Scalable Impact

21/09/2021

[Get updated] It will soon be possible to invest in natural assets 💸🌳 ! This move recognises the value of and will allow people to help fund rain forest preservation or other efforts.

The NYSE has indeed developed a new kind of listing vehicle that will be called a "natural asset company", or .

Using NACs, governments, farmers, and other owners of will be able to form a specialized corporation that holds the rights to the ecosystem services produced on a given chunk of land, services like carbon sequestration or clean water.

NACs are intended to raise capital to preserve and restore swaths of land.

20/09/2021

[Get started] 🔎 This solution will allow companies can check if any level of its supply chain is involved in deforestation 🌱, water pollution 💧, as well as human rights violations or gender pay gap issues 💝.

If the world is to reach net zero, and avoid climate disaster, it needs to make every product sustainable, and that means every purchase. But to do that you need a lot more transparency, so that means more data on suppliers to improve sourcing and benchmarking companies. While companies are often d....

20/09/2021

[Get inspired] “We’re trying to solve for an underlying problem. That is: spreading bad information pays,” 🗞️🤑😡

A campaign is rallying shareholders for a vote at the November annual meeting of Fox Corporation.

The resolutions propose to convert media companies to public benefit corporations. 🗞️

ImpactAlpha, Sept. 14 – Talk about negative externalities.  False information intended to mislead viewers on climate, COVID-19, racial justice and other issues may drive ...

23/08/2021

[Get Inspired] Aspiration is the first -focused to go public !

It has pioneered the category of -driven consumer spending and saving products in the US.

Here is why millennials turn to Aspiration:
- assurance that your money will never be used to fund the oil or coal industries, you also can :
- calculate the of your purchases and plant trees to eliminate it
- avoid paying big bank fees
- get 10% cashback from mission-focused retailers
and more!

Other such banks are emerging in Europe as well, with Green-Got, Helios.do, Banx or OnlyOne

19/08/2021

[Get Inspired 🌱🤩] Apple's Impact Accelerator just launched , as part of Apple's $100 million Racial Equity Initiative launched in June 2020.

Hopefully it will inspire other corporates :

- it includes 15 Black and Brown startup founders.
- it is aimed to help Apple achieve net-zero carbon by 2030
- one third of the founders are women

Participants include tech recycling/refurbishment startup GreenTek, LLC, employee transportation service Mosaic Global Transportation, solid waste collection and recycling VMX International and solar projects Volt Energy Utility.

PRESS RELEASE August 17, 2021 Apple selects 15 Black- and Brown-owned businesses for first-of-its-kind Impact Accelerator These innovative companies from across the US are working on environmental solutions Fifteen Black- and Brown-owned green technology and clean energy businesses are joining Apple...

19/08/2021

[Get inspired] of atmospheric CO2 and recycling can help produce jet fuel ✈️ ... The proposed facility, a collaboration of Lanzatech, British Airways and Virgin Atlantic should be operational by the end of the decade, with a goal of producing 100 million litres of sustainable aviation fuel a year.

👏 Congratulations to LanzaTech for this new project !

Two UK sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) projects in the UK have been announced that involve British Airways, one to investigate a commercial facility that would produce more than 100 million litres per year of jet fuel made from atmospheric CO2 and the other to recycle carbon from UK wood waste and t...

17/08/2021

[Get inspired 🌱🔥] “There has never been a better time to start a company focused on reduction or actively removing already in the atmosphere. The total addressable markets are literally the biggest in history and we have no doubt that multi-trillion dollar market caps are just up ahead.💰” Chris Sacca, founder of Lowercase Capital who was an early investor in Twitter , Uber Instagram and other tech standouts, and just launched a new fund, Lowercase Carbon. 💰

Lowercase Carbon's portfolio includes green chemical maker Solugen, drone-driven restoration venture Dendra Systems and fusion startups Commonwealth Fusion Systems and Zap Energy.

Source: Impact Alpha

Lowercarbon now has an additional $800 million, in fiat, to expand our work of unf***ing the planet. Let's go.

13/08/2021

[Get inspired] 🔥Research is intensifying in turning carbon dioxide into new materials and preventing them from entering the atmosphere.

This startup from Oman just received $5 million by Apollo Projects and Breakthrough Energy Ventures to make the process of mineralisation of CO2 into rocks 🗿more economical and safe.

Reducing global greenhouse gas emissions is an important goal, but another challenge awaits: lowering the levels of CO2 and other substances already in the atmosphere. One promising approach turns the gas into an ordinary mineral through entirely natural processes; 44.01 hopes to perform this proce....

12/08/2021

[Get inspired 🍗🍔- for Good ] The food giant Nestlé is working with a -grownmeat startup in Israël, where the ecosystem is growing fast.

Lab-grown meat is a with immense potential for the planet. According to Appetite for Destruction, 60% of all biodiversity loss is due to livestock farming. Looking forward to more of such collaborations!

Nestlé is working with Israeli startup Future Meat Technologies, which produces non-GMO cultured meat components from animal cells.

10/08/2021

[Get inspired ♻️] Amazon is finally entering the , with 2 new initiatives to manage returns more sustainably and avoid .

This move will contribute even more to the already booming , a great news for the at a time when the IPCC announces that the planet may be warming even faster than current models and conventional wisdom suggest. 🌱

Small businesses selling on Amazon are getting new options for managing unwanted merchandise.

19/07/2021

[Get Started] Corporate is changing ... too slowly but let's celebrate the small wins 👏🥳

Corporations so far in 2021 have tapped bond markets for a record $72.8 billion in -linked debt and are expected to issue as much as $150 billion by the end of the year, according to ImpactAlpha.

>> How does it work?
The bonds tie interest payments to investors directly to environmental, social and governance targets. The bond’s coupon rate will increase if the company fails to meet its -reduction goals. 🌱

“What began with ‘Why should I issue?’ is now ‘Why aren’t you?’” Marilyn Ceci of JPMorgan Chase, one of the largest underwriters of sustainable bonds, told Bloomberg. “Your absence in the market says something now.”

16/07/2021

[Get inspired] ✈️ by is one of the most intensive activities we do but also one of the hardest to give up on... To give us hope, there are interesting investments in this field...🤩😍

United Airlines and regional carrier Mesa Airlines, Inc. , alongside Breakthrough Energy , backed Heart Aerospace to build a 19-seat capable of flying 250 miles.

✈️ United and Mesa each agreed to buy 100 of Heart’s aircraft.
✈️ Heart Aerospace is targeting a 2026 launch for its airplane.

-electric airplane developer ZeroAvia which has backing from British Airways , and Universal Hydrogen , which is retrofitting commercial aircraft with hydrogen-based powertrains, have similar timelines.

ImpactAlpha, July 15 – Mainstream air carriers are getting on board latest hot topic in the decarbonization race: electric airplanes (see, “Zero-carbon air ...

15/07/2021

[Get Inspired] ♻️ "CO2Made® : Products made from air 💨, not oil 🛢️" sounds like a dream in this context of . The tech to transform or into products already exists.

Several companies are at the stage of raising investments to scale up and industralize this born in the labs, such as LanzaTech leveraging on , or Twelve through CO2 electrocatalysis. A space to watch out!

Twelve, formerly known as Opus 12, has closed a $57 million Series A round to industrialize its technology.

05/07/2021

[Get Inspired ] 🌎🤩 ❤️ Happy to learn this morning that the belgian bank Belfius is working with the startup Doconomy to bring a different kind of bank to our new generation, offering them the tools to monitor the of their purchases to gain awareness and make more conscious consumption choices.

They are talking about , "the banking service at the pace of the planet".

Curious enthusiasts are invited to help shape Banx and join the conversation. They can already pre-register now to receive sneak peaks, share their views, and of course, be the first Banx

01/07/2021

[Get updated] J.P. Morgan 💰has just acquired the American investing platform OpenInvest❤️🌱🌎.

Retail platforms for such as OpenInvest are targeting a niche yet growing market but find it difficult to survive on their own.

It's interesting to they chose to pivot from direct-to-consumer approach toward partnerships with larger companies, but for this company, what drove this move is how much they will be able to scale and have more impact eventually . The acquisition gives OpenInvest “the ability to reach nearly half of all American households," said co-founder Joshua Levin.

We are excited to announce that we are officially being acquired by J.P. Morgan. At OpenInvest, our mission has been and, always will be, to mainstream... 17 comments on LinkedIn

29/06/2021

Recycle Track Systems (RTS) is making recycling more efficient. This "Uber for ", has just raised $35 million in Series C. RTS uses rideshare technology to connect businesses with independent haulers, tracking waste from pickup to drop-off. The waste is either sent to farms where it is converted to soil or to a cleaning facility so that it can be reused.

21/04/2021

[Get Inspired] 🥑 🥦 🍅 Hazel Technologies raised $70 millions, with Singapore-based Temasek as an investor, to address the huge problem of food waste with technologies that help extend shelf life and protect quality from field to fork.

Addressing food waste is a major component of reducing climate change 🔥. The target 3 of the United Nation’s SDG on Sustainable production and consumption is to halve food waste by 2030 🎯.

“Roughly a third of the world’s food is never eaten, which means land and resources used and greenhouse gases emitted in producing it were unnecessary. The food we waste is responsible for roughly 8% of global emissions”, according to The Drawdown Project.

More innovations to make food last longer include Apeel and Mori.

Check our article to discover more innovations to address food waste: https://scalable-impact.com/how-to-impact-your-stakeholders-and-your-bottom-line-positively-environment/

21/04/2021

[Get Inspired] Imagine companies where benefiters (employees and/or customers) are also owners... Could this transform ? A business model where maximizing profit 💰actually benefits its main stakeholders 🥰...

A - far too rare - example of this model is Grameen Bank , the first truly social business, where all benefiters of the bank micro-loans are also its shareholders . 🏆

I'm glad to see this French startup Meet My Mama, working to integrate women from migrant background to the workforce 👩🏾‍🍳 in France, opening their capital to the Mamas ! And also to the crowd through the equity crowdfunding platform LITA.co .

This kind of model is promising. A bunch of are supporting a move towards , investing for example in conversions to Plans, or , in which worker-members own and govern the business together.

Pour une finance plus éthique, LITA.co vous permet d'investir en ligne dans des entreprises à vocation sociale, sociétale ou environnementale à partir de 100€.