Welcome to This Week in Carbon, your go-to podcast for all things related to the dynamic world of carbon markets. Join moderator Edward Smith and his weekly guests as they delve into the latest news, emerging trends, and evolving regulations shaping the carbon landscape.
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Welcome to This Week in Carbon, your go-to podcast for all things related to the dynamic world of carbon markets. Join moderator Edward Smith and his weekly guests as they delve into the latest news, emerging trends, and evolving regulations shaping the carbon landscape.
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July 1, 2026
What the Retirement Data Isn't Telling You: SBTI 2.0 & the Real State of the VCM — Benjamin Massie
<p>In this episode of This Week in Carbon, host Edward Smith sits down with Benjamin Massie, Senior Vice President of Environmental Products at Anew Climate, the largest developer of environmental instruments in North America. Ben's team is responsible for marketing and selling carbon credits and removals across Anew's entire portfolio, spanning global voluntary projects, compliance credits, renewable natural gas, and a growing international footprint including a newly announced Singapore office.Ben has been in carbon markets since 2010, moving from compliance markets into the voluntary side, and brings a rare combination of project developer, marketer, and market analyst perspectives to this conversation.With SBTI releasing its new Corporate Net Zero Standard and the voluntary market at an inflection point, this episode gets into the mechanics of what's actually happening beneath the surface.Key topics covered:- Why retirement data alone is misleading — and the hidden wave of forward contracting and credit banking that doesn't show up in the numbers- The two fundamental problems Anew identified when the market stagnated: use-case frameworks for offsets, and credit quality — and what they can and can't control- How Anew is driving the dynamic baseline evolution for US improved forest management (IFM) credits, and what that means for landowners and pricing- The flight to quality in practice: bespoke projects designed around buyer requirements, commanding the highest prices Anew has ever seen- Rating agencies: from novelty to gatekeeper — why some RFPs now require a minimum rating just to be considered, and why standardisation across agencies matters- SBTI v2.0 and the Ongoing Emissions Responsibility (OER) programme: what engaged, advanced, and leadership levels actually require, what the $20 and $80/ton budget commitments mean, and why this is one of the clearest demand signals the VCM has ever had- Why the market's perceived oversupply disappears fast once you filter by project type, geography, and quality criteria- Insetting and in-value chain reductions as an emerging commercial frontier — and why supply chain alignment makes the internal business case far easier- US federal headwinds: how the absence of policy is dampening near-term demand — and why the most committed buyers like Microsoft and JP Morgan are doubling down regardlessA grounded, commercially honest conversation about where the voluntary carbon market actually stands — and why the companies watching from the sidelines may be running out of time.🎧 Listen now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, and more.</p>
June 16, 2026
Why Forest Cover Tells the Wrong Story: Measuring Carbon from Space — Marco Albani
<p>In this episode of This Week in Carbon, hosts Edward Smith and Rene Velasquez sit down with Marco Albani, Co-founder and CEO of Chloris Geospatial. Marco has spent his career at the intersection of forestry, climate science, and carbon markets - from building the forestry portion of McKinsey's Marginal Abatement Cost Curve, to running the Tropical Forest Alliance, to co-founding Chloris with his former forestry classmate Alessandro Vaccari, the scientist whose spaceborne LIDAR research underpins what the company does today.This is a conversation about what it actually takes to measure forest carbon at scale, and why the tools the industry has relied on for decades aren't up to the job.Key topics covered:- Why measuring forest cover is the wrong metric, and why carbon stock is what actually matters for climate outcomes- The fundamental problem with the definition of "forest" and how it creates blind spots in policy and carbon accounting- How Chloris built a carbon time series going back to the year 2000 and the technical limitations that make historical data so hard to reconstruct- Why there is no such thing as "direct measurement" of biomass, and what that means for how we should think about field data vs. remote sensing- The cost reality of satellite data: a $17 million quote for imagery on a project worth $3 million in credits- The three types of customers Chloris serves: carbon market infrastructure (Verra, MSCI, Equitable Earth), project developers under VM47, and corporations tracking Scope 3 supply chain emissions- The Geo AI wave: what foundation models like Google's Alpha Earth get right, where they fall short, and why accuracy assessment is the missing piece- Who should be building the test beds needed to validate these new tools and why philanthropic capital is the right fit- How better measurement translates into more capital flowing to forests, and what consistent measurement across project, subnational, and national scales means for Article 6- Why humility matters as powerful algorithms replace human judgment in landscape decisionsA technically rich, intellectually honest conversation about the infrastructure the carbon market needs to actually work.🎧 Listen now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, and more.</p>
June 4, 2026
Why Bad Baselines Broke REDD+ — And How Satellites Are Fixing It — Ed Mitchard (Space Intelligence)
<p>In this episode of This Week in Carbon, hosts Edward Smith and Rene Velasquez sit down with Ed Mitchard, Co-founder and Chief Scientist of Space Intelligence, one of just three companies selected by Verra to produce the jurisdictional risk maps that underpin VM0048, and the geospatial intelligence provider powering due diligence for the Symbiosis Coalition.</p><p>Ed's path to the carbon markets is unlike most. A teenage documentary competition took him to the Amazon at 15, where deforestation was impossible to ignore even inside a pristine national park. That moment set the course of his career — from biology at Oxford, to a PhD in Edinburgh, six months at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory working on radar satellite data, and eventually co-founding Space Intelligence in 2018.</p><p>This episode goes deep on the infrastructure, the science, and the hard truths behind high-integrity forest carbon.</p><p><strong>Key topics:</strong></p><ul><li>Why corporates are forming advanced market coalitions instead of buying spot credits — and the real early-stage financing gap behind it</li><li>The ARC Coalition announced at Ecosperity Singapore: what makes it structurally different from Symbiosis, including its integrated financing facility</li><li>Durability vs. permanence — why the distinction matters and how Space Intelligence helps buyers assess long-term site risk</li><li>The removals vs. avoidance false binary: why deprioritising REDD+ at a time when tropical deforestation drives 15–20% of global emissions may be the market's most costly mistake</li><li>What broke first-generation REDD+ baselines — and how VM0048 fixes overcrediting by removing developer discretion entirely</li><li>The real-world impact of the 2023 backlash on deforestation rates inside dormant project boundaries</li><li>Why free Copernicus satellite data could be the unlock for DMRV at scale across tens of thousands of nature-based projects</li></ul><p>A rigorous, science-grounded conversation at the centre of the forest carbon debate. Essential listening for anyone in carbon markets, nature-based solutions, or climate finance.</p><p>🎧 Listen now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, and more.</p>
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