We are a show about nature’s role in tackling climate change. A new industry is taking shape, and our goal is to host a candid, cross-disciplinary conversation on nature and its role in addressing climate change. We are three friends with diverse backgrounds who met in business school at Stanford and share a common interest in demystifying natural climate solutions. Together, we’ll unpack this growing field and connect the dots across the people and ideas shaping its future. Whether you work ...
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Episode 18: Community-Centric Blue Carbon Projects in West Africa with Elizabeth Littlefield, Senior Partner @ West Africa Blue
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In this episode, we speak with Elizabeth Littlefield, Senior Partner at West Africa Blue, a community-centric blue carbon project developer operating in Sierra Leone and Guinea. Elizabeth brings unique perspective to the conversation from her time as the President and CEO of OPIC, now renamed the US International Development Finance Corporation (DF…
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Episode 17: Phones, Drones, and Satellites: Measuring Forest Carbon with Aakash Ahamed, CEO @ Working Trees
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In this episode, we speak with Aakash Ahamed, a remote sensing scientist developing methods to measure forest carbon using instruments deployed on phones, drones, planes, and satellites. He is the co-founder and CEO of Working Trees, a start-up focused on leveraging mobile phone sensing technology to improve ease, accuracy, and transparency in tree…
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Episode 16: Takeaways from NY Climate Week 2023
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SCN host Julia Strong and field correspondent Morrison Mast report from New York Climate Week 2023, bringing listeners voices from the Brazilian Amazon, London, New York, and more to experience one of the climate community’s biggest weeks and understand the state-of-play of nature-based solutions during this tumultuous time in carbon markets. In th…
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Episode 15: Leading Private Sector Action for a Nature Positive Future with Tim Christophersen, VP, Climate Action @ Salesforce
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Tim Christophersen leads Salesforce’s nature positive strategy - internally defining Salesforce’s nature-related goals and how to meet them, partnering with other corporations to help them advance action for nature, and driving cross-sector partnerships to unlock nature-based solutions at scale. Tim shares the challenges for nature-based solutions …
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Episode 14: Creating a Nature Positive Tourism Industry with Megan Morikawa, Global Sustainability Office Director @ Iberostar
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In our first episode featuring a corporate sustainability leader focused on nature-based solutions, we interview Megan about her role at Iberostar, her priorities as they relate to nature-based solutions, and the challenges and opportunities driving innovation for both adaptation and mitigation internally and with partners externally. Megan shares …
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Episode 13: Using Tech to Spark the Restoration Movement with Clara Rowe, CEO @ Restor
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In this episode, we talk with Clara about Restor, an online platform that hosts more than 100,000 restoration and conservation projects worldwide and connects on-the-ground land stewards of these projects with the financing and information they need to succeed. Clara speaks about what these projects actually look like, the opportunities and limitat…
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Episode 12: Trust, Tech, and Transparency for Scaling Carbon Finance with Ariel Hayward, Climate Strategy & Solutions @ Patch
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In this episode, we talk with Ariel about her work at Patch scaling carbon removal solutions through innovative finance mechanisms and tech, what’s holding the voluntary carbon market back today, and the ins and outs of soil carbon relative to other nature-based solutions out there. In this episode, we touch on: > Ariel’s personal journey from her …
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Episode 11: Unlocking Capital for Nature with Megan Reilly Cayten, Senior Investment Manager @ Climate Asset Management
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In this episode, we speak with Megan Reilly Cayten. Megan has developed, financed, and managed projects to deliver positive impacts for people and the planet on four continents, and is currently Senior Investment Manager with Climate Asset Management, a new institutional natural capital platform. She has a background in power and infrastructure dev…
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Episode 10: Mobilizing Private Sector Finance for Tropical Forest Countries with Eron Bloomgarden, Executive Director and Co-Founder @ Emergent
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In this episode, we speak with Eron Bloomgarden of Emergent, a non-profit designed to channel large flows of private capital into protecting the world’s tropical forests. In 2021 Emergent launched the LEAF Coalition, which works with jurisdictions (countries or large states) on the supply side of REDD+ carbon credits, and large corporates on the bu…
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Episode 09: Regenerative Ranching and Learning from the Land with Doniga Markegard of Markegard Family Grass-Fed
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Doniga is a regenerative rancher, wildlife tracker, author and thought leader around nature and our role within it. She and her husband own and operate Markegard Family Grass-Fed, and lease land encompassing over 11,000 acres across the Bay Area in Northern California. In this episode, we explore the lessons Doniga has learned in her many years of …
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Episode 08: Harnessing Kelp and the Oceans for Gigaton-Scale Impact with Marty Odlin, CEO of Running Tide
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In this episode, we speak to Marty about the urgency of the climate crisis and the role that ocean ecosystem restoration and carbon sequestration have to play in solving it. Having grown up around commercial fishing and received formal training as an engineer, Marty is combining his passion for our oceans with his technological know-how to build Ru…
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Episode 07: Community-Managed Forests, Wildlife Corridors, and Biodiversity in the Congo Basin with Dominique Bikaba, Executive Director of Strong Roots Congo
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In this episode, we sit down with Dominique Bikaba, Founder and Executive Director of Strong Roots Congo, a grassroots conservation and sustainable development organization operating in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) that is securing land tenure for community forests and creating an ecological corridor for the critically endangered …
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Episode 06: Getting to Quality & Quantity in Carbon Markets with Duncan van Bergen, Co-Founder at Calyx Global
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In this episode, we talk with Duncan about his new venture, Calyx Global, the role of different actors in the voluntary carbon market, how this market is evolving, and the challenges of driving both quality and scale. In this episode, we touch on: - The challenges of ensuring quality in the carbon markets and the state of voluntary carbon markets t…
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Episode 05: Restoring Degraded Landscapes: Regenerative Agroforestry & Greening the Desert with Neal Spackman, CEO of Regenerative Resources Co.
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In this episode, we talk to Neal about his work transforming degraded landscapes through regenerative agroforestry. From the Al Baydha Project in Makkah, Saudi Arabia, where he lived and worked alongside the bedouin tribesmen to convert deserts into savannahs, to his current work establishing regenerative seawater agroforestry systems in Mexico and…
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Episode 04: Public Private Partnerships to End Deforestation and Accelerate Restoration with Justin Adams, Executive Director of the Tropical Forest Alliance at WEF
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In this episode, we talk with Justin about his work bridging worlds in order to unlock the potential that nature has to be a bigger part of the climate story. He discusses the critical importance of putting people at the center of natural climate solutions (NCS) and funneling more resources to farmers, foresters, environmental organizations, and co…
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Episode 03: Sizing the Prize and Unlocking Natural Climate Solutions at Scale with Bronson Griscom, Senior Director of NCS at Conservation International
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In 2017, Bronson Griscom published a landmark study on the impact potential of natural climate solutions, suggesting that a portfolio of conservation, restoration and land management actions can enable at least 30% of required emissions reductions by 2030 to remain on a 2C pathway. In this episode, we explore how Bronson thought about pursuing thes…
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Episode 02: Tropical Forests, REDD+ Finance, and Nature-Based Carbon Offsets with Frances Seymour, Distinguished Senior Fellow at World Resources Institute
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In this episode, we discuss the importance of tropical forests in climate change mitigation and adaptation, and we take a tour of natural climate solutions over the years. Frances discusses the evolution of global programs to pay developing countries to protect against deforestation, the merits of conservation vs. tree planting, and her recent work…
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Episode 01: Forest Carbon, Tech, and Planetary Market Failure with Max Nova, COO & Co-Founder at NCX (formerly SilviaTerra)
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In this episode, we explore how technology is changing the way we measure, value, and drive natural climate solutions at scale. Max shares the story of SilviaTerra, discusses with us the importance of data in building functioning natural capital markets, and shares how SilviaTerra is using that data to build the Natural Capital Exchange, their fore…
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