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Congratulations Kanin Energy and Tallgrass Energy for breaking ground on this genuinely groundbreaking waste heat to power project. OK OK, we'll see ourselves out... but not before noting that nearly half of the energy produced for industrial processes currently is lost, most of it in the form of waste heat - heat which can be captured and converted to usable clean power, by facilities such as this one. Kanin's solution for this hard-to-abate sector marks an important step forward for industrial decarbonisation.

Congratulations team Fortera on the launch of the Fortera Verified Carbon Credits program. As part of the mitigation hierarchy, high-integrity carbon credits remain an essential decarbonisation tool, especially for hard-to-abate industries. We’ve previously shared details of our investment in Fortera and why we’re excited about the climate impact potential of their technology, which permanently converts industrial CO2 to low-carbon, ready-to-use cement products. That means CO2 that would otherwise be emitted into the atmosphere is transformed into a usable product, creating permanent and measurable CO2 mitigation. And with cement production alone responsible for 8% of total CO2 emissions globally, solutions for greener cement are urgently needed. Fortera’s carbon credits help fund the installation and operation of Fortera’s ReCarb® plants, creating an opportunity to achieve measurable climate impact at an industrial scale. Their credits will be listed under trusted registries and validated by third-party verification. See the links in the comments fields for more information. #VCM #voluntarycarbonmarkets #greencement

We’re excited to welcome Lilian W. to Wollemi as our global Impact Director. Lilian is an impact and responsible investment specialist, with more than 14 years of experience working with investors and corporates in Asia and Europe on assessing, managing and reporting environmental and social impacts. She joins Wollemi from Singapore-based boutique asset manager Arisaig Partners, where she led impact measurement and management as well as ESG integration and engagement with portfolio companies. Prior to that she spent a decade with PwC’s Sustainability & Climate Change consulting practice in London, advising a diverse range of clients on impact investing, international development, and sustainability reporting. Lilian is passionate about accelerating positive change through better understanding and communication of impact, and has contributed to a number of industry groups in support of that goal. That’s included sitting on the Advisory Council for the Net Zero Asset Managers initiative and various advisory bodies for the UN PRI and the Global Impact Investing Network. Based in Sydney, Lilian will be responsible for embedding impact into Wollemi’s investment decision making and portfolio management and continuing to evolve our impact strategy. This builds on the work already done to date in developing Wollemi’s Impact and ESG framework. #TeamWollemi #impact #climateimpact #ESG

Wollemi portfolio company Samsara Eco was at SXSW Sydney today with a powerful reminder that the world's current approach to plastics is a disaster not only for the #environment, but also our #climate. The Samsara team is on a mission to end plastic waste. Their pioneering innovations in the enzymatic #infiniterecyling of plastics bring us crucial steps closer to a world where the production of petroleum-based virgin plastics can become a thing of the past.

Scale is a prerequisite for any technology to achieve meaningful climate #impact. At Wollemi, we’re focused on bridging the climate growth capital gap, by providing flexible capital to businesses, developers and projects with technologies that are proven and at the inflection point ready for rapid scale-up. For many climate solutions attempting to make the transition from emerging to established there’s a global shortage of capital for whom they’re the right fit. Navigating this funding ‘valley of death’ between early stage venture capital and late-stage infrastructure investing is an existential imperative. The risks are particularly acute for First of a Kind (FOAK) technologies and projects, as they tackle the technical and logistical demands of commercialising and deploying their solutions at scale. Wollemi Director Natalie Volpe brings specialist expertise in this challenging but crucial space, with more than 12 years of experience in sustainable infrastructure investing and corporate strategy, and structuring innovative, non-dilutive growth financing solutions for climate tech companies. At next week’s TDK Ventures 100X event in Boston, you can hear Natalie as part of an impressive lineup of panellists sharing their thoughts on ‘FOAK & Overcoming the Valley of Death in Climate’. The panel is part of the 100X Energy Track, featuring insights into the future of the energy sector. Natalie will be joined by Dr Shreya Dave, co-founder and CEO of Via Separations Via Separations; Scott Clavenna, co-founder and CEO of Latitude Media, and KKR's co-head of global climate investments, Emmanuel Lagarrigue. See link in comments for more event information. #FOAK #NOAK #growthcapital #climateimpact #energy #climatetech #100X2024

There is growing global acknowledgement that nature needs to be integral to how we think about our climate and our economies in the future – informing how we assess risk, ascribe value, create policy and incentivise investment. Australia occupies a privileged position as a large and megadiverse landmass with enviable natural and financial wealth, yet it is simultaneously one of the most vulnerable developed countries to climate impact, with one of the world’s fastest rates of deforestation. Australia has the reason, relevance and resources to become a global leader in prioritising, protecting and investing in nature. At Wollemi, we’re specialist climate investors – and nature is increasingly at the centre of conversations about climate. As that conversation continues at the Global Nature Positive Summit 2024 in Sydney this week, we were delighted to participate in a discussion on ‘Investing in Nature Based Solutions & Projects’ which focused on some of the practical ways to turn intention into action. Wollemi Director Chris Thomas joined Janet Hallows of Carbon Market Institute (CMI), Climate Friendly Co-CEO Skye Glenday and moderator Peter Castellas of Climate Zeitgeist for a wide-ranging discussion which also explored a number of case studies of nature positive investments. It was an opportunity to showcase some of the work being done in collaboration with our amazing partners across Wollemi’s growing portfolio of nature-based projects in Australia, where we’ve invested more than A$50m in 10+ projects over the past 12 months. And as we look to the future, by pioneering nature-based solutions as an infrastructure-like asset class and enabling carbon developers to access scalable project-level funding, Wollemi is helping to accelerate capital deployment into this vital sector. #nature #climate #naturepositive #naturalcapital #naturebasedsolutions #carbon #reforestation

As the Global Nature Positive Summit 2024 kicks off in Sydney today, we’re excited to announce a project milestone that brings to life some of the work that Wollemi and our partners are doing at the intersection of #climate and #nature. At our large-scale native reforestation project in Northern NSW our carbon development partner, environmental plantings specialist Permagen, last week completed planting of 10+ mixed native species across an area more than 3x the size of Sydney’s CBD. In addition to generating an estimated 300,000+ high-integrity ACCUs over its lifetime, the project has the potential to deliver significant nature and #biodiversity co-benefits through the restoration of degraded land adjacent to Pilliga West National park which harbours multiple threatened and endangered species. To ensure we’re tracking and quantifying the #impact of these projects on nature and biodiversity, we’re working with leading biodiversity certification partners – and we look forward to sharing more details on that very soon. This project is part of Wollemi’s broader focus on natural capital and nature-based solutions. Over the past year, we’ve invested over A$50 million into natural capital, primarily through project-level funding to over 10 nature-based carbon projects across Australia. During that time we’ve built partnerships with multiple specialist developers, including Permagen, RegenCo and Carbon Neutral, to develop a diverse portfolio of projects which promise to generate meaningful impact for climate, nature and people. #naturepositive #naturebasedsolutions #naturalcapital #reforestation #plantings #environmentalplantings #carbon

It’s that time of year again: New York Climate Week! With more than 600 official events (and countless more on the fringes) it’s the largest annual climate event of its kind.   Bringing together climate investors, policymakers, solution providers and change agents from all over the world, it’s an invaluable opportunity to share ideas and shape solutions to some of the biggest challenges facing the climate space today and into the future.   Wollemi’s US team is there, and we’ll be sharing some highlights after climate week closes.   If you’re there this week and keen to know more about the future of voluntary carbon markets, ICVCM Board Member and Wollemi Senior Advisor Kavita Prakash-Mani is moderating a session on how new monitoring technologies, including Earth Observation and AI-supported carbon monitoring solutions, are helping project developers and buyers of carbon credits to unlock investment at scale for trustworthy forest conservation and restoration.   For more event details and to join the waitlist head to: https://lu.ma/mwdfwqoh   #NYClimateWeek #voluntarycarbonmarkets #VCM #forestcarbon #naturebasedsolutions The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (ICVCM)

Congratulations team Samsara Eco on this important award! At Wollemi we're proud to be supporting you in scaling up and commercialising your pioneering #infiniterecycling solutions, and excited to see growing global recognition of their huge potential. Today, less than 10% of the ~400 million tonnes of plastics produced each year - mostly from petroleum - are recycled. Whether in textiles or countless other applications, plastics have become an indispensable part of modern life. So solutions to accelerate the shift to a #circulareconomy are essential to mitigating the global #impact of plastic on both our climate and our environment.

Time for another instalment of 'Meet our people', an occasional series profiling #TeamWollemi members from around the world. Next up: Seattle-based Noah Walker. 𝗡𝗼𝗮𝗵 𝗪𝗮𝗹𝗸𝗲𝗿 Director, Seattle My role at Wollemi is… to co-lead our growing presence here in the Americas. I've been with Wollemi from the outset so it's exciting to see our US team now expanded to nine investment and sustainability professionals across Seattle, San Francisco and New York. I’m currently working with companies across a range of verticals including food & agriculture, natural capital, green molecules, and waste-to-value solutions in food, ag, metals, and minerals. In my previous life I… have worn quite a few different hats, but it all started with a baseball cap: my first job out of college was as an infielder in the first and only season of the Israel Professional Baseball League. Since then, the climate crisis has been the throughline of my career. That’s included working on environmental and natural resource policy in the US Senate, earning a Master's in Environmental Management and an MBA, and most recently a role at Indigo Ag, an agtech company focused on sustainability and farmer profitability. I also spent 5 years at Boston Consulting Group, including a year in Switzerland working with WWF and time in Sydney working on the first BCG Digital Ventures climate venture, where I worked with several members of what became the Wollemi founding team. The best thing I’ve read (or listened to) lately is… thanks to my kids. With two small children at home, I am revisiting wonderful children's books – and reading some newer ones – that inspire reverence for the natural world and our place in it. I particularly love Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney and Here We Are by Oliver Jeffers. Young kids are also why I now absorb a lot of information via podcast, so I'm grateful for all of the great climate-focused content that has emerged lately. I'm a loyal listener to Energy Gang, My Climate Journey, Catalyst, Volts, Zero, and Agtech – So What?, to name a few. I’m inspired by… independent thinkers who have the courage and tenacity to back their analysis and put their ideas into action to create a positive impact on the world. The founders and operators we work with fit this description. My Wollemi colleagues are people like this as well. My happy place is… Stehekin, Washington. It’s a small community in a river valley surrounded by the North Cascade Mountain range 25 miles from the nearest connected road. Whether you get there by boat or your own two feet, it is worth the trip.