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  • Building Renewable Energy in Africa From the Ground Up | Wangari Muchiri interview

    Building Renewable Energy in Africa From the Ground Up | Wangari Muchiri interview
    Oct 29 2026
    Africa skipped the landline and went straight to mobile phones. Can it do the same with electricity? Dominic Shales, CSN publisher, speaks to Wangari Muchiri, founder and CEO of RE.Think Energy, a Nairobi-based think-and-do tank working to scale renewa... Hosted on beehiiv. Read the full Privacy Policy at https://www.beehiiv.com/privacy.
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    18 min
  • The Waste No One Wanted Becomes Aviation's Cheapest Fuel | James Hygate

    The Waste No One Wanted Becomes Aviation's Cheapest Fuel | James Hygate
    Jul 22 2026
    Turning Sewage Into Jet Fuel.Aviation is the hardest transport sector to decarbonise. Batteries are too heavy, hydrogen is years away at scale, and most sustainable aviation fuels depend on feedstocks in short supply. So what if the answer is a waste s...
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    30 min
  • The Carbon Benefits of Solar Thermal Get Stronger as the Grid Gets Cleaner

    The Carbon Benefits of Solar Thermal Get Stronger as the Grid Gets Cleaner
    Jul 15 2026
    Roughly half of global final energy demand is heat, and most of it still comes from burning fossil fuels. Solar PV and heat pumps dominate the conversation. Solar thermal barely gets a mention. Christian Albrecht, group business development director at...
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    33 min
  • Textile Dyeing Emissions: EverDye's Cold Chemistry Cuts Energy by 90%

    Textile Dyeing Emissions: EverDye's Cold Chemistry Cuts Energy by 90%
    Jun 25 2026
    Textile dyeing is one of the most polluting stages in fashion, and one of the least visible. It accounts for a large share of the sector's carbon emissions and around a fifth of global industrial water pollution. In this episode, Dominic Shales speaks ...
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    30 min
  • While the Market Soured on Hydrogen, Schroders Capital Kept Investing

    While the Market Soured on Hydrogen, Schroders Capital Kept Investing
    Jun 19 2026
    Green hydrogen has had a punishing few years, with cancellations, cost overruns and demand that arrived late. So why did Schroders Capital keep investing while others retreated? Holly Turner and Duncan Hale join Climate Solutions News ahead of Reset Co...
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    35 min
  • 'We Don't Trust It, We Control It': One Click LCA Uses AI to Cut Embodied Carbon

    'We Don't Trust It, We Control It': One Click LCA Uses AI to Cut Embodied Carbon
    Jun 15 2026
    How is AI changing the way we measure the carbon cost of what we build? One Click LCA founder and CEO Panu Pasanen joins the Climate Solutions News podcast to explain. Life cycle assessment counts the full environmental cost of a product or building, f...
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    22 min
  • Britain's Retrofit Gap: Progress at a Tenth of the Pace It Needs

    Britain's Retrofit Gap: Progress at a Tenth of the Pace It Needs
    Jun 11 2026
    Britain retrofits fewer than 100,000 buildings a year. To hit net zero it needs between one and 1.5 million. Andrew Spencer, Energy and Carbon Services Director at Equans UK and Ireland, joins Dominic Shales to explain the gap and what closes it. The c...
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    21 min
  • Solving the Money Problem Holding Back Carbon Removal

    Solving the Money Problem Holding Back Carbon Removal
    Jun 8 2026
    UNDO Carbon can prove its science works. The harder problem is paying for the years between spending on deployment and earning the carbon credits back, and that financing gap, more than the chemistry, is what now decides how fast enhanced rock weatheri...
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    24 min