The Infrastructure Was Built for the Climate We Had. Not the Climate We’re Getting

About this episode

This episode discusses the challenges of cooling demand in the context of climate change with Rob Atkin from Pirta.

Get in touch - leave me a message Heat is becoming a business risk in plain sight. And if cooling demand is set to soar, the energy transition has a problem most people still aren’t talking about. In this episode, I’m joined by Rob Atkin, co-founder and CEO of Pirta, a climate tech company developing passive cooling coatings and additives. We dig into a part of decarbonisation and the energy transition that gets far too little attention: how we keep buildings, warehouses, data centres, and ...

People in this episode

Host: Tom Raftery

Guest: Rob Atkin

Topics covered

• climate change
• energy transition
• passive cooling
• decarbonisation
• business risk

Keywords

• climate risk
• cooling demand
• energy transition
• decarbonisation
• climate tech

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Pirta

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