Climate Investment is an independent organization founded by members of the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative. OGCI members have invested in our funds, and have deployed many of our portfolio company innovations, supporting their early commercial development.
We invest in innovations that deliver capital-efficient decarbonization solutions and drive their market adoption through our partner networks to accelerate scaled impact. Our team looks for opportunities that can deliver strong, quantified GHG-impact and an attractive risk-adjusted return.
Operational since 2017, we have focused our efforts on attracting a team of specialists who are leaders in their disciplines, developing robust impact quantification, building a portfolio of outstanding innovations and cultivating our partner networks. We believe that engaged, cross-sector collaboration is necessary to driver accelerated, capital-efficient decarbonization.
Quantifying impact
Our primary goal is to drive the market adoption of our portfolio companies’ solutions to maximize their impact.
Increasing the allocation of capital into climate innovations requires robust and objective metrics for evaluating the potential carbon reduction impact of different investment opportunities.
We have developed and operationalized a GHG impact measurement methodology for our firm and funds and have used the methodology to set targets and measure impact delivery. We share our methodology with our portfolio companies and help them operationalize their impact reporting.
Planned (future) emissions reduction is key to directing our investment. We co-founded a collaborative initiative, Project Frame, a platform seeking to introduce a common framework for assessing the future GHG impact of investments. Project Frame1 works with approximately 753 participating community members, of which some 257 are investors with over $8.47 trillion in AUM, or $444 billion in venture capital/private equity AUM.
The methodology quantifies past (“realized”) and future (“planned”) impact of our investments on GHG emissions, measured in tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent.
Driving innovation & market adoption
We invest in three core themes: venture capital and growth equity companies that can demonstrate significant reduction in methane or carbon dioxide emissions (CO₂), carbon capture, recycling and/or storage. Every investment is scrutinized for its ability to generate impact at scale.
Climate Investment provides early-stage to growth capital to companies with solutions for energy systems, buildings, transport and industry, including cement, steel, chemicals, power and agriculture.
We invest in early to growth-stage opportunities, focusing on accelerating market adoption through deployment to demonstrate and prove our portfolio companies’ innovations, enabling those deployments to develop into commercial contracts. We also provide growth capital to companies at a later stage of development where we can support them through pivotal stages to scale market adoption and impact.