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Chief Executive Officer Michael Berends is a highly respected leader in the global carbon markets. With a decades-long career spanning North America and Europe, he has held senior positions in top energy and financial organizations, including Barclays Capital, Vattenfall Energy Trading, and ICL, in trading, origination, procurement, and sales.
Michael has successfully executed numerous global carbon product deals and devised pricing and risk management strategies for emitters in compliance and voluntary markets across more than 50 countries.
Under Michael's leadership, ClearBlue Markets has experienced remarkable growth, expanding sixfold, earning its place as a trusted partner for hundreds of corporations worldwide and launching the Vantage carbon intelligence platform. In 2023, ClearBlue Markets secured an investment of $8 million in financing led by the Royal Bank of Canada.
Michael holds a Master's degree in Conservation Biology from the University of Toronto and a Master's in Environmental Management from the University of Amsterdam.
Michael has successfully executed numerous global carbon product deals and devised pricing and risk management strategies for emitters in compliance and voluntary markets across more than 50 countries.
Under Michael's leadership, ClearBlue Markets has experienced remarkable growth, expanding sixfold, earning its place as a trusted partner for hundreds of corporations worldwide and launching the Vantage carbon intelligence platform. In 2023, ClearBlue Markets secured an investment of $8 million in financing led by the Royal Bank of Canada.
Michael holds a Master's degree in Conservation Biology from the University of Toronto and a Master's in Environmental Management from the University of Amsterdam.
Adi is the Advisory Director at ClearBlue Markets and focuses on monitoring the ongoing regulatory developments of different carbon markets across North America. Adi provides policy analysis and strategic insight on carbon pricing and helps compliance entities navigate the regulatory landscape through strategy development and implementation. She supports industrial emitters by communicating organization-specific implications and market opportunities. As industrials increasingly look towards different decarbonization pathways, Adi helps to assess the carbon value of emission reduction projects and additional opportunities in the voluntary carbon markets to help achieve net-zero targets.
Tyson Dyck is a partner in Torys LLP’s Toronto office and leads the firm’s Climate Change practice. He has decades of experience in the carbon markets, having worked on some of the country's earliest carbon offset deals and emissions reduction funds. He now advises clients with responsibility for over 100,000 kilotonnes of GHG emissions as they transition to a low-carbon economy. He is regularly retained to advise on the development of carbon trading and compliance strategies, on agreements for the purchase and sale of carbon credits and renewable energy certificates (in both compliance and voluntary markets), and on long-term offtakes for carbon removal and avoidance projects. He has negotiated transactions in every major North American compliance market, and under every major voluntary standard. Tyson has also advised on many of North America’s most high-profile energy projects, including on the development, permitting and financing of more than 50 wind, solar, gas, hydro and energy storage projects, together representing over 7,000 MW in installed capacity. He also advises on major carbon management projects, including innovative carbon dioxide removal projects and some of the world’s largest carbon capture and sequestration projects.