Untangling Climate Finance

Tuesday, September 17, 2024Sliced: Carbon Credit Prices Across the Voluntary Carbon MarketIn this edition of Sliced, we look at carbon credit prices inside the voluntary carbon market and their impact on project viability, as well as environmental and social impact. --Sliced is a weekly short-form dispatch released every Tuesday that features original thought pieces from our team members with the goal of slicing apart the various complex aspects of climate finance. If you want to check out the written version of Sliced, click here. And if you want to receive Sliced to your inbox, click ⁠here⁠. Sliced is produced by ⁠Gordian Knot Strategies⁠. It is written, narrated, and edited by Jay Tipton⁠. Visit us at www.gordianknotstrategies.com. Music is by ⁠Coma-Media.

Tuesday, September 10, 2024Sliced: Unlocking Green Jobs Through Climate FinanceIn this edition of Sliced, we explore one of the key byproducts of climate finance - green jobs. --Sliced is a weekly short-form dispatch released every Tuesday that features original thought pieces from our team members with the goal of slicing apart the various complex aspects of climate finance. If you want to check out the written version of Sliced, click here. And if you want to receive Sliced to your inbox, click ⁠here⁠. Sliced is produced by ⁠Gordian Knot Strategies⁠. It is written, narrated, and edited by ⁠Jay Tipton⁠. Visit us at www.gordianknotstrategies.com. Music is by ⁠Coma-Media.

Tuesday, September 3, 2024Sliced: The Impact of Green Bonds on Climate FinanceIn this edition of Sliced, we explore green bonds and their key role in global climate finance. --Sliced is a weekly short-form dispatch released every Tuesday that features original thought pieces from our team members with the goal of slicing apart the various complex aspects of climate finance. If you want to check out the written version of Sliced, click here. And if you want to receive Sliced to your inbox, click ⁠here⁠. Sliced is produced by ⁠Gordian Knot Strategies⁠. It is written, narrated, and edited by ⁠Jay Tipton⁠. Visit us at www.gordianknotstrategies.com. Music is by ⁠Coma-Media.

Tuesday, August 20, 2024Sliced: Egypt Launches Africa's First Voluntary Carbon MarketIn this edition of Sliced, we introduce the newly launched Egyptian voluntary carbon market, which is the first of its kind in all of Africa. --Sliced is a weekly short-form dispatch released every Tuesday that features original thought pieces from our team members with the goal of slicing apart the various complex aspects of climate finance. If you want to check out the written version of Sliced, click here. And if you want to receive Sliced to your inbox, click ⁠here⁠. Sliced is produced by ⁠Gordian Knot Strategies⁠. It is written, narrated, and edited by ⁠Jay Tipton⁠. Visit us at www.gordianknotstrategies.com. Music is by ⁠Coma-Media.

Tuesday, August 13, 2024Sliced: The Carbon Removal Standards InitiativeIn this edition of Sliced, we explore the newly announced Carbon Removal Standards Initiative and how it intends to help governments and companies involved in the booming space of carbon dioxide removals. --Sliced is a weekly short-form dispatch released every Tuesday that features original thought pieces from our team members with the goal of slicing apart the various complex aspects of climate finance. If you want to check out the written version of Sliced, click here. And if you want to receive Sliced to your inbox, click ⁠here⁠. Sliced is produced by ⁠Gordian Knot Strategies⁠. It is written, narrated, and edited by ⁠Jay Tipton⁠. Visit us at www.gordianknotstrategies.com. Music is by ⁠Coma-Media.

Tuesday, August 6, 2024Sliced: ABACUS - Verra’s New High-Quality LabelIn this edition of Sliced, we introduce Verra's new label for its Afforestation, Reforestation, and Revegetation (ARR) methodology, VM0047. We raise some key points about how this new label might impact the carbon market. --Sliced is a weekly short-form dispatch released every Tuesday that features original thought pieces from our team members with the goal of slicing apart the various complex aspects of climate finance. If you want to check out the written version of Sliced, click here. And if you want to receive Sliced to your inbox, click ⁠here⁠. Sliced is produced by ⁠Gordian Knot Strategies⁠. It is written, narrated, and edited by ⁠Jay Tipton⁠. Visit us at www.gordianknotstrategies.com. Music is by ⁠Coma-Media.

In this episode, Jay and Sean Penrith (CEO, Gordian Knot Strategies) dive into GKS’s key focus areas, including climate finance, carbon markets, and impact investing.They explore the current state of climate finance dedicated to mitigation and adaptation efforts, discuss how far the world is from meeting global climate finance targets, the obstacles in our way, and what is needed to achieve these financial goals. They cover carbon markets, both voluntary and compliance, around the world. Sean and Jay detail the challenges these markets face and highlight the positive developments over the past year. Sean explains impact investing and its role in achieving global climate goals, what’s driving growth in the field, the barriers to scaling up impact investing, and what’s needed to accelerate these efforts. Sean also offers insights into the emerging field of biodiversity crediting and shares valuable advice for those interested in this growing area.--About:⁠Untangling Climate Finance⁠ explores the dynamic field of climate change finance through conversations with industry experts about topics including climate solutions, global carbon markets, carbon projects, novel technologies such as AI and distributed ledger, and much more.If you have any questions, comments, a future guest recommendation, or are interested in joining Jay for an episode, please shoot him a message at: ⁠jtipton@gordianknotstrategies.com⁠Credits:The podcast is produced by ⁠⁠Gordian Knot Strategies⁠⁠.It is written, narrated, and edited by ⁠⁠Jay Tipton⁠⁠.Special thanks to ⁠Sean Penrith⁠, Jacoba Gundle, Maggie Tipton, and Julie Witherspoon. Music is by ⁠⁠Diamond_Tunes⁠. 

Tuesday, July 16, 2024Sliced: Peatlands in Carbon MarketsIn this edition of Sliced, we highlight peatlands as an important global ecosystem with significant potential for climate change mitigation and climate finance. Despite their massive potential, peatlands have received very little attention in carbon markets.--Sliced is a weekly short-form dispatch released every Tuesday that features original thought pieces from our team members with the goal of slicing apart the various complex aspects of climate finance. If you want to check out the written version of Sliced, click here. And if you want to receive Sliced to your inbox, click ⁠here⁠. Sliced is produced by ⁠Gordian Knot Strategies⁠. It is written, narrated, and edited by ⁠Jay Tipton⁠. Visit us at www.gordianknotstrategies.com. Music is by ⁠Coma-Media.

In this episode, Jay connects with Henry Rowlands, the Co-Founder, CEO, and Director of Soil in Formation (SIF), a U.S. public benefit corporation dedicated to restoring soil health worldwide through advanced soil health measurement technology and a contextual data platform.Henry shares his extensive background in agriculture and soil management. He emphasizes agriculture's critical role globally. He discusses his journey to co-founding SIF and the company’s core objectives. The conversation moves into the challenges SIF aims to address with its remote soil sensor and actionable soil health metrics database. Jay and Henry also explore SIF’s efforts to integrate their technology into agriculture and soil carbon credit methodologies under the major carbon credit standards. Henry outlines the future of SIF, detailing plans for the technology and database release.Resources: Website: Soil in Formation--About:⁠Untangling Climate Finance⁠ explores the dynamic field of climate change finance through conversations with industry experts about topics including climate solutions, global carbon markets, carbon projects, novel technologies such as AI and distributed ledger, and much more.If you have any questions, comments, a future guest recommendation, or are interested in joining Jay for an episode, please shoot him a message at: ⁠jtipton@gordianknotstrategies.com⁠Credits:The podcast is produced by ⁠⁠Gordian Knot Strategies⁠⁠.It is written, narrated, and edited by ⁠⁠Jay Tipton⁠⁠.Special thanks to ⁠Sean Penrith⁠, Jacoba Gundle, Maggie Tipton, and Julie Witherspoon. Music is by ⁠⁠Diamond_Tunes⁠. 

Tuesday, June 4, 2024Sliced: Witnessing Progress in the Voluntary Carbon MarketIn this edition of Sliced, on the heels of the United States Federal Government’s release of its “Principles for High-Integrity Voluntary Carbon Markets,” we point out the progress that has been achieved over the past twelve months in improving the quality of the VCM and explain why a healthy VCM is important. --Sliced is a weekly short-form dispatch released every Tuesday that features original thought pieces from our team members with the goal of slicing apart the various complex aspects of climate finance. If you want to check out the written version of Sliced, click here. And if you want to receive Sliced to your inbox, click ⁠here⁠. Sliced is produced by ⁠Gordian Knot Strategies⁠. It is written, narrated, and edited by ⁠Jay Tipton⁠. Visit us at www.gordianknotstrategies.com. Music is by ⁠Coma-Media.