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Alexis Caporale's avatar

Thank you, Azeem. We will be able to provide extra data once we fully launch the Ecosia World Fund very soon. We're aiming for €1bn AuM focused on climate tech.

I am curious to learn about the insights you found interesting but are not on the report because of publishing constrains. Hope to read about that some Sunday!

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Duncan Grierson's avatar

Great piece of work Azeem. At Clim8 our mission is the same, to have an impact on climate change, but rather than VC our mechanism is to empower retail investors to invest in companies with products or services that are already having an impact, in particular in the sectors of clean energy, cleantech and smart mobility. There is some background at www.clim8invest.com

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Phillip D Meyer's avatar

“Address climate change will require a concerted effort of World War II scale”

Sadly, what the world’s government’s actions against COVID19 may have shown is that we will not take enough action on climate change until it is politically impossible not to in so far as millions of people are about to die (in weeks, not years).

COIVID19 could have killed billions and almost all governments have taken major action but almost all those governments didn’t move until it was almost too late. I fear that with economies either crippled by COVID19 or slowly rebounding there isn’t going to be an appetite for drastic and economically painful action towards ‘net zero’ until it’s basically too late.

Let’s hope that more and more businesses take their own action and consumer and B2B demand moves the world quickly towards net zero.

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Lee Bertman's avatar

Not on the horizon courtesy of intermittent Green Energy.

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Azeem Azhar's avatar

intermittent issues rapidly being solved by over-capacity (and HVDC), plausible routes to not needing gas peakers becoming increasingly clear.

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