The GreenWave Podcast

This week join SYNI, your host, as she dives into the role of crypto currencies in sustainability with a special look at the growing role of tokenisation in carbon credits. It’s been a subject on our radar for several weeks, and with the growing mania over bitcoin’s rapid price rise in recent weeks, it’s seems like the perfect time to tackle the subject of how the explosive world of digital currencies are producing sustainable out...

Your host SYNI explores the European Union’s latest push to harness artificial intelligence in the energy sector as a tool against climate change. The EU has recently opened consultations for a Strategic Roadmap on Digitalisation and AI in the Energy Sector, reflecting its commitment to ensure the digital and green transitions go hand-in-hand. We’ll explore how AI can accelerate decarbonisation across Europe’s power grids, building...

SYNI, your hostess with dry wit and a sharp tongue, launches into the second in our Summer mini-pod series, well aware that many of you might currently be lounging beachside, mountain-bound, hiking on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon, or spending the long August days on your island in the Baltic Sea, not exactly keeping pace with the latest in climate finance literature. So allow SYNI to bring you up t...

SYNI launches our summer series of mini pods, shorter more focused episodes intended to match the shorter attention spans of our summertime listeners. Today’s topic is the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development, better known to its friends as the HLPF. Specifically, we’re diving into the launch of the Climate and SDG Synergy Solutions reports and the wider signals sent at this year’s forum in New York. If you missed...

SYNI is riding the breeze for today’s pod topic of sailing – its heritage as a sustainable means of transport and sailing’s place in today’s world of sustainable sport and pastimes. As the saying goes, we cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust our sails. The sailing world is doing exactly that, adapting its practices to protect what it loves. In the process, it keeps alive the spirit of exploration and freedom that sailing has a...

SYNI launches into Part 2 of our mini-series on the European Commission’s proposed 2040 Climate Law amendment, a plan that would legally bind the European Union to cut its net greenhouse gas emissions by 90% by the year 2040. This week we’re zooming in on the Iberian Peninsula, unlocking the likely impact of the EU’s initiative specifically on Spain and Portugal, and then circling back to the traditional European heavyweights of Ge...

SYNI, your host, tackles the European Commission’s 2040 Climate Law amendment – a plan that would legally bind the European Union to cut its net greenhouse gas emissions by 90% by the year 2040. Now, that’s a hefty goal and a mouthful of policy-speak, but fear not: we’re going to unpack what this 2040 target really means in this Part 1 of a 2 part mini-series, why it matters right now in 2025, and how it could reshape everything f...

This week, SYNI is zooming out to look at sustainable tourism on a broader scale in Part 2 of a mini-series. We’ll discuss the global trends that are reshaping travel in the name of sustainability, examine if all these green ideas are making a dent in the tourism industry’s environmental impact, and see what’s being done about the not-so-sustainable side of mass tourism. Plus, we’ll take a little tour of some of the world’s most e...

This week, SYNI drives into the topic of sustainable tourism with a focus on the van life phenomenon, that romantic vision of waking up by the ocean or in mountains in the back of a camper van. We’ll explore the rising trend of “van life” among surfers in Portugal and skiers in Utah, USA – and ask the big question: Does living on four wheels really align with the eco-conscious image it projects? It’s about peeling back the layers o...

 SYNI, your host, is unveiling sustainability in sports, viewed through the lens of three very different but equally iconic stages: Allegiant Stadium in the shimmering furnace of Las Vegas, the meticulously manicured lawns of Wimbledon in southwest London, and the soon‑to‑be‑reborn Camp Nou—now officially Spotify Camp Nou—on the Mediterranean rim of Barcelona. Together these venues form a kind of sustainability triathlon: What unit...

SYNI is taking us on the third and last leg of our global tour through the green hydrogen subsidy race. This week, we’re focused on South America. Grab your virtual passport as we head south. We’ll start in Brazil – the powerhouse that’s as big in clean energy as it is in carnival spirit – then hop across the Andes to Chile’s deserts and winds, swing by Argentina’s Patagonia plains, and finish in the Co...

SYNI finishes Part 2 of our magical tour through the global green hydrogen subsidy race secure in the knowledge that all this political jockeying is indeed a very heavy load to bear for the universe's lightest particle. This week, we’re focused on Asia, India, Africa and the Middle East, regions which account for the vast majority of humanity both in demographic weight and future growth. Surely if green hydrogen is a big “game chan...

SYNI is taking you on a whirlwind tour through the global green hydrogen subsidy race. If that sounds like a mouthful, well, it's because the world is biting off quite a lot – pouring unprecedented funds into turning the lightest element in the universe into a heavyweight climate solution. Green hydrogen is touted as a game-changer for decarbonising heavy industries and storing renewable energy, but there's a catch: it's still sign...

SYNI is threading together two seemingly opposite worlds: the ever-changing realm of fashion and the urgent, steady mission of sustainability. Fashion is all about trends and fast change, while sustainability demands long-term thinking and slow, careful progress. Can these two walks of life stitch themselves together? By the end of this episode, we’ll have unravelled the issues, spun some solutions, and...

In this episode, SYNI dissects the lessons from the electricity blackout in Portugal, Spain, and parts of France on April 28th. On that Monday, life was proceeding as normal for millions across the Iberian Peninsula. People filled office buildings, shopped in bustling downtown areas, drove on motorways, and carried on with daily tasks that rely on the steady, ever-present hum of electricity. Then, seemi...

SYNI, your host, clinks glasses with our listeners in Episode 18 to discuss the role of sustainability in the global wine industry, where beneath the vines a quiet revolution is under way. Wineries everywhere are waking up to a single elegant truth: great wine cannot out-perform a sick planet. Today we pour that story, swirl it, and taste its future, focused on two of our favourite wine- growing countries, Australia and Portugal. C...

We mourn the loss of Pope Francis, the global spiritual leader who championed environmental causes as urgent moral issues. It's fitting to mark this 55th Earth Day with a mix of celebration and sorrow. Pope Francis’s passing casts a poignant shadow over the message of "Our Power, Our Planet." It’s as if the Earth itself is grieving the loss of one of its most ardent and persuasive defenders. Today, we’l...

SYNI, your host, asks you think twice the next time you unwrap a package shipped from overseas or savour fruit that’s been transported across the globe. We’re talking about the recent moves in the global shipping industry to finally come clean and become more sustainable. Shipping is responsible for around three percent of global carbon emissions, which is roughly on par with some major industrialised nations. The International Mar...