September 15, 2023 | Podcasts

Looking ahead to Climate Week NYC

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Isaac Silk

🎧 Impact Briefing. Host Brian Walsh chats with Amy Cortese to set the stage for the UN General Assembly and Climate Week NYC. Plus, the headlines.

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Protest/Invest. Amy sketched the landscape in “Protesters and investors to pressure global leaders at Climate Week NYC.” Here are the details of Sunday’s march, Climate Group’s event guide and Climate Tech VC’s cheat sheet to hundreds of side events.

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Isaac Silk

October 3, 2023

The Brief

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Demonstrate, deploy and decarbonize. The deadline-driven, exponential-breakthrough climate narrative was on full display at Climate Week NYC and last week’s Deploy23 conference, hosted by the US Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office. “We’re fired up and thinking about how we can move faster,” Tim Hade of Scale Microgrids told ImpactAlpha’s Amy Cortese. Get Amy’s full recap.

Agents of Impact

🏃🏾‍♀️ People on the move

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Host Brian Walsh shares highlights from last week’s subscriber-only Agents of Impact call, “The employee-ownership edge,” which explored the range of opportunities for investing in the conversion of companies to worker ownership. Plus, the headlines.

🎙️ Call Recap

Labor and capital align in new movement for worker ownership. In the age-old struggle it’s labor vs capital, workers vs. owners. But what happens when employees get a stake in the companies they work for? The evidence suggests motivation, retention and productivity all improve. Investors are getting on board, seeking the worker ownership edge in buyout funds that finance company conversions to employee ownership. Last week’s subscriber-only Agents of Impact Call featured investors who are betting that worker ownership is not only good for labor, it’s good for capital, too. Among the highlights:

Short Signals: What We're Reading

🇮🇪 Ireland’s climate action. Ireland last month made a bold statement on climate action: It rejected a liquefied natural gas import terminal and a related gas-fired power plant. The proposal would have helped keep the island hooked on fossil fuels for years. (Bloomberg)