Climate Hive presents What Do You Solve?
Oct 13, 2026 · 49 min · 8 segments
What if expanding access to education for girls could also be part of the climate solution? On this episode of What Do You Solve?, we sit down with Guðný Nielsen, founder of Katla Carbon, for a…
can you talk about the the triple impact of the credits a little bit or because this is this is a big part of it right is
So normally in the in the carbon market, like I said, I mean, you have tree planting, you have the wetland restoration, you have all I mean, these big technological things.
And and what they all have in common is that they count in tons CO2, how much they can either prevent from being emitted or sucked out of the atmosphere, you know, a tree or a machine.
But what and very often, I mean, the carbon market has been criticized for similar to what I was saying before.
I mean, this is not designed for the marginalized climate vulnerable communities.
This is designed for like tangible, well-known solutions that fit nicely within the the worksheet of the sustainability officer in a corporation you know in a western city it's not designed to kind of benefit social development right um so what And it's been criticized, the carbon market, for not doing this.
So what many projects on the carbon market, they're trying to kind of evolve them to include more kind of social impacts, I'd say.
Very often I kind of, you know, I wonder how in the world does your tree planting project, you know, support, for example, SDG 5 gender equality? OK, maybe there are some women planting trees.
But then you have all this tech solutions and different things that really happen in the wealthier nations.
What is different with Katla Karbon is that we're I mean, we're approaching this not from the carbon perspective.
And when you educate girls, you I think education really touches upon every single sustainable development goal that there is.
Health, for example, children of literate mothers are 50% more likely to live to the age of five.
You have gender equality, SDG 8, which is all about, you know, one of the targets that you measure there is the, you know, the proportion of youth that is out of work, out of vocational training, out of education.
can you talk about the the triple impact of the credits a little bit or because this is this is a big part of it right is
So normally in the in the carbon market, like I said, I mean, you have tree planting, you have the wetland restoration, you have all I mean, these big technological things.
And and what they all have in common is that they count in tons CO2, how much they can either prevent from being emitted or sucked out of the atmosphere, you know, a tree or a machine.
But what and very often, I mean, the carbon market has been criticized for similar to what I was saying before.
I mean, this is not designed for the marginalized climate vulnerable communities.
This is designed for like tangible, well-known solutions that fit nicely within the the worksheet of the sustainability officer in a corporation you know in a western city it's not designed to kind of benefit social development right um so what And it's been criticized, the carbon market, for not doing this.
So what many projects on the carbon market, they're trying to kind of evolve them to include more kind of social impacts, I'd say.
Very often I kind of, you know, I wonder how in the world does your tree planting project, you know, support, for example, SDG 5 gender equality? OK, maybe there are some women planting trees.
But then you have all this tech solutions and different things that really happen in the wealthier nations.
What is different with Katla Karbon is that we're I mean, we're approaching this not from the carbon perspective.
And when you educate girls, you I think education really touches upon every single sustainable development goal that there is.
Health, for example, children of literate mothers are 50% more likely to live to the age of five.
You have gender equality, SDG 8, which is all about, you know, one of the targets that you measure there is the, you know, the proportion of youth that is out of work, out of vocational training, out of education.
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