The Decarbonisation Dialogue

Hannah's guest for this episode is Professor Lorraine Whitmarsh who is director of the Centre for Climate Change and Social Transformations at the University of Bath.

Lorraine is an environmental psychologist, specialising in perceptions and behaviour in relation to climate change, energy and transport.

She regularly advises governmental and other organisations on low-carbon behaviour change and climate change communication.

As part of her work she has also worked closely researching the behaviour of sports fans and climate action.

This episode also features guest voiceovers from Team Salix members Owen and Rebecca.<...

Hannah's guest for this episode is Jenni Brooks.

Jenni is the lead at Climate Action Leeds, which is working for a 'zero carbon, nature friendly, socially just Leeds by the 2030s'.

This is an ambitious, Lottery-funded project linking up local and city-wide communities to act, plan and build a movement of action and change.

Jenni talks about growing up in a politically aware household and how her love of community and planet inspires her work.

Jenni is keen to empower at grassroots and is dedicated to creating a fair and just...

Our guest for this edition of the podcast is Zarina Ahmad, co-director, Women’s Environmental Network.

Zarina is an expert in equalities and climate change, increasing participation of under-represented groups in environmentalism. She previously worked at the Council for Ethnic Minority Voluntary Organisations leading the charge for increasing participation in environmentalism in Scotland.

Zarina is a feminist activist against climate change and for equal rights for ethnic minorities. She was named as one of the top 30 influential women contributing to the environment and sustainability by the BBC's Woman’s Hour programme.

This episode also...

Our guest for this 23rd edition of our podcast is the creative powerhouse and genius, Jess Hines

Jess has spent a lifetime telling stories. She is a passionate film, TV, and climate campaigning specialist. Jess is co-founder of Fingerprint Content working with creative teams around the world to create popular content for a variety of audiences.

In her chat with presenter Hannah Walker, Jess talks about her childhood growing up in Cornwall, her poet father, her love of India, and what it’s like working with John Kerry, once former US President Obama’s Secretary of S...

Hannah's guest for this episode is Emma Lawrance, director of strategy and research at Climate Cares at the Institute of Global Health Innovation.

Emma leads the mental health strategy for the Institute, primarily encompassing research and innovation in digital mental health support and the climate change and mental health programme called Climate Cares.

Alongside this work, Emma founded the youth mental health charity 'It Gets Brighter' of which she remains a Trustee.

This episode also features guest voiceovers from Team Salix members Bianca Duca and Liam Gillard.

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Our guest in the podcast studio this time is Ian O’Donnell MBE.

He was co-opted to the Federation of Small Business Board in March 2023, following more than ten years as an active FSB member volunteer.

Ian has been a business owner since his school days, running a creative design and marketing agency.

He serves as a non-executive director and business growth consultant for other SMEs and is the entrepreneur in residence and teaching fellow at Coventry University.

This episode also features guest voiceovers from Team Salix members Kevin Holland and Am...

Hannah's guest for this episode is Julian Atkins, net zero programme director for the Church of England.

Julian leads the C of E's net zero carbon 2030 programme, working in partnership with colleagues across the church to help to deliver upon the ambitions set by General Synod in 2020.

Julian's job - alongside key stakeholders is to develop a joined-up programme, allocating national church funds to local and innovative projects and always assessing the impact of that funding.

This episode also features guest voiceovers from Team Salix members Ally O'Donnell and Charles Pegg.

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In this episode of The Decarbonisation Dialogue, our guest is Emma Holland-Lindsay. The presenter is Hannah Walker.

Emma is the head of public affairs at the National Federation of Women’s Institutes. She oversees the NFWI’s campaigning and influencing work focused on securing positive change on the issues that matter to WI members.

This includes the provision of a research and policy development function, campaign development and managing relationships with decision-makers.

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In this, our 18th episode, we welcome Morten Duedahl to our podcast.

Morten is a recognised expert on heat networks. He knows everything there is to know about the development and implementation of district heating in Denmark.

He spends much of his time working in the UK explaining the value of heat networks and providing insight into their operations.

Morten chats to presenter Hannah Walker about the part heat networks have to play in our cities and communities.

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In this episode, our guests are Charlotte Lastowecki and Olivia Horne.

They chat to presenter Hannah Walker about their work with UK Youth Climate Coalition (YCC).

Charlotte and Olivia are on a mission to mobilise and empower young people to take positive action for global climate justice.

The YCC's projects span from the analysis of MP climate change voting record to delivering workshops to young people to educate and equip them with the skills needed to achieve climate justice.

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In this episode of The Decarbonisation Dialogue, Hannah speaks to Jenna Hegarty.

Jenna is a highly experienced policy advocate with years of experience in the third sector.

She speaks about her work with The Nature Friendly Farming Network. It is a membership organisation led by farmers, working alongside other organisations and public supporters.

The network aims to provide a platform or voice for sustainable food and farming in the UK.

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In this episode, Hannah's guest is Graham Duxbury OBE. He is the chief executive of Groundwork and is also a member of the UK100 board. It is the UK’s only cross-party network dedicated to supporting ambitious local government leaders committed to tackling the climate crisis.

Graham is passionate about community and what it means for our world. His focus has been on improving neglected spaces, helping households out of fuel poverty, education, energy efficiency, the green economy and environmental regeneration.

He tells Hannah about his work and how what’s happening to our planet is f...

In this episode of our podcast, presenter Hannah Walker chats to Veronica Sekules.

Veronica is an art curator, educator and writer with a background in the environmental movement, and is director of GroundWork Gallery in King’s Lynn.

She opened the gallery in 2016 to showcase art and to campaign for the environment. It hashosted over 20 exhibitions and won several awards.

Veronica's essay on The Art and Heritage of Waste is the third in the Longer feature, where Climate Cultures members share original works, or ones that haven’t appeared online elsewhere, and which don’...

In this 14th episode of our podcast, presenter Hannah Walker chats to Veronica Sekulesis.

Veronica is an art curator, educator and writer with a background in the environmental movement, and is director of GroundWork Gallery in King’s Lynn.

She opened the gallery in 2016 to showcase art and to campaign for the environment. It hashosted over 20 exhibitions and won several awards.

Veronica's essay on The Art and Heritage of Waste is the third in the Longer feature, where Climate Cultures members share original works, or ones that haven’t appeared online elsewhere, and whic...

In this episode, Hannah Walker speaks to Nadine Moustafa, a multi-talented and skilled engineer and research working at Imperial College, London.

Nadine specialises in systems modelling for carbon management and decarbonisation technologies.

Her work integrates socio-economic and techno-economic aspects of various energy technologies, including carbon capture and storage from various applications, CO2 removal from the atmosphere, nuclear power, and sustainable fuels.

She talks about how her work has taken her to research sustainable fashion and how that impacts the world we live in.

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Katherine Boland is an international artist based in Australia. Her work largely explores the fragility of the natural world.

Katherine’s work has been featured at world climate conferences as she seeks to inspire discussion on how we are impacting our world.

In this episode of our podcast, she talks to Hannah Walker about her studio practice in the Australian bush and how it has been impacted by the recent bushfires.

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In this episode of The Decarbonisation Dialogue, passionate journalist Anna Turns meets presenter Hannah Walker to talk about how the media can be used to inspire people into climate action.

In an era when ‘greenwashing’ is prevalent, she urges people to question everything and do what they can to help protect our planet.

As well as talking about her work, Anna explains why environmental education and the importance of a strong connection to the landscape and coast is key to her soul.

She also talks about her future plans and how she continues to s...

In this episode of The Decarbonisation Dialogue, presenter Hannah Walker speaks to world-leading scientist professor Peter Cox about how the climate is warming up and why. Peter is director of the Global Systems Institute at the University of Exeter.

The institute sets out to be thought-leading in understanding global changes, solving global challenges, and helping create a flourishing future world through transformative research, education, impact and engagement.

The highly cited author talks about the solutions to the climate emergency and how he sees the crisis as an opportunity for us to work together across the...

We’re Salix and we’re on a mission to help save the planet.

We enable, and inspire, public sector organisations to move towards net zero and we support the creation of warmer and healthier homes.

We deliver and administer government funding schemes that support local councils, schools, housing associations, hospitals and universities and many other public sector organisations.

Our ‘Decarbonisation Dialogue’ podcast is presented by Hannah Walker.

In this episode she speaks to her Salix colleague Becca Weight to talk about what’s happening to the planet. With her background in science...

We’re Salix and we’re on a mission to help save the planet.

We enable, and inspire, public sector organisations to move towards net zero and we support the creation of warmer and healthier homes.

We deliver and administer government funding schemes that support local councils, schools, housing associations, hospitals and universities and many other public sector organisations.

Our ‘Decarbonisation Dialogue’ podcast is presented by Hannah Walker.

In this episode she speaks to Chair Josh Steel and deputy chair Stan Thomas from the Young Engineers Network. It is for professionals in the f...

We’re Salix and we’re on a mission to help save the planet.

We enable, and inspire, public sector organisations to move towards net zero and we support the creation of warmer and healthier homes.

We deliver and administer government funding schemes that support local councils, schools, housing associations, hospitals and universities and many other public sector organisations.

Our ‘Decarbonisation Dialogue’ podcast is presented by Hannah Walker.

In this episode she speaks to Giles Kolter, headteacher of St Peter's School in Cowfield and Gary Dimmock who led a project to decarbon...

We’re Salix and we’re on a mission to help save the planet.

We enable, and inspire, public sector organisations to move towards net zero and we support the creation of warmer and healthier homes.

We deliver and administer government funding schemes that support local councils, schools, housing associations, hospitals and universities and many other public sector organisations.

Our ‘Decarbonisation Dialogue’ podcast is presented by Hannah Walker. In this episode she speaks to our director of public sector decarbonisation, Ian Rodger.

He has spent almost two decades serving in the army and...

We’re Salix and we’re on a mission to help save the planet.

We enable, and inspire, public sector organisations to move towards net zero and we support the creation of warmer and healthier homes.

We deliver and administer government funding schemes that support local councils, schools, housing associations, hospitals and universities and many other public sector organisations.

Our ‘Decarbonisation Dialogue’ podcast is presented by Hannah Walker. In this episode she speaks to Gareth Ellis, who is the environmental sustainability and operations lead at Cranfield University.

He talks to Hannah about hi...

We’re Salix and we’re on a mission to help save the planet.

We enable, and inspire, public sector organisations to move towards net zero and we support the creation of warmer and healthier homes.

We deliver and administer government funding schemes that support local councils, schools, housing associations, hospitals and universities and many other public sector organisations.

Our ‘Decarbonisation Dialogue’ podcast is presented by Hannah Walker. In this episode she speaks to assistant director, Davide Natuzzi, who leads our team of decarbonisation technical experts.

He explains how his background in engin...

We’re Salix and we’re on a mission to help save the planet.

We enable, and inspire, public sector organisations to move towards net zero and we support the creation of warmer and healthier homes.

We deliver and administer government funding schemes that support local councils, schools, housing associations, hospitals and universities and many other public sector organisations.

Our ‘Decarbonisation Dialogue’ podcast is presented by Hannah Walker who in this episode speaks to Professor Alison Anderson, PhD, FRSA, FAcSS from the School of Society & Culture, Faculty of Arts, Humanities & Business at the Universi...

We’re Salix and we’re on a mission to help save the planet.

We enable, and inspire, public sector organisations to move towards net zero and we support the creation of warmer and healthier homes.

We deliver and administer government funding schemes that support local councils, schools, housing associations, hospitals and universities and many other public sector organisations.

Our ‘Decarbonisation Dialogue’ podcast is presented by Hannah Walker, who in this episode chats to the chair of our board, Baroness Natalie Evans.

Natalie explains why her work as chair is so importan...

We’re Salix and we’re on a mission to help save the planet.

We enable, and inspire, public sector organisations to move towards net zero and we support the creation of warmer and healthier homes.

We deliver and administer government funding schemes that support local councils, schools, housing associations, hospitals and universities and many other public sector organisations.

Our ‘Decarbonisation Dialogue’ podcast is presented by Hannah Walker.

From diplomat to saving the planet, in this episode, Hannah speaks to Salix chief executive Kevin Holland on how business, government and community can work...