Chris Sattler, Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Energea, explains what makes renewable energy projects financially viable. In this Net Zero Compare interview, he discusses solar economics, electricity contracts, financing costs, and the operational factors that shape long-term returns. Drawing on experience across Brazil, the United States, Africa, and other Latin American markets, Sattler examines currency exposure, maintenance, security, and regulatory uncertainty. He also explains how individual investors can access distributed energy infrastructure and why fees, liquidity restrictions, and investment terms require careful review. For businesses considering solar or battery storage, the discussion highlights the importance of understanding electricity costs, site conditions, and financing options before committing capital.

Byron Irwin, founder of Compost Network and CEO and President of Eco-Environmental Solutions, discusses how recycling and composting can support rural communities. In Ozark, Arkansas, his initiative combines material recovery, youth program funding, community gardening, and hands-on environmental education. Irwin explains how in-vessel composting works and why its viability depends on waste volumes, disposal costs, operating requirements, and local demand for compost. He recommends starting with a waste audit and building manageable projects through community partnerships. While Compost Network’s early recycling volumes show strong participation, its long-term financial, environmental, and educational outcomes remain to be established. The conversation offers practical lessons for businesses and municipalities exploring local resource recovery.

Australia’s mandatory climate reporting is reshaping how businesses measure emissions, manage climate risks, and assign responsibility. In this Net Zero Compare interview, Afonso Firmo, Co-Founder and Director of NetNada, explains why reliable disclosures require complete data, consistent methodologies, traceable calculations, and senior management involvement. He discusses prioritizing material Scope 3 sources, improving supplier data, and using AI to support classification, document extraction, and anomaly detection while retaining human oversight. The conversation also explores how reporting can inform renewable electricity procurement, fleet investment, and operational resilience. Firmo encourages companies to prepare early, strengthen internal processes, and connect climate information with practical business decisions and measurable emissions reductions.

In a Net Zero Compare interview, Dr. Lisa Drees explores how trust shapes global green hydrogen supply chains. Digital traceability, certificates and blockchain can help companies share and protect sustainability information, but they cannot guarantee accurate inputs or replace credible suppliers, verification and business relationships. Effective systems require common standards, comparable emissions calculations and governance that balances transparency with commercial confidentiality. Infrastructure gaps, uncertain demand and shifting policy and funding also constrain progress: digital tools may be ready before the markets they serve. For buyers, the priority is to assess environmental evidence, supplier experience and contractual risk alongside certification. Building trustworthy hydrogen markets requires technology, infrastructure, regulation and cooperation to develop together.

Brandon Lapsys, President of Viably, discusses the operational and economic factors that determine whether waste-processing and recycling systems succeed. He explains why projects should begin with viable end markets for recovered materials and account for transportation, labor, contamination, maintenance, and future operating conditions. The conversation explores automation in construction-and-demolition recycling, food-waste contamination, equipment selection, and the importance of training and technical support. Lapsys also examines how AI and better data can improve performance when linked to clear operational goals. For sustainability and ESG teams, he emphasizes understanding how waste figures are measured, where materials go after collection, and whether recovered outputs have practical value. Tightening landfill capacity and rising transportation costs could encourage further investment in recycling infrastructure across North America.

This episode of Net Zero Compare features Lisa Wright, Founder and CEO of Landings, discussing the infrastructure needed to make electric aviation commercially viable. The conversation explores how eVTOL networks depend not only on aircraft, but also on suitable landing sites, grid capacity, charging systems, battery cooling, permitting, and community support. Wright explains Landings’ focus on lower-cost regional vertiports, shared charging infrastructure, and the use of solar and battery storage where grid access is limited. She also discusses potential early applications in medical transport, emergency response, and logistics, as well as the environmental trade-offs of electric aviation. The episode highlights why connected regional networks, rather than isolated vertiports, will be critical to scaling the sector.

Arjun Gupta, Founder and CEO of MokshEPR, joins Net Zero Compare to discuss how packaging Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) is changing compliance for companies selling packaged goods in the United States. He explains why state-by-state rules, detailed packaging classifications, and incomplete product data are creating significant operational challenges. The conversation explores how AI can help companies clean and structure packaging data, pre-fill classifications, support reporting, forecast EPR fees, and assess packaging alternatives, while keeping human review and traceability at the center of compliance. Arjun also discusses the financial impact of packaging decisions, the importance of cross-functional collaboration, and why reliable packaging data can support broader decisions around procurement, logistics, waste reduction, and packaging redesign.

Lubomila Jordanova, founder of Plan A and co-founder of the Greentech Alliance, discusses the practical challenges of corporate decarbonization, including carbon accounting, Scope 3 emissions, supplier engagement, sustainability regulation, and climate technology. She explains why reliable emissions data remains difficult to collect and why companies need to improve sustainability knowledge across procurement, finance, operations, and product teams. The conversation also explores how businesses can prepare suppliers for reporting requirements, distinguish compliance obligations from commercial opportunities, and evaluate sustainability technologies based on demonstrated results and real-world implementation. Jordanova also reflects on the growing consolidation of sustainability software and why integrated platforms may help companies manage carbon accounting, ESG reporting, supply-chain assessments, and other related requirements more effectively.

Hesham Gamal Gaafar, Manager of Digital Twin, Smart Cities and AEC at Esri Saudi Arabia, explains how digital twins differ from BIM and GIS and where they can create practical value. He discusses operational efficiency, sustainability, BIM-GIS integration, interoperability, data governance, AI applications, predictive maintenance, and why organizations should define business needs before investing in technology.

Climate companies become investable when environmental impact is backed by strong fundamentals, including scalable business models, sound unit economics, capable teams, measurable results, and realistic market strategies. AI can improve sustainability reporting, due diligence, regulatory monitoring, and supply chain analysis, but its value depends on reliable data, transparency, and human oversight. High-risk decisions still require clear accountability and judgment. inclui quem fala Bhuva Shakti, AI adoption and automation advisor and founder of Bhuva’s Impact Global and Wallet Max, explains what makes climate companies investable and where AI can genuinely support sustainability. She highlights the importance of scalable business models, sound unit economics, measurable impact, reliable data, and capable teams. AI can improve reporting, due diligence, regulatory monitoring, and supply chain analysis, but high-risk decisions still require human judgment, transparency, and clear accountability.