Special Episode | Scenes from the IETA North America Climate Summit 2023

We present a special mid-week episode of SmarterMarkets™, bringing you exclusive interviews from the IETA North America Climate Summit. 

At this September’s Climate Week in New York City, we partnered with IETA to interview a wide-range of carbon market participants. During this pivotal year in carbon markets, we wanted to discuss their perspectives on where we are and what we need to do next to harness the power of markets to make net-zero possible.

SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sat down with these guests to talk about how carbon markets support their strategy for climate action; how this year’s challenges to operationalize the Article 6 markets, as well as this year’s challenges to the reputation and growth of the voluntary carbon markets, are affecting their strategies; and what they see as the most important ideas being discussed at the Climate Summit this year.

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:

Ingo Puhl, Co-Founder & Managing Director, Southeast Asia at South Pole

Lisa DeMarco, Senior Partner & CEO at Resilient and Chair of the Board of Directors at IETA

Svenja Telle, Director of Origination at Base Carbon

Ana Carolina Avzaradel Szklo, Technical Director, Markets and Standards at VCMI

Melissa Lindsay, Founder & CEO at Emsurge & Emstream

Juan Durán, Executive Director at EcoRegistry

Dinesh Babu, Executive Director at Climate Action Data Trust

Nick Osborne, GM, Global Environmental Products at Shell Energy

Lars Kvale, VP of Market Solutions at Chia Network

Lars Kroijer, Founder & Managing Director at Allied Offsets

Max DuBuisson, VP of Sustainability Policy & Engagement at Indigo Ag

Goulnara Aguiar, CEO & Founder of Ormex Standard

Dominique Strasdin, Head of Business Development at Vertree

Rick Saines, Managing Director at Pollination

Matt Beckwith, Sr. Advisor at Varda Ag

Leslie Durschinger, Founder, CEO, & CIO at Terra Global Capital

Mark Downes, Communications Director at IETA

David Antonioli, Independent Advisor & Former CEO at Verra