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Emerald Climate is a Singapore-based advisory service shaping Asia-Pacific into a global hub for carbon removal. By linking buyers, suppliers, investors, and policymakers, we accelerate innovation across carbon markets, turning climate mitigation into a driver of sustainable growth.
Our Approach
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Catalyze Market
Support hard-to-abate industries on decarbonization journey through tailored procurement strategies.
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Shape Policy
Engage with policymakers to embed carbon removal in national programs and under Article 6, unlocking investment.
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Scale Innovation
Facilitate carbon removal projects for compliance market and VCM that demonstrate innovation, economic viability, and impact.
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Build Capacity
Build capacity and increase knowledge on durable carbon removal across key stakeholders and the public.
Capacity Building
We partnered with award-winning film Director Leila Conners and Founder of Tree Media Group who has been connecting science, innovation, storytelling, and learning to inspire action. Our combined educational initiatives bridge the gap between complex climate science and compelling narratives that drive engagement.
Film + Action Model + Docu Series
Explores how global systems empower communities and nature linking biodiversity, indigenous stewardship, forests, mangroves, carbon projects and innovation.
Where nature and policy converge
Film + Action Model + Docu Series
The Biochar Effect delves deeply into the complexities and promise of biochar. An ancient, now made new again, material formed from pyrolysis.
An ancient solution made new
Interactive Engagement Platform
Digital engagement and gifting platform that turns viewing into action, connecting audiences with durable carbon removal projects through innovative technology.
Watch. Learn. Remove.
Reports & Insights
The living hub of Emerald Climate, convenings, collaborations, and insights. We view our content collaborations and partnerships as catalyst for systems change, embedding carbon removal into climate, policy, and industrial agendas.
SEMICON SEA 2025, SEMI's Sustainability Forum Half Day Summit Co-Hosted with Emerald Climate | Day 3 | 22 May 2025 | Marina Bay Sands, Singapore
Theme: Catalyzing a Net-Zero Semiconductor Value Chain
Co-hosted by SEMI and Emerald Climate, this half-day summit brought together global semiconductor leaders, investors, policymakers, and climate innovators to chart actionable net-zero strategies through scalable nature-based and technology-based strategies.
Discussions covered incentives, risks, and infrastructure gaps shaping carbon removal adoption, highlighting the role SEMI member companies can play in anchoring credible demand, piloting standards, and accelerating pathways to net-zero.
Events & Presence
Advancing carbon removal requires showing up where markets, policy, and innovation intersect, not as spectators, but as collaborators shaping outcomes.
Our engagements are built around deliberate participation: convening partners, influencing frameworks, and translating ideas into action through trusted relationships and shared missions.
Paris · April 2025
Storytelling & Education
Premier Legion 44 and advance public and real economy/brands understanding of CDR.
Singapore· May 2025
Policy & Finance
Position Singapore as a CDR hub for APAC.
Singapore· May 2025
Industry & Innovation
Advancing carbon removal as a pillar of semiconductor sustainability and competitiveness.
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Singapore · June 2025
Industry & Innovation
Next-Gen Forest “X-Ray” biomass mapping.
India · October 2025
Market Formation
Panel exploring Article 6 as the engine to fund Global South carbon removal at scale.
Singapore · October 2025
South–South Cooperation
Fireside chat to build cross-regional policy and investment bridges.
Team
Stephanie Duran
Co-Founder
Stephanie brings 25+ years of U.S. government service to Emerald Climate. In Washington, she held leadership roles in the U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration as the Acting Director of the Office of Policy and Strategic Planning and in the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Carbon Management as the Director of International and External Partnerships.
In Asia, Stephanie worked at the U.S. Embassy in Singapore and led the DOE China office from the U.S. Embassy in Beijing where she spearheaded bilateral technical engagement on carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS). She moved to Singapore in August 2024 with her husband and two sons.
Pauline Wray
Co-Founder
A global leader with 25+ years at the intersection of finance, innovation, and sustainability, she co-founded the Boston Consulting Group FinTech Control Tower and founder of Expand Research Asia, acquired by BCG. She has advised Fortune 100 companies, regulators, and ecosystem builders, including the Monetary Authority of Singapore, on technology-enabled transformation. Pauline builds bridges across sectors, convinced that systems change begins when leaders connect across industries, disciplines, and borders. A near-fatal accident in 2023 deepened her focus on purpose-driven leadership and resilience unbreakable spirit of a founder, emerging with a stronger focus on purpose-driven leadership. Today, as Executive Producer with Tree Media Group, think-tank studio behind The 11th Hour and Legion 44, Partner, non-profit Her Planet Earth and Global Ambassador of Investors for Climate fuses storytelling, investment and innovation to inspire action. A mother of three, Pauline brings a global perspective, and a long-term systems mindset to what she builds.
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