November 5, 2025 Climate Confident’s host Tom Raftery sits down with Rinaldo Brutoco “to explore a radical but beautifully simple idea: that stakeholder capitalism – where companies serve people and planet, not just shareholders, can actually outperform the old profit-only model.” Click here to listen to Microgrids, Hydrogen, and the End of Fossil Fuels Or … Continue Reading
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