The chapter explores how companies like Shell and Tesco collaborate with the guest's company to offset their activities through funding projects for carbon sequestration. It emphasizes the necessity for businesses to invest in both emission reductions and carbon projects to combat climate change effectively. The discussion also covers the challenges faced by companies in meeting net zero pledges and the importance of realigning business models for ecological outcomes.
The Sunday Times; tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Diego Saez GIl, founder of Pachama, to talk about carbon reduction (4:00), hist first startups (6:10), Pachama’s start (12:00), building tools to catalyse climate projects (16:00), how it works (19:10), net zero pledges (22:00), when his house burned down (24:50), the carbon market (27:40), raising $90 million (32:00), and his worst day (36:00).
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