Do you ever feel like you’re being watched? Right now, ~6,500 satellites are orbiting overhead, ~900 of which have been launched into orbit for purposes of “Earth observation.” These 900 sets of eyes stream photos, videos, and information on Earth’s physical, chemical, and biological vital signs. In combination with terrestrial and aerial Read more…
When Larry Fink pens a letter, people read it. As the head of Blackrock, the world’s largest asset manager, his prose signals a State of the Union for institutional investors. From his January 2021 letter to CEOs, he puts it simply as “climate risk is investment risk” and warns that Read more…
Last week, the acclaimed co-founder of Apple, Steve Wozniak, unveiled his second company, Efforce, with a slick website and much media fanfare. Efforce claims to disrupt the energy efficiency market by using blockchain and “WOZX” tokens to finance energy efficiency projects. The platform encourages the public to directly invest in Read more…
Change happens gradually and then all at once. For years, a quiet revolution has been brewing in ESG corporate disclosure advocacy. With voluntary standards like CDP and metrics guidelines like SASB, leading corporates have opted in to environmental performance transparency. With 42% of companies above a $10bn market cap already Read more…
From New York Times’ Record Wildfires on the West Coast Are Capping a Disastrous Decade Wildfires are scorching the West. Every year continues to set a new record for the worst fire season. In 2020, with months still left, over 5 million acres have burned in California, Oregon, and Washington – wreaking Read more…
Facebook announced last week that it has created a new Climate Science Information Center, essentially a separate climate news feed exclusively from verified sources. It is modeled after their recent campaign to separate true from false news with COVID-19 information. The announcement follows some heat from the NYTimes criticizing Facebook’s Read more…
Climate change poses an increasing risk to insurers and their customers. The costs of climate change-driven weather-related disasters have been rising. In 2017, losses totaled more than $306 billion in the U.S. The 2018 California wildfires alone resulted in $24 billion in losses. Flooding risk in Florida could devalue exposed Read more…
When we imagine climate tech, we often think of innovations that limit emissions and environmental impact. But here, management expert Peter Drucker’s mantra holds true that you can’t manage what you don’t measure. In climate tech, reliable information from devices that collect climate data are essential for making evidence-based decisions Read more…
In the time of COVID-19, we’ve become used to seeing data visualizations of the virus’s expected course tied with urges to do our part in “flattening the curve”. That same rise of interest in data visualization and reporting tools is also being applied towards another global threat – climate change. Read more…