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Amy Cortese

New York

Senior Editor at ImpactAlpha

journalist, senior editor at @impactalpha, author of Locavesting, Brooklynite

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  • 4 days ago | impactalpha.com | Amy Cortese

    Climate tech tailwinds have turned to headwinds. Clean energy incentives are on the chopping block. Fundraising is a slog across the board. The worst of times? More like the best of times for climate investors with capital on hand. That’s the sentiment of some veteran climate tech investors who have been through a cycle or two.

  • 5 days ago | impactalpha.com | Amy Cortese

    Call it the Montego Bay manifesto. In late April, a group of impact investors, policymakers and entrepreneurs gathered in Jamaica to map strategies for channeling private capital from the Global North to climate solutions in the Global South. In their sights: the COP30 global climate talks coming up in November in Belém, Brazil.

  • 1 week ago | impactalpha.com | Amy Cortese

    “When I founded SASB, the words sustainability and materiality were not uttered in the same breath,” says Rogers, who is now helping lead climate investments in emerging markets at Pegasus. The Sustainability Accounting Standards Board, now part of the International Sustainability Standards Board, created standards for sustainable investing that quantified the inherent risks of climate change in dozens of industries, streamlining the process of measuring and managing such risks.

  • 1 week ago | impactalpha.com | Amy Cortese

    As vice president of sales at Bloom Energy, the fuel cell startup that went public in 2018, John Rueuter encountered energy teams at corporations and utilities that wanted to transition to clean energy or implement efficiency measures. They just lacked the data to make the financial case. Projects would take from six to 24 months to get approved.

  • 1 week ago | impactalpha.com | Amy Cortese

    How is buying distressed corporate debt in the 1990s like investing in climate projects in emerging markets in the 2020s? Craig Cogut, a co-founder of Apollo Global Management, which rose to prominence 30 years ago by snapping up high-yield bonds from failed savings and loans and insurance companies, is trying for a repeat with clean energy, waste management and water resilience, particularly in Africa.

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