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Our Summer Playlist rolls on this week with Michelle Finneran Dennedy, CEO of PrivacyCode. AI. David Greely sits down with Michelle to discuss privacy in the age of data as a highly valuable commodity – and the focus we need to be putting on data supply chains and the data industry in the wake of the National Public Data breach.

Our Summer Playlist continues this week with Hannah Hauman, Global Head of Carbon Trading at Trafigura. David Greely sits down with Hannah to discuss how seemingly separate EU regulations on corporate green claims and reporting are coming together to create a new definition of net zero and a new approach to driving corporate climate action.

This week on our Summer Playlist, we welcome Edwin Dorsey, author of “The Bear Cave” on Substack, into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. David Greely sits down with Edwin to discuss his work and views on the short side of the stock market – and its role in making markets smarter by finding the serious problems that others may not see yet.

We continue our Summer Playlist this week with Peter Zaman. Peter is a Partner at HFW in Singapore and has been practicing law in climate finance and environmental markets since 2004. David Greely sits down with Peter to talk about the state of play in carbon markets. They discuss what the SBTi statements this week, the uncertainties facing CORSIA participants, and the EU's new methane regulation...

Our Summer Playlist rolls on this week with David Szybunka, Senior Portfolio Manager & Managing Director of the Energy Team at Canoe Financial. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sits down with David to discuss what’s familiar – and what’s different – in this commodity cycle, as well as his full-cycle approach to investing in all things energy.

We continue our Summer Playlist 2024 this week with Arjun Murti, Partner at Veriten and Publisher of “Super-Spiked” on Substack. David Greely sits down with Arjun to discuss America’s energy independence – and what it will take to maintain America’s energy exceptionalism to help meet rising global demand into a future of lower carbon and more sustainable energy.

We kick off this year’s Summer Playlist with Travis Schwab, CEO at Eventus. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sits down with Travis to discuss the role of trade surveillance in making markets not only smarter, but safer – and how this essential piece of market infrastructure is meeting the challenge of new technologies and new market conditions

We wrap up The Future of Energy this week with Catherine Flax, President of Private Markets at X Machina Capital Strategies. David Greely sits down with Catherine to discuss transforming today’s oil and gas assets and energy market infrastructure to meet the needs of a more sustainable energy future.

We continue The Future of Energy this week with Joe Raia. Joe is Chief Commercial Officer at Abaxx Exchange and Clearinghouse, which commenced trading in its new physically-deliverable LNG and carbon futures contracts yesterday. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sits down with Joe to discuss what it takes to build smarter markets for the future of energy – and where we’re going next.

This week on The Future of Energy, we welcome Samantha Dart, Head of Natural Gas Research at Goldman Sachs, back into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. David Greely sits down with Samantha to discuss the outlook for LNG and the global natural gas market, and their role in the future of energy.

We continue The Future of Energy this week by welcoming Pulitzer Prize winning author Daniel Yergin back into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. Daniel is Vice Chairman of S&P Global and author of the bestselling book The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations, as well as the Pulitzer Prize winning book, The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power. SmarterMarkets™ host David Gree...

On our second installment of The Future of Energy, we welcome Eirik Wærness, Senior Vice President & Chief Economist at Equinor, into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. David Greely sits down with Eirik to discuss Equinor’s recently published Energy Perspectives 2024 – and how whether we build walls or bridges will decide our energy future.

This week, we kick off our new series, The Future of Energy, with Tom L. Ward. Tom is CEO of Mach Natural Resources. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sits down with Tom to discuss his work at Chesapeake in pioneering the US shale boom and oil and gas renaissance – and how his work laid the foundation for the future of energy.

We close out our Carbon Frontiers 2024 series this week with Leslie Durschinger, Founder, CEO, & CIO at Terra Global Capital. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sits down with Leslie to discuss her views on what the media is getting wrong in its criticism of nature-based carbon projects, as well as what project financiers and developers should be doing to deliver a just transition through natur...

This week on Carbon Frontiers 2024, we welcome Steve Zwick into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. Steve is Host and Producer of Bionic Planet, which focuses on navigating the new reality of life on a managed planet. David Greely sits down with Steve to put some of today’s controversies in the voluntary carbon markets into their historical context. David and Steve also discuss what’s gone wrong – and wha...

On this week’s installment of Carbon Frontiers 2024, we welcome Alasdair Were, Head of Environmental Markets at Abaxx Exchange and Clearinghouse, back into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. David Greely sits down with Alasdair to discuss the new futures contracts and technologies that the carbon markets need in order to develop faster, become more liquid, and scale.

We continue our Carbon Frontiers 2024 series this week with Sid Jha, Founder & CEO of Arbol. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sits down with Sid to discuss his work building parametric insurance markets to help manage the risks created by a changing climate.

This week on Carbon Frontiers 2024, we welcome Alexia Kelly into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. Alexia is Managing Director of Carbon Policy and Markets Initiative at the High Tide Foundation. David Greely sits down with Alexia to discuss how we can bridge the divide on ideas for what is the right theory of change that too often turns the carbon markets into a circular firing squad – and how we can f...

We present a special mid-week episode of SmarterMarkets™, bringing you exclusive interviews from the FT Commodities Global Summit 2024. SmarterMarkets™ was back at the annual Financial Times Commodities Global Summit in Lausanne, Switzerland this April, where the conversation focused on how the commodities traders and markets are navigating the new commodities world order. We partnered with the FT...

On this week’s installment of Carbon Frontiers 2024, we welcome Tim McDonnell, Climate & Energy Editor at Semafor, into the SmarterMarkets™  studio. David Greely sits down with Tim to discuss some of the big stories he’s following in 2024 – and how media can better influence and cover how companies and governments are moving forward toward net-zero.

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.

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.

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...

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 c...

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.