Groups tackling climate challenges Flashcards
My Climate Journey
Jason Jacob’s podcast, which also has a Slack group with 1,200 members, plus a website, plus now a Rolling fund.
OS-C (https://www.os-climate.org/)
OS-C is establishing an Open Source collaboration community to build a software platform that will dramatically boost global capital flows into climate change mitigation and resilience. Through a non-profit, non-competitive organization, OS-C will aggregate the best available data, modeling, and computing and data science worldwide into an AI-enhanced physical-economic model that functions like an operating system, enabling powerful applications for climate-integrated investing in a world where the future will be very different from the past.
The Climate Web (https://www.theclimateweb.com/)
The Climate Web is a collective climate change intelligence pulling together the work and thinking of thousands of experts to facilitate access to actionable climate knowledge. Whether you are approaching climate change as a business decision-maker, policy maker, philanthropist, or concerned individual, the Climate Web can help you access knowledge you can use.
Carbon to Value Initiative (https://www.c2vinitiative.com)
he Carbon to Value (C2V) Initiative will unlock a new carbontech economy, bringing innovative solutions to scale as rapidly as possible through the creation of a robust, powerful, and collaborative new ecosystem.
Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (laci.org)
Provides both equity and debt financing for working capital or project finance for LACI start-ups.
Climate Policy Initiative (https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org)
https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/publication/global-landscape-of-climate-finance-2019/
A group that studies climate finance and issues a report: The 2019 edition of Climate Policy Initiative’s Global Landscape of Climate Finance (the Landscape) again provides the most comprehensive overview of global climate-related primary investment. This year’s report includes six years of consecutive data, including the first major wave of investments following ratification of the Paris Agreement, in 2017 and 2018.
Annual tracked climate finance in 2017 and 2018 crossed the USD half-trillion mark for the first time. Annual flows rose to USD 579 billion, on average, over the two-year period of 2017/2018, representing a USD 116 billion (25%) increase from 2015/2016. The rise reflects steady increases in financing across nearly all types of investors.
Annual climate finance flows in 2017/18 were 24% higher than the average from 2015/16. While climate finance had been increasing, it was still far lower than the volume needed to address climate change and its impacts.
Based on currently available information, our initial estimate suggests 2019 climate finance flows will amount to USD 608 – 622 billion, representing a 6% – 8% increase from 2017/18 averages, which may result in a return to the record-high levels of 2017.
The Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (ILGCC)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2020/09/07/managers-of-40-trillion-make-plans-to-decarbonize-the-world
(IIGCC) is a European group of global pension funds and investment managers, totaling over 1,200 members in 16 countries, who control more than $40 trillion in assets (€33 trillion). They have drawn up a plan to cut carbon in their portfolios to net-zero and hope other investors will join them.
The group’s mission is to mobilize capital for a global low-carbon transition and to ensure resiliency of investments and markets in the face of the changes, including the changing climate itself. They provide asset managers with a set of recommended actions, policies, collaborations, measures and methods to help them meet the net-zero goal by 2050 in an effort to address climate change. Their framework was developed with more than 70 funds worldwide.
Global Investor Coalition on Climate Change
(https://globalinvestorcoalition.org/)
Launched the Climate Action 100+
The Global Investor Coalition on Climate Change is a collaboration among four regional partner organisations around the world to increase investor education and engagement on climate change and climate-related policies. Launched in 2012, the coalition provides a global platform for dialogue between and among investors and world governments to accelerate low-carbon investment practices, corporate actions on climate risk and opportunities, and international policies that support the goals of the Paris Agreement.
The organisations that make up the coalition include Asia Investor Group on Climate Change (AIGCC), Ceres, Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC), and Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC). The regions in which the coalition partners are working in include Asia, Australia, Europe and North America.
The regional partners work together to produce research reports and public policy statements and support global investor-led climate initiatives and investor-focused climate events. In 2017, the coalition partners joined other partners and investors to launch Climate Action 100+, an initiative to ensure the world’s largest corporate greenhouse gas emitters take necessary action on climate change. The following year, they joined with three other partner organisations to launch The Investor Agenda.
Mission 2020 (https://mission2020.global/)
The high cost of climate change is largely carried by some of the most vulnerable communities around the world. They suffer from enduring human loss, and a need to continuously repair damage from severe weather impacts and rising sea-levels. The repeated infrastructure costs divert investments from education, health and food security, further entrenching poverty and accelerating involuntary migration.
The insurance industry has also warned that if the world goes beyond a 2°C increase, it is not systemically insurable due to the frequency and intensity of extreme weather impacts.
Reaching the climate turning point by 2020 will expedite the least expensive transition to a safer fossil-free economy by 2050, protecting the most vulnerable and ushering in a safer economy.
Nuclear Alternative Project (https://www.nuclearalternativeproject.org)
We are Puerto Rican Engineers and Professionals Bringing the Alternative of Advanced Nuclear Reactors to Puerto Rico, by studying the feasibiilty of advanced nuclear reactors as an energy source for Puerto Rico.
ClimateTechVC (climatetechvc.org)
A listing of climate technology accelerators.
Climatebase (https://climatebase.org/)
A group building a database of climate groups, jobs and events, for those seeking information.
Carbon Transformation (https://carbontransformation.com/)
Powered by Puro.earth, trying to sign up supporters for massive carbon draw-down. Building public acceptance for the marketplace for carbon transformation. (Not yet successful.)
Circular Carbon Network (https://circularcarbon.org/)
The Circular Carbon Network is helping to build the most important sector of the 21st century — transforming waste CO2 into a valuable, sustainable resource for society.
Learn more about the innovators, companies, and investors growing the circular carbon economy. We’re bringing together the global community of innovators, capital providers, corporates, and other leaders to catalyze more investment and commercial activity in circular carbon climate, carbontech, and carbon removal solutions. Managed by XPrize Foundation, Carbon XPrize, Pure Energy Partners (A venture catalyst firm), and includes Nick Eisenberger, Sameer Rashind, Edward Hill, Marcius Extavour, Nikki Batchelor.
Greentown Labs
Run by Dr. Emily Reichert
