Ambitious climate goals can help drive action, but they can’t always be met. What should companies do when their efforts fall short? In the past few decades, we’ve seen remarkable progress in the public acknowledgement of climate action as an important business imperative. As someone who’s been working in the sustainable business space since before
Above image: Google Partners for renewable energy with NextEra Energy Artificial intelligence (AI) may be software, but it is built from hardware: steel, copper, concrete, and energy. Every search query, AI-generated image or digital transaction routes through a data center, the brick-and-mortar to the cloud. These facilities, ranging from modest colocation sites to sprawling hyperscale
Above Illustration: Krill don’t produce their own omega-3s; instead, they obtain them by consuming algae, which synthesizes the essential fatty acids. Whales, seals, penguins and countless other species depend on these organisms for survival. To the far south, in the icy ancient waters around Antarctica, the largest climate catastrophe in the history of our planet
Above image: Kunduchi, Tanzania – photo courtesy of ORRAA A Turning Tide in Climate Finance A regenerative and sustainable blue economy represents a trillion-dollar frontier investment opportunity with the potential to generate significant returns for investors while advancing social and environmental goals. The importance of coastal and ocean ecosystems to the global economy cannot
Why the damage from extreme weather is a profit center, and not a risk for insurers. Here is a climate finance riddle. Why are insurance companies posting record profits even as climate-related losses from natural disasters reach historic highs? Despite a $182 billion price tag for losses due to weather-related disasters in the US last
The changing climate is inextricably linked with our capital markets. In the face of this rapidly changing reality, economists are scrambling to price its impacts into financial models. It’s increasingly clear that many of the constants we once relied on — energy, water, homes, insurance, and public safety — are now unpredictable variables with climate-related
These 30 young business leaders are transforming climate action at companies like Expedia, Kohler, Patagonia and UPS. Young professionals today are channeling climate concerns into unprecedented corporate leadership and innovation. What sets apart our 10th annual list of Trellis 30 Under 30 rising stars in climate this year is their ability to turn sustainability efforts
Pictured above: Karen Ellis, chief economist at WWF-UK, discusses the focus on nature at London Climate Action Week, at a reception hosted by MSCI. Key Findings • Discussions stressed the need for risk-adjusted returns while financing decarbonization. Investors diverged on the impact of U.S. policy shifts but agreed that falling clean-technology costs are creating opportunities
Above aerial photograph of the 2019 Global Climate strike in Barcelona, Spain When Alba Forns (Co-Founder and COO) and I, Will Wiseman (Co-Founder and CEO), started Climatize, we didn’t want to build another investing platform. After joining 100,000 people at the 2019 Global Climate strikes, we felt the power of being part of a movement.
When asked about her experience as a female operating in the building energy sector which is mostly dominated by men, Lucy Lyons, co-founder and CEO of Kestrix describes a mostly positive one. Investors are “more excited to talk to me because I’m a female founder,” she said. “Yes, I’m a woman, but I’m a woman that venture capital dudes can relate to.”
