Alasdair Were is Head of Environmental Markets at Abaxx Exchange and Clearinghouse a global commodity futures exchange and clearinghouse, based in Singapore.    Alasdair leads the development of a slate of environmental products focused on the commercial needs of the marketplace that enable for the creation of smart commodities and for the effective pricing of negative externalities. He is the former Director of Digital Climate Markets at the International Emissions Trading Association where he was involved in launching Climate Action Data Trust, a metadata layer for carbon markets in partnership with the World Bank and Government of Singapore. And prior to that he held several rules at trading houses across energy and agricultural markets. He has a bachelor’s in global business and a diploma in commodity trading from the University of Geneva.    Abaxx was founded in 2019 to address the lack of tools for effective price-risk discovery and transfer in increasingly volatile markets driven by a global energy transition, market structure issues, ESG mandates, and macro volatility. Abaxx develops products, systems, and tools to support the commercial needs of the global commodities industry; characterized by clear pricing signals, secure and fast executions, and effective price risk management to address our biggest challenges, including the energy transition. The initial product slate includes physically deliverable futures benchmark futures contracts and risk management tools for LNG, Carbon, and Battery Metals.