This week, we kick off our new series Inside the Coffeehouse. In this series introduction, host David Greely introduces SmarterMarkets™ Coffeehouse, our new social media platform for advancing the conversation on energy, climate, markets, and technology – and he discusses why we’re doubling down on meaningful conversations and on markets during these divisive times.

We close out our Markets in Transition series this week with Brad Hitch, Director of LNG Trading at EQT Corporation. David Greely sits down with Brad to discuss the rapid development of the Gulf of Mexico LNG market, what it means for pricing dynamics, and how tools like physically deliverable futures contracts can empower traders to manage risk and unlock value.

We continue our Markets in Transition series this week by welcoming back Robert Friedland, Founder & Executive Chairman at Ivanhoe Mines. David Greely sits down with Robert to discuss the state of the energy transition, which metals are truly critical, and how we need to work together to re-engineer our energy system.

This week on our Markets in Transition series, we’re celebrating our 200th podcast episode by welcoming Josh Crumb, the Founder & CEO of Abaxx Technologies, back into the studio. David Greely sits down with Josh to discuss what’s been learned and accomplished so far in turning the SmarterMarkets vision into a reality.

This week on Markets in Transition, we welcome Sid Jha, Founder & CEO of Arbol, back into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. David Greely sits down with Sid to discuss some of the ways we can improve our insurance markets to meet the needs created by increasing climate risk as we experience what could be a historically devastating hurricane season in the United States.

We present a special mid-week episode of SmarterMarkets™, bringing you exclusive interviews from the IETA North America Climate Summit 2024.

SmarterMarkets™ returned to the Carbon Markets Studio at the IETA North America Climate Summit to take stock of where we are and what we need to do next to harness the power of markets to make net-zero possible.

We partnered with IETA to interview a cross section of conference participants to understand where they see the opportunities and challenges for using carbon markets to support climate action and the most important developments they're following in the carbon markets.

We’ve compiled a selection of those 11 interviews into this Special Episode of SmarterMarkets™. Our guests in order of appearance are:

Alfredo Nicastro, SVP & Global Head of Carbon Markets, StoneX

Sandeep Roy Choudury, Director, VNV Advisory

Svenja Telle, CEO, Denominator

Hugh McAlpine, Partner, GS Environmental

Peter Zaman, Partner, HFW Singapore

Alex Saer, CEO, Cercarbono

Sandra Pinzón, Founder & CEO, Global Zero Waste

Juan Durán, CEO, EcoRegistry

Steve Zwick, Producer & Host, Bionic Planet

Yvan Champagne, Chief Carbon Officer, CarbonAi

David Antonioli, Owner, Transition Finance

We continue Markets in Transition this week with Helima Croft, Managing Director & Global Head of Commodity Strategy at RBC Capital Markets. David Greely sits down with Helima to discuss the escalating situation in the Middle East as well as the U.S. presidential elections – and what each may mean for global energy markets.

Our Markets in Transition series continues this week with Andy Home, Senior Metals Columnist at Thomson Reuters. David Greely sits down with Andy to discuss the many transitions happening in the metals markets today, as well as the big issues that the metals industry needs to be talking about if we're to meet these challenges as we head into London Metals Week.

This week on Markets in Transition, we welcome Dirk Forrister back into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. Dirk is President & CEO of the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA). David Greely sits down with Dirk to discuss the transitions happening in the carbon markets – from analog to digital, voluntary to compliance, and OECD to global – as we head into IETA's North America Climate Summit 2024 this week in New York City.

We continue our Markets in Transition series this week with He Yiyong, Founder & CEO of LNG Easy. David Greely sits down with He Yiyong to discuss how rising LNG supplies are spurring the development of retail LNG markets in China and developing countries – and how the pricing system for LNG needs to be adapted to meet the needs of these retail LNG markets.

This week, we kick off our new series, Markets in Transition.

The energy transition is changing global markets in natural gas, carbon, and battery metals. In our new series, we’ll be discussing what these changes mean for our markets — and what smarter markets and market infrastructure we need to build to meet the needs of the energy transition.

We begin our Markets in Transition series with  Andrea Aranguren, CEO & President of Minehub Technologies. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sits down with Andrea to discuss the transition from email and Excel to digital supply chains – and what it means for companies and markets.