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• How Verity Nature is Planting 4 BILLION trees in Kenya - Duncan Van Der Merwe

  How Verity Nature is Planting 4 Billion Trees in Kenya 🌳 | Duncan Van Der MerweIn this episode of Carbon Exposure, we sit down with Duncan Van Der Merwe – Co-founder & Chair of Verity Nature to unpack one of the world’s most ambitious nature-based climate programmes.Verity Nature is a profit-for-purpose company that designs, builds and operates large-scale nature restoration projects with local communities at the centre. From their base in Australia, with teams in New Zealand, East Africa and beyond, they focus on high-integrity carbon and co-benefit credits backed by science, technology and long-term operations. Their projects span reforestation and landscape regeneration in New Zealand (e.g. Black Hill Station in Canterbury and a large natural regeneration programme in the Chatham Islands) and blue carbon restoration pilots in Australia, where they’re restoring coastal and tidal ecosystems as future carbon sinks. At the heart of this conversation is Kenya. Under President Ruto’s national drive to plant 15 billion trees by 2032, the Kenyan government has asked Verity Nature to help restore degraded landscapes at unprecedented scale. Verity has proposed reforesting up to 4 billion native trees as part of this effort – potentially the largest ARR (Afforestation/Reforestation/Revegetation) programme in the voluntary carbon market. Their model combines:Infrastructure-grade project design – 40-year operations with long-term permanence rightsCommunity-led restoration – partnering with local organisations like CCB Corridors and using mobile tools (e.g. “Si Si Na Miti”) so farmers and grandmothers can plant trees, track survival and earn incomeTech from satellites to blockchain – remote sensing, MRV and digital traceability to show exactly where credits come from and how trees are performing over timeWhat we cover: 00:00 – Introduction: Why Nature-Based Removals Need Infrastructure Thinking04:30 – Verity Nature’s Model: Building & Operating Long-Term Projects09:00 – Why East Africa? Strategic Focus on Kenya and Uganda14:00 – The Kenya Project: Tying into President Ruto’s 15-Billion-Tree Vision19:30 – Planting Up to 4 Billion Trees: Scale, Design and Execution25:00 – Communities, Farmers and Grandmothers: Why Women Are Central31:00 – Tech Stack: From Satellites to Blockchain for Integrity & MRV38:00 – Risk Management & Delivery: Avoiding the Non-Delivery Trap45:00 – The 400M Credit Pipeline & the 2030 Removals Gap51:00 – What Buyers Should Do Now & Closing Reflections

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• How Saudi Arabia Plans to Become a Leading Carbon Market Hub – Erik Ringvold (VCM Company)

  Saudi Arabia is moving fast: top-down ambition, patient capital, and a vision to scale carbon markets across the entire Arab region.In this episode, Erik Ringvold — Chief Business Development Officer at the Saudi Voluntary Carbon Market Company (VCM) — breaks down how the Kingdom is building the infrastructure, the demand base, and the regional alliances to make it happen.And momentum is accelerating: VCM recently announced major partnerships with MSCI Carbon Markets to bring advanced carbon market intelligence to Saudi companies, and with BeZero Carbon to strengthen credit quality and transparency across its exchange.What we cover:00:00 – Introduction & Tunisia Setting01:43 – Erik’s Journey into Carbon Markets02:55 – From McKinsey to Carbon Market Development06:26 – Why Saudi Arabia Has the Ingredients for a Carbon Hub11:50 – Building Integrity and Confidence in the VCM14:46 – The Role of Corporates and Perverse Incentives28:30 – Financing, Demand Signals & Market Fundamentals29:41 – Nature-Based vs. Durable Removals32:19 – Regional Collaboration Across the Arab World33:52 – The Tunis Auction & Interconnected Order Books36:30 – Global Participation & Future Outlook

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• An Investor’s View on the Next Generation of Climate Investments – John Sharp (Hatcher)

  The Carbon Exposure Project is back to wrap up Season 3 of the Carbon Exposure Project after the summer break!This week, we sit down in Singapore with John Sharp, co-founder of Hatcher — an investor, technologist, and builder who has helped raise hundreds of millions for nature-based climate projects.John brings a rare investor’s lens to the voluntary carbon markets: what really happened after the Guardian exposé, why investor confidence evaporated, and how capital is now pivoting toward infrastructure-grade climate solutions.From the rise and fall of Carbon Nation to bold bets on green steel, carbontech, and even a space-based sunshield, this episode explores where the next generation of climate investments will come from — and what makes them truly bankable.💡 In this episode:💸 The Carbon Nation story — raising $250M for nature-based solutions before the 2023 crash📉 How sentiment collapsed after the Guardian article — and what that meant for investors🏗️ The shift toward infrastructure-grade assets: green steel, cement, and carbontech🌍 What makes a project “bankable” in climate finance🚀 John’s next frontier: Earth Guard, a satellite project designed to stabilize Earth’s temperatureChapters: 00:00 – Introduction: From Music to Markets05:30 – Building Hatcher: Automating Venture Capital07:00 – Entering Carbon: Launching Carbon Nation09:30 – Market Shock: The Guardian Article & Carbon Crisis15:00 – Lessons from the Field: Soil, Cookstoves & Mangroves23:40 – Pivoting Strategy: From Carbon to Green Infrastructure34:50 – The Bigger Picture: How Large Is the Carbon Market Really?38:00 – Policy & the Politics of Carbon Pricing45:00 – Investing in Climate Tech: Hardware, Deep Tech & Patience55:30 – Beyond Earth: The Earth Guard Project

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• Demystifying Carbon Credits - Galia Orme

  During the IETA European Climate Summit held in Lisbon, we spoke with some inspiring voices at the conference. In this European Climate Summit Special Episode, we're joined by Head of Projects & Legal at ONE TRIBE. Welcome to the Carbon Exposure Project!

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• From Delta to Yum! - Stephanie Zhu on Corporate Climate Action

  During the IETA European Climate Summit held in Lisbon, we spoke with some inspiring voices at the conference. In this European Climate Summit Special Episode, we're joined by Stephanie Zhu, former sustainability member at Delta Air Lines, and now active as Director of Climate at Yum! Brands. Topics discussed: 00:00 – introductionA light intro leading into the live recording at the European Climate Summit.01:25 – Stephanie Zhu’s Sustainability JourneyFrom finance to ESG leadership at Delta Airlines and Yum! Brands.03:42 – Inside Delta: Navigating the Voluntary Carbon Market A first-hand look at how one of the world’s biggest airlines approached offsets.05:10 – Reduce and Invest: A Dual Strategy for DecarbonizationWhy internal reductions and external investments must go hand-in-hand.06:57 – Carbon Markets Are Complicated—Here’s WhyChallenges in understanding offsets, additionality, and building a credible portfolio.10:55 – From Aviation to Agriculture: Cross-Sector Climate StrategyThe different decarbonization hurdles across industries—and how to tackle them.14:05 – The Voluntary ParadoxWhy companies taking climate action face more scrutiny than those doing nothing.16:00 – A Pragmatic Path Forward for Corporate Climate ActionLet’s not let perfection stall progress—what realism looks like in sustainability.

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