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TBLI Radical Truth: The Father of Carbon Trading—How Markets Finance Climate Solutions and Environmental Innovation
Welcome to TBLi Radical Truth Podcast, where knowledge inspires and we explore the pioneering financial innovations and market mechanisms driving climate action, carbon markets, and sustainable finance.
In this episode, we're joined by Dr. Richard L. Sandor, Chairman and CEO of Environmental Financial Products and the American Financial Exchange, universally recognized as the "Father of Financial Futures" and the "Father of Carbon Trading." Named by TIME Magazine as a "Hero of the Planet" in 2002 and "Hero of the Environment" in 2007, Dr. Sandor has spent over five decades inventing financial markets that transformed global environmental policy and climate finance. From developing the first interest rate futures contract at the Chicago Board of Trade in the 1970s to founding the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX)—the world's first greenhouse gas emissions trading exchange—and the European Climate Exchange (ECX), Dr. Sandor pioneered the cap-and-trade systems that have become essential tools for carbon reduction, emissions trading, and climate mitigation worldwide.
In "The Father of Carbon Trading," Dr. Sandor reveals how properly designed carbon markets, environmental finance, and emissions trading systems can drive measurable climate impact while creating new asset classes for sustainable investing. He shares insights from his groundbreaking work on sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide trading programs that reduced acid rain, his role establishing carbon credit markets in China through the Tianjin Climate Exchange, and why transparent, well-regulated carbon pricing mechanisms deliver environmental benefits that exceed costs by factors of 30 to 1. As author of "Good Derivatives: A Story of Financial and Environmental Innovation" and "Sustainable Investing and Environmental Markets," Dr. Sandor demonstrates how financial innovation, ESG integration, and market-based solutions create the capital infrastructure needed to finance the global transition to net-zero emissions and climate resilience.
His New Book is Called Carbon Hunters
TBLi Radical Truth Podcast brings you conversations with visionary leaders in carbon finance, climate policy, emissions trading, and sustainable investment who are building the financial architecture for environmental solutions and climate action.
Let's begin our conversation with Dr. Richard L. Sandor on carbon markets, environmental finance, and the future of climate capitalism.
This is TBLI Radical Truth Podcast.
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By Robert RubinsteinWelcome to TBLi Radical Truth Podcast, where knowledge inspires and we explore the pioneering financial innovations and market mechanisms driving climate action, carbon markets, and sustainable finance.
In this episode, we're joined by Dr. Richard L. Sandor, Chairman and CEO of Environmental Financial Products and the American Financial Exchange, universally recognized as the "Father of Financial Futures" and the "Father of Carbon Trading." Named by TIME Magazine as a "Hero of the Planet" in 2002 and "Hero of the Environment" in 2007, Dr. Sandor has spent over five decades inventing financial markets that transformed global environmental policy and climate finance. From developing the first interest rate futures contract at the Chicago Board of Trade in the 1970s to founding the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX)—the world's first greenhouse gas emissions trading exchange—and the European Climate Exchange (ECX), Dr. Sandor pioneered the cap-and-trade systems that have become essential tools for carbon reduction, emissions trading, and climate mitigation worldwide.
In "The Father of Carbon Trading," Dr. Sandor reveals how properly designed carbon markets, environmental finance, and emissions trading systems can drive measurable climate impact while creating new asset classes for sustainable investing. He shares insights from his groundbreaking work on sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide trading programs that reduced acid rain, his role establishing carbon credit markets in China through the Tianjin Climate Exchange, and why transparent, well-regulated carbon pricing mechanisms deliver environmental benefits that exceed costs by factors of 30 to 1. As author of "Good Derivatives: A Story of Financial and Environmental Innovation" and "Sustainable Investing and Environmental Markets," Dr. Sandor demonstrates how financial innovation, ESG integration, and market-based solutions create the capital infrastructure needed to finance the global transition to net-zero emissions and climate resilience.
His New Book is Called Carbon Hunters
TBLi Radical Truth Podcast brings you conversations with visionary leaders in carbon finance, climate policy, emissions trading, and sustainable investment who are building the financial architecture for environmental solutions and climate action.
Let's begin our conversation with Dr. Richard L. Sandor on carbon markets, environmental finance, and the future of climate capitalism.
This is TBLI Radical Truth Podcast.