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Sliced: Climate Finance and Extreme Heat
Follow us on LinkedIn! Click here. Listen to this Sliced essay on any of the streaming platforms below: Written By: Jay Tipton I live in Madrid, a city that’s notoriously hot during the summer. There’s even a local saying along the lines of: “Lo único que hay que hacer en Madrid en verano es irse” / “the…
Virtus: If We Can Finance Bitcoin, We Can Finance Nature
Welcome to the August edition of our Virtus newsletter! This month, we’re tracking both wins and setbacks in climate finance — from innovative blended-finance models in Brazil’s Cerrado and Europe’s newest impact-tech fund, to sobering research showing trillions still fueling deforestation. In Our Take, Sean draws lessons from Michael Saylor’s Bitcoin playbook to propose the…
Sliced: Trump Sinks Global Climate Progress, Again
Listen to this Sliced essay on any of the streaming platforms below. Written by: Jay Tipton Back in April, I wrote with cautious optimism about what seemed like a long-awaited breakthrough in global climate policy. In my Sliced essay “Pricing the Carbon of Marine Shipping,” I highlighted the International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) plan to finally…
Virtus: Momentum and Mechanisms In Climate Finance
Welcome to the May Virtus newsletter! If April showers bring May flowers, then consider this month’s bloom a signal – seeds planted in climate finance are beginning to take root. Some are promising and some precarious, but all are pushing us to rethink how growth should really look in our space. On Untangling Climate Finance,…
Our Take: Plowing Into the Future – Harnessing Soil in Carbon Markets
Written by Jay Tipton There are currently around 170 different types of carbon credits trading on carbon markets around the world, including both compliance markets and the voluntary carbon market (VCM). One of the most interesting types of credits, and a type that has received a lot of attention in the past year, are credits…
Sliced: The Carbon Removal Standards Initiative
Listen to this Sliced essay on any of the streaming platforms below. Last week, the booming space of carbon dioxide removals received a helping hand. The Carbon Removal Standards Initiative (CRSI) launched with a core mission of “providing technical assistance and capacity building for carbon removal policy, focused on quantification standards.” While many of our…
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