London, England, United Kingdom
Carbon markets are evolving from fragmented bilateral transactions into institutional financial markets. The missing layer is market infrastructure. At SyndicatedCarbon, we are building the market infrastructure and operating system for carbon markets — integrating professional networking, detailed project level data, market intelligence, procurement, project finance, spot and forward carbon trading, and market data into a single institutional platform designed to support carbon markets at scale. Our view is simple: Liquidity is social. Before capital can scale efficiently through technology, market participants first need: * trust * information flow * standardisation * pricing transparency * communications infrastructure * stronger market connectivity That is why we launched the SyndicatedCarbon professional network ahead of our regulated markets platform. Alongside SyndicatedCarbon, I founded Emral Carbon, through which I have advised more than 100 carbon market projects, buyers, lenders, traders and market infrastructure participants on: * project finance * forward offtake structures * carbon transactions * legal and regulatory structuring * risk allocation * UK/EU financial services regulation I also founded Jobs in Carbon, a specialist executive search and recruitment platform focused on carbon markets and CCUS. My background combines more than 25 years across: * structured finance * derivatives * carbon markets * legal and regulatory advisory * institutional market infrastructure I am particularly interested in conversations with: * commodity trading firms * exchanges and brokers * banks and structured finance teams * insurers and reinsurers * climate private credit and infrastructure funds * large-scale carbon project developers * corporates developing long-term carbon procurement strategies If you are thinking about how carbon markets become an institutional asset class rather than a fragmented bilateral market, I would welcome a conversation.
Carbon markets are expected to become one of the largest environmental markets in the world, yet the market infrastructure required to scale them globally still does not exist. SyndicatedCarbon is being built to help solve that. We are developing regulated market infrastructure for carbon markets - a platform that enables: • Project finance for carbon projects through standardised, tradable forward contracts • Spot and forward trading of carbon credits on transparent market terms • Buyer procurement, enabling corporates and governments to source credits efficiently • Price discovery, supporting the development of forward curves and benchmarks for carbon • Market participants to better connect and stay abreast of the latest market developments, through our Community platform Our goal is simple: bring carbon markets on-screen, with the same type of infrastructure that exists in mature commodity and financial markets. This is not something one company can build alone. It will require collaboration across project developers, commodity trading firms, corporates, financial institutions, insurers, ratings agencies and policymakers. Over the coming months we will be engaging widely with market participants as we build the platform and prepare for our first pilots. If you are interested in how carbon markets evolve from bilateral transactions into institutional financial markets, I invite you to follow the SyndicatedCarbon page for updates as we build the platform and engage with the industry.
Emral Carbon is my carbon brokerage and project-finance advisory business, through which I and a team of 11 support developers, lenders, investors, buyers and market infrastructure providers across compliance and voluntary carbon markets, Article 6 transactions and water stewardship. We are increasingly focused on CORSIA supply, ICVCM Core Carbon Principle-labelled credits and emerging water-credit markets. Through Emral Carbon, I advise project developers, lenders, offtakers, insurers, registries, professional services firms, exchanges, marketplaces and technology companies on: • carbon project finance and capital raising; • offtake structuring and Emissions Reduction Purchase Agreements (ERPAs); • Article 6 transactions, including Letters of Authorisation and ITMO sales; • compliance markets (EU ETS and UK ETS); • derivatives, securitisation and structured products; • insurance-backed structures and risk allocation; • tokenisation and digital-asset regulation (including MiCA); and • carbon standards, methodologies, strategy, regulation and policy. Alongside transactional work, I also provide fractional General Counsel services to carbon-market participants through Emral Carbon.
Jobs in Carbon is a specialist recruitment platform serving the global carbon markets and CCUS ecosystem, connecting leading developers, corporates, financial institutions and market infrastructure providers with high-calibre talent. Originally launched as a curated jobs board for the sector, we now also provide executive search and senior-hire advisory services, supporting clients with CEO, GC, commercial, project-finance, trading and regulatory leadership roles. Our mission is to scale global carbon markets by connecting exceptional talent with real demand.
Each year, the Innovation Zero conference brings together the 4 key stakeholder groups who together accelerate decarbonisation - policymakers, financiers/investors, global corporates and innovators. The 2024 conference will be held in London on 30 April/1 May 2024 and shall feature an entire day focused on carbon markets.
Climate Solutions is a unique global climate-focused corporate finance, carbon markets and advisory business, established in the United Kingdom. We take a holistic approach to clients’ businesses - we’re not simply a broker or an adviser. Our ability to bridge industry, financial markets, carbon markets, law and regulation for clients is unique, as is our offering. We: - raise $10m to >$1bn of equity, debt and/or project finance in private markets for companies and project developers in the UK, EU and US who are active in the energy transition, sustainable agriculture, decarbonisation of real estate, water solutions, the circular economy or carbon markets (We review about 650 pitch decks a year and help the small number of clients we take on to get investment ready: pitch deck preparation, review/prep of financial models, dataroom prep, etc. We due diligence our clients to the detail investors would); - advise local authorities, financial institutions and corporates on the design and execution of their decarbonisation strategy (both directly and through our JV with one of the Big 4 and one of Europe’s leading energy companies); and - are one of the world’s leading brokers/advisors in the sovereign carbon market and advise/sell on behalf of project developers in the voluntary carbon market who produce a minimum of 1 million tonnes of carbon offsets per annum. We have direct and indirect relationships with thousands of the VCM’s leading project developers, buyers, intermediaries and technology providers; and - support our clients through business development: introducing them to potential customers, offtakers, suppliers, JV partners and others across our global network. Through all the above, we empower clients to accelerate decarbonisation and attainment of Net Zero.