2020 will be the decade ESG, climate and sustainable finance turn financial services on its head
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2020 will be the decade ESG, climate and sustainable finance turn financial services on its head
Now is the time to reinvent consumer finance with the same spirit of creativity. We should learn to do for hunting individuals in the Entrepreneurial Age what Henry Goldman did for retailers a century ago: provide them with access to capital not based on what they own (the old paradigm of homeownership for settlers), but on what they might earn in
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Some venture capital funds are pursuing clean-tech approaches, like Khosla Ventures, TBL Capital and the Patient Capital Collaborative.
R. Paul Herman • The HIP Investor
Lately, it has felt like God grabbed the snow globe labelled “Planet Earth” and decided to give it a rather hefty shake. Microsoft made a huge advancein quantum computing, potentially discovering new forms of matter; large language models are challenging the very nature of knowledge work; and a new U.S. administration has ambitions to remake the gl
... See moreB2B over B2C (for now) to reach impact at scale. We strongly believe in the mounting pressures from regulators, investors and individuals that require companies globally and across industries to adopt net-zero strategies. While many consumers welcome B2C solutions, we believe there’s even more urgency to act and impact to be had in this emerging an... See more
Creandum • Time to cool the planet — Creandum’s perspective on Climate Tech
Sustainability defies categorization. Just as every company has become a fintech (every company needs to offer some form of financing, payments, etc.), every company will become a sustainability company. It’s unavoidable. The biggest trends are often horizontal through-lines like this, cutting across sectors.
Rex Woodbury • Building the Sustainable Economy 🌱
The future is a replay of the past—a combination of admirable advances and (un)avoidable setbacks. But there is something new as we look ahead, that unmistakably increasing (albeit not unanimous) conviction that, of all the risks we face, global climate change is the one that needs to be tackled most urgently and effectively. And there are two fund
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