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How does a city's financial leadership influence climate action? Nili Gilbert, CFA, CAIA, Vice Chairwoman of Carbon Direct, dives into this question in her new web series, #TemperatureCheck. In the first episode, Nili talks with NYC Comptroller Brad Lander about his impact on climate outcomes. Join us as Nili brings together policymakers, community leaders, corporate executives, and financial experts to explore solutions to global climate challenges. #ClimateAction #SustainableFinance #ClimateLeadership #CarbonDirect #ClimateFinance #SustainableInvesting https://lnkd.in/eUQgFnSC

Impact Investment: Inflection Point? I hope the sector gets this deeper message from Liesel Pritzker Simmons Currently there is too much focus on numeracy and measurement of shallow impact and not nearly enough attention to systems-wide impact and the possibilities of paradigm shift. The Inflation Reduction Act was the most ambitious blended finance impact investment in the climate space. It’s significance is because the policy package included justice components and the deployment of knowledge capital. The Biden Harris administration worked at a system-wide level. I truly hope this insight from an influential investors opens the floodgates for more ambition. We stand ready to be trusted guides in how to make this operational. Emily Anne Gendron Karrie Sullivan Jindra Cekan and Cekanova, PhD Vidhya Shanker, PhD

Impact investor Liesel Pritzker Simmons makes a profound observation on climate change investing in this conversation with Asha Lad in The Conduit Conversations podcast series. Liesel co-founded, with her husband Ian Simmons, the Blue Haven Initiative, a large and influential impact fund. In the interview, she describes, among other things, Ian's work on democracy and voter turnout. She then recounts* a question she got at a presentation she gave on Blue Haven's climate portfolio: "Which of these investments has the best ROI from a climate standpoint? What has really moved the needle?" Her answer: Ian's youth voter engagement work. In her description, Congressional sources told Ian that the US Inflation Reduction Act, a $370 billion package of incentives for climate investing, would not have passed without the pressure from young voters, who signalled the importance they placed on climate action. With a climate-critical election coming up in the US, climate philanthropists should be thinking hard about where they can deploy capital for the greatest impact in addressing climate change. *starting at 24:47 Listen to the podcast at: https://lnkd.in/eJEqjC_4 #impactinvesting #climateaction #climatechange

Recently, it was announced that J.P. Morgan Asset Management, State Street Global Advisors and BlackRock exited the collaborative investor coalition, Climate Action 100+. These shock exits came just ahead of the initiative’s Phase 2 rollout, ultimately casting a shadow on how investors will engage on climate change.   AQTION covers all of the latest developments in our article titled ‘Investors Exit Climate Action 100+’ which can be read using the link below: https://lnkd.in/gR_EKGdg #jpmorgan #statestreet #blackrock #climate #AQTION

Suitcase packed, excitement levels high - Daphna Miller is on her way to the Hack Summit at CTA! ✈️🇨🇭 We are talking about Europe's biggest meeting spot for climate and food innovators, investors, and changemakers. 👉 Are you attending the Hack Summit too? Let's connect and make some magic happen! Reach out, Daphna would love to chat. #hacksummit #climatechange #sustainability

*Sold out* on the SF Climate Week Panel with myself and Dan Chu of the Sierra Club Foundation. We'll be talking about how to to shift trillions of dollars into climate solutions. What I think will be fun--based on the early conversations he, Pedro Henriques da Silva, and I are having--is that we have very different areas of expertise and perspectives. Dan and Pedro oversee the Sierra Club Foundation, where they have more freedom for deployment of capital, which makes foundation money faster, if less scalable. From my perspective at Carbon Collective, 401(k)s and 403(b)s are some of the tightest frameworks for fiduciary investing, but we have an approach that compliments what Dan/Pedro are seeing and can reach huge scale. Plus, there's a bunch of overlap, and we both have a deep enthusiasm for the topic. Where the magic is going to happen is that we recognize how many other experts there are in other areas of investing (banking, VC, High net worth, etc.), and we're going to be strategically cultivating the conversation with the other experts in the audience. Looking at the list now, it gets me excited about the community we can create, the insights we can share, and how fast we can move money into climate solutions in a fiduciarily responsible way! https://lu.ma/mqqq9s3n

Learn about how the Nuveen Impact Private Equity team proudly supports companies driving real, measurable impact in the fight against climate change. A shining example is Ecozen, a leader in climate smart deep tech. Dive deeper into Nuveen’s climate initiatives in our Private Equity Impact Report: https://bit.ly/3BwsRHK

Unlocking Financial Returns from Nature’s Economic Value 🎬 In this short clip Martin Berg, CEO of Climate Asset Management, shares the definition, challenges and intricacies of natural capital investing wtih Scott Arnell and explains how it’s a vital path forward for addressing the world’s most pressing climate and biodiversity concerns while generating returns. 🐒🌍 If you'd like to hear more, buckle up and tune in to listen to the full episode https://lnkd.in/esMwzPKn #NatureIsCapital #NaturalCapital #NatureBasedSolutions #ClimateResilience #SRI360 #ImpactInvesting #CarbonFinance

This is cool!   Fireside Chat with Paul Hawken On April 4, join a special virtual fireside chat with the legendary Paul Hawken, founder of Project Drawdown and Project Regeneration, investor, environmentalist and NYT best-selling author. Delve into the world of impactful climate investing and hear Paul's unique perspectives. Register here: https://lu.ma/eay2d5m9 #impactinvesting #sustainability

Just catching up - great to speat at #ClimatePhilanthropy2030 organized by Alliance magazine on the intersection of climate finance and philanthropy, together with Elise Larkin from the The Rockefeller Foundation, Paula Ellinger from Fundación Avina, and Maryati Abdullah from Ford Foundation. I focused on how new forms of Private-Public-People-Partnerships (Quadruple Ps!) are growing rapidly in the climate finance space. Depending on the problem faced, the exact tool can vary. For example, if the barrier to investment is: -Risk, then some types of guarantee or first-loss capital can be useful to offer some cushion and change the risk-return profile to be suitable for commercial investors -Pipeline, then technical assistance funds or structuring grants can be helpful to build that pipeline which commercial investors are set up to assess -Revenue, then outcomes-based funding can be useful to help to provide top-ups for some of the benefits or costs that markets don't reward, for example jobs for a just transition The key, of course, is to pick the right tool for the problem!