Dartmouth energy conference panelists talk sustainability across economies, proliferating new technology
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The Week in Impact Investing: Action
The team at
TGIF, Agents of Impact!
Game stoppers. It was hard to turn away from the Reddit revolt by small traders, who outmaneuvered Wall Street hedge funds to wreak havoc in the stock markets. The action this week in markets for carbon credits
(see Agent of Impact, below), clean technologies
(No. 5), climate adaptation (
(No. 2) may be more consequential. President Biden’s executive orders on green jobs (
No. 4), health care and racial justice could have filled The Brief. Public pressure on
BlackRock helped spur
(No. 1).
General Motors swore off internal combustion engines (by 2035). Net-zero business models. Sustainable and inclusive investment theses. Tools to measure impact and promote accountability
The Brief: Climate adaptation, impact reporting, insuring smallholder farmers, imperfect food, student-centric finance, decarbonization opportunities
The team at
Accelerating climate emergency spurs innovative financing for adaptation. Investments aimed at
mitigating greenhouse gas emissions have long overshadowed financing for efforts to help communities
adapt to climate change. That is changing, as droughts, floods, storms and wildfires disrupt livelihoods, exacerbate food and water insecurity, and widen the economic divide. Investments in green infrastructure, soil health, water conservation, and digital tools for farmers can increase resiliency to baked-in weather patterns. A dollar invested in adaptation saves up to seven times that in disaster-related costs
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Business Insider asked four expert venture capitalists to choose the two autonomous aviation startups that they re most excited about.
At least one of each VC s picks had to come from outside their firm s portfolio.
There was some agreement, but the range of choices shows just how much opportunity exists in the field.
The self-driving car may be decades away from becoming mainstream, but the self-flying plane is closer to reality than you may think.
Despite the technological and regulatory challenges, autonomous flight is something that nearly exists now, with full-size planes able to take off and land themselves in some situations, and autopilot systems becoming more and more advanced. Improving autonomous flight systems and making them more widespread are crucial to the future of urban air mobility, drone shipping, and more, experts say.
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