Managing the Risks of Climate Tech Moonshots

New climate mitigation technologies are essential for addressing the climate crisis and ensuring a stable climate future, and philanthropists should invest in them. Given the current trajectory and velocity of warming, there is little doubt of the need to move beyond proven technologies in renewable energy to pursue a range of additional solutions, from carbon removal to hydrogen energy, next-generation nuclear and much more. 

Philanthropists and impact investors have a crucial role to play in financing these promising but unproven emissions reductions solutions. Philanthropy can take risks that governments and commercial investors, hemmed in by political constraints or market pressures, cannot, providing early-stage risk capital for technologies that otherwise might never receive funding.

Prime’s Founder and Executive Director Sarah Kearney is quoted in this article alongside other colleagues. Read the full article here.