At Svarmi, we enjoy learning about how organisations around world are taking tangible steps towards a nature positive future. This podcast contains our discussions with leaders across different fields, where we learn about their plans for aligning their business with existing and emerging nature-related disclosure frameworks, stakeholder engagement and management of risks and opportunities. Intro/Outro Music: Limbo by Hakon.
Carolina García Arbeláez - CEO & Co-founder at MYZELIO
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 ...
30 Jul 2025
Renat Heuberger
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.
31 Mar 2025
Drones, nature data & the origin of Svarmi with Tryggvi Stefansson
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).
25 Feb 2025
Macro Cycles with Marco
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.
30 Sept 2024
Deforestation Regulation
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.
14 Aug 2024
Building Blocks of a Good Nature Strategy
Snjolaug & Kolbeinn discuss the building blocks of corporate nature strategies.
21 May 2024
Rene Velasquez on Carbon Markets & Nature
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 se...
6 Feb 2024
2023 Overview
Dr. Snjólaug Ólafsdóttir and Kolbeinn Hilmarsson go through 2023 highlights in the field of corporate sustainability and particularly nature assessment and reporting.
19 Dec 2023
James d'Ath - Data and Analytics Technical Lead at the TNFD
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.
16 Nov 2023
Aravind Ravichandran on the role of earth observation in nature assessment
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 observ...
19 Oct 2023
Hrund Gunnsteinsdóttir on re-framing and rethinking systems
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 Hrund Gunnsteinsdóttir, author, speaker and former Leader of the Sustainability Center of Iceland - Festa, about re-framing and rethinking systems and her new book "The Art of InnSæi - the Icelandic Way To Ha...
27 Apr 2023
Loic van Cutsem, International Partnerships Director at BeeOdiversity
We talk to Loic, who heads up international expansion and partnerships of BeeOdiversity, which has over the past 10 years built and applied its bee-based environmental monitoring system to support action for nature for both private and public actors.
2 Feb 2023
Dr. Snjolaug Olafsdottir, Head of Climate Change & Sustainability Services at EY Iceland
The Nature Positive Podcast recently welcomed Snjolaug Olafsdottir, Head of Climate Change and Sustainability Services for Ernst & Young (EY) Iceland, where she brought her experience and knowledge with new sustainability reporting frameworks.
18 Nov 2022
Adalheidur Snaebjarnardottir, Sustainability Manager at Landsbankinn
What is the role of banks in the transition towards Net Zero and Nature Positive? In this episode, we speak with Adalheidur Snaebjarnardottir about how climate and nature impact are becoming an integral part of financial reporting for companies and what role financial institutions play in the ongoing transitions.
27 Oct 2022
Pilot Episode: Gunnar S. Magnusson, Head of Sustainability, Deloitte Iceland
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 pilot episode, we are joined by Gunnar S. Magnusson, head of Sustainability and Climate at Deloitte in Iceland and part of Deloitte's Nordic Leadership Team.
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