2023 Overview

Bringing a deep background across corporate sustainability, innovation, nature, and law (and much more), we managed to sit down with Carolina García Arbeláez, CEO & Co-founder at MYZELIO and former Nature Director at AB InBev. She shares her experience on successfully building nature and climate-focused initiatives across various geographies, forms of cooperation, and sizes of entities, as well as reflecting on the god-like powers that are being created with new technology and the impact it can have on humans, the planet, and our cohabitants.

To anyone involved with environmental markets, carbon credits and corporate sustainability, South Pole founder & former CEO Renat Heuberger needs not introduction. Still, we made him retrace his step and tell us about lessons learned and how he sees the coming years in environmental markets, action for nature restoration and climate action, and the importance of building a business case.

Svarmi's founder & CTO FINALLY joins me for a chat, hopefully not the last one. We talk about how he started Svarmi, how drones proved useful for nature/environmental data collection and how things evolved from there as well as some of the opportunities we see for improvement in the way we manage and make use of data, including but not limited to data collected in the field when preparing large infrastructure such as for environmental impact assessments (EIAs).

Marco Hirsbrunner, Co-Founder & COO of Terra Ventures and Co-Founder & former COO of South Pole, tells us about his experience in building and running a sustainability-focused company in different macro environments.

Snjolaug & Kolbeinn discuss existing and emerging requirements for corporates to demonstrate they are not contributing to deforestation, including the EU Deforestation Regulation, and how companies can tackle this topic.

Snjolaug & Kolbeinn discuss the building blocks of corporate nature strategies.

Rene Velasquez, managing partner at Valeterra, shares his extensive experience in carbon markets, emphasizing the importance of both avoidance and removal credits to meet climate goals. He discusses the need for trust and integrity, the role of exchanges in providing transparency, and the necessity of ongoing investments in environmental projects. Rene also highlights the critical nexus between nature and climate, stressing the importance of protecting biodiversity to enhance carbon sequestration and climate resilience.

Dr. Snjólaug Ólafsdóttir and Kolbeinn Hilmarsson go through 2023 highlights in the field of corporate sustainability and particularly nature assessment and reporting. 

Mini-cast from COP28 in Dubai when Kolbeinn met with James d'Ath to discuss the intersection of nature and climate and the role of the Taskforce on Nature-Related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) and its Data Catalyst initiative to help companies embed nature into their financial reporting and business decisions.

In the Nature Positive Podcast, the team at Svarmi brings in sustainability experts to learn about the intersection of business, nature and climate and how organisations around the world are preparing to move towards a nature positive and net zero economy.In this episode, we speak with Aravind Ravichandran of TerraWatch Space, a strategic consulting firm for space agencies, earth observation companies and investors. Join us as we discuss the changing nature and accessibility of earth observation technology and what this means for the future of monitoring the natural world.