Backing innovation
Climate Investment looks for opportunities that can deliver strong, quantified GHG impact and an attractive risk-adjusted return. Our funds have their own targets for impact and returns.
We believe that the climate challenge can be addressed through investment in innovative companies and driving their accelerated adoption to achieve global impact at scale.
Since our establishment, we have built a differentiated platform to deliver the capital efficient solutions needed for the decarbonization of high emitting sectors.
How we invest in early-stage companies
How we invest in growth-stage companies
CI - How we accelerate adoption
Why investwith us?
There are many capital allocators.
Why choose us? Here are a few reasons.
A differentiated platform
When you invest with us, you join a differentiated platform that believes the climate challenge can be addressed through innovation and accelerated adoption of capital efficient decarbonization solutions.
A business model to deliver scaled impact
Climate Investment has built a business model to deliver scaled impact. We proactively support our portfolio companies through their growth stages to drive their success, provide access and insights to our investors and innovators that can help achieve their low carbon commitments, and collaborate widely so we can all realize our decarbonization goals.
Global network to accelerate market adoption
We work with our large, global network to accelerate the adoption of our portfolio companies’ innovations, which enhances their commercial success and ensures our decarbonization objectives are met.
We apply rigour through our investment process
Rigour is applied through our investment process which is guided by the quantified impact potential of an opportunity. We share our impact measurement methodology with our portfolio companies and help them operationalize their reporting.
Transparency
Our portfolio’s collective GHG impact is published annually.
A trusted resource
Our investors partner with us as a trusted resource to access and integrate our innovators’ solutions within their own firms or portfolios, expand their impact knowledge, and exchange ideas with informed peers.
Global partnership network
Investors can access and participate in our global partnership network of policymakers, global corporations, investors, academics and non-government organizations that are similarly focused on identifying decarbonization solutions.
We work collaboratively
Together, we work collaboratively to develop and accelerate capital-efficient pathways towards a low-carbon economy. Because there is no time to lose.
Access and insights
We believe our Investment team is differentiated in two key aspects: access and insights.
- As a specialized decarbonization investor, we have a proven ability to originate new investment opportunities. Our extensive networks within our sectors of focus provide valuable introductions and investment referrals, including from investees, co-investors, and member companies. We believe that our demonstrated ability to deliver both capital and engaged post-investment growth support creates demand from companies seeking investment.
- We have considerable experience and capabilities in effectively evaluating and executing deal flow introduced by investors and other intermediaries, as well as managing co-investment opportunities. Working through our investors’ Investment Champions, we can explore and understand customer opportunity gaps to ensure we are pursuing market-based solutions.
*Carbon dioxide equivalent or CO₂ equivalent is a metric measure used to compare the emissions from various greenhouse gases on the basis of their global-warming potential (GWP), by converting amounts of other gases to the equivalent amount of carbon dioxide with the same global warming potential. MT means million tonnes. 2019-2022 cumulative emissions are calendar year and prepared internally in consultation with our portfolio companies.
Portfolio construction
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Our three core themes:
Methane is responsible for more than a quarter of global warming. Methane molecules are more absorptive, with up to 100 times the short-term warming effect of carbon dioxide. But methane stays in the atmosphere for a much shorter time, with a half-life of approximately a decade. So, reducing methane emissions can result in an important near-term reduction in the pace of global warming.
Carbon dioxide is a particularly stable molecule and it lingers in the atmosphere for hundreds of years. CO₂ is both generated and absorbed by nature, but our society has increased the amount that is being emitted to a level where it has not been fully accommodated by natural ecosystems, leading to a surging concentration of CO₂. More than half the energy the world produces is wasted due to inefficiency. Therefore, increasing efficiency is a great way to reduce CO₂ emissions.
Carbon capture, recycling and/or storage (CCUS) platforms capture carbon dioxide from power generation and industrial facilities, or directly from the atmosphere. The captured CO₂ can then either be used in many applications or injected deep underground for permanent storage. CCUS is an important transition technology as well as a long-term solution for high-emitting sectors. The world needs to reduce GHG emissions through energy and process efficiency and use CCUS for the remaining GHG emissions that cannot be abated otherwise.
Our Funds
Insights platform
Our innovators and investors have exclusive access to our Insights Platform where we are building an extensive practical resources hub covering global regulatory and incentives policies and frameworks; third-party, as well as CIimate Investment and OGCI research papers covering markets, sectors, technology innovation, business models etc.
We also plan an exchange area where our innovators will be able to share and interact with one another’s published media; business development best practice guidance; and access expert network listings of key professional services firms.
The platform will also be a hub for our portfolio companies’ current vacancies along with an awards, events and conference tracker that those innovators may enter, exhibit or present at.
