Episode 01: Forest Carbon, Tech, and Planetary Market Failure with Max Nova, COO & Co-Founder at NCX (formerly SilviaTerra)

Solving Climate, Naturally

In this episode, we explore how technology is changing the way we measure, value, and drive natural climate solutions at scale. Max shares the story of SilviaTerra, discusses with us the importance of data in building functioning natural capital markets, and shares how SilviaTerra is using that data to build the Natural Capital Exchange, their forest carbon marketplace.

In this episode, we touch on:

- Translating data to change on the landscape

- Role of markets versus government in resource management

- Key factors in evaluating forest carbon impact

- The time-value of carbon

If Max had a magic wand, how would he scale-up natural climate solutions? Make sure governments get the rules right to actually change landowners’ behavior.

Want to learn more? Check out these resources:

- https://www.silviaterra.com/

- SilviaTerra’s white paper on forest carbon economics

- Blog post announcing Microsoft as SilviaTerra’s first NCAPX buyer

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Episode recorded on: December 5, 2020

Note: Julia Osterman (co-host) now works at SilviaTerra but did not at the time of recording.