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We kick off Carbon Frontiers 2025 this week with Mark Lewis, Head of Research at Andurand Capital. David Greely sits down with Mark to discuss the leading role that the EU ETS may play in moving carbon markets forward as it’s forced to balance carbon emissions reductions with keeping its industry competitive in a world where the U.S. is no longer in the Paris Agreement.

We close out The State of Play in Battery Metals this week with Brian Menell, Chairman & CEO at TechMet. David Greely sits down with Brian to discuss how short-term oversupply is distracting us from making the investments needed to meet the growing medium-term demand for battery metals and critical minerals – and why governments and sovereign wealth funds may need to take the lead on financing...

We continue The State of Play in Battery Metals this week with Andrea Hotter, Special Correspondent at Fastmarkets. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sits down with Andrea to discuss the flurry of executive orders signed by President Trump as he returned to the White House this week – and what they may mean for the battery metals markets.

On our second installment of The State of Play in Battery Metals, we welcome back Andy Home, Senior Metals Columnist at Thomson Reuters. David Greely sits down with Andy to discuss the ways the energy transition hasn't gone the way people thought it would in battery metals; where we stand after a brutal year in the battery metals business; and the need to manage risk that's driving new exchanges a...

This week, we kick off our new series The State of Play in Battery Metals with Dan McElduff, President at Abaxx Exchange. David Greely sits down with Dan to discuss the evolving commercial needs of the battery metals markets – and how Abaxx is applying the approach Dan learned at the NYMEX to design and launch physically deliverable futures contracts for nickel sulfate and lithium carbonate.

We begin the new year with part two of our two-part Holiday Special. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely is joined again this week by Josh Crumb, Founder & CEO of Abaxx Technologies, along with colleagues Sacha Lifschitz, David Gornall, and Steve Lowe from the Abaxx Exchange Metals Team.   In part two of our Holiday Special, they continue their discussion on metals markets – battery metals and g...

We close out the year with part one of our two-part Holiday Special. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely is joined by Josh Crumb, Founder & CEO of Abaxx Technologies, along with colleagues Sacha Lifschitz, David Gornall, and Steve Lowe from the Abaxx Exchange Metals Team.   In part one this week, they begin their discussion on metals markets – battery metals and gold – and how better market infr...

We close out our Inside the Coffeehouse series this week with Steve Zwick and Renat Heuberger. Steve is Host & Producer of Bionic Planet, and Renat is CEO & Co-Founder of Terra Impact Ventures. David Greely sits down with Steve and Renat to discuss the paradoxes of the carbon markets – and what we can be doing better to bridge the gap between the complex realities and simple messages to mo...

We continue our Inside the Coffeehouse series this week with Dr. David Bray, Distinguished Chair of the Accelerator & CEO/Principal at the Stimson Center & LDA Ventures, Inc. David Greely sits down with Dr. Bray to discuss how technology is shaping how we relate to each other today – and how we can learn from the lessons of the past to put our technology to work to empower individuals, reb...

This week on our Inside the Coffeehouse series, we welcome Ben Hunt back into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. Ben is author of Epsilon Theory and Co-Founder & CIO of Second Foundation Partners. David Greely sits down with Ben to discuss what AI is teaching us about how we use language – and how we can build digital tools not to outsource our consciousness, but to increase our ability to have trust...

This holiday weekend on our Inside the Coffeehouse series, we welcome Arjun Murti and Jeff Currie back into the SmarterMarkets™ studio.   Arjun is Partner at Veriten and Publisher of "Super-Spiked" on Substack. Jeff Currie is Chief Strategy Officer of Energy Pathways at Carlyle.   David Greely sits down with Jeff and Arjun, reuniting these two former Goldman partners and colleagues to share their...

We continue our Inside the Coffeehouse series where we're introducing you to Coffeehouse, our new social media platform for advancing the conversation on energy, climate, markets, and technology.    We have two guests joining us today. Susan Sakmar is Visiting Professor at the University of Houston Law Center, Board Member at Flex LNG, and Author of Energy for the 21st Century: Opportunities and C...

On our new series Inside the Coffeehouse, this week we welcome two guests from Abaxx Exchange into the SmarterMarkets™ studio: Alasdair Were and Joe Raia. Alasdair is Head of Environmental Markets and Joe is Chief Commercial Officer at Abaxx Exchange.   David Greely sits down with Alasdair and Joe to discuss what the US elections and COP29 may mean for carbon markets, what innovative environmental...

This week, we kick off our new series Inside the Coffeehouse. In this series introduction, host David Greely introduces SmarterMarkets™ Coffeehouse, our new social media platform for advancing the conversation on energy, climate, markets, and technology – and he discusses why we’re doubling down on meaningful conversations and on markets during these divisive times.

We close out our Markets in Transition series this week with Brad Hitch, Director of LNG Trading at EQT Corporation. David Greely sits down with Brad to discuss the rapid development of the Gulf of Mexico LNG market, what it means for pricing dynamics, and how tools like physically deliverable futures contracts can empower traders to manage risk and unlock value.

We continue our Markets in Transition series this week by welcoming back Robert Friedland, Founder & Executive Chairman at Ivanhoe Mines. David Greely sits down with Robert to discuss the state of the energy transition, which metals are truly critical, and how we need to work together to re-engineer our energy system.

This week on our Markets in Transition series, we’re celebrating our 200th podcast episode by welcoming Josh Crumb, the Founder & CEO of Abaxx Technologies, back into the studio. David Greely sits down with Josh to discuss what’s been learned and accomplished so far in turning the SmarterMarkets vision into a reality.

This week on Markets in Transition, we welcome Sid Jha, Founder & CEO of Arbol, back into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. David Greely sits down with Sid to discuss some of the ways we can improve our insurance markets to meet the needs created by increasing climate risk as we experience what could be a historically devastating hurricane season in the United States.

We present a special mid-week episode of SmarterMarkets™, bringing you exclusive interviews from the IETA North America Climate Summit 2024.   SmarterMarkets™ returned to the Carbon Markets Studio at the IETA North America Climate Summit to take stock of where we are and what we need to do next to harness the power of markets to make net-zero possible.   We partnered with IETA to interview a cross...

We continue Markets in Transition this week with Helima Croft, Managing Director & Global Head of Commodity Strategy at RBC Capital Markets. David Greely sits down with Helima to discuss the escalating situation in the Middle East as well as the U.S. presidential elections – and what each may mean for global energy markets.

Our Markets in Transition series continues this week with Andy Home, Senior Metals Columnist at Thomson Reuters. David Greely sits down with Andy to discuss the many transitions happening in the metals markets today, as well as the big issues that the metals industry needs to be talking about if we're to meet these challenges as we head into London Metals Week.

This week on Markets in Transition, we welcome Dirk Forrister back into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. Dirk is President & CEO of the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA). David Greely sits down with Dirk to discuss the transitions happening in the carbon markets – from analog to digital, voluntary to compliance, and OECD to global – as we head into IETA's North America Climate Summ...

We continue our Markets in Transition series this week with He Yiyong, Founder & CEO of LNG Easy. David Greely sits down with He Yiyong to discuss how rising LNG supplies are spurring the development of retail LNG markets in China and developing countries – and how the pricing system for LNG needs to be adapted to meet the needs of these retail LNG markets.

This week, we kick off our new series, Markets in Transition. The energy transition is changing global markets in natural gas, carbon, and battery metals. In our new series, we’ll be discussing what these changes mean for our markets — and what smarter markets and market infrastructure we need to build to meet the needs of the energy transition. We begin our Markets in Transition series with  Andr...

We close out our Summer Playlist this week with Ted Merz, Founder of Principles Media. David Greely sits down with Ted to discuss the growing imperative for business leaders to tell their story – and how technology is changing the nature of how we write our stories and what our readers value in them.