This Week in Carbon
Welcome to This Week in Carbon, your go-to podcast for all things related to the dynamic world of carbon markets. Join moderator Edward Smith and his weekly guests as they delve into the latest news, emerging trends, and evolving regulations shaping the carbon landscape.
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The Chicken-and-Egg Problem in the Carbon Markets and How Symbiosis Is Solving It - Julia Strong (opens the original)
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In this episode of This Week in Carbon, host Rene Velasquez sits down with Julia Strong, Executive Director of the Symbiosis Coalition, the advanced market commitment platform that has already aggregated more than 20 million tons of nature-based carbon removal commitments by 2030, backed by members including Google, Meta, Microsoft, McKinsey, Salesforce, Bain, and REI Co-op.Julia founded Symbiosis in 2024 with a clear diagnosis: carbon markets haven't scaled not because of a lack of supply, a la
Why the World’s Most Scalable Carbon Removal Comes from One of Climate Change’s Unlikely Allies: Fungi - Loam Bio (opens the original)
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In this episode of This Week in Carbon, host Rene Velasquez sits down with Robbie Oppenheimer and Josh Shaeffer from Loam Bio, the Australian ag-biotech company that has developed the world's first commercial fungi-based soil carbon inoculant, and is now bringing its first Gold Standard-certified mycosequestration project to market in the United States.Robbie comes from the science side, a soil carbon researcher with deep roots in the peer-reviewed work out of Sydney University that underpins Lo
Why Carbon Credits Don't Legally Change Hands, and what GCMU has Built to Fix that — Chris Canavan (opens the original)
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In this episode of This Week in Carbon, host Rene Velasquez sits down with Chris Canavan, CEO of the Global Carbon Market Utility (GCMU) — a financial markets veteran from Goldman Sachs, international project finance, and emerging markets who came to carbon as an outsider and immediately spotted something insiders had learned to live with: the market has been running without the foundational infrastructure every other financial market takes for granted.Chris has spent his career in commodity mar
Inside the Integrity Crisis: What Nature-Based Carbon Markets Still Need — Toby Janson-Smith (opens the original)
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In this episode of This Week in Carbon, hosts Edward Smith and Rene Velasquez sit down with Toby Janson-Smith, CEO and Co-founder of Credegra, and former Chief Innovation and Program Development Officer at Verra, someone who has spent twenty-five years quite literally building the infrastructure that makes nature-based carbon markets possible.From co-designing the Climate Community and Biodiversity Standards at Conservation International, to architecting the VCS AFOLU framework that became the d
The Super-pollutant Hiding in Your Nylon, Your Car & Your Fertiliser — Bill Flederbach (ClimeCo) (opens the original)
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In this episode of This Week in Carbon, host Rene Velasquez sits down with Bill Flederbach, Founder, President and CEO of ClimeCo, one of the most established and mission-driven environmental project developers in North America. ClimeCo has spent over fifteen years building the foundational infrastructure for industrial N2O abatement: developing the protocols, financing the technology, creating the markets, and now expanding into China and India. The result is a portfolio that is abating 30 mill
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