Equity investment made founders think of money as an input that allows them to find and serve their customers. Project finance scrambles this mental map, asking founders to think of the product as an input that allows them to serve banks. More here: open.substack.com/pub/peteroli...

Make something bankers want

Or what I learned at Developer U

open.substack.com

Stop deadnaming The Gulf of America!!

best decarbonization events in 2025, go

I have a new analysis over at The Climate Brink exploring how rates of warming have changed over the past century. Post-1970, GHGs (CO2, CH4, etc.) would have led to just under 0.2C per decade, but falling aerosols (SO2) have increased that rate to 0.25C. www.theclimatebrink....

These kind of anecdotes risk turning me into a Price Sicko. Yes, I have read (and written) a thousand different warnings about how solving climate change isn’t as simple as pricing the externality*, and yet when one beholds the shining glory of a fully operational Pigouvian battle tax in action…

Warren@warren.nyc · 2y ago

Someone explain this one to me.

end of the Should Era in climate

the climate finance companies that define the 2030s get founded right now

Olaf Weber@webero.bsky.social · 2y ago

And more banks Exiting the Net Zero Banking Group. So much about #CSR as a driver for a sustainable society. www.esgtoday.com/citi-bofa-jo...

I think this framing "x won't solve climate change" is over. Progress is the only thing that matters, and all progress is valuable. If the argument is that solar paint won't ever matter and is absorbing money and attention that *is transferable* into other tech/product/interest, then say that.

No minced words in @amywestervelt.bsky.social's latest, driving home what the carbon capture boom is really about for the oil industry: a way to get government subsidies to pad the industry's increasing reliance on enhanced oil recovery as oil reserves decline. drilled.ghost.io/on-peak-oil-...

What's Coming: Peak Oil, Maximum LNG and Ethanol, State Violence, the CCS Boom, and a Lot More Climate Litigation

I haven't sent out a newsletter for a couple of weeks, partly because I'm working on a book that's due in February, which is keeping me even busier than usual, but also because I didn't want to write ...

drilled.ghost.io

eyyyy congrats @peterminor.bsky.social on the launch!

Absolute Climate@absoluteclimate.bsky.social · 2y ago

🚨 Big news from Absolute Climate! 🚨 We’re thrilled to announce the adoption of the Absolute Carbon Standard (ACS) by @EvidentGlobal , a trusted leader in sustainability certification. Together, we’re bringing **transparency**, **trust, and scientific rigor** to carbon removal. 🌍 👇

great start. would love to see the financed emissions vs financed emissions reductions math tho www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

JPMorgan gives green energy finance ratio for the first time

The United States' biggest lender JPMorgan provided $1.29 in financing to green energy for every dollar backing high-carbon energy supply in 2023, executives told Reuters, the first time it has released the figure.

reuters.com

our ancestors accomplished more, with less, against worse. stay locked in.

how likely do you think it is that Trump will nationalize homeowners insurance to transfer costs of climate change from the rich and less at-risk urban north to the poorer and more disaster-exposed southeast?

goals: - decouple: GDP and emissions - couple: emissions measurement and emissions reductions

imo, faith in Elon as a savior of climate policy is misplaced, and would bet he's set on getting two things that would be much more valuable to him than subsides in the EV market he's rapidly losing: 1) dereg for his driverless cars 2) dereg for spacex launches

while mitigation is hard to pay for, it's clear that there is an opportunity to do large-scale wildfire mitigation and fuel reduction in the northeast. we don't have to make the same mistakes we made in the West. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/18/o...

Opinion | Ladies and Gentlemen, the Northeast Is Burning

We are being reminded the hard way that we share this world. Smoke knows no boundaries, and neither does fire.

nytimes.com

ebikes rock

Mike Eliason@holz-bau.bsky.social · 2y ago

this this this

anyone got a corporate decarbonization starter pack for me? or, should I make one?

what are some career-making trades in decarbonization? who made their company a massive amount of money, and what did they do? maybe early PPAs?

🔥🔥🔥

taking submissions for the name for the last person to formally include 1.5C in a speech

Zahra Hirji@zhirji.bsky.social · 2y ago

The battle to keep global warming within 1.5C has been a rallying cry for #climate action for nearly a decade. Now, with the planet almost certain to blow past the target, many people at #COP29 have found themselves awkwardly clinging to a goal that no longer makes sense. My latest @bloomberg.com:

what are the most viral forms of decarbonization? resi solar has an R value right? what about for commercial?

anyone have a read out on how COP outcomes around 6.2 and 6.4 would interact with emissions reductions (vs, say CDR or afforestation)?

now more than ever: scale profitable climate action

no bookmarks?

any climate friends over here? how is it?

what's going to be the first carbon dioxide removal pathway to get to a gigaton? I place my bet: https://peterolivier.substack.com/p/enhanced-rock-weathering-is-going But also, it's not a horserace, and success in scaling ERW would build the foundation for all kinds of CDR.

enhanced rock weathering is going to win

why enhanced rock weathering is our best hope for gigaton carbon dioxide removal in the next decade

peterolivier.substack.com

Okay.......I'm trying to create a list for Climate Bluesky folks and have made a start here. Reply here for anyone I've missed! It's US, journo/tech focused so if we can broaden it, that's nice :) https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1QSghRrJxr7tWAGi9Shpwc6QMG5iSnJrNAW9alkHY8kw/edit#gid=0

a new king?! in this economy?