Planetech Academy | PLANETech

Knowledge. Climate. Tech

The Academy will offer short courses curated to provide the Israeli climate tech ecosystem with the most up to date global perspectives, trends, actions, knowhow and challenges on topical and relevant climate tech topics.

The aim is to facilitate understanding and navigation of the global climate tech ecosystem and accelerate the pathway forward for all stakeholders.

Course #1

Carbon Markets

Discover the trends that are shaping the Voluntary Carbon Market (VCM).

As the market enters a new phase of scaling, there are many challenges in ensuring high credibility, quality and volume of carbon reductions and removals.

We will delve into the opportunities and challenges of this rapidly growing market, learn about current and emerging players in the value chain and share insights to help you navigate your way within its complexities. You will access practical know how to support commercialization pathways and business models to monetize a technology innovation that reduces or removes emissions or provides MRV capacity.

Our goal is to empower you to navigate the VCM value chain, making informed decisions and maximizing financial returns while driving capital to credible carbon reduction efforts.

Join us on this exciting journey to understand the VCM

In this course you will:

Gain insights on VCM opportunities and challenges across its diverse landscape

Learn about commercialization pathways for monetizing a technology that reduces or removes emissions or provides MRV tools

Access and engage with leading experts. Assimilate valuable experience of practitioners

4 Meetings

90 Participants

20+

Global Experts

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Speakers

Aldyen Donnelly

Carbon Markets Advisor, Co-Founder, Nori

Heather McEwan

Senior Manager, Project Developer Engagement, Verra

Philip Goodman

Director, Carbon Removal Portfolio, Microsoft

Adam Sipthorpe

Senior Manager, Carbon Portfolio Offering – CDRs, South Pole

Dr. Meera Atreya

Director of Carbon Direct Europe and Senior Scientist, Carbon Direct

Dr. Julio Friedmann

Chief Scientist and Chief Carbon Wrangler, Carbon Direct

Shachar Hatan

Manager, Ratings Program, Sylvera

Dr. Ruth Dagan

Partner, Head of Environment and Climate Change, Herzog Fox Neeman

Sebastian Manhart

Senior Policy Advisor, Carbonfuture

Dr. Anna Lehner

Standards & Methodologies, Carbonfuture

Hayley Moller

Chief Marketing Officer and Founding Team, Thallo

Prof. Wil Burns

Co-Director, Institute for Carbon Removal Law & Policy, American University

Amos Zerah

Sr. Associate, Third Derivative

Owen Hewlett

Chief Technical Officer, Gold Standard

Andrew Shebbeare

Managing Partner, Counteract

Jos Cozijnsen

Carbon Specialist, Carbon Neutral Group

John Farner

Global Chief Sustainability Officer, Netafim

Ariella Charny

Co-Founder & COO, Albo

Dan Grotsky

Chief Growth Officer, Groundwork BioAg

Israel Talpaz

CEO and Co-Founder, SeeTree

Agenda

Location - Tel Aviv

TImeline

Feb 8th

Application opens

March 7th

Acceptance Committee Decision

March 29th

Session 2

May 3rd

Session 4

March 1st

Application Deadline

March 22nd

Session 1

April 19th

Session 3

Who Can Participate?

We invite diverse stakeholders to participate in this course

The number of participants will be limited in order to maximize engagement between the speakers, the participants and each other.

In order to ensure that those who will gain the most value from the course are able to attend, we ask that you please explain your motivation for joining in the registration form.

We look forward to reviewing your responses and selecting the participants who will be the first cohort to benefit from this opportunity.

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*A nominal commitment fee of 200 NIS is required when confirming participation