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✨Premier Event you dont want to miss out✨ Hurricane Beryl may have passed, but the stormy weather of climate change remains. The crisis demands a paradigm shift in how we deploy capital. Women investors are poised to play a pivotal role in this transformation, leveraging their unique perspectives and risk tolerance to drive innovation and returns. Join us on Wednesday, 📆 July 17th as we co-host a high-impact gathering of women investors, allocators, and founders shaping the climate tech landscape alongside our founding partner Nada Ahmed . Together with Alita Carbone at Impact Science Ventures , Deanna Zhang at V1 Climate Solutions , and Energy Tech Nexus , we'll unlock the power of women's leadership in climate tech. This is open to anyone who supports women investors in climate. Come meet other supporters and hear about the latest women-led funds, deals, and opportunities in climate tech. We'll brainstorm ways to help others in the room and beyond! Register here: https://loom.ly/LFSzdf4 Let's harness the potential of women investors to decarbonize industries, electrify economies, and create a climate-resilient future! #WomenInClimate #ClimateTech #ImpactInvesting #CleanTech #EnergyTech

Are you the sustainability person among your friends or family? Do you love climatetech VC? Do you sometimes wish you had all the right data points to tell your tablemates on climatetech VC? Well, I gathered them for you... 1. The global climatetech VC investments in 2023 totalled approx. $32bn 💰 2. Seed stage in climatetech was the only resilient stage in climatetech not decreasing in size 🌱 3. The largest climatetech fundraising in 2023 was H2 Green Steel’s, worth $1.6bn 🔝 4. Most climatetech VC investments focus on three sectors: Transportation 🚆, Energy ⚡, and Food & Land Use 🌾 5. Climatetech VC investments overfund certain sectors. For example, Transportation represents 41% of climate investments since 2020 but only 15% of emission sources 📈 6. Approximately 50% of climatetech VC investments are directed towards hardware 🛠️ You can read more quick facts and see the graphs behind the numbers at https://lnkd.in/esfeW3hy

CEOs of climate tech companies are crucial to climate action as they steer their organisations toward developing and scaling innovative solutions for environmental challenges.  Their leadership not only shapes the strategic direction and vision of their companies but also influences how effectively these technologies are brought to market. Here are 10 CEOs in climate tech you should know about in 2024: 1. Ian Learmonth, CEO Clean Energy Finance Corporation. 2. Peter Bakker, CEO and President, WBCSD – World Business Council for Sustainable Development. 3. Anna Borg, President and CEO, Vattenfall. 4. Josh Tetrick, CEO and co-founder Eat Just, Inc. 5. Mateo Jaramillo, CEO and co-founder Form Energy. 6. Edda Aradottir, CEO Carbfix. 7. Jennifer Holmgren, CEO LanzaTech. 8. Bhavish Aggarwal, CEO and co-founder Ola. 9. Tamara Lundgren, CEO Radius Recycling. 10. Kidus Asfaw, CEO & Founder at Kubik, Inc. #ClimateTech #Sustainability #CleanEnergy #InnovativeSolutions #GreenLeadership #ImpactInvesting #RenewableEnergy #CarbonCapture #SustainableBusiness #ClimateAction

Climate talent scout: Meet the investor backing cutting-edge green tech. So pleased to have Meghan Sharp, PhD MBA as my guest on the latest #GreenPulse podcast for The Straits Times. Meghan is global head and chief investment officer of Decarbonization Partners, BlackRock and Temasek's JV investing in the next generation of decarbonization solutions. Meghan explains the investment rationale for Decarbonization Partners and outlines some of the companies they've invested in to date, with those investments aimed to scale-up already proven technology that needs a final financial push to really take off. And there is some pretty amazing technology out there, giving hope that we have the talent and the means to make deep cuts to greenhouse gas emissions if investors really get behind the fight against #fossilfuel pollution and #climatechange So far, Decarbonization Partners has invested in seven companies and is aiming to raise that to 20 for its first investment fund, which closed its fundraising a few weeks ago, reaching US$1.4 billion -- exceeding the US$1 billion goal. And there are plans for more funds for the future. #Decarbonisation #GreenTech #JustTransition #RenewableEnergy #EVs #EnergyStorage #Batteries #ImpactInvesting #sustaintability #podcasts #SciComms #DecarbonizationPartners #Singapore Take a listen here: https://lnkd.in/g8vSY6dC

A quite oversimplified description of current environmental wars: - #energy is winning business adoption as corporations align on their own market demands (car makers typically). See what International Energy Agency (IEA)) top executive wrote a few days ago about just that. - #carbon is winning persistent venture capital adoption and innovation financing is to create new product offerings that are carbon reasonable on all business verticals for them to be adopted by public and private players through their procurement choices. And some corporations like Meta even advocate for certificates to be issued in a a recognition of financing efforts of the kind through hashtag #cvc or business net-zero stratégies. A revised ecosystemic realistic and needed enrichment of 20-years old now Scope3 approach. - #water beneficiates from 40 times less venture financing than carbon but interest is growing as recognition of the water-energy-connectivity #nexus progresses. And it look like it is winning through rapidly expanding #cooperation projects frameworks now (in the US, Africa). A way to account for water specific materiality, its fundamental nature and hopefully immaterial heritage attached to it. Races on business adoption, increasing venture financing, realigning of net-zero grammars, business open cooperations: an extended keyword is useful to play environmental games of tomorrow. I feel that corporations and public entities should therefore train their workforce and leaders accordingly and align their impact strategies. See this nice FT Strategies paper for more on some of the above.

Our latest article about scaling climate tech is here! It draws on insights from 100+ #investor / entrepreneur interviews. The take away? It's time to break down silos and forge new paths to scale climate tech. With 2024 on track to be among the hottest on record, the time to scale climate solutions is now. At #BCG, we're dedicated to accelerating #green businesses, be they corporate- or sponsor-owned. Why? The technologies are ready—renewables, carbon capture, smart grids, and more. They hold immense potential but face significant barriers, particularly in how investments are made. Too often, investments are made in silos, which stifles innovation and collaboration. We need a unified approach to propel these crucial technologies forward. 🚀 Special thanks to my co-authors and the team at Elemental Excelerator for their insights and dedication. Dawn Lippert, Melissa Uhl, Saritha Peruri, Avra van der Zee, Natalie Volpe, Parham Peiroo, Veronica Chau, Katie Hill, Raju Sarma, Michael Bernstein Danya Hakeem Let’s start a conversation! What are your thoughts on overcoming these investment challenges? How can we collaborate to ensure a sustainable future? #ClimateChange #Innovation #SustainableInvestment #TechnologyScaling #ElementalExcelerator #BCG

A quite oversimplified description of current environmental wars: - #energy is winning business adoption as corporations align on their own market demands (car makers typically). See what International Energy Agency (IEA) top executive wrote a few days ago about just that. - #carbon is winning persistent venture capital adoption and innovation financing is to create new product offerings that are carbon reasonable on all business verticals for them to be adopted by public and private players through their procurement choices. And some corporations like Meta even advocate for certificates to be issued in a a recognition of financing efforts of the kind through #cvc or business net-zero stratégies. A revised ecosystemic realistic and needed enrichment of 20-years old now Scope3 approach. - #water beneficiates from 40 times less venture financing than carbon but interest is growing as recognition of the water-energy-connectivity #nexus progresses. And it look like it is winning through rapidly expanding #cooperation projects frameworks now (in the US, Africa). A way to account for water specific materiality, it fundamental nature and hopefully immaterial heritage attached to it. Races on business adoption, increasing venture financing, realigning of net-zero grammars, business open cooperations: an extended keyword is useful to play environmental games of tomorrow. Corporations and public entities should train their workforce and leaders accordingly and align their impact strategies. See this nice FT Strategies paper for more on some of the above.

I have two vital questions for all the #sustainabilityleaders deeply passionate about enhancing positive impact within their organizations: 1) Are you eager to #quantify your impacts to the fullest extent? 2)And, how do you ensure #transparency for your stakeholders? 📢Feel free to comment. Your insights and experiences in these areas will undoubtedly contribute to the collective journey toward a more sustainable and transparent future.

Join EVERITY in reshaping the future of energy infrastructure toward a responsible investment. With EVERITY, you will align your decisions and actions with UN SDGs for each project and, more globally, for the whole company💡 "Ready to Drive Change? Connect with EVERITY Today!" #SustainableFuture #EverityforImpact #UNSDGs #EnergyTransition #ResponsibleInvestment

Excited about the flow of investment into impact and regenerative organisations in particular, but with this greater flow of funds we need greatrer maturity in the ecosystem, we need to build the dialogue between investors and projects to ensure we don't end up in greenwashing and we can actually compare impact between different kinds of approaches.