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Introducing Terence Jeyaretnam, the next contributor featured in our recent release 'No More Greenwashing: Driving evidance-based practice in ESG & Impact Investing' (which you can download for free at http://bit.ly/nomoregreenwashing).  Terence works across a great variety of groups aligned with creating positive impact in the world, and his positions include:

- APAC Leader & Partner for Climate Change & Sustainability Services, EY
- Non Executive Director at Amnesty International, Global Citizen, Fairtrade Australia & New Zealand, Food Frontier, PWN, Australian Legal Sector Alliance
- Member of the Technical Reference Group at the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB), Senior Advisor Australia for SASB Standards and Member of the Global Forum on Sustainability for ACCA
- Head of the Audit Panel for the Banksia Foundation
- Advisor for the SAARI Collective
- Adjust Professor at the University of Southern Queensland
- Board member with the Office for Environmental Programs at University of Melbourne
- Chair of the Sustainability Committee with the Group of 100
- Ambassador, Bridging Lanka Ltd (Australia)
- Instructor at GKR Karate International

Apparently he can do all that because "I don't watch much TV and I'm really boring" though I think that undersells his contribution somewhat :D

In the second half of the interview, we go into the retrospective nature of punitive regulatory compliance, the director level resistance to making any Net Zero claims due to liability, the contrast of geographies, tips on compliance requirements, divestment, the opportunity of developing nations to leap-frog the challenges of our societies and the fundamental of change as Terence sees it; personal responsibility.

Don't forget you can grab the free report 'No more Greenwashing - Driving evidence-based practice in ESG & Impact Investing' that Terence contributed to at http://bit.ly/nomoregreenwashing, and if you're looking to improve your Investor and Stakeholder Relations, let's have a chat.

Smarter Impact is hosted by http://linkedin.com/in/philipbateman and produced by http://bravocharlie.global

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Join myself and Kristin Siegel, Head of EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) from https://toniic.com - the global action community for impact investing - as we discuss our latest report No More Greenwashing: Driving evidence-based practice in ESG & Impact Investing which you can get for free at http://bit.ly/nomoregreenwashing

Smarter Impact is hosted by http://linkedin.com/in/philipbateman and produced by http://bravocharlie.global

For the latest insights on leadership, impact investing, global challenges, business strategy and storytelling, make sure to join me on LinkedIn, and get the newsletter, Smarter Impact - Every Thursday!

Meet Lyle Wildes, the real life Breaking Bad / Walter White, a philosophy professor that acquired a brain injury crashing his truck into a bridge, losing all empathy, becoming a drug dealer making synthetic cocaine, being arrested and spending twenty years in jail, enabling him to discover the key to reducing recidivism;

85% of inmates have 3 or more ACE (Adverse Childhood Experience) factors, compared with 7% of the general population that have 3 or less.  And we can fix it before kids get to jail.

Join us in this deep-dive into humanity, the brain and the link between Adverse Childhood Experience (ACEs), as well as:

- changing the culture of prisons
- the 500 year old, failed model of incarceration
- why it's an antiquated way of treating people who attack the power structure
- domestic violence, neuroplasticity, Positive Attitude classes and ending cycles of trauma
- the rolling door of the US prison population, with 25% being released each year and 25% being arrested (700,000 people)
 - how this creates the legal vehicle for slavery

I greatly appreciate those in our criminal justice systems who give so much to the safety and cohesion of our society, this conversation asks 'could we do it better?'

Thanks to the ACLU, Anti-Recidivism Coalition, Amnesty International USA, Center for Court Innovation, Charles Hamilton Houston Foundation, Inc., Color Of Change, Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, FWD.us, Right On Crime, The Marshall Project, Southern Center for Human Rights, Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice (CJCJ), The Gault Center, InsideOUT Writers, Californians for Safety and Justice, Coalition for Public Safety, Critical Resistance, Dream.Org, Prison Fellowship International, Prison Policy Initiative, Right On Crime, The Sentencing Project,

For the latest insights on leadership, impact investing, global challenges, business strategy and storytelling, make sure to join me on LinkedIn, and get the newsletter, Smarter Impact - Every Thursday!

Kristin and I go into the nature of Toniic, a global organisation of 500 high net-wealth individuals, family offices and foundations "the global action community for impact investing". Then we talk cultural norms, pioneering measurement and finance innovation in environments amendable to rapid change, 'Article 6, 8 and 9 funds' in the EU's Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulations and legacy energy assets.

We then discuss the variety of apetite for impact investing, theories of change, values, the speed of innovation, Project Drawdown, the Impact Management Project, Pymwymic, NEXUS Global and The ImPact - then Kristin gives us her 'quick start guide' to get going with Impact investing; "Don't get discouraged, but also do get started", and we end with a philosophical riff on the role of capital, GDP and consciousness. 

This interview is based on Kristin's contributions to our latest free guide, 'No more greenwashing: Driving evidence-based practice in ESG & Impact Investing' which you can download for free at http://bit.ly/nomoregreenwashing

To conincidence with the launch of our new report 'No more greenwashing - Driving evidence-based practice in ESG & Impact Investing', I've done a series of interviews with the contributors, the first of which is Cliff Prior, Chief Executive Officer of The Global Steering Group for Impact Investment (GSG).

This report is an overview of regulatory initiatives in Australia, the UK and Europe, and what to do with them, and you can get it by visiting http://bit.ly/nomoregreenwashing.  You can also watch this interview in video form directly on my Linkedin profile - http://linkedin.com/in/philipbateman

Find out more about the GSG at https://gsgii.org

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Join Mark Williamson, Executive General Manager of the Clean Energy Regulator and myself from Victorian State Energy Summit with thanks to the Smart Energy Council.

We discussed the soon to be formed Australian Carbon Exchange, the new Guarantee of Origin program for our upcoming hydrogen economy which will eventually spread to ammonia, aluminium and steel, the specific role of the Clean Energy Regulator in the market, and discussed Australia's world leading rooftop solar penetration and the findings in the latest Quarterly Carbon Market report.

In light of Zoe Daniels and Monique Ryan Chairing two of the day's panel discussions, Mark and I discussed the continuity of programs and outlook of the Regulator through the recent transition of government, and their prioritised focus on declining the baselines for Australia's big emitters via the CER's Safeguard Mechanism.

I asked Mark for the simplest way he could give me to make power consumption relatable to someone outside the energy industry, and we talked through the country being on 50% renewables by 2026 and the governments 82% by 2030.

Closing out, we touch on the breadth of innovation at scale related to the Certificate of Origin program with folks like Fortescue Future Industries and the Sun Cable project, our previous ultra low, negative energy pricing for solar during the day and our upcoming investment in and necessity for upgrading our transmission lines.

Follow the links for more, and you can watch this episode and connect with business and industry leaders via my LinkedIn profile - click here to visit.

Australian Carbon Exchange - http://www.cleanenergyregulator.gov.au/Infohub/Markets/australian-carbon-exchange

Guarantee of Origin - http://www.cleanenergyregulator.gov.au/Infohub/Markets/guarantee-of-origin

Safeguard Mechanism - http://www.cleanenergyregulator.gov.au/NGER/The-safeguard-mechanism

Thanks to John Grimes, Lindsey Guest, Nicola Card at the rest of the team at the Smart Energy Council for their efforts, and you can find this interview and many others on the Smarter Impact YouTube channel at http://youtube.com/smarterimpact.

For the latest insights on leadership, impact investing, global challenges, business strategy and storytelling, make sure to join me on LinkedIn, and get the newsletter, Smarter Impact - Every Thursday!

Join Paul Holthus, CEO of the World Ocean Council and I from the 2022 APAC Impact Investment Summit, as we discuss the purpose and scale of the World Ocean Council in creating industry leadership in keeping the global ocean healthy, such as by lowering emissions by reducing biofouling on vessels, and the need and opportunity for investing in and developing port reception facilities to tackle broad solid waste challenges.  These include the 150 million tons of plastics in the ocean, the 11 million tons being added every year, the 5 countries responsible for 95% of this waste.

We move on to "Ships of Opportunity" which is working to use the 90,000 merchant vessels and three to four million fishing boat to collect data to help document and responsibly use the ocean. We also talk about the great need for investing in the creation of technologies that will improve our understanding, monitoring and management of oceans and climate change.

I ask what Paul what he's changed his mind about over the past decades, and what needs to happen next when it comes to 'Corporate Ocean Responsibility', before we discuss the open oceans;

Paul outlines how open ocean carbon sequestration is the only frontier big enough to enable us to sequester the gigatons of carbon needed to truly tackle a warming planet, and leaves our conversation with his one piece of advice for investors focused on climate change and leaving a better future for the world.

Find out more and join the organisation at https://www.oceancouncil.org; Paul and team are particularly happy to help investors really understand where they can make a difference.

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"Cascading, compounding and aggregating" - I caught up with Rosemary Addis at the close of the recent Impact Investment Summit Asia Pacific, and in this episode we begin by talking about the last two years since we met in person, science, intersectionality, COVID and climate impacts, the latest IPCC report, our slip backwards in poverty and education and the impact this has on our ability to achieve the 2030 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. 

This is paralled with seeing a profound sense of the importance of human connection and shifts in peoples search for meaning and their investing choices.  We also touch on findings by the World Health Organization, supply chains, the unequal impact of natural disasters on women, the link between geography and inequality, and put a call out to people running organisations as to how they can get things back on track, and bring about equally cascading, compounding and aggregating positive change.

We talk through David Ritter, CEO of Greenpeace Australia Pacific's recent call to action around lobbying Government, and then move into a series of reflections by Rosemary;

Are you sacrificing being directionally correct for being precise?  And could you end up pricesely wrong?  What should we be focusing on?  Do we have the systems now to move with confidence?  What does Rosemary mean by "it's not about measurement - it's about management" ? 

We also look at the new Impact Measurement and Mangement for the SDGs course which you can signup for here - https://bit.ly/impactforSDGs

Produced by Philip Bateman and Bravo Charlie.  Thanks for liking and sharing this content.  It means a lot, and you can watch the video of this interview at https://youtu.be/p3qeDYVCVL8

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Listen in to Search for the Soul of the Nation, featuring Dr Monique Ryan (Independent for Kooyong), Nicolette Boele (Independent for Bradfield), Despi O'Connor (Independent for Flinders) and Julianne Schultz (Professor Emeritus of Media and Culture at Griffith University Centre for Social and Cultural Research, also Chair of The Conversation Media Group).

You can also click to watch this recording on YouTube.

As Julianne Schultz asks in her new book "The Idea of Australia: A search for the soul of the nation" from which our event derives it's name;

“Maybe, because Australia has been so rich for so long, complacency and entitlement, rather than innovation and aspiration, have become the norm.

Maybe, because the habit of not looking back has become so ingrained, we are incapable of imagining what we might become, as we have little idea of how we got here.

Maybe, because we have for so long accommodated bullies, we retreated to smaller dreams in manageable spaces. Maybe, because so few of our political leaders have had courageous imaginations, they are in fact led by others.

Maybe, because we are ashamed of our racialist past, we forgot how to hold onto the good bits. Maybe, Australia being home to the world's oldest continuous culture is just too difficult for its white settlers to comprehend.

Australia needs to address these issues if it is to become more than a half-formed idea.”

- Julianne Schultz.

More about the guests and host:

https://moniqueryan.com.au
https://nicoletteboele.com.au
https://teamdespi.com.au
https://bit.ly/JulianneSchultz

Presented by Philip Bateman and produced by Bravo Charlie

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Join the Professor of Practice & Co-Director of Yunus Centre at Griffith University, Alex Hannant, as deep dive into the necessity for and steps towards a systemic overhaul of our financial system.

Discover more by visiting the Griffith Business School Yunus Centre and following Alex on LinkedIn.

Smarter Impact is presented by Philip Bateman, who you can connect with on LinkedIn to see shorts of all our interviews, along with associated material - and the show is produced by Bravo Charlie.

For the latest insights on leadership, impact investing, global challenges, business strategy and storytelling, make sure to join me on LinkedIn, and get the newsletter, Smarter Impact - Every Thursday!