Joseph Pallant is a climate innovator and carbon market expert with more than two decades of experience advancing solutions for people and the planet. As CEO of Great Bear Carbon, he works alongside First Nations to deliver large-scale, community-driven climate action.

Since 2004, Joseph has pioneered forestry, fuel switching, and transportation projects and founded CPS Carbon Project Solutions Inc. and the Blockchain for Climate Foundation, aligning blockchain technology with the Paris Agreement for transparent carbon accounting. His leadership emphasizes Indigenous stewardship, verifiable carbon offsets, and practical pathways that connect policy, finance, and technology.

Joseph holds a Bachelor of Science in Biology and Environmental Studies from the University of Victoria, a postgraduate diploma in Latin American Management, and an MBA from INSEEC in Paris.

A Canada’s Clean50 honouree, he is recognized for helping shape effective, accountable, and inclusive climate solutions across Canada and internationally.

Paul Stewart is a sales and finance professional with 15 years of Commercial Banking experience in Canada and the US before transitioning to Technology and Environmental Enterprise Sales for the past 15 years. Early in his career Paul focused on Economic Development throughout BC’s Coastal Temperate Rainforest with Ecotrust Canada. Later Paul was a climate innovator having joined the founding team at Offsetters (now Ostrom) where he led Carbon consulting before leading the sales team. 

At GBC Paul helps to coach and grow the sales team infrastructure as the company expands its sequestration footprint.

Paul holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from Wilfrid Laurier’s School of Business in Waterloo. 

When not involved in carbon, Paul can be found vibe coding or XC skiing the North Shore mountains of Vancouver. 

Laura joined Great Bear Carbon in 2023, bringing 20 years of senior leadership experience in operations and management across the non-profit and philanthropic sectors. Known for building robust systems and processes, she has steered organizations through critical transitions, led humanitarian operations, directed a US-based foundation, and headed the philanthropic arm of a global conglomerate. Under her leadership, the foundation shifted towards strategic giving, supporting initiatives focused on healthy local marine ecosystems and improved governance of the high seas.

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Earlier in her career, Laura worked in media for The Economist Group and CNBC Business News.

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As Operations & Finance Manager, Laura is committed to serving Great Bear Carbon and its Shareholder First Nations, and to supporting a thriving Great Bear Rainforest and the Indigenous communities within it.

Victoria is a carbon markets professional with over half a decade of experience in voluntary and compliance markets in North America and Europe. She's known for building long-term client relationships across the market ecosystem.

At Great Bear Carbon, Victoria supports sales efforts across the voluntary carbon market and BC's compliance market OBPS, helping buyers access high-integrity, Indigenous-led carbon credits.

For Victoria, joining GBC was an easy decision. Few organizations combine Indigenous stewardship, forest and species protection, and carbon markets in a way that creates this level of local and global impact.

Outside of work, she's happiest exploring BC, whether hiking, bikepacking, skiing, or out on the water.

“I am from a small village in the north of Germany, Lanze, in the heart of the Elbe delta around an hour away from the Baltic Sea. Our regional language is Plattdeutsch, literally “flat German”, indicative of the landscape we grow up in and are surrounded by. In 2015, as part of my legal training in Germany, I started working for Coastal First Nations as an intern. I noticed right away that the values that were instilled in me through my community, in particular my grandmother Elli, are very similar to the values I witnessed the Nations, that form the alliance of Coastal First Nations, demonstrate. While from the other side of the planet growing up under very different circumstances, I felt a kinship to my strong, brilliant relatives of Coastal First Nations in extension of all nations of Turtle Island. I decided to leave my homelands to use my skills to serve the Nations. Throughout the last 12 years, I have worked for the Nations in various roles through numerous entities, namely Coastal First Nations, Stirling LLP, Coastal Nations Fisheries and Great Bear Carbon. I hold many citizens of the Nations close to my heart. It is my great honour that on September 4, 2026 I was adopted into the House of λáλíyasila, Haíłzaqv Nation by my sister c̓ḷ́q̓ḷá t̓út̓u̓a Crystal Dixon. I carry this relationship with gratitude and look forward to continuing to uplift the Nations we serve, contributing my skills with care, respect, and reciprocity.

As for my professional background, I hold an MBA as well as a Master’s degree in German and in Canadian law. I am an “Assessor Juris” which means that I am a fully qualified German legal professional who passed both bar exams. I am also a non-practicing lawyer in Canada.

Now returning to and stepping into a leadership role with Great Bear Carbon, I am dedicated to continue to serve the Nations with honour, integrity, love and utmost commitment.”

Community has always been at the heart of Tanvir’s work. From volunteering with non-profit organizations to building a career in operations, she has been drawn to work that brings people together and contributes to something bigger.

Today, Tanvir supports operations at Great Bear Carbon, drawing on experience in non-profit organizations, affordable housing, and building maintenance. Throughout her career, she has seen how thoughtful systems and strong behind-the-scenes operations can shape an organization’s ability to make an impact.

She enjoys finding practical solutions, whether that means building a new process, introducing technology, organizing information, or turning an idea into action. Curious by nature and collaborative in her approach, Tanvir believes the best systems make work easier for people and give teams more space to focus on what matters.