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The GreenWave Podcast
Welcome to The GreenWave Podcast by Synergy International. We launched this pod to reach a wider audience of people curious about global sustainability. I’m your weekly host, SYNI, and I’ll be guiding you through our sometimes idiosyncratic takes on the fast-paced developments shaping the sustainable energy world. In this podcast, we delve into sustainability challenges facing our planet, providing perspective from the front lines of project development, ranging from decarbonising heavy…
Episodes
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The GreenWave Podcast by Synergy International Episode 83: Carbon Neutral, Carbon Zero and the Holiday Dinner Debate
Join SYNI, your hostess who sees the dog days of summer as an opportunity to create more above replacement-value context while others are sunbathing, for…
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The GreenWave Podcast by Synergy International Episode 82: Europe’s Green Industrial Reality Check - Is the EU’s Green Policy Working?
Join SYNI, your hostess who stays plugged in during peak holiday season, for Episode 82 of the pod titled “Europe’s Green Industrial Reality Check. Is the EU’s…
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The GreenWave Podcast by Synergy International Episode 81: The Cost of Climate Retreat
Join SYNI, your pod hostess who considers the Harvard Business School's Working Knowledge Report as light summer reading, for today’s pod is titled “The Cost…
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The GreenWave Podcast by Synergy international Episode 80: The $15 Trillion Food Bill
Join SYNI, your hostess churning out a heatwave of above value-added content, for our pod titled “The $15 Trillion Food Bill.” This enormous global cost is…
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The GreenWave Podcast by Synergy International: How Extreme Heat Is Draining Europe’s Economy
Join SYNI, your hostess turning top the heat on sever weather, for Episode 79 titled “The Heat Bill: How Extreme Heat Is Draining Europe’s Economy.” This…
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The GreenWave Podcast Episode 78: The Land Is The Flag - American Conservation at 250
Join SYNI, your hostess who only does above replacement-value content, for today’s pod is titled “The Land Is the Flag.” America is 250 years old today, and…
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The GreenWave Podcast by Synergy International Episode 77: Europe’s Missing Electricity Motorways
Join SYNI, your above replacement-value hostess, for Episode 77 titled “Europe’s Missing Electricity Motorways.” Europe has reached the point where the clean…
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The GreenWave Podcast by Synergy International Episode 76: The Second Climate Ledger - Counting Carbon While Funding Change
Join SYNI, your hostess who continues to push for above replacement-value content while you're relaxing on the beach, for our podcast Episode 76: The Second…
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The GreenWave Podcast by Synergy International Episode 75: Guns, Grids and Green Budgets: Europe’s Next Industrial Policy Collision
Join SYNI, your hostess whose idea of summer fun is unlocking more value-added content for her listeners, for Episode 75: Guns, Grids and Green Budgets…
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The GreenWave Podcast by Synergy International Episode 74: Europe's New Water Bill is Arriving on World Environment Day 2026
SYNI, your podcast hostess, wishes all of our listeners a Happy World Environment Day 2026. Climate change will be at the centre of the global programme in…
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GreenWave Podcast by Synergy International Episode 73: The Carbon Cost of Summer Travel Season.
Join SYNI, your hostess flying into above value-added content, for “The Carbon Cost of the Summer Travel Season.” Europe’s summer rush is arriving with a fuel…
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The GreenWave Podcast by Synergy International: Europe’s Negative Pricing Crisis and the Coming Solar Revenue Squeeze
Join SYNI, your hostess who has a sixth-sense for above-value-added, as she opines on Europe’s solar build-out, which has reached a sharper phase now: the…
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GreenWave Podcast by Synergy International Episode 71: Hot Rocks, Cold Politics - Fervo’s IPO Goes Geothermal
Join SYNI, your hostess who's literally digging into the earth for today's show, entitled “Hot Rocks, Cold Politics: Fervo’s IPO and Geothermal Money Signal.”…
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The GreenWave Podcast Episode 70: The World Cup's 3.7 Million Tonne Emissions Problem
Join SYNI, your hostess with a sustainability obsession, for today’s pod titled “The World Cup’s 3.7 million-Tonne Problem.” The 2026 FIFA World Cup should be…
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The GreenWave Podcast by Synergy International Episode 69: Fast Fashion Moves First - Why Circularity Has Become Industrial Strategy.
Join SYNI, your podcast hostess who keeps delivering on the content side, for Episode 69, Fast Fashion Moves First: Why Circularity Has Become Industrial…
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The GreenWave Podcast by Synergy International Episode 68: Europe’s Storage Gap: Batteries, Gas Shocks, and the Price of Waiting.
SYNI, your hostess who cherishes value-above replacement content, brings you another weekly inquiry. Europe has become far better at generating clean…
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The GreenWave Podcast by Synergy International Episode 67: The Knock-On Power Shock: Gas, Electricity, and Europe’s Pricing Trap
SYNI, your hostess that loves her day job, presents today's pod titled “The Knock-On Power Shock: Gas, Electricity, and Europe’s Pricing Trap." The latest…
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The GreenWave Podcast by Synergy International Episode 66: Pure Thirst - Field Notes from the Natural Wine Frontier
SYNI, your hostess who loves above replacement-value content like spring flowers, brings you Episode 66 “Pure Thirst: Field Notes from the Natural Wine…
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The GreenWave Podcast by Synergy International Episode 65: Biogas, Biomethane, and Europe’s Search for Energy Security
SYNI, your hostess who adores value-addd context, examines how Europe’s Search for Energy Security could be mitigated by a serious buildout of Biogas and…
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The GreenWave Podcast by Synergy International Episode 64: The Molecule Problem: Europe’s Energy Security After the Dire Strait of Hormuz, and the Distance Between Slogan and System
Join SYNI, your hostess who can actually sail through trouble waters, as we examine Europe’s Energy Security After the Dire Strait of Hormuz, and the Distance…
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The GreenWave Podcast by Synergy International Episode 63: The EU's Industrial Accelerator Act Explained
SYNI, your podcast hostess who's all about above replacement value content, explains the EU’s latest industrial policy initiative, hot off the legislative…
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The GreenWave Podcast by Synergy International Episode 62: Blue Futures Brings Ocean Stewardship to Gen Zers
In this episode, SYNI, your hostess with a green heart, turns to the world’s oceans and asks who owns them, who is wrecking them, and why a room full of…
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The GreenWave Podcast by Synergy International Episode 61: A Green Diet Unlocks Outsized Positive Climate Impact
SYNI addresses her love of animals in a high value-above replacement episode that focuses on a greener way to eat, and what the meat industry means for…
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The GreenWave Podcast by Synergy International Episode 60: Can the Winter Olympics Become a Net-Positive Sustainable Event?
SYNI, your hostess constantly in search of above replacement-value content, tears into the Winter Olympic Games in Italy and the sustainability paradox baked…
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The GreenWave Podcast by Synergy International Episode 59: DataCentres In Space
SYNI, your hostesses who loves above-replacement content, is reaching far out this week, namely into outer space to examine data centres and the strange moment…
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The GreenWave Podcast by Synergy International Episode 58: Alta and Jackson Hole Revisited Amid Robust Sustainable Commitment
SYNI, your hostess light on her ski edges, carves into her topic of the iconic mountains at Alta and Jackson Hole, re-examined one year later, and what really…
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The GreenWave Podcast by Synergy International Episode 57: Denmark Leads the Way with Strong STBi Commitment
SYNI, your hostess who loves to deliver extraordinary replacement-value content, delves into Danish pension fund leadership on science-based investment targets…
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The GreenWave Podcast by Synergy International Episode 56: The Governance and Economics Behind Biofuels
Join SYNI, your hostess who keeps on churning out quality content, as she discusses the governance and economics behind biofuels, and what is really behind the…
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The GreenWave Podcast by Synergy international Episode 55: Adaptation Goes Mainstream as Fastest Growing Member of Sustainable Family
Join SYNI, your hostess with a bounty of wisdom, for today’s discussion of Adaptation, the fastest growing member of the sustainability family and the one that…
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The GreenWave Podcast by Synergy international Episode 54: Our Sustainable Energy Outlook for 2026
SYNI, your hostess still going strong entering into Year 2 of the pod, presents our 2026 outlook for sustainable energy development. Consider this episode the…
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The GreenWave Podcast by Synergy International Episode 53: 2025 in Review - Our 3 Top Sustainable Themes
SYNI, your hostess with plenty of gusto, launches into our Year End 2025 episode, reflecting on the three topics that most defined sustainable energy and…
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The GreenWave Podcast by Synergy International Episode 52: Wishing You All Merry Christmas and Happy Hols
SYNI, your host brimming over with Christmas spirit, offers a short holiday message, plus a quick look at what we have been unpacking together this year across…
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GreenWave Podcast by Synergy International Episode 51: CBAM Is Coming in 2026. Is Your Company Ready? SYNI Tells You Everything You Need to Know
SYNI, your hostess with real panache, addresses the European Union’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism, better known as CBAM, and why at the start of 2026 it…
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The GreenWave Podcast by Synergy International Episode 50: The Sustainable Story Behind Nazare and Big Wave Surf Contests.
SYNI, your hostess, turns her curiousity to the sustainability story behind big wave surfing contests, with a special focus on the World Surf League TUDOR…
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The GreenWave Podcast By Synergy International - Episode 49: AI, Data Centres and an Impending Power Crunch in the Age of Electricity.
SYNI, your ever-loyal pod hostess, turns her focus to AI, data centres and an impending power crunch in this new “Age of Electricity.” Can electricity grids…
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The GreenWave Podcast by Synergy International Episode 48: Living over Confidently in a Wetter World with Bad COPs
SYNI, your hostess that defines podcasting elegance and focus, addresses the events of this week all pointing to being confidently wrong in a wetter world. No…
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The GreenWave Gazette by Synergy International Episode 47: Adaptation and Resilience Is Not the New NetZero. Just Ask All Oil Industry Lobbyists at COP30.
SYNI, your hostess that consistently exceeds expectations, asks if adaptation and resilience are now the fallback positions due to an expected failure to…
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The GreenWave Podcast by Synergy International Episode 46: Don't Expect Any Sankey Diagrams at COP30
Instead of yet another COP30 preview, your hostess SYNI heads right into the heart of the real sustainable energy debate that is sadly missing in Brazil…
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The GreenWave Podcast by Synergy International Episode 45: Measuring Climate Change in Geological Time
SYNI, your hostess with virtual swag, challenges us to become time travellers to ameliorate our view on climate change. She addresses the recent, growing…
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The GreenWave Podcast by Synergy International Episode 44: UN's Article 6.4 Is Total Game Changer for Carbon Market
SYNI, your host with the most subtle-swag in the sustainable community, is focused on the United Nations endorsing the first Article 6.4 carbon credit…
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The GreenWave Podcast by Synergy International Episode 43: IMO Kicking the Can into 2026
SYNI, your host, gives a review of the International Maritime Organisation meeting in London last week to promote a Net Zero agenda. Spoiler Alert: Delegates…
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The GreenWave Podcast by Synergy International Episode 42: World Bank at Sustainable Crossroads
In this episode, SYNI, your host who provides the most, is mulling the politicisation of sustainability, especially sustainable finance at the supranational…
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The GreenWave Podcast by Synergy International Episode 41: Germany's Leadership Role in the European Green Hydrogen Industry
Join SYNI, your host, for an examination of Germany’s role in Europe’s green hydrogen industry and the politics now shaping support for production and…
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The GreenWave Podcast by Synergy International Episode 40: Douro Valley and UNESCO Go Together
SYNI, your host, explores the Douro Valley as a living landscape, a place that invites careful stewardship because it is both a working valley and a world…
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The GreenWave Podcast by Synergy International Episode 39: NYC Climate Week - Substance Underlying Spectacle
SYNI, your host, delves into New York City Climate Week, one of the high-profile gatherings on the sustainable calendar. As the conference moves into…
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The GreenWave Podcast by Synergy International Episode 38: Are NDCs More Credible Policy Instruments Or Sustainable Theatre?
SYNI, your hostess, address today’s topic of a slightly specialist nature within the world of sustainable politics, Nationally Determined Contributions…
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The GreenWave Podcast by Synergy International Episode 37: Storage Keeps Time in Sustainable Orchestra
In our 37th Episode, SYNI, your host, tackles the next wave of sustainable energy storage and why it will define the pace and reach of the clean power…
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The GreenWave Podcast by Synergy International Episode 36: SBTi Revisions Close Out Summer on a Serious Note
SYNI, your indefatigable hostess, focuses on the Science Based Targets initiative and its draft revision to the Corporate Net Zero Standard, which were…
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The GreenWave Podcast by Synergy International Episode 35: What's Wrong With the EU Hydrogen Bank? (Or Why Have GH2 Projects Walked Away from €589 Million of Funding This Summer?)
SYNI, your host, tears into today's topic, the European Union Hydrogen Bank. Specifically, what is wrong with the Bank and why are winners of the biggest…
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The GreenWave Podcast by Synergy International Episode 34 - The Role of Crypto and Tokenisation in Sustainability
This week join SYNI, your host, as she dives into the role of crypto currencies in sustainability with a special look at the growing role of tokenisation in…
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The GreenWave Podcast by Synergy International Episode 33: EU Opens Policy Consultations on AI in the Energy Sector
Your host SYNI explores the European Union’s latest push to harness artificial intelligence in the energy sector as a tool against climate change. The EU has…
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The GreenWave Podcast by Synergy International Episode 32 - Summer Mini-Pod Series: Global Climate Finance Enters the Trillion Dollar Club
SYNI, your hostess with dry wit and a sharp tongue, launches into the second in our Summer mini-pod series, well aware that many of you might currently be…
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The GreenWave Podcast by Synergy International Episode 31: Summer Mini-Pod Series Opens with UN's HLPF
SYNI launches our summer series of mini pods, shorter more focused episodes intended to match the shorter attention spans of our summertime listeners. Today’s…
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The GreenWave Podcast by Synergy International Episode 30: Riding the Breeze of Sailing
SYNI is riding the breeze for today’s pod topic of sailing – its heritage as a sustainable means of transport and sailing’s place in today’s world of…
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The GreenWave Podcast by Synergy International Episode 29: EC Climate Law Amendment Quadruple Down - Part 2
SYNI launches into Part 2 of our mini-series on the European Commission’s proposed 2040 Climate Law amendment, a plan that would legally bind the European…
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The GreenWave Podcast by Synergy International Episode 28: EC 2040 Climate Law Amendment Doubles Down, then Doubles Down Again!
SYNI, your host, tackles the European Commission’s 2040 Climate Law amendment – a plan that would legally bind the European Union to cut its net greenhouse gas…
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The GreenWave Podcast by Synergy International Episode 27: Sustainable Tourism Part 2 - Reshaping Eco Travel
This week, SYNI is zooming out to look at sustainable tourism on a broader scale in Part 2 of a mini-series. We’ll discuss the global trends that are reshaping…
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The GreenWave Podcast by Synergy International Episode 26: Van Life - Does it Live Up to Its Eco-Conscious Image?
This week, SYNI drives into the topic of sustainable tourism with a focus on the van life phenomenon, that romantic vision of waking up by the ocean or in…
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The GreenWave Podcast by Synergy International Episode 25: Sustainable Secrets of Three Iconic Sporting Venues
SYNI, your host, is unveiling sustainability in sports, viewed through the lens of three very different but equally iconic stages: Allegiant Stadium in the…
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The GreenWave Podcast by Synergy International Episode 24: The Global Green Hydrogen Subsidy Race, Part 3
SYNI is taking us on the third and last leg of our global tour through the green hydrogen subsidy race. This week, we’re focused on South America. Grab your…