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Silverado Chairman and Co-Founder, Maureen H. spoke at the Bipartisan Policy Center’s inaugural Climate and Trade Summit on July 10th. Maureen provided her insights on the “Border Carbon Design: Where Policy and Politics Meet” panel alongside Jane Fiegal of Stripe Climate and Frontier and George David Banks of Bipartisan Policy Center moderated by John Jacobs of Bipartisan Policy Center. Maureen laid out Silverado’s best practices for border carbon measure (BCM) design:  🚛They should be technically practicable for businesses to implement without increasing their compliance costs.  💲 They should avoid manufacturing taxes on US businesses before leveling the playing field, meaning overseas competitors are also paying.  🌎 Additionally, there should be incentives for international partnerships like a carbon club in order to make a BCM more internationally viable. Check out the full Summit recording and Maureen’s panel here: https://lnkd.in/em3VDXRi Read more about Silverado's views on Border Carbon Measures in our Compendium of Technical Notes: https://lnkd.in/eY8eK9sw

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ICYMI: GrantExec was in NYC talking climate grant funding with hundreds of incredible startups at #NewYorkClimateWeek! 🌍 Some key learnings for climate grant seekers: 💸 Opportunities Today: There are 900 environmental grant opportunities offering $20.76B today across gov and private funders. Source: https://lnkd.in/eRYGa-Hp 🔐 Protect Your IP: Ensure you have a proper IP strategy before entering award negotiations. - Jaron Goddard, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati 🗣️ Build relationships: Meet with program officers to vet your idea and understand the appetite for your idea within the current political landscape. - Samm Gillard, SMI 🤝Align Your Mission: Make sure your organization’s priorities align with funder goals— don’t pivot just to fit in. And when pursuing federal dollars, have a real plan for the communities you’re impacting. - Ryan Alcorn, GrantExec 🇺🇸 How will the 2024 U.S. elections impact climate funding?  🗳️ If Congress is split, it will be difficult to fully repeal the IRA. The IIJA and CHIPS Act were both enacted with bipartisan support, making them much less likely to be undermined.   💼 Federal grant recipients in the award negotiation stage could be at risk under a second Trump administration.  📍Two thirds of #IRA incentives have gone to Republican districts, making them less likely to be clawed back under a Trump administration. - Matt Leggett, K&L Gates  ⚡️ Energy independence and competing with China are bipartisan goals that dovetail with clean energy, albeit under different branding. - Dimitar Simeonov, Pioneer A huge shoutout to our friends and partners at Pioneer for hosting and Chris Dowd of the Collaborative Fund for moderating Wednesday’s panel on unlocking climate grants. These organizations are pushing innovative solutions forward for a cleaner, more sustainable planet.

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Pleased to share this Synergies article by Jakob Skovgaard, Harro Van Asselt, Christopher Beaton, Evan Drake, Natalie Jones, Neil McCulloch, Ronald Steenblik, & Peter Wooders on: ➡how #FossilFuelSubsidies remain a persistent problem notwithstanding multiple international commitments to phase them out ➡why a new approach is needed to ensure commitments account for & help overcome domestic barriers to fossil fuel subsidy reform #FFSR ➡why this new approach should comprise time-bound roadmaps, steps to close existing loopholes, & support for lower-income countries Find out more: https://bit.ly/4gHtRbZ

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📣 ENERGY ABOUNDS WITH CLIMATEBASE COHORT 6 FELLOWS! 📣 (San Francisco, CA) Chosen from a field of 4,000 applicants, an ambitious collective of optimists, doers, creators, visionaries, disruptors, and explorers journeys through the Climatebase Fellowship, a 12-week educational program and career accelerator, covering Energy, Transportation, Food & Agriculture, Nature-Based Solutions, Corporate Sustainability, Carbon Removal, Circular Economy, Buildings, Cities & Adaptation, and topped off with a Capstone Project. 🌱 = = = 🗓 WEEK 3 - ENERGY How are your energy levels, LinkedIn colleagues?! Fuel cells running low? Tailwind pushing you forward with ease? Cohort 6 Fellows are bouncing around the Climatebase virtual walls with ideas, seeking matches in vision, assessing Capstone Project pitches, and diving into the multi-faceted area of Energy!⚡️ Continued THANKS to: 🎉 Neil Yeoh (Founder, OnePointFive (opf.degree); Climatebase Course Lead) for educating us on Energy (markets, supply, demand, challenges, solutions, renewability, and its link to transportation), 🎉 ALL the Cohort 6 Fellows and teams who are leading and contributing to Capstone Projects, 🎉 Magda Kufrej (she/her) (Founder, Work Ally) for helping job seekers focus their energies regarding transferable skills, and 🎉 Guest speakers (TBA) speaking later today 😉 for sharing their life experience and knowledge! (**Kindly see comments in this original post for 🔗 to their valuable organizations! ⬇️ ) 📌 "With energy, it's very location specific. Energy is very unique to where you grew up. ...I find so much joy to see people [Cohort 6] feel optimistic about the climate crisis. I'm excited to move away from the doom and gloom." ~NEIL YEOH, who brings us *joy* with his Aussie accent, whether speaking about duck curves or pimples 😂 😂 😂 = = = ⚡️Energized by this next group of Cohort 6 changemakers in (4) images: 🌟 Abdallah Mohamed 🌟 Benjamin Mouw 🌟 David White 🌟 Debbie S. Brannon 🌟 Diana Wright 🌟 Donald Mak 🌟 Evan Furgurson 🌟 Heather Van, MSA 🌟 Holly Henry 🌟 Irina Tagintseva 🇺🇦 🌟 Janette Rosenbaum 🌟 Jason Hu 🌟 Jeff Baum 🌟 Katie Jo Pevehouse, M.S. 🌟 Namrata Kasaraneni 🌟 Santonu Kashyap Be smart & efficient with your energy use! 🌍 🌏 🌎 🗓 Reminder: Put April 19-27, 2025 on your calendars for SF Climate Week (Year 3)! #ClimatebaseFellowship #ESG #ClimatebaseCohort6 #Climatebase6ers #ThankfulThursday

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What are your thoughts on the complexities of implementing renewable energy solutions in tribal communities? "Capacity development entails not only funding projects but also funding people, especially tribal energy champions, whose boots on the ground are essential for addressing inequities in energy distribution." ▶ Environmental injustices have left a legacy of skepticism towards large projects. ▶ Often, smaller-scale solutions like solar meet the community's needs without the complexities of larger projects. ▶ Essential needs, such as public health infrastructure often take precedence.

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What I'm reading today. "Social entrepreneurs are making great progress on many of the other UNSDGs, such as climate, affordable and clean energy, quality education, and addressing poverty, so why not peace?" Indeed, why not peace? Technology, particularly persuasive technology has touched all aspects of our lives - from wearables that help us with our health and fitness goals to social technologies that allow us to cross time and distance to friends and relatives all over the world, to Generative AI that interacts with us through chat and voice to tutor us, coach us and act as thinking partners. Tech innovators have made significant inroads to shape all our social interactions. And what is peace but another domain of social interaction? Peace is in the day to day touch points, the bids for attention, communication, collaboration and cooperation. In commercial terms, peace tech might be expressed in empathetic UX/UI design that reduces friction and increases the ease with which we interact with each other - through complex supply chains or CRM systems. Peace tech is a blue ocean for engineers and innovators. In fact, we need the imagination and 'out-of-the-box' thinking that entrepreneurs can bring - the kind of lens where they see possibilities through their beginner's mind that we have yet to imagine. I for one am heartened by the growing peace X community - X being engineering, tech, design, science, finance. Tech has disintermediated other sectors. Peace, in all its forms, is ripe for disintermediation and new approaches at the interpersonal, community, society and planetary levels. #peacetech #peacex #peaceinnovation

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