This week on SmarterMarkets™, we present a special episode Subterranean Supply Chain Blues with Robert Friedland, recorded this past week at the FT Commodities Global Summit 2026 in Lausanne, Switzerland. Robert is Executive Co-Chairman of Ivanhoe Mines and Co-Founder, Chairman, and CEO of I-Pulse.

SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sat down with Robert after his keynote at the FT Summit, where he shared his perspectives on the state of the world and the current role of metals, mining, and markets.

On this week’s installment of Weathering Decarbonization, we welcome Martin Malinow, CEO of Parameter Climate, into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. David Greely sits down with Martin to discuss his work building weather and climate risk transfer markets from the days of Enron to today. They talk about where these markets are now, where they're going, and what we need to be doing to get them there.

This week, we continue our Weathering Decarbonization series by welcoming Mike Prokop back into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. Mike is Executive Consultant at the Clean Hydrogen Buyers Alliance. David Greely sits down with Mike to discuss the challenges and the progress that's been made building U.S. Gulf Coast hydrogen and ammonia markets – and what comes next.