As a nation, Canada has struggled to tackle the climate crisis, but scratch beneath the surface and you’ll find there are plenty of Canadian entrepreneurs and companies that are working to develop climate solutions. Welcome to Carbon Hunters, a new Corporate Knights podcast hosted by Diana Fox Carney, where you’ll meet the entrepreneurs driving some of Canada’s emissions-busting efforts and find out what their companies do.
This week, Diana speaks to Daniel Friedmann, the CEO of Carbon Engineering. In the same way that companies like McDonald’s and Subway franchise fast food restaurants, Carbon Engineering wants to franchise pulling climate-heating CO2 out of the air. “We as a society have known how to take carbon dioxide out of the air for a long time,” says Friedmann. “The issue is how do you take gigatonnes of carbon dioxide out of the air?”
Listen to Episode 1 here and subscribe at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts or wherever you listen to podcasts.
About the host: Diana Fox Carney is a frequent webinar host and contributor to Corporate Knights. She sits on the advisory board of growth equity venture BeyondNetZero and is currently partnering with African private equity firm Helios in the establishment of an African climate growth equity venture. She is a strategic advisor with WTW’s Climate and Resilience Hub, is a senior advisor on climate at Eurasia Group and sits on the advisory boards of Canadian ag-tech company Terramera and strategic metals investment company TechMet.
