The Climate VC community faces the tough task of proving real impact. Screening and evaluating climate effects remains complex, with many metrics still unclear. Read our latest report with Princeville Capital: https://lnkd.in/e3Vq9W5k 🌈 #CCSIonSDGAlignedBusinessAndFinance In this report we are offering insights into the issues that haven’t hit consensus yet: ❕ Attribution and baselining ❕ Paris-aligned thresholds for prioritization ❕ Indirect impact and tailored KPIs ❕ Adaptation investment thesis and scorecard We invite you to check our latest publication on the topic and share feedback or start a thread here! Perrine Toledano | Ajay Jagdish | Ana Maria Camelo Vega Special thanks to Eric Kosmowski, Ugo Catry and Luca Harrichhausen at Princeville Capital for their support and trust all along the project. Special thanks to Saurabh K. | Joseph Weiler | Wynston Reed | Morgan Sheil | Anant Udpa for peer-review or in-depth conversations. ArcTern Ventures, Blue Earth Capital AG, Cannonade Capital, Clean Energy Ventures, Closed Loop Partners, Collaborative Fund, Congruent Ventures, Ecosystem Integrity Fund, Energy Impact Partners, FullCycle, Galvanize Climate Solutions, Mirova, OIC, Piva Capital, Project Frame, SJF Ventures, The Rockefeller Foundation, Superorganism, Valo Ventures, Bezos Earth Fund, Venture Climate Alliance #ClimateTech #VentureCapital #VC #ClimateMetrics
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The Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI), a joint center of Columbia Law School and the Earth Institute at Columbia University, is the only university-based applied research center and forum dedicated to the study, practice and discussion of sustainable international investment.
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⚖ ⛏ My colleague Madeleine S. and I published in March this year a Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment blog that delves into the impact of investor–state dispute settlement (ISDS) on mining governance for critical minerals. We emphasized that ISDS based on investment treaties or contracts poses risks and costs to resource-rich countries that need to develop or strengthen their policy and legal frameworks related to the mining sector. 🎉 We are thrilled to see that 210 Indigenous Peoples groups, unions, labor activists, and climate, environmental justice, child rights, and human rights organizations have issued "Principles to Ensure Energy Transition Minerals Advance Justice, Equity, and Human Rights" to help guide the United Nations Secretary-General’s Panel on Critical Energy Transition Minerals. Their principles echo our research-based recommendations to withdraw from or terminate agreements that provide for ISDS. 📚 Read our analysis and recommendations: How ISDS Interferes with the Governance of Critical Minerals for a Just Energy Transition—And What to Do About It – https://lnkd.in/e66BgQEG 🌐 Check out the civil society principles – https://lnkd.in/ejZ-ZjV9 The Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment continues to work in building capacity in resource-rich governments to leverage the increased demand for their mineral resources into sustainable development, and to curb ISDS risks and costs. Read more about our work: https://lnkd.in/eFU6wbmg #EnergyTransition #Mining #MiningGovernance #ISDS #HumanRights #ClimateJustice #JustTransition Columbia University | Columbia Law School | Columbia Climate School | Sabin Center for Climate Change Law | SOMO | Bart-Jaap Verbeek | Lisa Sachs | Perrine Toledano | Martin Dietrich Brauch | Madeleine S. | Ladan Mehranvar | António Guterres
All eyes are on the UNSG's Critical Energy Transition Minerals panel this week👀 🤝 To help guide the UN Secretary-General’s Panel on Critical Energy Transition Minerals, 210 Indigenous Peoples groups, unions, climate and environmental justice, child rights and human rights organisations have developed recommendations. 📜 We call on the UNSG Panel to adopt a transformative approach to transition minerals that contributes to a fairer world 🔗 Read the recommendations here: https://lnkd.in/dCDsw7it 🚨 In April 2024, UN Secretary General António Guterres launched a Panel on Critical Energy Transition Minerals to develop global principles to guide governments and companies. 🌍 🌐 This Panel has the opportunity to develop global principles to ensure that supplying the minerals needed to phase out fossil fuels don’t undermine justice, equity, and human rights. 🌱 To contribute to a just and equitable transition, those who extract and process minerals must respect the rights of Indigenous Peoples, communities and workers; protect water, biodiversity, and ecosystems across the world. 💧It is crucial to ensure producer countries and communities retain more of the value of resource development and see drastic increases in access to energy and fulfilment of all economic and social rights. 🗣️ The voices of communities, Indigenous leaders, women, and those with limited access to energy should be at the heart of these policies, including decisions on whether and on what terms extraction should proceed. EARTHWORKS Climate Action Network International Natural Resource Governance Institute SIRGE Coalition Human Rights Watch Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
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The heavy industry sector accounts for 25% of total CO2 emissions annually and is poised to see an increased demand for materials through 2050. Read our latest report introducing a market mechanism designed to finance the sector's transition to low-emission technologies. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/eYrxePRk 🚨 #CCSIonClimateChange 🔩 The urgency to shift towards low-emission technologies in industries like steelmaking has never been more critical. 🌱 Our latest research introduces a pioneering dual-market mechanism aimed at supporting the transition from traditional steelmaking methods (BF-BOF) to greener, more sustainable processes (DRI-EAF). This innovative mechanism features a Green Steel Certificate (GSC) bundled with a Virtual Offtake Agreement for Steel (VOAS), designed to ensure real and substantial emissions reductions. 📈 By integrating these tools, our mechanism verifies the emissions intensity of steel produced and facilitates Scope 3 emissions reduction claims for buyers. Coupling these certificates with long-term virtual offtake agreements guarantees consistent funding, encouraging investments in new decarbonization technologies. 💡 Dive into our publication to discover how the GSC and VOAS can synergize to foster a robust, transparent, and financially viable market for green steel, setting new standards in environmental integrity and additionality. #GreenSteel #HeavyIndustryDecarbonization #ClimateAction #Innovation #ClimateChange Huge thanks to RMI, especially to Lachlan Wright, for their support throughout the design and drafting of this report! We would also like to thank Sam Bartlett, Laura Hutchinson, Helen Burmeister, Bogi Højgaard CFA, Hugo Da Gama Campos, Jean-Philippe Brisson, Kobi Weinberg, Jared Westheim, Hitoshi Dohnomae, Tokutaro Nakai, Stephanie Hanford and Arnaud Filliol for contributing their multidisciplinary expertise and knowledge, which made this report possible. Special thanks to Tiffany Vass for serving as peer reviewer of our publication. Laura Garcia Cancino | Perrine Toledano | Martin Dietrich Brauch | Ben Baraga | Lisa Sachs
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DEADLINE TO APPLY IS TODAY ❗ Be sure to submit your application to participate in our upcoming Executive Training on Investment Treaties and Arbitration for Government Officials TODAY ⭐
The DEADLINE to apply for our Executive Training on Investment Treaties and Arbitration for Government Officials is in ONE WEEK! The training will be held virtually, 9:00 am-11:30 am EDT, from September 9-13, 2024: https://lnkd.in/efhsiVJz This course is designed for government officials facing complex and pressing issues relating to international investment treaties, including the consideration of unilateral and multilateral reform options. The course will address: 👩⚖️ States’ objectives in their investment policy 📜 Links between treaties, investment flows, and development objectives ⚖ Investor-state dispute settlement, and the concerns of states ✍ Trends and developments in treaty practice 🏛 Opportunities and challenges facing governments in treaty reform, 🌍 And other approaches to investment governance, including dispute prevention and alternatives to ISDS. Through five 2.5 hour online sessions, government officials will gain a broad knowledge of investment treaty practice and governance and how new developments in the field apply to their own national governance structures and existing agreements, better equipping them to navigate this complex and continuously evolving field. APPLY BY July 15, 2024! Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. Columbia University | Columbia Law School | Lisa Sachs | Ladan Mehranvar | Martin Dietrich Brauch | Paulo Cunha | Madeleine S. | Chris Albin-Lackey
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🌈 #CCSIonSDGAlignedBusinessAndFinance It’s not greenwashing when there’s real action being taken by real companies toward creating a more #CircularEconomy. In our recent report commissioned by Stewart Investors, we examined the circularity practices of 50 companies in the industrial goods sector, and found 29 with interesting examples in their public reporting. Find public reporting examples from Bosch, Hilti Group, ABB, and Daikin Industries, Ltd. and much more in our report: https://lnkd.in/ebWB7fKR Stewart Investors | Lisa Sachs | Columbia University | Columbia Law School | Columbia Climate School | Chris Albin-Lackey | Madeleine S.
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We’re excited about our collaboration with Man Group on new methods and methodologies to increase finance for climate solutions! Perrine Toledano spoke in London last week at their event on "Defining Climate Impact in Investment Portfolios", discussing a science-based capital allocation compass for decarbonization. This partnership highlights the power of academic-industry teamwork in pushing climate finance forward. Big thanks to Robert Furdak, Christina Bastin, Matt Goldklang, and Jane Smyth for trusting us!
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The DEADLINE to apply for our Executive Training on Investment Treaties and Arbitration for Government Officials is in ONE WEEK! The training will be held virtually, 9:00 am-11:30 am EDT, from September 9-13, 2024: https://lnkd.in/efhsiVJz This course is designed for government officials facing complex and pressing issues relating to international investment treaties, including the consideration of unilateral and multilateral reform options. The course will address: 👩⚖️ States’ objectives in their investment policy 📜 Links between treaties, investment flows, and development objectives ⚖ Investor-state dispute settlement, and the concerns of states ✍ Trends and developments in treaty practice 🏛 Opportunities and challenges facing governments in treaty reform, 🌍 And other approaches to investment governance, including dispute prevention and alternatives to ISDS. Through five 2.5 hour online sessions, government officials will gain a broad knowledge of investment treaty practice and governance and how new developments in the field apply to their own national governance structures and existing agreements, better equipping them to navigate this complex and continuously evolving field. APPLY BY July 15, 2024! Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. Columbia University | Columbia Law School | Lisa Sachs | Ladan Mehranvar | Martin Dietrich Brauch | Paulo Cunha | Madeleine S. | Chris Albin-Lackey
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ISDS makes it difficult and costly for resource-rich countries to develop or strengthen their policy and legal frameworks for the governance of critical minerals needed for the energy transition. ⛏️⚡️🏛️💸 Read more in Elizabeth Meager’s piece on the Financial Times’ Sustainable Views and in our research piece published by the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment: https://lnkd.in/e66BgQEG Columbia Law School | Columbia Climate School | Columbia University | Sabin Center for Climate Change Law | Madeleine S. | Ladan Mehranvar | Lisa Sachs | Perrine Toledano | Bart-Jaap Verbeek #mining #energytransition #criticalminerals #ISDS
My piece on how investor-state disputes are being used to 'freeze the status quo' in mineral-rich but cash-poor countries, as the clean energy boom drives unprecedented demand for these commodities Martin Dietrich Brauch Bart-Jaap Verbeek Ben Chalmers
Clean energy boom is fuelling mineral-related investor-state disputes
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The DEADLINE to apply for our Executive Training on Investment Treaties and Arbitration for Government Officials is in ONE WEEK! The training will be held virtually, 9:00 am-11:30 am EDT, from September 9-13, 2024: https://lnkd.in/efhsiVJz This course is designed for government officials facing complex and pressing issues relating to international investment treaties, including the consideration of unilateral and multilateral reform options. The course will address: 👩⚖️ States’ objectives in their investment policy 📜 Links between treaties, investment flows, and development objectives ⚖ Investor-state dispute settlement, and the concerns of states ✍ Trends and developments in treaty practice 🏛 Opportunities and challenges facing governments in treaty reform, 🌍 And other approaches to investment governance, including dispute prevention and alternatives to ISDS. Through five 2.5 hour online sessions, government officials will gain a broad knowledge of investment treaty practice and governance and how new developments in the field apply to their own national governance structures and existing agreements, better equipping them to navigate this complex and continuously evolving field. APPLY BY July 15, 2024! Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. Columbia University | Columbia Law School | Lisa Sachs | Ladan Mehranvar | Martin Dietrich Brauch | Paulo Cunha | Madeleine S. | Chris Albin-Lackey
Executive Training on Investment Treaties and Arbitration for Government Officials
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We’re excited about our collaboration with Man Group on new methods and methodologies to increase finance for climate solutions! Perrine Toledano spoke in London last week at their event on "Defining Climate Impact in Investment Portfolios", discussing a science-based capital allocation compass for decarbonization. This partnership highlights the power of academic-industry teamwork in pushing climate finance forward. Big thanks to Robert Furdak, Christina Bastin, Matt Goldklang, and Jane Smyth for trusting us!
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