In this episode, Daniel Yergin, Vice Chairman of S&P Global, discusses energy security, geopolitics, and the future of energy. Topics include the impact of shale oil and LNG on US energy independence, navigating decarbonization while ensuring energy security, the aftermath of COVID on oil demand, the shift to LNG in global energy, and the evolving landscape of energy demand and geopolitics. China's advancements in electric vehicle production and the importance of understanding the energy transition post-pandemic are also highlighted.

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.

Tom L. Ward, CEO of Mach Natural Resources, discusses pioneering the US shale boom, utilizing natural gas futures for growth, and navigating the shifting dynamics of the energy industry. The conversation explores the transformative power of global natural gas markets and the evolution of the shale industry, emphasizing the need for balancing growth and returns for investors.

Leslie Durschinger, Founder, CEO, & CIO at Terra Global Capital, discusses the flaws in media criticism of nature-based carbon projects, challenges in voluntary carbon markets, just transitions to net zero, criteria for nature-based solutions investments, and the need for transparency in carbon markets. A comprehensive look at enhancing carbon markets through continual improvement and setting the stage for the next series, The Future of Energy.

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 what’s gone right – with the first generation of REDD projects and the media criticism they’ve come under.

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.

Sid Jha, Founder & CEO of Arbol, discusses the benefits of parametric insurance over traditional methods, its diverse applications in industries like agriculture and energy, and the challenges in managing risk in less liquid markets. The conversation also covers Arbel's future plans after a successful funding round.

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 find a way forward together with the required urgency for climate action.

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 to interview a wide-range of market participants to ask them how the big developments being discussed at the conference this year – including the pressures from the energy transition, technological innovations like AI, war and geopolitics, changing government regulations, and the end of easy money – were affecting the commodities trading landscape and the way that trading was getting done. We also asked them to describe the ways that markets and market infrastructure need to adapt and evolve to keep pace with the changing trading landscape and what new tools and technologies would be most useful to their businesses. We’ve compiled a selection of those interviews into this special episode of SmarterMarkets™. Our guests in order of appearance are: Tom Wilson, Natural Resources Editor, Financial Times Simon Collins, Chairman, HC Group Helima Croft, Global Head of Commodity Strategy & MENA Research, RBC Capital Markets Brian Menell, Chairman & CEO, TechMet Amrita Sen, Co-Founder & Director of Research, Energy Aspects Jason Tate, Head of European Power Trading and Origination, BP Michael Curran, Head of Environmental Products, Vitol Alasdair Were, Head of Environmental Markets, Abaxx Exchange

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.