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Robert Friedland: Envisioning commodities graded & traded on how responsibly they're produced

Robert Friedland: Envisioning commodities graded & traded on how responsibly they're produced

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Robert Friedland,  a Renaissance man who founded several successful mining, technology and entertainment companies, speaks to host Erik Townsend openly about his views about the what, who and how of the global energy transition and meeting the  energy demand of future generations.

About this episode

With world leaders rapidly reacting to climate change concerns, governments are developing policy to support the energy transition towards renewables and decarbonizing the world's energy sources. How crucial are metals like aluminium, copper and nickel, to the global energy transition?

What to listen for:

  • Why copper will be the winning commodity in coming years
  • Singapore wants to be the world leader in revolutionizing the market for trading clean energy
  • Abaxx Technologies, a private startup to revolutionize electronic commodity markets

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Smarter Markets - Robert Friedland: Envisioning commodities graded & traded on how responsibly they’re produced
Billionaire Canadian financier Robert Friedland headlines the inaugural episode, and shares a vision of commodities being graded based on how responsibly they were produced with regard to ESG priorities, thus allowing free market price discovery to determine a market premium to reward responsible pr…