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Time to cool the planet — Creandum’s perspective on Climate Tech
If you were designing a net-zero platform with the goal of working towards full decarbonization, it would be a time-limited project. But that would be incompatible with market imperatives: nobody wants to start a business with an expiration date. This is why the companies running these platforms will have an incentive to encourage a version of net ... See more
Holly Jean Buck • Decarbonization as a Service
What can we do during the coming decades? We must start with the recognition of fundamental realities. We used to consider a 2°C increase in average global temperature as a relatively tolerable maximum, but in 2018 the IPCC lowered that to just 1.5°C—but by 2020 we have already added two-thirds of that maximum preferable temperature rise. Moreover,
... See moreVaclav Smil • How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going
And yet, so far, the only effective, substantial moves toward decarbonization have not come from any determined, deliberate, targeted policies. Rather, they have been by-products of general technical advances (higher conversion efficiencies, more nuclear and hydro generation, less wasteful processing and manufacturing procedures) and of ongoing pro
... See moreVaclav Smil • How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going
So, policy, philanthropy, and individual behavior do have roles to play, but the real solutions to the carbon nightmare will win because they’re cheaper, better, faster, stronger, simpler, and just plain cooler than what’s available today.
Lowercarbon Capital • Act II: Lowercarbon Capital
McKinsey estimates that getting to net zero is a more than $12 trillion (trillion!) opportunity.