Adam Hearne, Co-Founder & CEO, CarbonChain

Adam is an expert on the commodity sector’s transition to a net-zero economy. He is the CEO and co-founder of CarbonChain, providing automated, asset-level carbon accounting for extractive and agricultural commodity supply chains.

Adam’s career spans nearly two decades across supply chain management, extractive commodities, and technology start-ups. He was the senior program manager for 8 countries in Amazon’s European supply chain from 2016 to 2019, and he worked at Rio Tinto for 12 years, increasing productivity of several ore supply chains. Adam holds an MBA from London Business School and an honors degree from Queensland University of Technology in Australia.

At CarbonChain, he helps some of the world’s biggest and most impact-minded commodity companies, traders, financiers and logistics firms accelerate their net-zero journey. Founded in 2019, CarbonChain’s granular, time-sensitive carbon footprinting fills a critical data gap, enabling the energy and natural resources sectors to take action on carbon emissions, risks, and opportunities.

Adam is a regular speaker at industry events such as the  Reuters Commodities Trading Webinar and the TXF global commodities conference.  

Sample of Adam’s writing and CarbonChain’s publications:

• 2022: The year to decarbonize commodity trading (LinkedIn Pulse)

• How commodity traders are tackling demand for carbon disclosure and action (ebook)

• How trade finance can decarbonize the commodities sector (article)

• Attention, boardroom: Is there greenwashing in your C-Suite's carbon accounting? (article)

• There’s no net zero without Scope 3: Don’t make Exxon’s mistake (article)