Jim Blackburn on Energy Tech Startups

Jim Blackburn is an environmental lawyer and CEO of BCarbon, a nonprofit Carbon registry. BCarbon is a non-profit (501(c)3) carbon credit registry, created out of the Baker Institute for Public Policy at Rice University, that issues soil, forest, and blue carbon credits. Our focus is on measurement-based protocols that provide a nature-based pathway to net-zero goals and realize numerous ecological and social co-benefits.Jim Covers:Measurement-based protocol for nature-based carbon sequestration pathways to meet our carbon goals - 1:50How building a stakeholder community can be used to build a market for carbon credits - 7:17How the discussion of carbon and climate co-exists evolved in January of 2020 here in Houston - 11:30Why does carbon sequestration rely on a strong and reliable legal and court system which can best be found in the United States - 17:03Why BCarbon was born out of the severe storm center at Rice University - 20:45How BCarbon is developing the carbon market in Texas and how economics makes a real difference for landowners thinking about sequestering carbon - 22:15How living shoreline projects can be engineered to preserve marshes, reduce erosion, and lock in carbon and be funded via carbon markets - 27:38How the switch flipped in the conversation around carbon and climate in Houston - 37:05What Houstonians (and innovators) should dig into to become more literate in carbon - 43:05That there is a reinsurance market for the underlying assets and the carbon credits themselves - 49:45How carbon markets are built on an active community of buyers and stakeholders - 53:00Join the stakeholder communityWebsite: bcarbon.orgLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jim-blackburn-097350b/email: [email protected] Join the conversation shaping the future of energy.Collide is the community where oil & gas professionals connect, share insights, and solve real-world problems together. No noise. No fluff. Just the discussions that move our industry forward.Apply today at collide.io

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