Climate Investment Opportunities With Impact, Tailor Made For Impact Investors

Forbes

4-25-2022

Hersh Shefrin

All investors, but especially impact investors, should be intrigued by new investment opportunities for addressing climate change. These opportunities feature nascent technologies with great potential for removing greenhouse gases from the atmosphere. Impact investors want their investments to be impactful as well as financially rewarding; and now is the time to achieve the greatest impact, by investing in technologies when they show promise and working to achieve scale.

Forbes

4-25-2022

Hersh Shefrin

In 2022, 43 years after the release of the landmark Charney report which characterized the threat from human caused global warming, the U.S. finally passed global warming legislation. Better late than never. How big a deal is this? Answering this question sensibly requires that we place the aggregate numbers in context.

Forbes

4-25-2022

Hersh Shefrin

There is a reasonable chance that the U.S. will become carbon negative in the foreseeable future. This prospect holds despite the political dilution of President Biden’s major climate initiative; and it holds despite the recent Supreme Court ruling to hamstring the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to regulate industrial emissions of greenhouse gases.

The EPA’s authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants was a big setback for climate goals. The politicization of the Supreme Court and its recent decision to hamstring the EPA’s ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions is a big step in the wrong direction. GreenTV’s Betsy Rosenberg interviews Rick Wayman, the CEO of the Foundation for Climate Restoration, says it was not a fatal blow for efforts to keep warming below two degrees thanks to promising new technology capable of removing carbon from the atmosphere.

PR NEWSWIRE

2-10-2022

The Foundation for Climate Restoration (F4CR) today published its white paper entitled, Climate Restoration: Achieving and Safe and Healthy Climate by 2050, which explores how we can remove excess carbon from the atmosphere to restore the climate for future generations.

Climate restoration aims to safely and permanently remove excess carbon from the atmosphere so that our climate is returned to pre-industrial levels of CO2. F4CR’s explicit goal is to reduce atmospheric CO2 from today’s levels of nearly 415 parts per million (ppm) to below 300 ppm by 2050.