Svenja Telle, Director of Origination, Base Carbon

We continue our Carbon Frontiers series with Svenja Telle, Director of Origination at Base Carbon. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sits down with Svenja to discuss the vital role of carbon removal in achieving our global emissions reduction targets. Together, they cover the strengths of technology-based carbon removals, the importance of community engagement and co-benefits in […]

Nat Bullard, Venture Partner, Voyager Ventures and Senior Contributor, BloombergNEF

For our third installment of Carbon Frontiers, we welcome Nat Bullard into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. Nat is Venture Partner at Voyager Ventures and Senior Contributor at BloombergNEF. He recently collected his thoughts on decarbonization in a 140-page presentation deck, capturing the state of climate and covering how we got to now, where we are going, […]

Leah Wieczorek, Vice President, Global Carbon, Macquarie Group

We continue our Financing the Energy Transition series this week by welcoming Leah Wieczorek into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. Leah is Vice President of Global Carbon at the Macquarie Group. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sits down with Leah to discuss the role that banks like Macquarie play in scaling the carbon markets and in financing the […]

Mark Lewis, Head of Climate Research, Andurand Capital

This week, we welcome Mark Lewis back into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. Host David Greely sits down with Mark to discuss the energy crisis in Europe and what it means for the European carbon market. Hosted By Episode Q&A The following Q&A is created using slightly edited excerpts from the episode transcript, optimized for readability. Download […]

Hannah Hauman, Global Head of Carbon Trading, Trafigura

What can we extract from traditional commodity markets to standardize and scale our carbon markets? On our third installment of the SmarterMarkets™ Summer Playlist, we catch up with Trafigura’s Global Head of Carbon Trading, Hannah Hauman, diving into the vital role of supply chain managers and trading companies in helping manage risk and ensuring carbon […]

Maryam Ayati, Co-Founder Watr Blockchain Protocol

This morning, SmarterMarkets host, David Greely, sits down with tradfi turned defi commodities expert, Maryam Ayati, to explore the role of blockchain and decentralized finance in the carbon markets. Join us as we identify technological opportunities and tools available to make carbon markets more transparent, less prone to error, faster, and more efficient to solve […]

Barbara Baarsma, CEO, Rabo Carbon Bank, Rabobank

Increased temperatures resulting from global warming pose a massive threat to the global agricultural system. If that alone wasn’t enough to tackle — our population is growing resulting in a need for increased food production with decreased environmental impact.  Enter carbon farming.  Today, host David Greely connects with the CEO of Rabobank’s Carbon Bank, Barbara […]

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.