🎙️Untangling Climate Finance: Facts on the Ground in Carbon Markets with Saif Bhatti

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“Back in those days in 2014, we were really not asking any questions about quality. We were assuming that a ton is a ton. Even the question of is a ton a ton was not in the mind space at that time. It was just, you know, you were trusting that whatever you bought was what it said it was on the tin. And that was kind of it.”

Saif Bhatti – Founder & CEO, Renoster

This month on Untangling Climate Finance, we are asking what does a good carbon credit actually look like?

This month, Jay chats with Saif Bhatti, Founder & CEO of Renoster, to explore what a decade of scrutinizing nature-based carbon projects teaches you, and what happens when you use that knowledge to build one yourself.

Saif and Jay discuss:

✅ How Renoster rated 200+ nature-based carbon projects across 550 million credits, and what only 15% of them passing tells us about the state of the market 

✅ Why project documentation can be a work of craftsmanship, and why satellite data and remote sensing are some of the best ways to find the facts on the ground 

✅ How the Apollo program is bringing small landowners in Maine into the carbon market for the first time, and why they may be one of the most under-tapped climate levers we have 

✅ Why the auditor conflict of interest is still one of the market’s biggest structural problems, and how registries like Isometric are solving it 

✅ What it feels like to go from rating other people’s projects to building your own, and what you do differently when you know exactly what scrutiny looks like

Saif Bhatti has rated hundreds of carbon projects. He knows exactly what a bad one looks like. Now he’s building one. This episode is about what that teaches you.

For more information on Renoster’s work, visit renoster.co.

To connect, or to share feedback on the podcast, reach out to us at: communications@gordianknotstrategies.com

Enjoy the ep!

Gordian Knot Strategies

We are Igniting Climate Solutions: Mobilizing $1 Billion Per Year in Impact Investment by 2030!

Next week, Jay Tipton, Senior Director at Gordian Knot Strategies, will be representing GKS at London Climate Action Week (June 22–25). If you’re attending and would like to connect, reach out to Jay directly at jtipton@gordianknotstrategies.com – his calendar is filling up fast!

At Gordian Knot Strategies, our goal is to help mobilize $1 billion per year in climate finance. That is why we’re committed to making climate finance smarter and faster by addressing a broken impact investing screening process.

That’s why we built TRARO®, a predictive analytics platform designed to help investors rapidly triage opportunities with clarity, consistency, and confidence.

Have a climate project? Submit it to TRARO® for a free screening and based on assessment outcomes, we can match you with interested impact investors. You can also explore real-world case studies to see how TRARO® supports smarter investment decisions. You can find more information and how to create an account on TRARO® here.

Are you an impact investor or funder? Get in touch with the TRARO® team at traro@gordianknotstrategies.com to access scorecards from high scoring projects, or run targeted RFPs through TRARO® to streamline your process, save time, and reduce review costs.

We’re building a global database of impact investors to help mobilize $1 billion annually in climate finance by 2030. If your organization is interested in funding climate or environmental projects, we invite you to fill out our Impact Investor Information Form. Your contact details will remain confidential, and we’ll only connect you with aligned opportunities. There is no fee to participate.

To access the form click here.

Interested in connecting with us on climate finance, impact investment, climate solutions strategy, or carbon credit development and commercialization?

To discuss how we can support your goals, book a 30-minute conversation with Gordian Knot Strategies here.

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