“Financial secrecy not only continues to enable money laundering, drug trafficking and human rights’ abuses…below the surface of climate targets and exclusion policies there is a vast, largely untraceable flow of finance circulating through #fossilfuel company subsidiaries and ventures in secrecy jurisdictions.” Franziska Mager of the Tax Justice Network uncovers the secret pipeline of capital that banks and other financiers funnel toward fossil fuel projects and the risks it poses to the global financial system. “Financial regulators cannot fully appraise the direction, role and ultimate use of this financing, which presents a major risk to financial stability,” Mager says. Read it here!
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Global news and insights from independent journalists and climate entrepreneurs. #ClimateAndCapital
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Climate&Capital was conceived as a means to prompt meaningful action on climate issues. We’re here to inform, embolden, and connect a diverse, ever-growing cohort of entrepreneurs, executives, financiers, academics, investors, activists, NGOs, and policymakers — all of whom have a vested interest in building and influencing the climate economy. We know that’s a bold mission. But we’re living in an era of urgent transformation — one that demands individual and collective global action. To battle the climate crisis, we all must claim new responsibility — and be willing to operate on unfamiliar ground. This is about action for all, about dissolving national borders, and about giving new consideration to cooperation among institutions and corporations. Yes, we’re hopeful. We’re inspired by the change we see around us. Where others see darkness ahead, we remember the incredible leaps humankind has made in the face of adversity. Unlike other media companies, we’re climate-first. We don’t cover everything under the ESG sun; we focus on agents of change and the business of the climate economy. Indeed, that is more than everything. Because global warming touches everyone, everywhere. We believe the world of business and finance can do exactly what it should: direct capital toward climate solutions. Our job is to promote that process by informing, encouraging, and bringing together individuals and organizations engaged in developing climate solutions. The world has reached an unprecedented inflection point, and Climate&Capital endeavors to address the needs of this urgent transformation; to promote the remarkable individual and collective initiatives that have distinguished human development throughout history.
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David Garrison
Chief Brand Officer at 4800 Partners | Co-Founder of Climate & Capital | Creating high-impact brands, businesses, and professional networks
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Ingmar Rentzhog
Official Eco-warrior according to The Sun, Mark ZuckerVert according to France TV2.
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Jim Gold
Reporter, editor, story teller
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Kylie Ahern
I help scientists, technologists and changemakers accelerate their impact, funding and profile
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Murray Hogarth reports on the building momentum on nature based financing.
Director of Philanthropy @Ethinvest, Managing Editor, Climate & Capital Media & Founder, Climate Capital Forum (Aus)
Great piece by Murray Hogarth for Climate & Capital Media on the recent Nature Positive Summit in Sydney - "Four trendsetting tips to accelerate investment in 'nature positive' solutions - Australia hopes it’s successful hosting of the world’s first Global Nature Positive Summit will prop up its sagging climate credibility" tps://https://lnkd.in/gyCXhtum @naturepositivesummit Tanya Plibersek @conservation #environment #climate
Four trendsetting tips to accelerate investment in “nature positive” solutions
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Easily missed in the deluge: a new coalition of 40 green banks plans to accelerate distribution of $20B in grants that the U.S. announced earlier this year. Members of the U.S. Green Bank 50 (GB50) invested $10B in climate solutions in 2023. It now aims to help its member #green #banks tap $20B that the #BidenAdministration announced in April “to mobilize private capital and deliver #cleanenergy and #climatesolutions to communities across America.” See John Howell’s report unearthing this key #climateaction.
New bank coalition aims to amp up U.S. climate investment
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“Americans broadly believe big corporations and oil and gas companies are most responsible for causing #climatechange. Only 13% blame individual consumers for the #climatecrisis.” Our insatiable appetites for single-use coffee cups and plastic bottles, paper towels, multiple pairs of shoes – and our whole #consumereconomy – drive demand for #fossilfuels and #impact on our #environment. Multiple surveys find that a majority of Americans support sustainability and environmental protections. “Half of U.S. respondents are willing to abide by the vast majority of changes needed to restore our planet,” a Veolia survey found. And yet, “about 1.6 million trees are harvested yearly to produce @Starbucks’ single-use cups,” Peter McKillop writes in Climate & Capital Media. “If the sneaker industry were a country, it would be the 17th largest polluter globally.” See McKillop’s column discussing an uncomfortable, yet vital aspect of the #climatecrisis: the role that we consumers play every single day in accelerating #globalwarming.
Are you to blame for Helene and Milton?
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“Last chance tourism” - it sounds so exciting. See the world’s wonders before they disappear! But this phrase popping up in people’s news and social media feeds is also sobering, of course, and a warning sign. Is this really how we’ll handle the destruction of Nature’s wonders? See Blair Palese’s account of her (last chance?) visit to the stunning #GreatBarrierReef, which due to #oceanwarming is dying more quickly than models have forecast - of course. “The riot of color astounds. The size of the coral and the incredible varieties of species is truly like nothing else on earth,” Palese writes. “With a bit more appreciation of that, we might just break out of the business-as-usual attitude that’s producing the destruction.”
Australia’s Great Barrier Reef… one last look?
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Can the energy industry succeed in adapting during these volatile times to drive #decarbonisation, enhance energy security, and capitalise on the profit-boosting opportunities of the #greeneconomy? At the upcoming Financial Times Energy Transition Summit, representatives of the public and private sectors will expound on the challenges facing the energy industry as it moves towards decarbonization, while also discerning what our elected leaders must do to better facilitate this transformation. Climate & Capital Media is thrilled to be a supporter of the event. We hope you will join us! Register here: https://bit.ly/3AWtYjs – Save 20% with code CLIMATE #FTEnergy
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“So many elected officials that I'm advising or speaking to, they're saying to me, ‘Well, what is the #sustainable #blueeconomy? And what does this mean?’” Daniela V. Fernandez of Sustainable Ocean Alliance, which has invested in 65 early stage “ocean impact” companies. “There is a significant education gap in the policy space – we have to get our politicians up to speed as to what innovation means and how it can actually help support not only consumers, but investors as well,” Fernandez said during a discussion of blue/green #investing challenges and opportunities at #TheLotosClub. “The (#startup) pipeline is really strong…the challenge is how can we support these companies to get the financing they need to get implemented, to get bought out to emerge in different economies?” Fernandez said on a panel moderated by Barclay Palmer of Climate & Capital Media that included Colin le Duc of Generation Investment Management, Nik Mittal of Molecule Ventures and Jay Lipman of Ethic. “Looking at the journeys of the companies we have been supporting, what we have to realize is that they're overcoming significant challenges, because not only are they trying to create a business model that works, they're also trying to convince industries that don't even know that they need to change, that they have to change.” The discussion was sponsored by Sustainable Ocean Alliance and Sankari Studios, creator of the #Katoa gaming app designed to engage players in restoring the Great Barrier Reef. Victoria Raiser, Eli Flournoy, Media Growth Partners, Returnity Innovations, Oneka Technologies, Desolenator, FlexSea rePurpose Global Oshi INVERSA Leathers Oceanworks® ARC Marine® Great Barrier Reef Foundation
Founder & CEO of Sustainable Ocean Alliance | Ocean Investor | LinkedIn Top Voice | Forbes 30 Under 30
#ICYMI, for the first time in recorded human history, global temperatures exceeded 1.5º Celcius of warming above the pre-industrial average for 12 consecutive months this last year. This landmark moment hasn’t gotten nearly enough attention. Large Ocean States (LOS), Indigenous, and coastal communities cannot continue raising awareness and advocating alone. Hurricane Helene’s devastating 500-mile path of destruction is waking the world up to the grim reality that extreme, climate-change-driven weather is here, is deadly, and can ravage even presumed climate ‘safe havens’. Beyond emergency response funding, it’s evident that we need proactive investments to accelerate innovation, adaptation, and mitigation for our rapidly changing planet and ocean. This clear and present need for an immense influx of catalytic capital was a central message of our recent Sustainable Ocean Alliance x Sankari Studios event at the historic The Lotos Club during #ClimateWeekNYC. In a conversation moderated by Barclay Palmer of Climate & Capital Media, fellow panelists Jay Lipman of Ethic, Colin le Duc of Generation Investment Management, Nik Mittal of Molecule Ventures, and I discussed the missing variable in the asset class equation—“return on impact.” Philanthropy driving change from within is necessary in order to expand upon the current, limiting principles underpinning institutional finance (managing risk, generating return on investments, etc.). If the largest inventors in the world shifted their thesis and allocated a mere 2% of their portfolios to nature-based solutions, we’d effectively close the trillion-dollar finance gap. Thank you to Returnity Innovations, Oneka Technologies, Desolenator, FlexSea, rePurpose Global, Oshi, INVERSA Leathers, Oceanworks®, and ARC Marine® for joining our event and showcasing your solutions that investors can help scale. Lastly, to the 80 asset managers, philanthropic capital holders, and family office representatives in attendance, and to you, the reader, thank you for being the change we need. Please share this post so EVERYONE knows what we’re up against and the funding that is required!
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We are pleased to partner with the Financial Times Energy Transition Summit, in person & digital, October 22-24, 2024. Join us! The summit will provide insights on navigating a complex geopolitical backdrop and accelerating a secure, affordable and sustainable #energytransition. Register here: https://bit.ly/3AWtYjs – Save 20% with code CLIMATE #FTEnergy Hear from 100 expert speakers, including CEOs from ENGIE, National Grid, OMV Petrom, Centrica and more, as well as the former UK Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary. The scale-up of #cleanenergy and #electrification offers a clear path to #decarbonization. However, there is still a significant gap between today’s action on net-zero pledges and limiting 1.5 degrees of warming. Global market shocks have highlighted the fragility of the current system, and governments have responded with protectionist policies. Can the #energyindustry succeed in adapting during these volatile times?
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“They had found it all: a deep blue city in the South with near-perfect weather, low taxes...#HurricaneHelene was certainly not what these retirees signed up for.” In his weekly column, Peter McKillop highlights the fact that despite Helene’s devastation of the American South, this latest instance of increasingly #extremeweather “will most likely lead Asheville not on a path of permanent change but — like other climate-induced disasters from Maui to Sonoma — will be more bump than disaster.” Why? Ironically: “human resilience…our greatest strength — and our biggest enemy…No storm, no matter how bad, can dent the human appetite to achieve what we desire.” “The endless rebuilding of evolving civilizations has allowed humans to make spectacular advances, but it has also created a false sense of complacency. Despite the growing inconvenience of extreme weather caused by #climatechange, the fate of the #Earth will always be another generation’s problem.” This complacency explains why vacant lots on Sanibel island in Florida are now higher priced than they were before #HurricaneIan swept through in 2022. See McKillop’s explanation of why, “without the show-stopping finale of a thermonuclear war,” our increasingly destructive and costly extreme weather “does not feel like an existential threat…It feels like it’s basically normal.” FEMA NOAA: National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration Blair Palese Barclay Palmer #NorthCarolina #DisasterRelief
We all live in Asheville
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Do #climateactivists help or hurt the drive toward a more #sustainableeconomy? Nik Mittal explained why activists play a crucial role not just in influencing policy, but also #WallStreet - and the economy itself. “Without the Sunrise Movement, there is no #GreenNewDeal. Without the Green New Deal, there is no #InflationReductionAct. And without the Inflation Reduction Act, we don’t get anywhere near our #2030 goals,” Mittall, managing partner At Molecule Ventures said at a #ClimateWeekNYC #natureinvesting talk. “Not to mention jump-starting American #manufacturing the way the IRA has,” Barclay Palmer added, moderating…. But the key, Mittal says, is policy. “We must have policy, and policy begins with our #electedleaders. So we have to put in place elected officials that will write the policy that supports the #future we want to build,” he says. Daniela V. Fernandez of the Sustainable Ocean Alliance urged the #investmentcommunity to help educate policymakers about the vast risks posed by continued #oceanwarming and #sealevelrise - while also highlighting the extraordinary solutions that #SOA and #venturecapital are backing… “There is a significant education gap in the policy space – we have to get our politicians up to speed as to what #innovation means and how it can actually help support not only #consumers, but #investors as well.” Anna Gelderd Rexanne Martin Brandon Ross Levy Victoria Raiser Catherine Von Burg Jared Vere Kari Huus The Climate Reality Project Green Central Banking Cabot Brown Live The Process Jamie Woolley Eli Flournoy Moriah Costa Jennifer Colletti Brandon Ross Levy Katy Lee James North Blair Palese Peter McKillop