One Story, Sixteen Chapters
In this Season 3 finale of Sustainability Forward, hosts Wrishi Sutradhar and Carmine Fiume look back on the year — but not as a simple recap.
Instead, we retell Season 3 as one connected story: a journey through the messy middle of sustainability, where progress depends on incentives, trust, execution, and real-world adoption.
Across the season, we explored the topics shaping today’s sustainability and energy transition conversation — from impact investing and climate finance, to electrification of heating (heat pumps), resilience and food systems, and the growing importance of data, measurement, reporting and verification (MRV).
This finale brings together the biggest insights from our guests and episodes, including:
Can we make money while saving the planet? (impact investing + incentives)
Why heat pumps and electrification matter for decarbonising homes
Resilience at household level: backyards, preparedness, community
Soil health, regenerative agriculture, and making climate tangible through food
Sustainability communication, trust, and avoiding greenwashing
Science, solar, and the realities of scaling the energy transition
AI for climate: opportunity, risk, and rising energy demand
Methane transparency and why MRV is becoming market infrastructure
The ESG backlash: reporting vs performance, and the role of corporate courage
Capital markets and what “mobilising trillions” really requires
Planetary boundaries and why sustainability is bigger than carbon
Emerging markets and renewables: India and Pakistan — same sun, different stories
We close with our key learnings from the season and a forward-looking view of what 2026 may demand: proof over promises, better execution capacity, credible disclosure, and trust as a foundation for climate and sustainability action.
If you want a thoughtful, practical synthesis of sustainability, ESG, climate tech, climate finance, and the energy transition — this episode is for you.
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