Nat Bullard, Analyst, Speaker, and Advisor on Decarbonization

This week on Setting Course, we welcome Nat Bullard back into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. Nat is an Analyst, Speaker, and Advisor on Decarbonization. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sits down with Nat to discuss the state of decarbonization, as revealed in his recent update to his annual 200-page presentation deck. Hosted By

Svenja Telle, Director of Origination, Base Carbon

We wrap up our Commodities in Asia series this week with Svenja Telle, Director of Origination at Base Carbon. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sits down with Svenja to discuss her recent experiences visiting an agroforestry project in India and COP28 in Dubai, as well as the contributions of local communities, carbon markets, and global policy […]

Daniel Yergin, Vice Chairman of S&P Global and Author of “The New Map”

This week, we welcome Pulitzer Prize winning author Daniel Yergin back into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. Daniel is Vice Chairman of S&P Global and author of The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations, as well as the Pulitzer Prize winning book The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power. SmarterMarkets™ host […]

Dirk Forrister, President & CEO, International Emissions Trading Association (IETA)

This week on The September Sessions, we welcome Dirk Forrister into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. Dirk is the President and CEO of the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA). SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sits down with Dirk to discuss how IETA and its members are viewing the world’s evolving carbon markets and net zero landscape on the […]

Helima Croft, Managing Director & Global Head of Commodity Strategy, RBC Capital Markets

On this week’s installment of our Summer Playlist, we welcome Helima Croft back into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. Helima is Managing Director and Global Head of Commodity Strategy at RBC Capital Markets. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sits down with Helima to discuss the geopolitics and current state of play in the global commodities markets. Helima’s Summer […]

Scenes from the FT Live Commodities Global Summit 2023

This week, we present a special episode of SmarterMarkets™, bringing you exclusive interviews from last month’s FT Live Commodities Global Summit in Lausanne, Switzerland. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely attended the summit and worked with the Financial Times to record interviews from this gathering of commodity experts, practitioners, and trading houses. The Financial Times’ Natural Resources […]

Yao Huang, Investor and Board Director at Carbon Optimum

This week on Carbon Frontiers, we dive in with Yao Huang, Investor and Board Director at Carbon Optimum. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sits down with Yao to discuss her perspective on the different financing needs of carbon removal tech versus other tech startups, as well as her company’s experience deploying new technology that uses algae […]

Ranting on the inadequacies of our systems and riffing on ideas for how to solve them …

SmarterMarkets™ brings together the icons and entrepreneurs of technology, commodities and finance to examine how market systems can be redesigned and improved to address the most important challenges of our time.