How can we finance the myriad startups and small business transitions that may convey the sustainable economic system to full flower? Our visitor, Dimitry Gershenson, co-founder and CEO of Enduring Planet, argues that the local weather disaster has made the human and enterprise response inevitable. Enduring Planet was launched to supply non-dilutive financing — within the type of unsecured loans — to local weather mitigation corporations that assist scale back emissions, carbon removal startups that capture CO2 from the environment, and companies that present climate adaptation and resilience companies that might be wanted in response to local weather change.
Dimitry shares the important thing developments out there driving new financing and the way his crew selects corporations based mostly on related standards as a enterprise capital agency with out taking inventory, offering loans based mostly on the debtors’ money move. Enduring Planet additionally seeks out various and inclusive corporations and organizations delivering items and companies in marginalized communities.
Dimitry explains why Enduring Planet invested in Compost Colorado and AQUAOSO, an agricultural information firm, as examples of current offers. Curiosity in investing for sustainability has soared lately. Bloomberg reports that in 2021 greater than $1.6 trillion of debt financing went to company and infrastructure transitions to renewable, low-carbon, and low-impact enterprise approaches. That brings the entire invested in sustainable paths to greater than $4 trillion, or about 4.2% of the worth of the world’s economic system final yr.
Tune in to get a way of the financing exercise on the grassroots of the sustainable economic system and be launched to debt financing for sustainability-focused startups. You possibly can be taught extra about Enduring Planet at enduringplanet.com.
This podcast initially aired on September 28, 2022.