“Human-induced climate change is the largest, most pervasive threat to the natural environment and societies the world has ever experienced,” a UN report observed last month.
The report particularly said that the poorest countries are paying the heaviest price. It also focussed on the topics of “mitigation action, loss and damage, access and inclusion, and the protection of climate rights defenders.”
The biggest challenge associated with climate change is that transitioning towards a low carbon economy is a capital intensive task. “Capital can be an immensely powerful tool to effect change,” says Jacqueline van den Ende, co-founder of Carbon Equity. “Capital is basically the control room of the world. So I am curious how I can leverage capital as a weapon to drive change,” she quips.
She co-founded Carbon Equity in 2021 as a Dutch climate investing platform for alternative investments with Lara Koole, Jeff Gomez, and Liza Rubinstein.