CarbonChain
Adam is an expert on the commodity sector’s transition to a net-zero economy. He is the CEO and co-founder of CarbonChain, providing automated, asset-level carbon accounting for extractive and agricultural commodity supply chains.
Adam’s career spans nearly two decades across supply chain management, extractive commodities, and technology start-ups. He was the senior program manager for 8 countries in Amazon’s European supply chain from 2016 to 2019, and he worked at Rio Tinto for 12 years, increasing productivity of several ore supply chains. Adam holds an MBA from London Business School and an honors degree from Queensland University of Technology in Australia.
At CarbonChain, he helps some of the world’s biggest and most impact-minded commodity companies, traders, financiers and logistics firms accelerate their climate action.
Adam is a regular speaker at industry events such as Reuters Commodities Trading, Carbon Forward, LME Sustainability, Loan Market Association and the TXF Global Commodities conference.
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As the climate catastrophe intensifies, the commodities finance industry is under constant pressure to become more sustainable. In this webinar, we speak to Global Heads and service providers to assess how the commodities industry can develop more sustainable supply chains, and lessen its impact on the environment.
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A few years ago, ESG-tied loans were a new and innovative form of financing with which only a few corporates were leading the way. But now, ESG-tied loans are commonly seen in the industry, and there has been some debate around whether borrowers and banks are making their respective KPIs ambitious enough, or whether they are being transparent enough about how the KPIs are being audited and who is carrying out this auditing. What is next for sustainable finance? How can the issues around transparency be tackled as sustainable finance develops? And should this be formally regulated? Can sustainable finance evolve to include more of the ‘S’ in ESG?
