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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.

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.

Peter Zaman, Partner at HFW in Singapore specializing in climate finance and the environmental markets, discusses the current state of carbon markets in Asia, the challenges of transitioning to a Paris Agreement framework, the impact of CBAM on the shipping sector, and the expectations for COP 28 in meeting the decarbonization challenge.

For this week’s installment of Commodities in Asia, we welcome into the studio Nancy Seah, CEO of Abaxx Exchange. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sits down with Nancy to discuss the insights from her more than 25-year career in commodity risk management in Asia.

We continue exploring Commodities in Asia this week with He Yiyong, Founder & CEO of LNG Easy. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely welcomes He Yiyong into the studio to discuss the growing retail LNG markets of Asia – and how they differ from the natural gas markets of the U.S. and Europe.

This week on our Commodities in Asia series, we welcome Lee Howell, Executive Director at the Villars Institute, into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. Host David Greely sits down with Lee to discuss the shifting tides in international affairs and the new geopolitical realities that are being created by the energy transition – and Asia’s place in it.

Sunil Kashyap, Director at FinMet Pte Ltd, discusses managing risk in Asia's physical commodities markets, the vulnerabilities in the LME nickel market, the changing role of banks in commodities trading, creating regional liquidity pools for resilient markets, developing the gold market in Asia, and responsible sourcing in global compliance.

For our second installment of Commodities in Asia, we welcome Septian Hario Seto into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. Seto is Deputy Minister of the Coordinating Ministry for Maritime and Investment Affairs of Indonesia. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sits down with Seto to discuss how Indonesia is approaching its role in the energy transition as a major producer of both a commodity we need to use less of, coal, and a commodity we need a whole lot more of, nickel.

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

This week, we kick off our new series, Commodities in Asia. In this series, we’ll be exploring the current state and the future ambitions of the commodities markets in Asia. Across energy, metals, agriculture, and carbon, we’ll be talking with the leading voices of the Asian commodity markets to help us better understand how we can work together to build the next generation of truly global smarter markets. We kick off our series with Amreeta Eng, Executive Director at Enterprise Singapore. Enterprise Singapore is a government agency under the Ministry of Trade & Industry that champions enterprise development by partnering with companies and industry to build capabilities, innovate and internationalize, and by supporting the growth of Singapore as a hub for global trading and start-ups. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sits down with Amreeta to discuss how Singapore has become a center for commodities trading and the broader commodities industry.