The Luminous Spotlight Podcast

In our 22nd Luminous Spotlight episode, Rachel Madan chats with Derek Brown, Head of Investor Relations at Trustpilot, to pull back the curtain on what it’s like to do a double materiality assessment and how to use that information to build a strong and credible sustainability strategy.

Welcome to the Luminous Spotlight Podcast! In today's episode, we're delving deep into CSRD. Join Rachel Madan and Stephen Butler as they unpack the goal and implications of the upcoming European Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) in our latest podcast episode. The Corporate Sustainability Reporting directive, known as CSRD is a new piece of legislation now passed by the EU. It's been a long time coming for reporters, and revises and expands on the prior non-financial reporting directive.

Stephen Butler catches up with Mark Babington to discuss the regulatory developments in the UK, sustainability and the growth of ESG reporting.

In our nineteenth, ‘Luminous Spotlight’ podcast, Kay Kayachith sits down with Sarah Nelson and Lauren Weatherdon from KPMG to discuss key outcomes from the COP 15 UN Biodiversity Conference, TNFD and why reporting on nature matters.  Find out more at www.luminous.co.uk/.

Driving inclusive growth and what’s next for corporate governance with Goldman Sachs

In our seventeenth ‘Luminous Spotlight' podcast, Stephen Butler and Owen Anderson, Head of Sustainability at Wickes, discuss the company's ESG journey, TCFD reporting and broadening out the focus from just carbon to broader climate change and environmental issues.

A conversation between Kay Kayachith, Associate Director of Investor Engagement and ESG at Luminous, and Maureen Beresford, Head of Corporate Governance, from the Financial Reporting Council about restoring trust in business, making the culture-purpose-strategy connection and keeping the page count down in your next annual report.

In our fifteenth ‘Luminous Spotlight’ podcast, Rachel Madan and Stephen Butler discuss TCFD and net-zero, and how to connect the dots between the two.

In our latest 'Luminous Spotlight' podcast, Rachel Madan talks with Anna Krotova, Director of Sustainability at Mambu, a SaaS cloud banking platform that operates in the B2B space, about committing to sustainability during a period of hyper growth. You can download Mambu's latest Disruption Diaries report 'Is the grass greener on the sustainable side'; a global survey on consumers’ demands for green and sustainable finance services here: https://mambu.com/insights/reports/disruption-diaries-green-banking

In the 13th episode of The Luminous Spotlight Podcast, Rachel Madan talks with Marcene Mitchell, Senior Vice President, Climate Change, World Wildlife Fund, about net zero, nature-based solutions, and whether COP26 was really just more blah, blah, blah.