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The Future of Energy Episode 4 | Samantha Dart, Head of Natural Gas Research, Goldman Sachs Jun 22, 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.

The Future of Energy Episode 3 | Daniel Yergin, Vice Chairman of S&P Global and Author of "The New Map" Jun 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.

The Future of Energy Episode 2 | Eirik Wærness, SVP & Chief Economist, Equinor Jun 08, 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.

The Future of Energy Episode 1 | Tom L. Ward, CEO, Mach Natural Resources Jun 01, 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.

Carbon Frontiers 2024 Episode 11 | Leslie Durschinger, Founder, CEO, & CIO, Terra Global Capital 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.

Carbon Frontiers 2024 Episode 10 | Steve Zwick, Host and Producer, Bionic Planet 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.

Carbon Frontiers 2024 Episode 9 | Alasdair Were, Head of Environmental Markets, Abaxx Exchange and Clearinghouse 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.

Carbon Frontiers 2024 Episode 8 | Sid Jha, Founder & CEO, Arbol May 04, 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.

Carbon Frontiers 2024 Episode 7 | Alexia Kelly, Managing Director of Carbon Policy and Markets Initiative, High Tide Foundation Apr 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.

Special Episode | Scenes from the FT Commodities Global Summit 2024 Apr 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™. 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