🔥 #ClimateTech was hot in 2023!

My 2 cents:
• ClimateTech is here to stay
• VCs will grow bored of #AI, as many did with #blockchain

Thoughts?

Need a last-minute climate-friendly Christmas gift?

This is a great book on the energy transition. It gives a comprehensive yet easy-to-access overview of challenges and solutions in the energy sector. (In French, the English version coming soon.)

Most of us found #COP28 disappointing. Every COP is.

My 4+ years in politics taught me one thing.

Politicians respond to technological progress and societal shifts but rarely take the risk to initiate changes.

Politicians are always one step behind, often more.

To remain below the +2°C pathway in 2030, we need to cut emissions by 5.3% per year from 2024 onwards.

As a comparison, emissions decreased by 4.7% during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Good luck everyone! 🥵

The notes hung on the frosty air.

📷 Mikhail Kalinin

"Stop betting, start investing in startups"

Easy to start with:
1. Engage in angel investment
2. Participate in crowd equity or crowdfunding

And if you can...
3. Direct PE or VC
4. VC fund of funds

Good read by Bas van Beijeren from Carbon Equity.
https://www.carbonequity.com/blog/why-and-how-to-invest-in-startups?

#COP28 is going just as planned

Don't worry guys, they've got this 🤡

"Cop28 president says there is ‘no science’ behind demands for phase-out of fossil fuels"

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/dec/03/back-into-caves-cop28-president-dismisses-phase-out-of-fossil-fuels?CMP=oth_b-aplnews_d-5

Exciting news! #ClimateTech funding soared in Q3 - 2023!

⚡🚋 Investors and founders are still flocking to the Energy and Transport sectors, making them the top favourites.

🌳 However, #NatureTech is flying under the radar. Is it too early for VC backing, or can we craft a compelling business case for startups in the face of growing concerns about biodiversity loss and the rise of nature-positive corporates?

This makes me happy. A good Sunday read. There is so much more we can do as a human race.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-66922735

#redonda #rewilding

Vote like our future depends on it. Because it does. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/04/climate/republicans-climate-project2025.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare #ClimateChange

More Londoners forced to breathe clean air.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/sadiq-khan-wins-high-court-ulez-battle-greater-london-expansion-b1097317.html

Latest climate trends in the world of business:
💡 No more skiing after 2050
📈 94% of rainforest carbon credits are worthless
✨ UK Seabed Resources, a deep-sea mining leader
Enjoy reading!
https://www.climateforesight.co/newsletter-23/

Spot on ChatGPT, thank you! 😊

🇷🇺🌾 When considering crop production, no country is better positioned to capitalise on climate change than Russia!
Investors and agri-entrepreneurs, notably Chinese, are already betting on warmer conditions by developing large-scale farms across Eastern Russia.

We'll soon grow crops in the Arctic! 😨
As the growing season gets warmer and longer, scientists predict the leading edge of crop-feasible conditions to shift northwards up to 1,200 km (745 miles) by 2100!

Here is the latest edition of my newsletter:
💡 Growing crops in the Arctic
📈 2.6 million tonnes of CO2e/year from gas stoves
✨ Heimdal, carbon removals through the ocean
Enjoy reading!
https://www.climateforesight.co/newsletter-22/

An astounding image of our moment at the precipice:

Climate activists standing against the inhuman-scale machinery of the open-pit Lützerath brown coal mine, with a wind farm visible in the distance.
#climate #LützerathLebt #coal #renewable

Have people turned down their heating this winter?

Yes - home heating settings averaged almost a degree lower this winter than in previous years.

Source is data from @tado@twitter.com using hundreds of thousands of smart thermometers installed in households across Europe.

Bolsonaro’s four years in power (2019-2022) ended with a 59.5% boom in Amazon deforestation rates, a level that had never been seen in a presidential term since satellite monitoring began in 1988 (data INPE).

BREAKING: Heat pump market in Finland grew by 50% in 2022.

1.5m heat pumps have now been installed in a country with just 2.7m households.

https://www.sulpu.fi/almost-200000-heat-pumps-were-sold-last-year-an-increase-of-50/