Navigating Carbon: Can insurance solve carbon markets' confidence problem?

Carbon markets are only going to mature as fast as risk can be priced and transferred. That puts insurance closer to the centre of the market than to the side of it.

In the latest episode of Navigating Carbon, Oka CEO Chris Slater joins host Deb Ryan for a conversation on scalability, trust, and what insurance changes for carbon-credit buyers and developers. They cover how the integrity problem in the market has evolved, where insurance can support project development and risk management, and the project examples where cover is already being applied.

"In any established market where capital flows, insurance takes risk off the table and creates liquidity."

Chris also returns to a recurring theme: the paralysis of perfection. Carbon markets do not need a perfect solution before risk can be transferred. They need infrastructure that lets buyers, lenders, and developers act with confidence on the credits in front of them today. As credits behave more like compliance and financial assets, risk has to be named, allocated, and transferred, and insurance is the mechanism that does that work.

Listen to the full episode on YouTube.