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Biochar Project Finance: What’s available today and where do we want to go?
What types of finance are needed to scale the biochar market?
Join the International Biochar Initiative (IBI) and Kita for a panel webinar and interactive discussion to dive into what’s available now and where the industry is heading. Each panelist will provide a unique perspective of how they’re currently engaging with biochar project finance and where they’d like to see advancement.
Kita is the carbon insurance specialist, bridging the insurance and carbon markets to offer a bespoke portfolio of carbon insurance products that act as a stamp of confidence and safeguard against loss.
Education Manager, International Biochar Initiative
Hannah curates learning experiences designed to enlighten, educate, and activate diverse audiences toward thoughtful action for a healthier globalized world. Through guided facilitation, culturally responsive learning design, and collaborative program management, Hannah connects global audiences with knowledge and tools for individual and collective empowerment. Within the International Biochar Initiative, Hannah leverages her decade-long practice of learning design to develop localized and scalable capacity-building initiatives in collaboration with local community representatives, subject matter experts, and industry leaders as part of a global, cross-sector effort to scale the biochar industry and adapt to the greatest environmental challenges of our time.
Head of Insurance, Kita
Global (re)insurance & climate risk executive with career spanning Europe, Asia & the Americas. Deep experience across all insurance product lines, segments, industries & specialties. James is a UK-qualified attorney (Mayer Brown), management accountant (Jardine Matheson), (re)insurance professional (Marsh McLennan), Agilist & CFA Charterholder. Biology & Chemistry double major, lifelong learner, data nerd & mediocre fly fisherman. He is passionate about leadership, climate, risk & technology, and shaping the future of the industry.
VP Climate Finance, PYREG
Head of Carbon Banking and Markets, Flowcarbon
Will heads up Carbon Banking and Markets at Flowcarbon, with a particular focus on the Project Finance activities. Flowcarbon arranges non-dilutive debt capital for carbon removal projects with a particular focus on biochar. Prior to joining Flowcarbon, Will was a Managing Director at HSBC and before that worked at Macquarie Capital.