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CREO is excited to announce that in a bold move to accelerate investments in climate solutions, we are collaborating with United Nations-convened Net-Zero Asset Owners Alliance (NZAOA) in line with our commitment to deploying capital into climate solutions in the private market.  This strategic collaboration with NZAOA recognizes the critical role of the financial industry in leading the climate transition to meet the goals under the Paris Agreement. Learn more about our collaboration here: https://lnkd.in/ePhJtJHs #ClimateSolutions #ImpactInvesting #CREO #NZAOA #UNEPFI   

CREO is excited to share its latest research by Sophie Thorel and Kobi Weinberg – “The CREO FOAK Framework.” First-of-a-kind (FOAK) commercial projects are a pivotal milestone in scaling emerging climate technologies. FOAK projects can carry distinct risks and struggle to attract sufficient capital. The CREO FOAK framework identifies characteristics that qualify a commercial climate project as “first” - helping to demonstrate deployment precedent, reduce perceptions of risk, and allay financier concerns.  This paper illustrates the framework’s usefulness by applying it to carbon management technologies. Due to the relative nascency of these technologies, many of the commercial-scale projects within the sector are first-of-a-kind. Detailed project descriptions and data visualizations within the paper exhibit the scalability of carbon management technology projects. The FOAK framework should help to remove obstacles to financing and achieving decarbonization objectives within and beyond the carbon management sector.  Read the full paper here: https://lnkd.in/ewEARwKZ 

We're excited to partner with Spring Lane Capital for their annual #DevU event. Will we see you in SF this week?

CREO is excited to publish a public summary of our commissioned consultant study by Tina Owens tracking #regenerativeagriculture targets set by the Top 100 global food companies. The study found that while 68 out of the Top 100 CPG companies in the world have specifically mentioned regen ag in public-facing documents or interviews (up from 58 in the spring of 2023), there is an enormous amount of variability across metrics used, acreage targeted, and dollars deployed to support such goals. Read on to learn more about the milestones achieved and foundational gaps remaining: https://lnkd.in/eaYQ6dcD

CREO is excited to publish a public summary of our commissioned consultant study by Tina Owens tracking #regenerativeagriculture targets set by the Top 100 global food companies. The study found that while 68 out of the Top 100 CPG companies in the world have specifically mentioned regen ag in public-facing documents or interviews (up from 58 in the spring of 2023), there is an enormous amount of variability across metrics used, acreage targeted, and dollars deployed to support such goals. Read on to learn more about the milestones achieved and foundational gaps remaining: https://lnkd.in/eaYQ6dcD

CREO is excited to announce the release of Matthew Brown's latest research paper, "Virtual Power Plants: Scaling Considerations in a Fragmented Landscape." The paper develops a view of the evolving value creation “stack” for distributed energy resources and virtual power plants, concluding that VPP market fragmentation will continue due to well-articulated regulatory hurdles and regional economic divergence. This may provide opportunities for increased M&A activity from well-executed regional strategies. How value is shared among the matrix of stakeholders and the success of vertical integration efforts by incumbents will have significant implications for investment returns. The paper includes landscapes of commercial players active in Europe and North America. #virtualpowerplants #VPPs #CREO Read the full paper here: https://lnkd.in/eqeBHWee

At the start of 2024 we invited a subset of leading climate managers to share views on market sentiment as well as their performance. Insights relevant for all market participants include sentiment on fundraising environment, sector focus of investors, impact tracking methodologies, expectation of portfolio valuations and spending allocations.   Please find an abridged version of the survey here: https://lnkd.in/e-BgCKpG   We truly appreciate the participation of all contributing managers and hope the results are insightful and useful to all, wherever positioned in the market.   We view this inaugural survey as the first of many CREO Climate Investment Surveys and aspire to attract participation from an increasingly robust and diverse set of managers. We will invite managers to participate in our 2025 survey at the end of this year. Participants who completed the survey received unabridged versions of the aggregated results. #InvestmentManagement #GP #ClimateInvesting

🌱 Excited to share insights from CREO's latest paper authored by Gabriela Leslie! 🌿 CREO’s new analyst note, “Alternatives to Synthetic Crop Protection: Overcoming Commercialization Hurdles” aims to map the emerging biological crop protection landscape and discuss common pitfalls and opportunities when attempting to scale novel mechanisms of action. The note develops a bioprotection product taxonomy, discusses the use cases for each bioprotection segment, and addresses the commercialization and scaling challenges that many products face when aiming to make it to market. Read the paper here: https://lnkd.in/e5zykd9n #CREO #BiologicalCropProtection #InnovationInAgriculture #SustainabilitySolutions

Discover sustainable investing insights with CREO's Joanna Klimczak on the latest episode of the Future-Ready Advisor podcast! Listen to the podcast here: https://lnkd.in/gtjNUKp3 Read CREO's Canada report here: https://lnkd.in/eWrdkjBr #CREO #Decarbonization #ClimateInvesting #Canada

CREO is excited to announce the release of Aly Rose's latest research paper titled "Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement: An Assessment of the Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal (mCDR) Approach." The paper discusses Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement (OAE) and its potential as a negative emissions technology that could help mitigate ocean acidification. It also examines the obstacles currently hindering the industry's growth (i.e., scientific, technological, policy, and funding barriers). Additionally, the paper identifies potential solutions necessary to create the enabling conditions that would help develop the industry in a reliable, transparent, and trustworthy manner. #oceans #carbonmarkets #blueeconomy Read more in the paper: https://lnkd.in/e3zDCsPQ