Daniel Rossetto

Dr Daniel Rossetto is an expert on global environmental and energy commodity markets, international relations and climate change geopolitics. He is the host of the Climate Mundial's Energy and Climate Weekly YouTube channel (www.youtube.com/@climatemundial). He has over 25 years of experience gained working across six continents. He speaks fluently in five languages.

Specific commercial achievements across the European Union, the United States, the United Kingdom, the Gulf Region, Australia, Latin America, Africa and Asia include:

- Structuring and arrangement of financing for large-scale investments in the renewable energy, heavy industry (steel, petrochemicals, waste), biofuels, construction product manufacture and thermal electricity generation sectors.

- Origination and execution of long-term commodity derivative transactions and tolling agreements on products including electricity, energy feedstocks and carbon certificates.

- Acquisition of land, leases, development approvals and connection approvals for large-scale projects in the renewable energy, industry, biofuel processing (sustainable aviation fuel, wood pellets) and agribusiness sectors.

- Structuring and arrangement of green and sustainable finance solutions including sustainability-linked loans, green, climate-themed bonds and carbon funds and environmentally themed export credits.

- Advising on the development and business case preparation for industrial scale decarbonisation options such as carbon capture and storage, hydrogen, energy efficiency and nature-based solutions.

Daniel has served as a company director in the United Kingdom for over a decade with Climate Mundial Limited. He had previously held the position of Executive Director of Environmental Markets at J.P. Morgan Chase; joining as the firm commenced build out of its global carbon finance, commodity-linked finance and carbon trading businesses. Prior to joining J.P. Morgan, Daniel played an integral role in the developing the Enel Group's carbon strategy while employed at the firm's head offices in Rome. During the period 2000-05, Daniel was a policy maker in Australia and was a member of the National Emissions Trading Taskforce (NETT) tasked with designing a national market-based program for reducing emissions across the electricity generation, industry and transportation sectors. He was also a member of the COAG senior officials working group that developed the first version of the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting (NGER) framework, on which the Safeguard Mechanism, today, is constructed.

Daniel has authored several papers on green finance and climate-themed bonds published on Bloomberg platforms and journal articles on border carbon mechanisms, carbon pricing and corporate sustainability strategy. He obtained his PhD from The University of Adelaide.