- April 13, 2024
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We continue Carbon Frontiers 2024 this week with Matt Atwood, Co-Founder & CEO at Aircapture. David Greely sits down with Matt to discuss how they’re developing their air capture technology into an effective and scalable solution by commercializing atmospheric CO2.
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- April 6, 2024
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This week on Carbon Frontiers 2024, we welcome Talal Debs, Founder & CEO of Zefiro Methane Corp., into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. Host David Greely sits down with Talal to discuss Zefiro’s work to stop methane emissions by plugging orphaned and abandoned oil and gas wells in the U.S. – and how they use carbon markets to finance it.
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- April 2, 2024
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We present a special mid-week episode of SmarterMarkets™, bringing you exclusive interviews from FIA Boca 2024.
During this March’s FIA Boca conference in Boca Raton, Florida, we partnered with the FIA to interview a wide-range of futures industry participants. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sat down with these guests to ask them how they see their role in the markets and to hear their views on the important developments and big issues being discussed at Boca this year. David also asked them about what they see as the big challenges and opportunities for the futures industry – and what we need to be doing to meet those challenges and seize those opportunities.
We’ve compiled a selection of those interviews into this special episode of SmarterMarkets™. The full interviews for each guest are available on the SmarterMarkets™ Presents media portal.
Our guests in order of appearance in this episode are:
Walt Lukken, President & CEO, FIA
Sergey Nazarov, Co-Founder, Chainlink
Przemek Koralewski, Global Head of Market Development, Fastmarkets
Maureen Downs, Co-Founder & CFO, Connamara Technologies
Yuval Rooz, Co-Founder & CEO, Digital Asset
Anthony Crudele, Host of Futures Radio Show
William L’Heveder, Chief Growth Officer, BMLL Technologies
Joe Raia, Chief Commercial Officer, Abaxx Exchange and Clearinghouse
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- March 30, 2024
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On our third installment of Carbon Frontiers 2024, we welcome Enric Arderiu, Global Head of Environmental Products at Mercuria, into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. Host David Greely sits down with Enric to discuss the range of ways in which market participants – in both the voluntary and compliance markets – are learning from past mistakes and adapting to the realities of the present to develop the carbon markets of the future.
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- March 23, 2024
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We continue Carbon Frontiers 2024 this week with Charlie Pool, Head of Carbon Insurance at Howden. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sits down with Charlie to discuss insurance and risk management at the intersection of finance, carbon, and technology.
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- March 16, 2024
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This week, we kick off our new series, Carbon Frontiers 2024. Throughout this series, we’ll be talking with the market practitioners who’ve kept the carbon markets and decarbonization efforts moving forward to better understand how they’re learning from the mistakes of the past, adapting to the realities of the present, and developing the markets, technologies, and strategies for a net-zero future.
We begin our series with Sandeep Roy Choudhury, Director of VNV Advisory Services. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sits down with Sandeep to discuss the impact of the intense media criticism last year on carbon emissions projects and how he’s working to continue to use carbon financing to fund and develop carbon mitigation and adaptation projects.
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- March 9, 2024
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We close out our Setting Course series this week with Carrie Jaquith, Global Head of Digital Product at Abaxx Technologies. David Greely sits down with Carrie to discuss the course we’ll likely take in integrating AI and large language models into our daily lives – and the gaps that will need to be bridged between us humans and our new technology.
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- March 2, 2024
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This week on Setting Course, we welcome back into the SmarterMarkets™ studio Oystein Kalleklev, CEO of Flex LNG & Avance Gas. David Greely sits down with Oystein to discuss how the LNG and shipping industry is navigating the post-European energy crisis world and the new crisis in the Red Sea.
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- February 24, 2024
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On this week’s installment of Setting Course, we welcome Former Senior CIA Official Rob Dannenberg back into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. David Greely sits down with Rob to discuss the state of play in the geopolitical environment, the increasing role being played by disruptors, and what it means in a year of big elections around the world.
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- February 17, 2024
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We continue our Setting Course series this week with Peter Fusaro, Founder of the Wall Street Green Summit and Managing Director of ClimateTech at Weild & Co. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely welcomes Peter back into the studio to discuss what’s been happening in ESG investing and carbon markets – and looking forward to the conversations happening at the 23rd annual Wall Street Green Summit.
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- February 10, 2024
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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.
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- February 3, 2024
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On this week’s installment of our Setting Course series, we welcome Andrea Hotter, Special Correspondent at Fastmarkets, into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. Host David Greely sits down with Andrea to discuss what’s been happening in the metals markets that are critical to the energy transition including the nickel, copper, and lithium markets – as well as the increasing influence of geopolitics.
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- January 27, 2024
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This week on Setting Course, we welcome Bob Elliott, CEO & CIO at Unlimited, into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. Host David Greely sits down with Bob to discuss the macro outlook for the economy and markets – and making institutional investment strategies accessible to the individual investor.
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- January 20, 2024
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We continue Setting Course this week with Michelle Finneran Dennedy, CEO of PrivacyCode.AI and co-author of The Privacy Engineer’s Manifesto. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely welcomes Michelle back into the studio to discuss privacy in the age of artificial intelligence.
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- January 13, 2024
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For the second installment of our Setting Course series, we welcome Dan Basse, Founder and President of AgResource Company, into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. Host David Greely sits down with Dan to discuss what’s happening in the agricultural and grains markets – and to what extent climate change and decarbonization are creating an agricultural transition alongside the energy transition.
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- January 6, 2024
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We kick off the new year with our new series, Setting Course, in which our guests will help orient us on what they see coming – and where we’ll be going in the new year.
For the first installment of Setting Course, we welcome back into the SmarterMarkets™ studio Jeff Currie, Partner Alumnus, Goldman Sachs. Host David Greely sits down with Jeff to discuss his views on the big picture in commodities markets – and where he sees the opportunities and the challenges in the year ahead.
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- December 23, 2023
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We close out the year with our two-part Holiday Special. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely is joined by Josh Crumb, Founder & CEO of Abaxx Technologies, along with colleagues Dan McElduff, Joe Raia, and Ian Forester. Together, they discuss where they are now – and what’s next – on their mission to create the market infrastructure and financial technology needed to build Smarter Markets.
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- December 16, 2023
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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 makers to making meaningful progress towards a more sustainable world.
Learn more about the agroforestry project in the Uttar Pradesh region of India. Project partner: VNV Advisory.
Photos from Svenja’s visit to the project:
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- December 9, 2023
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This week on our Commodities in Asia series, we welcome Ken Newcombe, Chairman & CEO at C-Quest Capital, into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. Host David Greely sits down with Ken to discuss the energy transition as lifestyle transformation, as well as the catalytic and transformative role of carbon finance in the developing countries of Asia, Africa, and across the global south.
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- December 2, 2023
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We continue our Commodities in Asia series this week with Clara Ferreira Marques. Clara is Managing Editor for Commodities and Energy in Asia at Bloomberg News in Singapore. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sits down with Clara to discuss how China and the West are approaching the energy transition in Asia – and what’s at stake for Asian commodity markets, the energy transition, and global geopolitics.
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