SmarterMarkets™ Presents: Scenes from the IETA North America Climate Summit 2026

Full interviews from the conference

Brought to you in part by Abaxx Exchange

SmarterMarkets™ returned to the IETA North America Climate Summit to catch up with market practitioners on the challenges and opportunities in the development of the carbon markets.

This year’s conference focused on the “New Carbon Order: Innovation, Investment, and Interoperability.” In partnership with IETA, we caught up with a cross section of participants about what they and their organizations have been working on, where they see progress, and what we need to be doing next. Some common themes included the ongoing integration of compliance and voluntary markets, the role of AI and digital technology in carbon markets, and the need for standardization and harmonization across the growing network of country and regional emissions schemes.
Below are the full exclusive interviews from the conference.

Click here to listen to our Special Episode of SmarterMarkets™ featuring a compilation of these interviews.

Table of Contents

Sandeep Roy Choudhury – Co-Founder & Director, VNV

Benoît Clément – VCM+ Fellow, Financial Infrastructure for Carbon Markets (FICM), Verified Carbon Market Collaborative (VCM+)

Alexia Kelly – Managing Director of Carbon Policy and Markets Initiative, High Tide Foundation

Thomas McMahon – Co-Founder, Abaxx Technologies

Mandy Rambharos – CEO, Verra + Candace Vinke – Chief Program Development and Innovation Officer, Verra

Alex Saer – CEO, Cercarbono

Guy Turner – Managing Director, MSCI Carbon Markets

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