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Our 2024 Climate FinTech report is out now! This time it includes: 🏆the climate fintech 50 - profiles of the leading climate fintechs 📊 funding data analysis - how did climate fintech funding perform in 2023? 🔎 deep dives on sub-sectors - what space attracted the most funding? To access the full report click the link in the comments. A huge thank you to all founders and operators making a real difference in the space and their contribution to this piece. 🙌 Opna , ERS - Ecosystem Restoration Standard, Arbonics, Mantle Labs, Klimate.co, Ostrom, Cloover, Doconomy, Coolset, Tanso, Climate X, Atlas Metrics, mavue, WeeFin, Briink, Treefera, Chloris Geospatial, Orbio Earth (YC S23), ClimateView, Pivotal Future, NatureMetrics, Nala Earth, Carbon Equity CommerzVentures #climatefintech #climate #fintech #vc #climatefintech50

Hemma will be participating the upcoming Nordic Climate Fintech Demo Day at Copenhagen Fintech on the 20th of March! At this event, we'll be joining banks and other organizations in exploring the intersection of climate action, technology, and financial services. Looking forward meeting you there and discuss how we collectively can drive decarbonization efforts and accelerate the transition to a low-carbon economy. #ClimateAction #Fintech #Sustainability #NordicInnovation

Impactful and Bankable overlap, but what do we do with the things that don't? At the World Economic Forum yesterday, Metabolic convened a series of conversations examining both. I hosted the panel on the overlap called "Shaping Financial Infrastructure to Unlock the Flow of Capital" with systems thinker and provacteur Sandrine Dixson-Declève, financial engineer and tactician Rhian-Mari Thomas OBE, and hardtech scaler extraordinaire Naresh Shanker. The Second Panel, "Reimagining Capital for a Just and Sustainable World" explored how we implement things that may never be financable with only money. What other types of capital systems can we imagine to remind us of We'll be back with more on The Missing Trillions. Let me know if you want to get involved! “If you envision a venn diagram with projects that are Bankable on the one side, and on the other projects that are Impactful; the overlap between these two sides is relatively small. We need to first figure out how to increase the size of the overlap, and second develop models of how capital can be reimagined for the portions that may never overlap” - Eva Gladek Thanks to our inspring collaborators: Climate-KIC, Reos Partners, The B Team, Dark Matter Labs, Bankers without Boundaries, Pyxera Global, and The Club of Rome. Big thanks Serena Joury and Melody Song; and ultimately I owe Murray Gray more capital than I can ever repay for making the event a smashing success. #wef2024, #davos, #themissingtrillions, #sustainablefinance #loanguarantees #structuredfinance #naturalcapital #naturebasedsolutions #dialogue Klaus Schwab

Exciting news! We are proud to announce that we have been listed as one of the most influential financial technology firms of 2024 in the Financial Technologist Magazine by Harrington Starr for the 7th consecutive year! We would like to thank our partners, clients and everyone who has supported us along the way. The road to Net Zero is indeed a long one and we look forward to the exciting new climate fintech opportunities that await us. #Fintech #ZERO13 #NetZero #TheFinancialTechnologist #ClimateFintech

📰 "There are a lot of great ideas, a lot of great products, but scaling them successfully is the challenge. Give yourself enough time and buffer to build what you have a vision for." Kayode Akinola, Head of Private Equity recently spoke with Axios to discuss what trends he's seeing in the climate investment market, why climate-tech matters, and what goes unnoticed. 📎 Read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/efvZiDX2 #impactinvesting #unsdgs #privatemarkets #makingaworldofdifference #totalimpact

Download our Climate FinTech thesis 👇 where we delve into the promising prospects at the crossroads of fintech and climate tech, offering key insights into aiding the transition to a net-zero future!

In our Climate FinTech innovation thesis in partnership with Rainmaking we share how Climate FinTech has the potential to overcome some of the barriers to the transition to a low carbon economy. Further, we believe that one Climate FinTech category, direct mitigation, has the biggest unrealised potential, where fintech can be used to make the financing and adoption of low carbon solutions far simpler for people and businesses. Learn more in our thesis here: http://ms.spr.ly/6044i7Nha #ClimateFinTech #FinTechSolutions

Thank you to everyone who came to our Green Horizons: Convergence of Finance, Technology & Sustainability roundtable event today, jointly organised by ZERO13, Datapod, IOSS Solutions, and Stone Mattered Holdings. There were some very interesting insights about the opportunities and challenges associated with #climatemarkets and #sustainability ecosystems. Some key discussion points from the event: 🌱 Provenance is crucial – high quality doesn't mean integrity, and is required for output and compliance, which is where technology comes into play. 🌱 How to de-risk the mindset, whether it's on the regulatory side, the policy side, the investor side, and how do we create that kind of trust and compliance? 🌱 Banks need to change the model for lending for carbon related projects as the traditional lending model is not fit for purpose 🌱 We need to understand carbon market sensitivity, and the market has to evolve to factor in the data from source to trade, otherwise scams and greenwashing will be more prevalent. 🌱 Evolving past the era of executing top-down rules as a method of carbon reducing mechanism, where people comply with those rules without understanding them. On the other hand, the Paris Agreement adopts a bottom-up approach, where each country is responsible for their own emission reductions. 🌱 Better education is essential to democratise the climate market and to ensure it is inclusive, which will in turn grow investment. 🌱 We must ensure authenticity when we integrate source and veracity into a blockchain, into projects or into verification in climate markets otherwise it is just garbage in and garbage out. 🌱 Our lack of connectedness in digital technologies and our inability at handling cross-jurisdictional regulatory standards and compliance are holding the market back. Interoperability is very much needed enabled by technology across APIs and blockchains. We had a really great turnout and I'm excited for what's to come as we work towards building a more sustainable future by converging technology and sustainability. 🌍 #CarbonMarkets #GreenFinance #ClimateFinance #ClimateFintech Velle Niqo Tay - Entrepreneur•Advisor•CEO•CBO-CMO ESG, DC Solutions, Smart Tech Lincoln T. Zhang Weiming Professor Lisa Wilson Ashley Wilson

I'm happy to share that I participated virtually #YOUTHSUMMIT2024 organized by @WORLD BANK group with theme "Powering Progress: Youth Leading the Digital Transformation". It was was quite impressive, with a focus on youth-led digital transformation, and it was full of inspiring conversations, global young, and friendship. We discussed topics related to artificial intelligence, sustainable technology for a livable planet, and digital access and inclusion. #worldbankgroup #youthsummit2024 #sustainableplanet

Former French President François Hollande delivered an inspiring keynote at Money20/20 today, sharing his vision for Europe's tech future: 👉 Europe must unify to build a dominant market, raising substantial funds for a robust capital market. 👉 AI presents opportunities and challenges, requiring rules for privacy while fostering innovation. 👉 Climate change is a major challenge and opportunity; investing in green techs is crucial for meeting our climate goals. He said that green fintechs are crucial to succeed and transition and hit goals for climate agreement. Stay tuned for more insights. #Money2020 #M2020 #GreenFintech #ClimateAction