Navigating Net Zero with Alexia Kelly

Alexia Kelly has worked for more than 18 years at the intersection of policy and finance to address the climate crisis. Alexia is the Managing Director of the Carbon Policy and Markets Initiative (CPMI) at High Tide Foundation. The CPMI accelerates ambitious climate action and capital mobilization through robust rules and guidance for voluntary corporate action and disclosures, and building the next generation of high-integrity carbon and environmental services markets. She currently serves on the Board of the Integrity Council for Voluntary Carbon Markets (IC VCM) and the Board of the Advanced and Indirect Mitigation Initiative, as well as on the Expert Advisory Group of the Voluntary Carbon Markets Integrity Initiative (VCMI). Prior to joining High Tide Foundation, she served as Director of Net Zero + Nature at Netflix, where she led the company’s inaugural greenhouse gas inventory, renewable energy strategy, Science Based Target and global carbon credit portfolio. Previously, she worked at the U.S. Department of State, where she served as lead negotiator to the UNFCCC on Article 6 of the Paris Agreement. She has also held senior roles at the World Resources Institute, The David and Lucille Packard Foundation, The Climate Trust, and in private equity.

Kim Carnahan is the President and CEO at the Center for Green Market Activation (or, GMA). Kim has nearly 20 years of experience in climate change, including nearly a decade at the US State Department where she managed the team that negotiated the Paris Agreement and its implementing guidance as well as climate change agreements at the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and International Maritime Organization (IMO). An expert in carbon markets, GHG accounting and alternative fuels, Kim spearheaded the launch of the Sustainable Aviation Buyers Alliance (SABA) in 2021. She founded the Center for Green Market Activation in 2024, which continues to support SABA and the Zero Emissions Maritime Buyers Alliance (ZEMBA) while also developing book-and-claim systems and buyer’s alliances for heavy-duty trucking, cement and concrete, and chemicals. GMA also acts as the Secretariat for the AIM Platform, which aims to fill a gap in the GHG accounting and target setting landscape today. Since 2022, AIM has been developing a new standard and guidance that enables companies to identify decarbonization investments that qualify as “associated with value chain”, assess their quality, and account for and report their impact, working in collaboration with GHG Protocol and SBTi.

Matt Jordan is a Director within the High Tide Foundation’s Carbon Policy and Markets Initiative (CPMI). Matt has been working in climate action for more than 15 years, and has a long track record of envisioning, developing and scaling innovative programs and financing tools that deliver lasting global impact. Matt built CLASP’s Clean Energy Access program from a single small project to an integrated portfolio of technical, research, and market stimulation programs with a coherent, issue-defining theory of change and a global team of more than 20. He co-founded Propel Clean Energy Partners, a consulting firm with clients such as the World Resources Institute, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, and the Asian Development Bank. Following their acquisition of Propel’s work and team, Matt served as a Director in RMI’s Global South portfolio and led their global clean energy workforce development initiative. He holds a BA in Philosophy from Colgate University, a Master’s in Public Policy Analysis from the University of California, and a Professional Certificate in Financing and Deploying Clean Energy from Yale University.