World Coffee Innovation Summit

Carbon Markets and Nature Innovation Roundtable 

Owen Hewlett, Chief Technical Officer at Gold Standard will join this roundtable discussion in London.  

Carbon markets are carbon pricing mechanisms enabling governments and non-state actors to trade greenhouse gas emission credits. The aims are to achieve climate targets and implement climate actions cost-effectively. 

Ensuring that smallholder farmers can effectively participate in carbon markets can help improve production, adapt to climate change and increase income. Carbon markets have shown great potential to finance climate action on coffee farms and achieve carbon neutrality if small-scale farmers can participate. 

This Roundtable will delve into how carbon markets work as both voluntary and mandatory mechanisms driving innovation on the sustainable impact on global emissions, carbon accounting and auditing for climate change mitigation. 

• Chair：Josep A. Gari, Head of Climate, Forest and Land, UNDP 
• Evan Paul, Senior Director Innovation for Nature, Salesforce 
• Mario Cerruti, Global Sustainability Director, Lavazza 
• Owen Hewlett, Chief Technical Officer, The Gold Standard Foundation 

Should you like to meet with a Gold Standard employee, please send a request to [email protected].