In this episode of KammaKast, Kamma’s CEO and Co-Founder Orla Shields is joined by Bella Landymore, Interim CEO at The Impact Investing Institute. Bella started working for the Impact Investing Institute as Policy Director at its launch in November 2019. She is currently the Joint Interim Chief Executive and leads several of the Institute’s projects, particularly in the areas of policy, regulation, and pensions. 

Bella joined the Institute from the UK government’s Inclusive Economy Unit, where she was a Senior Policy Advisor on impact investing. In this role, her projects included the Law Commission’s review of pension funds and social investment, and the subsequent policy and regulatory changes, and the Implementation Taskforce on growing a culture of social impact investing in the UK. Bella started her career in the charity sector before joining UBS Investment Bank, where she worked in New York and London, latterly as an Associate Director for their equities trading businesses. 

In this episode, Bella and Orla discuss how impact investing has developed over the last couple of years and how the Impact Institutes contribute to growing the impact investing market.

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In this episode of KammaKast, Kamma’s CEO and Co-Founder Orla Shields is joined by Ted Christine-Miller, Head of Carbon Removal at BeZero Carbon. Ted leads the research, ratings and partnerships team for engineered carbon removal at BeZero Carbon. The BeZero Carbon Rating provides users with a risk based assessment for understanding and interrogating carbon credit performance of any type, in any sector and country. Together, Ted and Orla discuss how carbon markets can be improved or expanded upon in order to more effectively address climate change.

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In this episode of KammaKast, Kamma’s CEO and Co-Founder Orla Shields is joined by Matteo Bigoni. Matteo is Head of Taxonomies returned to CBI having previously worked as Heads of the Certification. He managed the Climate Bonds Standard and Certification Scheme and worked with many green bond stakeholders including external reviewers, government agencies, potential issuers and development banks. Together, Matteo and Orla discuss how green bonds are qualified as green and how data is needed to better qualify assets as green and measure progress towards a carbon neutral future.

n this episode of KammaKast, Kamma’s CEO and Co-Founder Orla Shields is joined by Lorenzo Curci, CCO of Earthly. Earthly is a platform that helps businesses invest in high quality, nature based solutions that not only look at the carbon element, but importantly the positive impact that we can have towards local communities and biodiversity. Together, they discuss nature based solutions, impact investment and carbon offsetting.

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In this episode of KammaKast, Kamma’s CEO and Co-Founder Orla Shields is joined by Emma Walsh, Sustainability and Food Waste Consultant. Emma is a sustainability consultant with particular expertise in food waste and the circular economy. Emma previously was International Partnerships Director with FoodCloud, she has also been a member of the EU Platform for Food Loss and Waste and served as a board member for the European Food Bank Federation. Together, Emma and Orla discuss topics including food waste, the circular economy, sustainable development goals and industry action towards sustainability.

In this fifth episode of KammaKast, Kamma’s CEO and Co-Founder Orla Shields is joined by Ian Pritchett, Managing Director at Greencore Construction. Together, they discuss the construction of Net Zero homes, rather than ‘Net Zero ready’ homes as well as how we can reduce embodied carbon in new build properties. 

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In this forth episode of KammaKast, Kamma’s CEO and Co-Founder Orla Shields is joined by Joseph Holmes, Executive Director of Resources for West Berkshire's Council. Together, they discuss different funding routes to Net Zero housing, West Berkshire council's Net Zero initiatives and 2030 Net Zero target.

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In this third episode of KammaKast, Kamma’s CEO and Co-Founder Orla Shields is joined by Will Emtage, Associate Director for ESG and sustainable business at RPS (Rural Planning Services) Group. Together, they discuss ESG reporting, the new TCFDs and RICS’s initiatives to meet Net Zero targets.

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