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Meet the Summit Team!

What are well-designed carbon markets intended to achieve and how do they reach their full potential?

Provide an overview and achieve a common understanding of carbon markets and their potential impact on climate change mitigation. Identify and discuss the complexities, uncertainties, and potentials of carbon markets, including their intentions, historical development, challenges going forward, and ways to increase their future effectiveness and impact.

Christian Hofer | Vice Chair, the Board of the Environmental Markets Association (EMA)

Noah Deich | Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Office of Carbon Management, Department of Energy

Moderator: Alex Prather

What are the different carbon offset and removal methods?

Provide a framework for the diverse spectrum of carbon offset and removal methods. Explore a range of nature-based and technology-driven solutions for avoiding and reducing future emissions, as well as removing carbon from the atmosphere, to understand their differences and potentials.

OneShot Earth

This session will provide an understanding of the differences and similarities between voluntary and compliance carbon markets, and different challenges facing each model. Our panelists will discuss successful models in the US and abroad, as well as the policy and industry trends driving these changes. Additionally, we’ll explore how both types of markets can coexist and how they can simultaneously succeed.

Moderator: Ely Sandler | Incoming Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School

Suzi Kerr | Senior Vice President, Chief Economist, Environmental Defense Fund (EDF)

Jonathan Schuldenfrei | Deloitte

Matthew Zaragoza-Watkins | Assistant Professor of Economics, Vanderbilt University

Provide insights into consumer behavior around carbon neutrality. Is there growing consumer demand for personal offsetting and carbon neutral products? What are the key barriers that must be overcome to maximize the impact of consumer demand? How do these consumer behavior trends influence companies and their thinking about carbon reduction and carbon neutrality, reporting, and certification? Landscape various ways consumers can track their own carbon footprint and companies that are putting carbon neutrality at the forefront of their products as a result of shift in consumer behavior.

Moderator: Austin Whitman | CEO and Co-Founder, Climate Neutral

Nina Birger | Vice President of Climate Solutions, CHOOOSE

Gihan Amarasiriwardena | President & Co-Founder, Ministry of Supply

Brigitte Saint-Pierre | Director, Environmental Strategic Initiatives, Air Canada

Sophie Janaskie | Carbon Strategy Manager, Commons

In this session, we will hear from corporate leaders on what net-zero or carbon neutrality means today and the actionable steps they’ve been taking to measure, reduce, and compensate for their carbon footprints. A variety of industries will be represented, including technology, finance, and consulting.

Tracey Cameron | Director, Corporate Climate Engagement

Phillip Goodman | Director, Carbon Removal Portfolio

Cate Hight | Expert Partner, Bain & Company

Moderator: Jason Jay | Director, Sustainability Initiative at MIT

How can standards and market infrastructure truly ensure integrity and drive quality?

Introduction to discussion around quality and standards by Angela Chen, Research Scientist (Carbon Markets), MIT Sloan Aggregate Confusion Project.

This session will be a conversation around quality, incentives, and MRV (measurement, reporting, & verification) within both voluntary and compliance markets. It will focus on key questions about the definition of quality and its different dimensions (additionality, durability, etc) along with governance and policy requirements to maintain high integrity and raise crediting standards.

Angela Chen | Research Scientist (Carbon Markets), MIT Sloan Aggregate Confusion Project

Raymond Song | Climate Intelligence Associate, Rocky Mountain Institute

Joanna Klitzke | Strategy & Operations, Stripe

Owen Hewlett | CTO, The Gold Standard Foundation

Moderator: Lauren Frisch | Climate Trust Lead, Patch

Learn more about the work Context Labs is doing to enable data-driven decarbonization solutions.

Chris Berry | Head of CLEAR Path, Context Labs

Learn from this year’s MIT Sustainability Summit Operations team how they approached making this summit carbon-neutral.

Zach Sternberg | Co-Director of Operations

Alexa Katz | Co-Director for Operations

This keynote will speak to the advancement of carbon markets through the lens of project developer Hassan Sachedina, former founder of Biocarbon partners and now CEO and founder of Sayari Earth. Through his expertise in developing leading REDD+ projects across Africa and identifying blue carbon opportunities across small island developing states, Hassan brings institutional knowledge on attributes of successful carbon projects as well as learnings that can be applied beyond nature-based solutions and into tech-enabled solutions and innovations.

Hassan Sachedina | CEO and Founder, Sayari Earth; Founder and former CEO, Biocarbon Partners

How can carbon dioxide removal (CDR) get to scale?

Technical approaches to carbon removal are essential to achieving climate goals yet most of these solutions are nascent and require rapid scale-up. During this session, we will explore the technical, commercial and infrastructure challenges that CEOs are facing and how they are solving for those.

Shashank Samala | CEO, Heirloom

Adam Wolf | CEO, Eion Carbon

Moderator: Anu Khan | Deputy Director of Science and Innovation, Carbon 180

Einar Tyssen | CEO, Removr

This session will explore the role that nature plays in bolstering carbon removal efforts, current barriers to scaling these solutions, and the viability of implementing newer NBS opportunities. Furthermore, many of the countries that are best positioned to host these projects are emerging markets; how should project developers navigate working in these markets? What does a strong investment-enabling environment look like, and is there a duty to ensure that these projects prioritize supporting the sustainable development within these countries?

Sarah Edwards | Investment Director, Sustainable Investing, Cambridge Associates

Whitney Johnston | Director of Ocean Sustainability, Salesforce

Spencer Meyer | Head of Science, NCX

From CDR solutions to marketplaces, the most cutting-edge solutions in the making

Understand which are the cutting edge solutions and innovations going on in carbon markets today. The segment will showcase 5-min pitches from different entrepreneurs in explaining their startup ideas over different solution verticals, including: nature-based solutions, CO2 removal solutions, MRV solutions (Monitoring, Reporting and Verification), carbon accounting, and ecosystem enablers, accelerators, and marketplaces. The showcase will include companies from Seed to Series A stage.

Intro: Max Zeller | Carbon Removal Partners

Cindy McLaughlin | Head of Product, Carbon Built

Chris Tolles | CEO and Co-Founder, Yard Stick

Ines Serra Baucells | CEO & Founder, Biosorra

Marty Odlin | CEO, Running Tide

Peter McHale | CEO and Co-Founder, Gaia AI

Yaniv Altshuler | CEO and Co-Founder, Metha.ai

Jason Grillo | Airminers

From CDR solutions to marketplaces, the solutions you need to know.

Join as at the MIT Museum to an evening that aims to help founders from a variety of pre-seed startups in the carbon markets space make connections, help students and industry leaders continue to understand the opportunities in carbon markets, and helps investors and VCs connect with these additional opportunities. We will be highlighting selected startups, their founders and proposals across different screens in the Museum!

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