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Humans of Climate
A global interview series featuring the people shaping carbon markets through innovation, research, policy, finance, technology, entrepreneurship, and climate action.
Each interview becomes a professionally edited feature article: a careful, human portrait of one expert’s journey, ideas, and insights, published for the global carbon market community and preserved as knowledge for future generations.
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Applications Welcome
20+
Interviews Published
15+
Countries Represented
Evergreen
Knowledge Archive
Why Be Featured
More than an interview.
More than an interview.
A permanent contribution.
Humans of Climate is designed to do something most interviews do not: turn a conversation into a lasting professional document, one that captures not just what you do, but why you do it, how you got here, and where you believe carbon markets are heading.
Share Your Story
Your career path, the decisions you made, and the work you care about deserve more than a LinkedIn summary. Humans of Climate gives your story the space and editorial craft it deserves.
Expand Your Professional Visibility
A featured profile on Carbon Market Network connects you with researchers, investors, policymakers, and practitioners across the global carbon markets ecosystem, reaching audiences you would not reach alone.
Contribute to Climate Knowledge
The insights you have developed over years of work in carbon markets have real value. Publishing them contributes to the collective body of knowledge that the entire industry draws on, now and in the future.
Reach a Global Audience
Carbon Market Network is read by professionals across every continent. Your feature article reaches an engaged, informed, international audience who are actively building and investing in carbon markets.
Build a Lasting Professional Profile
Your article is not a press release. It is a considered editorial piece written to endure, one that you can share, reference, and point to for years as a record of your work and thinking at this moment in the industry’s evolution.
Inspire Future Climate Leaders
The next generation of carbon market professionals is looking for people who have done the work. Your story (the honest version, not the polished résumé version) is the kind of guidance they are searching for and rarely find.
Who Should Apply
If you work in carbon markets,
If you work in carbon markets,
this series is for you.
Humans of Climate welcomes applications from professionals at every stage of their career, across every corner of the carbon markets world. There is no single profile we are looking for. Only a commitment to doing meaningful work and a willingness to share it honestly.
Carbon Project Developers
Climate Tech Founders
Corporate Sustainability Leaders
Researchers & Academics
Carbon Registries
Investors & Carbon Finance
Policy Experts
MRV & Digital MRV Professionals
Environmental Economists
Carbon Removal Innovators
Students & Young Professionals
NGOs & Standards Bodies
Professionals from every country are encouraged to apply. Humans of Climate is a genuinely global series. The carbon markets challenge is international, and the people addressing it deserve a platform that reflects that.
Interview Philosophy
Beyond the standard interview.
Most professional interviews ask what you do and how your company works. Humans of Climate asks something harder. And more interesting. How did you end up here? What do you actually believe about where carbon markets are going? What do you wish someone had told you earlier?
The result is not a press release. It is a portrait: an honest, editorial account of a real person doing real work in one of the most consequential fields in the world.
- Every set of questions is written specifically for you, based on your work, your background, and what would be genuinely interesting to the community.
- Meaningful conversations over corporate promotion. We are not here to produce a product announcement.
- Technical insights explained clearly, so specialists and newcomers can both learn from them.
- Honest career journeys, including the difficult parts: the failures, pivots, and lessons that made the work better.
- A space for the kind of candid reflection on the future of carbon markets that rarely appears elsewhere.
“The stories that most need to be preserved are the ones that would otherwise disappear. The day-to-day work, the hard-won lessons, the quiet breakthroughs that never make headlines but make everything else possible.”
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Questions written specifically for you
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Full editorial review before publication
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Interviewee approval at every stage
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Evergreen archive, permanently accessible
Interview Process
Simple. Thoughtful. Respectful of your time.
Humans of Climate is designed to make the experience as smooth and low-friction as possible. Here is how it works from application to publication.
Application
You complete a short form telling us about your background and work in carbon markets.
Review
Our editorial team reviews your application and confirms your selection. We aim to respond promptly.
Personalized Questions
We send you a tailored set of questions written specifically for your expertise, background, and perspective.
Professional Editing
Your responses are shaped into a polished, magazine-quality feature article by our editorial team.
Approval
You review the final article before publication. Your approval is required before anything goes live.
Publication
Your feature is published on Carbon Market Network and shared with the global community.
What Makes Us Different
Not another Q&A. Something worth keeping.
There is no shortage of professional interviews. There is a shortage of good ones. Humans of Climate was built to raise that bar.
Every Interview is Unique
No generic question lists. Every interview is written from scratch based on who you are and what you have built.
Professionally Edited Feature Articles
Responses are shaped into readable, compelling prose. Not a raw transcript. The result reads like a publication, not a form.
Magazine-Quality Storytelling
We apply the editorial standards of a professional publication: accuracy, clarity, depth, and a human point of view, to every piece.
Evergreen Educational Content
Your article is written to last. Not a news story that ages in weeks. A considered piece of professional knowledge designed to remain relevant.
Global Audience
Your feature reaches readers across the international carbon markets community: practitioners, researchers, investors, and students worldwide.
Editorial Review Before Publication
You review and approve your article before it is published. Nothing appears without your knowledge and consent.
Human-Centered Conversations
We ask about the person behind the work: the journey, the reasoning, the honest assessment of where things stand. Not a corporate profile.
Knowledge Sharing Over Self-Promotion
The goal is insight, not advertising. Readers come for what you have learned, not what you are selling.
What You Receive
Everything you need to make your feature work for your career.
Being featured in Humans of Climate is entirely free. In return, here is what you receive as a published contributor.
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Professionally Edited Feature Article
A polished, long-form editorial piece shaped by our team from your answers.
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Permanent Profile on Carbon Market Network
Your feature lives permanently on one of the leading carbon markets platforms online.
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Global Professional Exposure
Reach an international audience of carbon markets professionals, researchers, and investors.
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Shareable Magazine-Quality Article
A piece you can proudly share with colleagues, clients, and on professional networks.
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High-Quality Backlink
A backlink from Carbon Market Network to your professional profile or organization website.
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Full Editorial Review
Your article is reviewed and approved by you before anything goes live. You have full sight of the final piece.
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Long-Term Visibility
Your article remains accessible indefinitely as part of the Humans of Climate knowledge archive.
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Community Recognition
Join a curated group of experts who have contributed their knowledge and story to the global carbon markets community.
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SEO-Optimized Publication
Your feature is optimized so that it is discoverable by professionals searching for your area of expertise.
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Opportunity to Inspire Others
Your journey and insights will reach early-career professionals looking for direction in carbon markets.
Every Expert Has a Story Worth Preserving.
Industries are built by people. The ideas, lessons, and decisions that shape them often live only in those people’s memories. Humans of Climate exists to change that. This series documents the journeys, reasoning, and hard-won insights of the professionals who are building global carbon markets, so that the knowledge they carry is not lost when they move on. It is an archive for the industry, and an honest record of what it took to get here.
Frequently Asked Questions
Questions about the series.
Everything you need to know about applying to be featured in Humans of Climate.
Anyone working professionally in carbon markets or climate action is welcome to apply. This includes project developers, investors, researchers, technologists, policymakers, consultants, students, and people working in adjacent fields who have relevant insights to share. There is no seniority requirement. What matters is that you have a perspective worth sharing with the global community.
Humans of Climate is completely free to participate in. There is no fee to apply, no cost to be featured, and no commercial arrangement of any kind. The series is an editorial initiative. Its value comes from the quality and authenticity of the stories it publishes, not from paid placements.
Applications are reviewed by the Humans of Climate editorial team. We look for professionals who have a genuine and interesting perspective on carbon markets. Not necessarily the most prominent voices, but those with stories, experiences, or insights that would genuinely benefit the community. We aim to feature a diverse range of roles, geographies, and career stages over time.
There is no live video call or recorded session. Instead, we send you a personalized set of written questions developed specifically based on your background and the themes we want to explore with you. You respond in writing at your own pace. This format lets you give considered, detailed answers without the pressure of a live interview, and it produces better articles. The answers you provide are then shaped into a polished feature article by our editorial team.
Absolutely. Humans of Climate is a global series by design. We actively encourage applications from professionals in every country. The international perspective is one of the most valuable things the series can offer to its readers. Carbon markets are a global issue, and the people shaping them come from every part of the world.
The timeline varies depending on the volume of applications and how quickly you are able to return your written responses. In general, you can expect the full process, from application confirmation through to publication, to take a few weeks. We will keep you informed at each step and will never publish anything without your explicit approval.
Yes, and we particularly welcome them. The experiences of those who are early in their careers, navigating the field, making choices about how to build expertise, encountering the gap between classroom theory and market reality, are genuinely valuable to readers who are in a similar position. You do not need decades of experience to have a story worth sharing.
Yes. If you work at an organization and would like to nominate a colleague, mentor, or industry figure whose story deserves to be told, you are welcome to do so through the application form. Please note that all featured individuals will be contacted directly and must consent to participate. Nominations are not guarantees of selection.
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Ready to Share Your Story?
The global carbon markets community is built by people doing difficult, important work. If that describes you, your story belongs in Humans of Climate. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.
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