Amy Cortese

Pacific Fusions is backed by a Who’s Who of investors, including Hemant Taneja of General Catalyst, who led the Series A round, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Lightspeed, Lowercarbon Capital, Eric Schmidt, John Doerr.

Breaking barriers between nature and climate to accelerate climate action was a theme at SOCAP last week, which came as the COP16 global biodiversity conference was wrapping up in Cali, Colombia.

The Coalition for Green Capital has announced its first direct deals, for e-buses and green real estate, since being awarded $5 billion under the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund.

Overheard at SOCAP: Agents of Impact: Investing for inclusion, equity and diversity is essential for long-term performance.

Systems thinkers don’t leave home without their slide decks. At last week’s SOCAP conference in San Francisco, the quickest way to capture some of the abundance of innovative thinking on offer was simply to snap pictures of the slides.

The conservation finance nonprofit Blue Forest teamed with Pheasants Forever , a habitat conservation nonprofit, to create a new financing mechanism for projects that improve watershed resilience in southern Oregon and northeastern California.

For many impact investors and entrepreneurs, it was a day to step back, lay low and make sense of an election outcome that was always a possibility but was rarely fully contemplated.

It's been called “the non-profit killer.” Charitable organizations are mobilizing to defeat a bill being voted on Thursday in the US House of Representatives that could stifle free speech and progressive activism.

Six weeks before President-elect Donald Trump moves back into the White House with vows to upend climate action, nearly 2,000 founders and investors pushing climate solutions gathered in Washington DC for the Department of Energy's second annual “Deploy” conference.

Textile recycling. Clean energy permitting. Bio-manufacturing. Elemental Impact this week unveiled $18.6 million in investments across 16 climate tech companies.