Climate Confident

Climate Confident is the podcast for business leaders, policy-makers, and climate tech professionals who want real, practical strategies for cutting emissions and building a resilient low-carbon future.

Every Wednesday at 7am CET, I sit down with the people doing the work, executives, engineers, scientists, founders, and policymakers, to unpack what’s actually driving climate progress across energy, transport, industry, supply chains, food, finance, and more.

This isn’t about vague pledges or greenwash. It’s about what’s working, what isn’t, and what leaders need to understand now to make better decisions faster.

Expect conversations on:

scalable solutions in energy, mobility, food, industry, and finance
the politics, markets, and policies shaping the transition
the technologies and tools improving climate accountability, resilience, and risk management
hard truths, hidden bottlenecks, bold ideas, and real-world success stories

Subscribers also get Bonus episodes, including highlight reels, analysis, emerging themes I’m seeing across conversations, and other subscriber-only extras.

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Guest

Jennifer Jenkins

Dr Jennifer Jenkins is Chief Science Officer at Rubicon Carbon, where she helps ensure the company’s carbon market products and portfolio meet high standards for quality and integrity.

She also leads Rubicon’s work on monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV), stakeholder engagement, ESG strategy, marketing, and thought leadership. With more than 25 years of experience across government, academia, and the private sector, Jennifer has worked at the intersection of business and climate throughout her career.

She has a technical background in carbon cycling and ecosystem science, was a co-recipient of the 2007 Nobel Prize alongside Al Gore and other IPCC scientists, and led the work behind the “Jenkins Equations”, a widely used method for estimating tree biomass in the US.

She holds degrees from Dartmouth, Yale, the University of New Hampshire, and the University of Maryland.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennifer-c-jenkins/

Guest appearance on:

Carbon Markets as Outsourced Mitigation: Smart Climate Strategy or Convenient Fiction?