Chris Slater interviewed on Wicked Problems podcast

Carbon markets do not fail for lack of ambition. They fail when risk sits in the wrong place.

On Wicked Problems: Climate Tech Conversations, Oka Founder and CEO Chris Slater talks with Richard Delevan about why insurance is becoming a more important part of the carbon-market story, not as a substitute for policy, but as one of the tools that can make the market more usable and investable.

What comes through is a clear view of the constraint: growth will not come from rhetoric alone. Insurance can help absorb risk and support confidence, but demand and direction still depend heavily on policy. The episode also gives a more personal window into Chris’s thinking, from the influence of Speed and Scale and the OKR framework to the role becoming a father played in pushing him into climate.

Listen to the full episode of Wicked Problems: Climate Tech Conversations.