E169 Tommy Ricketts: The Reckoning Is Coming

Second Nature · Apr 30, 2026 · 1h 21m · transcript

Tommy Ricketts is the co-founder and CEO of BeZero Carbon — the company that built the world's first carbon ratings agency, walked into COP26, and got told they were the single biggest risk to the carbon market. That was 2021. By 2023, the projects their critics were defending were in freefall.

Tommy spent years at Bank of America training under a number-one ranked analyst, pitching ideas to hedge funds whose entire job was to intellectually destroy you. That background — combined with growing up the youngest of six in a single-parent household in Hackney — produced someone who understands…