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- Podcast · Skander Garroum & Jordy Gold · 05/29/2026In this episode of Off the Record, Skander Garroum reports back on what surprised him the most at The Drop - Europe's leading climate tech conference. In the lead up to the event, all anyone seemed to talk about was AI, and yet, upon arrival the discussions went in a totally different direction. The China discussion dominated the Climate Tech space with competing factions trying to figure…
- CD Original Article · Sean Higgins · 05/29/2026Building climate solutions are hard. Selling them might be even harder. You’ve got the science. You’ve got the prototype. Maybe you’ve even got the first customer. But when it comes to explaining what you actually do - to investors, to partners, to your next hire - most climate founders still fumble the mic. Too much jargon. Too many buzzwords. Not enough why this matters, right now. As always…
- CD Original Article · Moji Terry · 05/29/2026The global insurance system is cracking under climate pressure and refugees are on the frontlines of the fallout. In today’s deep dive, Driftie Mojisola Terry, Disaster Insurance lead at the UNHCR, walks us through a solution that is already redefining humanitarian finance: parametric insurance. Moji has helped design and deploy these rapid-payout policies across five African countries,…
Investment
- CD Original Article · Mairi Robertson · 02/14/2025Mairi is back with her Cli-Fi (climate finance) playbook today, taking us even further into the money labyrinth with a story that sounds straight out of sci-fi: asset-based financing… and space lasers. (Yes, really!) Turns out figuring out what a used battery (or a used satellite) is worth is not as easy as it sounds. But it could be exactly what climate entrepreneurs need to scale their…
- CD Original Article · Mairi Robertson · 02/21/2025In the race to decarbonize our homes, businesses, and transportation, climate technologies are scaling faster than ever. Solar, heat pumps, EV charging stations: each technology slashes emissions and reshape entire markets. Yet behind this green wave lurks a critical, often overlooked obstacle: the working capital crunch. As you’ll see in the story of “Harry’s Heat Pumps,” even a wildly…
- CD Original Article · Jarek Dmowski · 05/29/2026$22 billion across 149 deals. March 2026 was the biggest month we’ve tracked this year. Jarek’s latest Follow the Money breaks down where the capital actually went, and the regional splits tell you more than any macro forecast could. 🇺🇸 North America: $7.3B, almost entirely concentrated in batteries, nuclear, and geothermal. The U.S. is buying firm, dispatchable power for AI infrastructure.…
- CD Original Article · Jarek Dmowski · 05/29/2026February confirmed what January hinted at: 2026 is shaping up differently. $18 billion across 85 tracked deals, and the geography of climate capital is shifting in ways worth paying attention to. Asia led for the second straight month at $6.4 billion. Europe came in close behind at $6.1 billion. North America, despite 31 deals (the highest count), trailed both at $3.7 billion. The US is…
- Podcast · Jordy Gold · 05/29/2026Manuela Zoninsein, CEO of Kadeya, found out the hard way that Venture Capital doesn’t work when you’re building a physical Climate Tech company. After spending two painful years searching for, and eventually finding amazing financing options, she’s here to share the map she wished someone had handed her. We Discuss: Why the default VC playbook breaks for climate hardware (and why that’s not…
- CD Original Article · Skander Garroum & Jordy Gold · 05/29/2026Fabien Koutchekian (Genomines CEO) and Skander Garroum (3x Founder: Raised $25M) have gone through hell to successfully raise money for new companies and they want to help you avoid some of the pain. Genomines secured one of the largest Climate Tech funding rounds in Europe in 2025. It turns out fundraising is messy and involves way more psychology than Excel. Skander Garroum is here today to…
- CD Original Article · Skander Garroum & Fabien Koutchekian · 05/29/2026The headline is “Genomines raises $45M to farm metal from daisies”. But what actually happened behind the scenes? Einstein supposedly said that insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. He didn’t actually say this, but the internet believes he did, which tells you something about how we construct shared reality through repetition until fiction becomes…
- CD Original Article · Jarek Dmowski · 05/29/2026January 2026. We tracked 105 climate investments totaling $26 billion. That’s nearly three times December’s volume and the biggest month since we started this series. The headline: China broke ground on the world’s first nuclear cogeneration plant, an $8.5 billion facility designed to replace coal-fired steam in heavy industry. The U.S. responded with $2.7 billion to rebuild domestic uranium…
- Article · Skander Garroum & Hugo Rauch · 05/29/2026Before the Seed, before the grant, before the press, there’s a moment of deep conviction. Someone wires money into an idea with no revenue, no product, maybe not even a name. That moment is risky. The first check is where everything starts. It decides who gets to build, what gets built, and who gets left behind. So: - Who writes the first check-in climate? - And how do we find more of them?…
- CD Original Article · Skander Garroum · 05/29/2026Climate solutions need more than great ideas: they need capital with conviction. Public finance is slow, venture capital is selective, and philanthropy (while vital) often avoids the messy infrastructure and ops. So what about private wealth? Enter the family office. This starter pack is your cheat-sheet on how family offices (FOs) are getting involved in climate action and how they could…
- CD Original Article · Sean Higgins · 05/29/2026If you’ve followed Climate Drift for a while, you already know we value the story behind a technology as much as the science that enables it. In 2025 the spotlight on climate solutions remains bright, but attention is harder to earn. Many startups discover that a technical breakthrough alone won’t carry them if customers and investors can’t see the concrete value. That gap between strong…
- CD Original Article · Mairi Robertson · 05/29/2026Equity funding for climate tech plunged 40% last year, but you’d think infrastructure lenders would be rushing in with open checkbooks, right? Surprisingly, it’s not that simple and Mairi’s here to tell you why. In her latest piece, she breaks down the “Three Gates” every lender uses to decide which projects get funded (hint: it’s about IRRs, runway, and scale). If you’re building, investing…
- CD Original Article · Mairi Robertson · 02/21/2025In the race to decarbonize our homes, businesses, and transportation, climate technologies are scaling faster than ever. Solar, heat pumps, EV charging stations: each technology slashes emissions and reshape entire markets. Yet behind this green wave lurks a critical, often overlooked obstacle: the working capital crunch. As you’ll see in the story of “Harry’s Heat Pumps,” even a wildly…
Investment › Climate Accelerators
- CD Original Article · Skander Garroum · 09/12/2023We are continuing on our theme of accelerating climate tech. Today we are looking at accelerators. Again I want to spotlight two: Third Derivative: From Research to Acceleration and Elemental Excelerator: A non-profit approach to Acceleration.
- CD Original Article · Jonathan Stokely · 01/23/2025Time is running out for the planet while scientists and engineers wrestle with pitch decks and content calendars. The brutal truth is that the traditional startup model, where founders stumble, learn, and usually fail, is a luxury we can’t afford in the race against climate change. Cleantech and deep tech startups must deploy and scale faster and, to do so, should utilize business operators to…
- CD Original Article · Skander Garroum · 09/11/2023At the heart of Climate Drift's mission is the acceleration of Climate Solutions. We strive to explain these solutions, bridge the gap between investors and startups, and help people shift into climate. We're certainly not alone in this - There are companies trying to accelerate Climate Solutions through various approaches: From accelerators to venture studios, from VC investors to…
Investment › Venture Capital
- CD Original Article · Mairi Robertson · 03/03/2025Your customers don’t really care about saving the planet—unless it also saves (or makes) them money. Curious how solar got unstuck (and why nuclear SMRs and green hydrogen haven’t)? Check out Mairi’s bite-sized manifesto below. It’s a crash course in Homo economicus meets climate investing: perfect for founders, investors, or anyone who wants to see where the climate tech unicorns will come from.
- CD Original Article · Jarek Dmowski · 09/09/2024Scaling climate infrastructure is a whole different ballgame compared to tech scaleups. With billions in capital required post-prototype, the traditional venture capital model simply doesn’t cut it. Enter the capital stack. From R&D grants to catalytic finance and corporate demand, Jarek maps out the landscape of funding options that will shape the future of climate solutions. With a…
- Podcast · Skander Garroum & Jordy Gold · 05/29/2026In this episode of Off the Record, Skander Garroum reports back on what surprised him the most at The Drop - Europe's leading climate tech conference. In the lead up to the event, all anyone seemed to talk about was AI, and yet, upon arrival the discussions went in a totally different direction. The China discussion dominated the Climate Tech space with competing factions trying to figure…
Investment › Corporate Investment
- CD Original Article · Jarek Dmowski · 09/09/2024Scaling climate infrastructure is a whole different ballgame compared to tech scaleups. With billions in capital required post-prototype, the traditional venture capital model simply doesn’t cut it. Enter the capital stack. From R&D grants to catalytic finance and corporate demand, Jarek maps out the landscape of funding options that will shape the future of climate solutions. With a…
Investment › Project finance and FOAK
- CD Original Article · Eric Schiff · 05/22/2026How FOAKs cross the gap from working physics to bankable, repeatable deployment. Across AI data centers, batteries, grid storage, and industrial heat, the technologies mostly work. What breaks projects is everything around the tech: grid queues that stretch to seven years, factories that don’t ramp, pilots that never become products, and FOAK deployments that stay bespoke forever. Physics…
- CD Original Article · Skander Garroum · 05/29/2026From “Wait, what’s FOAK?” to “We’re already planning Plant #3”
- CD Original Article · Nik Baumann · 05/29/2026If you’ve been following Climate Drift for a while, you know we talk a lot about FOAKs, first-of-a-kind climate projects. Because let’s be honest: it’s one thing to pitch a bold decarbonization vision, it’s another to actually build the first plant, facility, or system that makes it real. FOAK is where things stop being theoretical. It’s where tech, capital, and execution collide and where a…
Capital Market
- CD Original Article · Mairi Robertson · 01/29/2025We’re here to tackle the current climate challenges head-on. One of the biggest right now? Navigating the funding Ice Age facing climate companies. Where’s the money going to come from to fuel the solutions we desperately need? Thankfully Mairi Robertson, climate financier extraordinaire, has agreed to open-source her Cli-Fi Playbook (that’s climate finance, not speculative fiction). Over the…
- CD Original Article · Mairi Robertson · 01/29/2025We’re here to tackle the current climate challenges head-on. One of the biggest right now? Navigating the funding Ice Age facing climate companies. Where’s the money going to come from to fuel the solutions we desperately need? Thankfully Mairi Robertson, climate financier extraordinaire, has agreed to open-source her Cli-Fi Playbook (that’s climate finance, not speculative fiction). Over the…
- CD Original Article · Jarek Dmowski · 09/09/2024Scaling climate infrastructure is a whole different ballgame compared to tech scaleups. With billions in capital required post-prototype, the traditional venture capital model simply doesn’t cut it. Enter the capital stack. From R&D grants to catalytic finance and corporate demand, Jarek maps out the landscape of funding options that will shape the future of climate solutions. With a…
Capital Market › PE
- CD Original Article · Mairi Robertson · 05/29/2026Equity funding for climate tech plunged 40% last year, but you’d think infrastructure lenders would be rushing in with open checkbooks, right? Surprisingly, it’s not that simple and Mairi’s here to tell you why. In her latest piece, she breaks down the “Three Gates” every lender uses to decide which projects get funded (hint: it’s about IRRs, runway, and scale). If you’re building, investing…
Ratings › ESG
- Person · 05/26/2025Founder & Economist on a mission to demystify climate solutions. Serving bite-sized insights and in-depth explorations.
- CD Original Article · Skander Garroum · 08/28/2023diving into the final part (at least for now) on Carbon Offsets. Having explored the origin of Carbon Offsets in Part 1 and the problems plaguing the Voluntary Offset market, we'll now delve into its ongoing evolution. We'll walk you through the offset purchasing process—starting with the traditional Voluntary Carbon market and then to the emerging new market. True to Climate…
Fintech › Carbon Credit Tracking
- CD Original Article · Kim Vinet · 09/23/2024Part 1 of a two-part deep dive, exploring a critical but often overlooked climate solution: geological carbon storage & how to make it feasible. I already wrote a lot about the carbon removal hype, including the largest climate acquisition last year. Part 1 sets the stage by unpacking the complexities of Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS) projects, with a focus on Carbon…
- CD Original Article · Isaac de León · 04/17/2024What You Need to Know Before Negotiating Carbon Removal Agreements. Carbon Removal purchases are exploding - but has the legal side kept up? Time to dive into Carbon Removal Purchase Agreements and how enhance their effectiveness. In the face of escalating climate change, carbon removal technologies have become vital to meet global climate targets, specifically the 1.5°C temperature cap as…
- Person · 05/26/2025Founder & Economist on a mission to demystify climate solutions. Serving bite-sized insights and in-depth explorations.
- CD Original Article · Skander Garroum · 08/28/2023diving into the final part (at least for now) on Carbon Offsets. Having explored the origin of Carbon Offsets in Part 1 and the problems plaguing the Voluntary Offset market, we'll now delve into its ongoing evolution. We'll walk you through the offset purchasing process—starting with the traditional Voluntary Carbon market and then to the emerging new market. True to Climate…
Fintech › Tax Credits & Grants
- CD Original Article · Berkay Issevenler · 04/10/2024How global incentives are fueling the Electric Truck Movement. By some measurements we are on a good track to electrify cars - but we are tracking behind on electrifying trucks. Time to look at the incentives for etrucks.
Fintech › Consumer/Business Financing
- CD Original Article · Manuela Zoninsein · 05/22/2026A climate hardware founder's field guide to the financing tools that actually work before Series A. You know when you're assembling IKEA furniture, and you're 45 minutes in and you say f* the instruction sheet, I'm doing this myself? And then two hours later you're "done," standing back admiring your work, and you find two screws on the floor that you're…
- CD Original Article · David Arnett · 05/22/2026Where projects break down, what working projects do differently, and the KPIs that should be in every offtake agreement. Here’s a pattern I keep seeing: the documentation is flawless and the outcomes are zero. Carbon markets have this problem in an almost comically pure form. Every major nature-based carbon project comes with a community benefit-sharing framework. Revenue splits, consultation…
- CD Original Article · Jarek Dmowski · 05/29/2026$22 billion across 149 deals. March 2026 was the biggest month we’ve tracked this year. Jarek’s latest Follow the Money breaks down where the capital actually went, and the regional splits tell you more than any macro forecast could. 🇺🇸 North America: $7.3B, almost entirely concentrated in batteries, nuclear, and geothermal. The U.S. is buying firm, dispatchable power for AI infrastructure.…
- CD Original Article · Jarek Dmowski · 05/29/2026February confirmed what January hinted at: 2026 is shaping up differently. $18 billion across 85 tracked deals, and the geography of climate capital is shifting in ways worth paying attention to. Asia led for the second straight month at $6.4 billion. Europe came in close behind at $6.1 billion. North America, despite 31 deals (the highest count), trailed both at $3.7 billion. The US is…
- Podcast · Skander Garroum & Jordy Gold · 05/29/2026Manuela Zoninsein, CEO of Kadeya, found out the hard way that Venture Capital doesn’t work when you’re building a physical Climate Tech company. After spending two painful years searching for, and eventually finding amazing financing options, she’s here to share the map she wished someone had handed her. We Discuss: Why the default VC playbook breaks for climate hardware (and why that’s not…
Fintech › Consumer/Business Financing › Platform
- CD Original Article · Laura van Meer · 05/22/2026What’s more scalable: an AI that can send 10,000 emails per hour, or one person who’s so genuinely excited about what you’re doing that they can’t help but tell their friends? If you said the AI, congrats, you’re technically correct and also missing the entire point. We’re living through the weirdest paradox: the more we automate connection, the more valuable actual connection becomes. So we…
Fintech › Impact Investing
- CD Original Article · David Arnett · 05/22/2026Where projects break down, what working projects do differently, and the KPIs that should be in every offtake agreement. Here’s a pattern I keep seeing: the documentation is flawless and the outcomes are zero. Carbon markets have this problem in an almost comically pure form. Every major nature-based carbon project comes with a community benefit-sharing framework. Revenue splits, consultation…
Fintech › Financing
- CD Original Article · Mairi Robertson · 02/14/2025Mairi is back with her Cli-Fi (climate finance) playbook - taking us even further into the money labyrinth with a story that sounds straight out of sci-fi: asset-based financing… and space lasers. (Yes, really!) Turns out figuring out what a used battery (or a used satellite) is worth is not as easy as it sounds. But it could be exactly what climate entrepreneurs need to scale their solutions…