Net Zero Compare Podcast

About Net Zero Compare Podcast

Interviews + explainers for the energy transition, without the greenwash. Hear from innovators across climate tech and sustainability (battery chemists, hydrogen founders, marine energy, EV charging, carbon markets), then get buyer’s-guide clarity on tools like carbon accounting, ESG monitoring and supply-chain solutions. Straight facts, business outcomes, real-world adoption. 🌐 netzerocompare.com

Publisher

Net Zero Compare

Category

news

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

3 Apr 2025

Latest episode

16 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

61 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   16 Oct 2026

   Lisa Drees on Building Trust in Green Hydrogen Supply Chains: Technology Is Only Part of the Answer

   🎯 In this episode: Dr. Lisa Drees, a postdoctoral scientist at Ruhr University Bochum, joins Net Zero Compare to discuss trust in global green hydrogen supply chains and why digital traceability needs reliable data, common standards, and strong governance to deliver value. The conversation explores how companies build trust in an emerging international market where suppliers and buyers may have no shared history. Lisa explains why reputation, demonstrated expertise, certification, contractual protections, and personal relationships remain essential alongside digital tools. A central theme is the difference between protecting information and proving its accuracy. Blockchain can make recorded data harder to alter, but it cannot guarantee that the original inputs were correct. Credible sustainability claims still require verification, agreed definitions, and consistent methods for calculating emissions and documenting hydrogen’s origin. The episode also examines how information systems can support transparency, risk coordination, scenario planning, knowledge sharing, and communication. Different tools address different needs, making a broader approach to trust management more useful than relying on a single technology. Transparency brings its own challenges. Companies need enough information to assess environmental claims while protecting commercially sensitive data. Lisa explains why clear rules on what must be shared, with whom, and for what purpose are essential to participation. Common standards are another priority. International hydrogen markets need compatible certification and data systems so that producing and importing countries can assess sustainability claims consistently. Physical infrastructure and market readiness also shape what digital systems can achieve. Uncertain demand, delayed financing, changing political priorities, and incomplete transport networks can leave technology providers with functioning platforms but limited opportunities to deploy them. For procurement and sustainability teams, the practical takeaway is to assess environmental evidence, supplier experience, and contractual risk together. Trustworthy hydrogen markets depend on technology, infrastructure, regulation, and commercial relationships developing alongside one another. 🔗 Read the full article: https://netzerocompare.com/podcasts/net-zero-compare-podcast/lisa-drees-ruhr-university-bochum (https://netzerocompare.com/podcasts/net-zero-compare-podcast/lisa-drees-ruhr-university-bochum) 📍 Guest: Dr. Lisa Drees, Postdoctoral Scientist at Ruhr University Bochum https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-lisa-drees-b740a01b5/en?originalSubdomain=de (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-lisa-drees-b740a01b5/?isSelfProfile=false) 🎙 Interview by: Karol Kaczmarek, Co-Founder of Net Zero Compare https://www.linkedin.com/in/karol-kaczmarek-39a29651/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/karol-kaczmarek-39a29651/) #GreenHydrogen #Hydrogen #SupplyChainSustainability #DigitalTraceability #Certification #CleanEnergy #RiskManagement #Sustainability #NetZero #NetZeroCompare *** At Net Zero Compare, we deliver clear, data-backed insights for decision-makers navigating ESG reporting, net-zero compliance, and clean energy adoption. 🌐 https://netzerocompare.com (https://netzerocompare.com) 📩 Contact us: info@netzerocompare.com (mailto:info@netzerocompare.com) 📚 Explore the Academy: https://netzerocompare.com/academy (https://netzerocompare.com/academy) 📰 Read more insights: https://netzerocompare.com/articles (https://netzerocompare.com/articles)

2. 

   9 Oct 2026

   Brandon Lapsys on Why Recycling Projects Depend on End Markets, Operational Discipline, and Better Waste Data

   🎯 In this episode: Brandon Lapsys, President of Viably, joins Net Zero Compare to discuss the operational and economic realities behind waste processing and recycling infrastructure, and what companies need to understand beyond landfill-diversion targets. The conversation explores why successful recycling projects begin with the end market for recovered materials. Brandon explains how material composition, quality requirements, buyer availability, and transportation distances determine whether a facility can turn waste into usable commodities and sustain its business model. A major focus is recycling economics. Labor, hauling, contamination, tipping fees, equipment, and commodity prices all influence performance. Brandon explains why these factors must be evaluated together before investing in new processing capacity. The episode also examines construction and demolition waste. Automation can reduce reliance on manual sorting and improve recovery and material purity, but the appropriate level depends on waste volumes, local labor costs, available markets, and the operator’s business model. Source separation can produce cleaner streams, although space constraints and additional handling costs can complicate its use. Food waste presents another challenge. Plastics and packaging contamination can limit processing options and the value of recovered organic material. Brandon explains why collection programs need to reflect what receiving facilities can actually handle. Technology selection, maintenance, and training are also central themes. Equipment needs to accommodate future growth and changing waste composition, while spare parts, technical support, preventive maintenance, and staff training help sustain performance over time. The conversation looks at waste data and AI, including their potential to improve recovery, efficiency, and reporting. Brandon emphasizes focusing on useful metrics, understanding how they are measured, and connecting information to practical operational improvements. For sustainability and ESG teams, a key takeaway is to understand where waste goes after collection, how it is processed, and what happens to the recovered materials. Reliable reporting requires a clear understanding of the physical system behind the figures. Brandon also discusses how tightening landfill capacity and rising transportation costs could encourage further investment in recycling infrastructure across North America, including processing closer to where waste is generated. 🔗 Read the full article: https://netzerocompare.com/podcasts/net-zero-compare-podcast/brandon-lapsys-viably (https://netzerocompare.com/podcasts/net-zero-compare-podcast/brandon-lapsys-viably) 📍 Guest: Brandon Lapsys, President of Viably https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandon-lapsys/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandon-lapsys/) 🎙 Interview by: Karol Kaczmarek, Co-Founder of Net Zero Compare https://www.linkedin.com/in/karol-kaczmarek-39a29651/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/karol-kaczmarek-39a29651/) #BrandonLapsys #Viably #WasteManagement #Recycling #CircularEconomy #FoodWaste #ResourceRecovery #RecyclingInfrastructure #ESGReporting #Sustainability #NetZero #netzerocompare *** At Net Zero Compare, we deliver clear, data-backed insights for decision-makers navigating ESG reporting, net-zero compliance, and clean energy adoption. 🌐 https://netzerocompare.com (https://netzerocompare.com) 📩 Contact us: info@netzerocompare.com (mailto:info@netzerocompare.com) 📚 Explore the Academy: https://netzerocompare.com/academy (https://netzerocompare.com/academy) 📰 Read more insights: https://netzerocompare.com/articles (https://netzerocompare.com/articles)

3. 

   3 Oct 2026

   Lisa Wright on Why eVTOL Infrastructure May Matter as Much as the Aircraft

   🎯 In this episode: Lisa Wright, Founder and CEO of Landings, joins Net Zero Compare to discuss the infrastructure challenge behind electric aviation and what will be required to turn eVTOL aircraft from individual technologies into functioning regional transportation networks. The conversation explores why electric aviation depends on much more than aircraft development. Lisa explains how vertiports require suitable land, grid access, charging capacity, battery cooling, permitting, and operational infrastructure. Landings is focusing on smaller, lower-cost sites that can form connected regional networks rather than isolated flagship facilities. A major focus is energy infrastructure. Lisa discusses why securing enough electrical capacity can be more difficult than finding land, particularly in rural and remote areas. Grid connections, solar generation, and battery storage could work together to support aircraft charging, with storage helping manage short periods of high power demand. The episode also looks at shared infrastructure. Landings is exploring sites where charging systems could serve eVTOLs alongside municipal vehicles, commercial fleets, and other electric transport, helping improve site economics before aviation traffic reaches scale. Lisa also discusses the wider sustainability questions surrounding electric aviation. The overall impact depends not only on eliminating direct fuel combustion, but also on electricity sources, construction materials, batteries, infrastructure utilization, and the type of journey being replaced. Landings is also examining modular construction and ways to reduce reliance on concrete. The conversation explores early use cases including medical transport, emergency response, logistics, and regional connectivity, particularly in areas where long ground journeys create operational challenges. Community acceptance, permitting, noise, and local partnerships are also important factors in determining where networks can develop. A key takeaway is that the future of electric aviation will depend on connected networks rather than individual aircraft or vertiports. Certification, energy availability, infrastructure, regulation, and public acceptance will all need to progress together for eVTOLs to become a reliable part of regional transportation. 🔗 Read the full article: https://netzerocompare.com/podcasts/net-zero-compare-podcast/isa-wright-landings (https://netzerocompare.com/podcasts/net-zero-compare-podcast/isa-wright-landings) 📍 Guest: Lisa Wright, Founder and CEO of Landings https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisa-l-wright/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisa-l-wright/) 🎙 Interview by: Karol Kaczmarek, Co-Founder of Net Zero Compare https://www.linkedin.com/in/karol-kaczmarek-39a29651/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/karol-kaczmarek-39a29651/) #LisaWright #Landings #eVTOL #ElectricAviation #AdvancedAirMobility #Vertiports #EnergyStorage #ElectricMobility #Transportation #CleanEnergy #Sustainability #NetZero #NetZeroCompare *** At Net Zero Compare, we deliver clear, data-backed insights for decision-makers navigating ESG reporting, net-zero compliance, and clean energy adoption. 🌐 https://netzerocompare.com (https://netzerocompare.com) 📩 Contact us: info@netzerocompare.com (mailto:info@netzerocompare.com) 📚 Explore the Academy: https://netzerocompare.com/academy (https://netzerocompare.com/academy) 📰 Read more insights: https://netzerocompare.com/articles (https://netzerocompare.com/articles)

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