Sustainability Solved by Will Richardson

"It is not the critic who counts." Theodore Roosevelt's words sum up 25 years of helping organisations with sustainability better than anything I could write.In this episode of Sustainability Solved, I explain why the companies growing their bottom line and cutting their emissions are the ones that tried early, failed, and tried again. We look at what Science Based Targets changed, why boards get fixated on the target and miss the actions, and why a transition plan matters more than any

The planet just had its annual check-up, and seven of the nine planetary boundaries that keep Earth liveable are now breached. In this episode I walk through what the 2026 Planetary Health Check actually tells us, in plain language, and what it means for business.https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/9-boundaries-keep-earth-livable-weve-breached-7-of-them/We look at CO2 hitting a record 426 parts per million, ocean acidification becoming the seventh boundary to go, and the two boundaries hiding

After more than 220 episodes, Sustainability Solved is changing. Weekly instead of monthly, with guest hosts running their own mini-series in their own fields.The final part of seven. In this episode: Seb Munden on food, drink and packaging, Ben Tolhurst on why businesses find it so difficult to speak out, Live Frankly on thinking big and small, Sophie Taysom on climate risk and insurance, and the communications reason behind every part of it. First episode of the new format on 28 September.Read the

Data centres are about to get a sustainability label, and most businesses have no idea which ones they rely on. That's where this week's countdown lands, and it's the second week running they've taken the top spot.I've spent more than 25 years in sustainability, and I've rarely seen energy dominate a week the way it did during Climate Week NYC. In this video I count down the ten stories that mattered most for net zero strategy, carbon accounting and Scope 3 emissions, ranked by how often they