2024 State of the Voluntary Carbon Market

Mila has professional and academic experience spanning carbon markets, climate-smart agriculture, and net-zero strategy. Prior to joining Relae, Mila worked at Climate Impact Partners, where she conducted strategic research on corporate sustainability and the voluntary carbon market. There she developed a deep understanding of the role of nature-based carbon removal in credible private sector climate strategies. Her work spanned the impacts of regulatory and market initiatives on carbon credit demand and corporate claims, such as Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, the Voluntary Carbon Markets Integrity Initiative (VCMI), and the Science-Based Targets Initiative (SBTi). Before Climate Impact Partners, she worked as a Summer Analyst at Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF), where she conducted client-facing research on the economics and carbon storage potential of regenerative agriculture in the United States. Mila holds an MS in Energy Systems and Data Analytics from University College London and a BA in Economics and Geography from Trinity College Dublin. In her postgraduate degree, her work focused on using machine learning models to forecast global crop yields under different climate scenarios.

David helps clients understand more about the most impactful and cost-effective carbon reduction and removal actions they could take.

Prior to joining Relae, David was the lead research analyst on carbon capture, utilization and storage at BloombergNEF, where he wrote the company’s CCS market outlooks and specific research pieces on direct air capture, CO₂-to-fuels and CO₂ capture cost drivers.