- July 19, 2024
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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.
Arjun’s Summer Playlist book picks:
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- July 12, 2024
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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.
Travis’ Summer Playlist book picks:
- Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology by Chris Miller
- The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow
- Dune [series] by Frank Herbert
- A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
- Count Zero by William Gibson
- Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
- Zodiac by Neal Stephenson
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- July 5, 2024
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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.
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- June 28, 2024
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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.
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- June 21, 2024
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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.
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- June 15, 2024
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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 Greely sits down with Daniel to discuss his recent report The Return of Energy Security – and how energy is reshaping geopolitics and the new map of the future of energy.
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- June 8, 2024
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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.
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- June 1, 2024
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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.
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- May 25, 2024
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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 nature-based solutions.
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- May 18, 2024
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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.
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- May 11, 2024
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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.
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- May 4, 2024
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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.
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- April 27, 2024
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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.
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- April 24, 2024
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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™. The full interviews for each guest are available on the SmarterMarkets™ Presents media portal.
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
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- April 20, 2024
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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.
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- April 13, 2024
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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.
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- April 6, 2024
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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.
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- April 2, 2024
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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 the important developments and big issues being discussed at Boca this year. David also asked them about what they see as the big challenges and opportunities for the futures industry – and what we need to be doing to meet those challenges and seize those opportunities.
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:
Walt Lukken, President & CEO, FIA
Sergey Nazarov, Co-Founder, Chainlink
Przemek Koralewski, Global Head of Market Development, Fastmarkets
Maureen Downs, Co-Founder & CFO, Connamara Technologies
Yuval Rooz, Co-Founder & CEO, Digital Asset
Anthony Crudele, Host of Futures Radio Show
William L’Heveder, Chief Growth Officer, BMLL Technologies
Joe Raia, Chief Commercial Officer, Abaxx Exchange and Clearinghouse
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- March 30, 2024
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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 carbon markets of the future.
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- March 23, 2024
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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.
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