Strategic OverviewMark writes and speaks on renewable technologies, sustainable power generation, carbon abatement across sectors, carbon markets, carbon removal and the path to Net Zero
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Developing ESG AgendasBusinesses increasingly need to set out their stall with regards to the climate crisis; starting by understanding their own carbon footprints and Scope 1,2 and 3 emissions, by starting to take action to manage them, and increasingly, by setting targets
While mostly still voluntary, stakeholder pressure is growing: from customers, investors, and, not least, employees This means that businesses' strategies, growth and investment plans, indeed even their governance structures need revisiting in the light of the ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance Agenda) |
Captive Strategic Leadership supports senior decision makers in charting this journey, and in balancing the interests of stakeholders in doing so
Net Zero Speaking
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The Climate Crisis is the great story of our age. But there is more than one side to the story. This thought provoking lecture - developed initially for audiences of school-age; children such as the author's daughter, experiencing significant levels of anxiety as they learn about the climate crisis through news and social media in particular - puts another side to the story.
Because beyond the news headlines, which tend to focus on climate change's effects and symptoms, there is a largely untold story of the steady battle to tackle its causes. This often overlooked story is one of scientific endeavour, innovation, of technology breakthroughs and of epic feats of engineering. It is the story of the remaking of our very economy during our lifetimes, and of the path - a very real path - to Net Zero. Above all it is a story of hope, and of our own agency to effect change. It is the story of what we can actually do to to tackle the climate crisis. In this inspiring and widely shared lecture, Mark Melford lays out this path, with a wealth of stories and anecdotes, well-sourced stats and quantitative analysis, and sumptuous visuals. It is, at turns, eye-opening, heartening and funny. Delivered at Kings College School Wimbledon as the inaugural Enlightening Minds Lecture 2024. |
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The cost of renewable power generation for wind and solar has plummeted over the last decade, such that in around 2019 something remarkable happened. Almost entirely unreported at the time, a seismic 'tipping point' moment occurred just as the world's attention was consumed by the Covid pandemic. In this, chapter 2 of his widely-viewed enlightening minds lecture, Mark explains this tipping point, its implications and how other renewable approaches such tidal power are approaching viability
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Ch 3 of the 7-part Enlightening Minds lecture at Kings College School Wimbledon. This section looks at decarbonising Industry, Agriculture and Transport, some of the hardest challenges in the whole effort to hit Net Zero. Yet even here economic tipping points and scientific breakthroughs offer hope and suggest a path towards real progress. Will it be in time? See the full lecture linked at the end of this clip
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