Climate Confident

Climate Confident is the podcast for business leaders, policy-makers, and climate tech professionals who want real, practical strategies for slashing emissions, fast.

Every Wednesday at 7am CET, I sit down with the people doing the work, executives, engineers, scientists, innovators, to unpack how they’re driving measurable climate action across industries, from energy and transport to supply chains, agriculture, and beyond.

This isn’t about vague pledges or greenwashing. It’s about what’s working, and what isn’t, so you can make smarter decisions, faster.

We cover:

Scalable solutions in energy, mobility, food, and finance
The politics and policies shaping the energy transition
Tools and tech transforming climate accountability and risk
Hard truths, bold ideas, and real-world success stories

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Guest

Addison Stark

Addison Stark is co-founder and CEO at AtmosZero. He works between the worlds of technology, business, and policy to drive the development and adoption of technologies to electrify industry.

Prior to founding AtmosZero Addison was an Associate Director for Energy Innovation at the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) working on policies that became parts of the Energy Act of 2020, the bipartisan infrastructure deal, and the inflation reduction act.

After finishing his PhD at MIT, Addison served as a Fellow at the U.S. Department of Energy, Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E), focusing on early-stage energy technology development and R&D across sectors including renewable fuels, green industrial chemistry, dry-cooling technologies for water conservation in power generation, and leveraging advanced manufacturing for the fabrication of energy devices. While at ARPA-E, he also served as Acting Program Director for ARPA-E’s $33M Energy-Water Nexus portfolio.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/addison-stark/

Guest appearance on:

Decarbonising Heat: Why Half of Industrial Energy Is Ripe for Reinvention