Jan 7, 2020

Impact Entrepreneurship - Climate Change Investing

Impact Entrepreneurship

The latest trends and insights on impact entrepreneurship and investing.

“I don’t want your hope. I don’t want you to be hopeful. I want you to panic.” This was Greta Thunberg’s message to the world at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

As protest comes to dominate the language of ‘environmentalism’, we see a growing appetite for change with a new trend blooming: climate change investing.

Private investors are more and more willing to finance cutting-edge technological solutions to climate change, from improving energy efficiency to renewable storage solutions to alternative meat.

On this revue, we focus on how the investment landscape is changing and is incentivizing investors to finance the ecological transition.

This said, we cannot help but wonder: will this growing green appetite be enough?

Please send us your thoughts on the matter:

cristina.almeida@startupdigestmail.com

Love,

Cristina and Yonca

Al Gore Calls Climate Change The "Single Biggest Investment Opportunity In History"

Former Vice President Al Gore warns that we could either gain greatly or lose heavily depending on our approach to tackling climate change.

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Tackling climate change — an investor’s guide | Financial Times

What counts as a climate-friendly investment strategy?

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Hedge fund billionaire vows to punish company directors for climate change inaction | The Independent

A billionaire hedge fund manager and backer of Extinction Rebellion has warned he will begin taking action against companies that do not do enough to tackle the climate emergency. Sir Christopher Hohn, founder of TCI Fund Management, which manages more than $28bn (£21bn) of assets, has sent letters to big companies in which it invests, including Google and Airbus.

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Investors step up pressure on global energy watchdog over climate change | Reuters

Fatih Birol, the head of the International Energy Agency (IEA), faced renewed pressure on Monday from investors and scientists concerned about climate change to overhaul the agency’s projections for fossil fuel demand.

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Swedish start-up founders raise Europe’s biggest social impact fund | Financial Times

The founders of Minecraft, Candy Crush Saga and Klarna as well as the family behind Hennes & Mauritz are raising Europe’s largest early-stage impact investment fund. The €100m Swedish fund will invest in companies seeking to solve what it says are the world’s greatest challenges including poverty, food waste and climate change.

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Techstars Startup Digest Impact Entrepreneurship is curated by:

	Yonca Braeckman - Founder Impact Shakers yonca.braeckman@startupdigestmail.com
	Cristina Almeida - Head of Communications at MAZE cristina.almeida@startupdigestmail.com

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