00:00 Introduction Monologue

00:45 Host Welcome and Introduction

01:14 Introduction by Naveed Tariq, CEO at Seagrass

03:24 Introduction by Ely Sandler, Fellow at the Harvard School of Government

03:40 Ely explains the economic basis for carbon finance

04:30 Ely explains the fundamentals of Article 6 under the Paris Agreement

05:36 Ely discusses the model that he and his colleague Professor Daniel Schrag developed for financing the energy transition through cross-border investment (see: https://www.belfercenter.org/publication/financing-energy-transition-through-cross-border-investment)

07:25 Financing gap for energy grid infrastructure

09:15 Need to link the investment in grids necessary, estimated at $830B annually, to the emission reductions that this infrastructure enables and the intersection under the Paris Agreement

12:58 How to scale the carbon market through innovative financing mechanisms

15:45 The role of the Seagrass marketplace in helping to scale the market

21:00 The scale of the financing gap required to achieve the climate goals and the opportunity for carbon markets

24:03 The role of additionality in carbon financing

24:48 The potential for Hydrogen as an energy source

26:48 The importance of bankability to help unlock scale in climate finance

31:22 Article 6 potential for scaling finance and concluding remarks