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🌎 Climate change is the existential threat of our time.
🙌 But it’s not all doom and gloom.
🛠️ People are making real changes to help fix this crisis. For example:
🛒 85% of global consumers indicate that they’ve shifted their purchasing behavior towards being more sustainable in the past five years;
💬 The SEC proposed mandatory disclosure from public companies to provide estimates of both direct and indirect greenhouse-gas emissions;
💰 And environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing is skyrocketing — with an estimated $120 billion invested in ESG-focused funds in 2021 (more than double the year prior)!
👀 Which greentech industries are well-positioned for growth even amid climate uncertainty?
📝 Our Vice President Bristol Whitcher Rice – a key member of our climate tech and corporate sustainability practice – is keeping tabs on these top five:
🌱 Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA). Controlled environment farms can be built virtually anywhere, providing 365 days of continuous production. This is an important and viable solution given the decline in arable land, geopolitical crises disrupting supply chains, and increasingly severe weather events. Vertical farming companies like our #client, Crop One, grow safe, local and nutritious produce in any climate.
🥗 Plant-based everything. From milk alternatives to vegan leather, if there’s an animal product you like, you can undoubtedly find a plant-based dupe with ease. Love bacon for instance? Try our #client MyForestFoods' plant-based bacon alternative. Making these lifestyle changes can help limit GHG emissions.
🏢 Green buildings & systems. Did you know that building operations and construction make up 38% of total global energy-related CO2 emissions? Commercial real estate developers and owners have a massive opportunity to invest in new technologies—both on the construction and operations side—that work to make buildings more sustainable.
🌊 Water innovations. Our water supplies are becoming increasingly stressed, competing with rising populations, industrialization, and a depletion of freshwater resources. Both the public and private sectors are pushing the envelope when it comes to developing new technologies that preserve and treat our global water resources.
🚗 Sustainable transportation. Advancements in technology have made alternative fuels an increasingly viable and accepted solution. Last year, San Francisco debuted a hydrogen-powered ferry; virtually every major carmaker has ambitious electric vehicle (EV) roadmaps; and EV infrastructure is a top priority, with municipalities working to eliminate “range anxiety” and bring EVs even more mainstream.
