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The Opportunity
The Opportunity
- Creation of the largest asset class in the world.
- Climate change is the biggest problem confronting the world today.
- This creates the biggest opportunity.
- “The asset classes created by solving climate change will be the largest class of assets created in the history of the world”
- Edgar Bronfman jnr. of Seagrams, Dupont and Warner Brothers
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HciWbOFdwLE
- “Climate change is a US$23 trillion opportunity” by 2030
- Anand Mahindra chairman of Mahindra
- https://www.forbes.com/video/6291656034001/
- “Over USD270 trillion in climate investments needed to meet 2050 net-zero targets”
- (Swiss-Re 7 October 2022)
- https://www.swissre.com/media/press-release/pr-20221007-USD-270-trillion-in-climate-investment-needed html#:~:text=This%20is%20revealed%20by%20a,sectors%20between%202022%20and%202050
Climate Crisis
Climate Crisis
- COP 27 message to delegates
- Antionio Guterres, UN Secretary General
- "Cooperate or perish” the world “is on a highway to climate hell with our foot on the accelerator”
- “It is either a Climate Solidarity Pact or a Collective Suicide Pact”
- “Today’s urgent crises cannot be an excuse for backsliding or greenwashing”
- “Today’s urgent crises cannot be an excuse for backsliding or greenwashing”
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HciWbOFdwLE
- “It is now high time to put an end to all this suffering”
- Climate change will never stop without our intervention... Our time here is limited and we must use every second that we have”
- In the last 20 years
- 7,438 natural disasters
- 4 billion lives impacted
- US$2.97 trillion in damages
Climate Change Targets
Climate Change Targets
- Reduce Green House Gas (GHG) emissions to preserve the planet
- The world has committed to net zero CO2 emissions by 2050 (55% net reduction by 2030)
- UK 68%. USA 50%. EU 55% by 2030
- To meet targets we need to reduce emissions or create Carbon Credits to offset Carbon Emissions.
- To achieve this result mechanisms, planned reductions, carbon abatement and funding is required
- Traditional Financial Markets are reluctant to fund these opportunities
- The world wants to save the planet but who will pay for it?