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Oct 2023
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Incentivizing Clean Fossil Fuel Producti...

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Nick interviews Nick Fekula and Josh Zier at Project Canary, a climate technology company that offers an enterprise emissions data platform to help companies identify, measure, understand, and act to reduce their emissions across their value chain. They use sophisticated software to help companies improve, report, and really understand their emissions. They also offer an environmental risk assessment.

Nick Fekula: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nick-fekula-60516898/
Josh Zier: https://www.linkedin.com/in/josh-zier-925ab9133/
Project Canary: https://www.projectcanary.com/

YouTube Version: https://youtu.be/GOkwOjzNSlg

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