CEO of By Rotation sit down and discuss how By Rotation is disrupting the market and empowering a community discerning fashionistas with the tools to be mindful consumers and crucially, look fantastic whilst doing so.

Dubbed as the ‘Instagram of fashion rental’, Eshita reveals how technology has enabled a community of eco-conscious ‘rotators’ to evolve. We dive into the financial, environmental and style benefits that users gain whilst spotlighting the current and future industry wide uptake of the circular fashion model. Tune in to find out how By Rotation is putting an end to fast fashion.

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Ever considered where all the world’s toys end up? Brace yourself for the ugly truth... currently, one in four toys are unloved within one week of purchase, destined to become clutter and then landfill.

So who is reshaping this market? Enter Nigel Phan, CEO and founder of Whirli, a toy sharing platform that has caught the attention of parents around the world for its pioneering approach to sustainable consumerism, enabling parents to borrow preloved ‘swappable’ toys versus buying new.

In this week’s episode we unpack the notion of the share economy, determining the consumer appetite and market potential for sustainable consumerism. We debunk myths about buying second hand, spotlight Whirli’s innovative approach and dive into the benefits of a circular retail model for the planet, parents and children.

Tune in and give it a whirl.

Navigating the voluntary carbon market is no mean feat. Who better to guide us through than a true pioneer within the carbon offset space.

Enter, Brennan Spellacy, Co- Founder and CEO of Patch.

We bring you this podcast to cut through the noise and shed some light on voluntary carbon markets, exploring its scaleable potential to reconcile humankind’s climate conundrum.

Tune in as we dive into the murky space around carbon offsets; the role they play in reaching the world’s net zero goals, the opportunity that technology provides in accelerating this journey and how the space is evolving with increased demand and regulation.

Thanks to Brennan Spellacy for sharing his unique and rich experience with us. Patch is an API solution to climate change, enabling businesses and end users alike to neutralise their unavoidable emissions via a diverse, global network of projects.

Can we break our addiction to single use packaging? As public pressure grows, the race to eliminate waste is on. So who is driving this sustainable transition?

Enter, Safia Qureshi, CEO and Founder of CLUBZERØ. CLUBZERØ's packaging solution has carved out a new landscape for retailers to overcome current sustainability shortfalls and proactively embrace a circular lifeline with returnable packaging.

In this episode we dive into the challenges and incentives of transitioning to a zero waste model, the scaleability of the reuse model and the potential that innovative designs and initiatives have in disrupting society’s unhealthy packaging habit.

According to the Ellen MacArthur foundation, roughly a quarter of the 348 million tons of annual plastic production worldwide now goes into packaging, making it the single biggest use of the material. Safia’s mission to rethink our relationship with packaging offers a timely and critical insight into solving this urgent issue.

Tune in to discover more.

Join Saif Hameed (Founder & CEO of Altruistiq) and Rob Kaplan (Founder Circulate Capital) as they discuss plastic waste, recycling and closed loops in our first episode of This is Altruistiq.