Revolutionizing Carbon Trading: Treating Carbon as a Financial Asset

In this episode of Green Disruptors, host Megan Kjar sits down with Andrew Gilmour, serial entrepreneur and CEO of Laconic, to tackle one of the biggest puzzles in sustainability: how to turn carbon credits into a liquid, investable asset. Andrew traces the evolution of carbon markets from voluntary offsets to potential global securities, and explains why today’s market often feels more like a charitable endeavor than a true trading platform.

Key topics include:

• Carbon as a Financial Asset: Why we must treat carbon like any other security to unlock liquidity and price discovery.

• Data Management: How reliable data aggregation builds market trust and underpins every transaction.

• Market Infrastructure: The tools and relationships needed to bridge governments, corporations, and traders.

• Economic Opportunity: How a well‑functioning carbon market can fund environmental enforcement and drive sustainable development.

Tune in to learn how Laconic is creating a carbon‑negative flow battery of information—packaging “carbon” as a tradable instrument that benefits both investors and the planet. Whether you’re a climate tech investor, policymaker, or sustainability advocate, this episode will reshape how you think about the true value of carbon.