The urgency of climate action demands innovation not only in technology but also in financial structures. While voluntary carbon markets hold promise, they lack the sophistication to truly incentivize impactful carbon removal projects. Enter the Carbon Stock Exchange—a structured, market-driven platform where carbon credits evolve into a new asset class with real, differentiated value. Dr. Delton Chan’s vision of a carbon currency lays the groundwork, but we take it a step further, proposing a market where carbon credits gain quality-based
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As I’ve become even more aware of our limited carbon budget to remain within 1.5 (or realistically 2C) scenario. It’s clear CDR will have to play a role, even if it won’t scale fast enough to limit most of the short term consequences, longer term if we don’t have CDR in play we could be setting up a (mostly) uninhabitable planet for our ancestors.
So how do we move faster? Financially incentivize the largest players who could most
...As Cool Climate Collective steps into the vibrant arena of COP28, we are here not just as observers but as active participants, bringing innovative climate solutions to a global platform. COP28, or the 28th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, is a global summit that brings together world leaders, experts, activists, and businesses to tackle climate change.
This event is extraordinary, a testament to our collective ability to unite amidst diversity, aiming for
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Having delved into the climate tech ecosystem, encompassing a broad spectrum from global to local challenges, existing and emerging solutions, dialogues with policy-makers to private investors, my perspective on accelerating and scaling the implementation of climate tech solutions has matured and refined.
Last month, I started to see how the work I’ve been doing has been following this grander master plan, that I had yet to articulate. While
A fascinating and also thought-provoking look to see such automotive manufacturing in action with so few people on the line.
The video is 12 minutes long, but you’ll get the point after 30 seconds as to what you are witnessing.
There is another element to this automation: the knowledge worker jobs behind the scenes that programmed and created the machinery seen. But even those are
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