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Climate Change - Not Fake News Anymore??
Climate Change - Not Fake News Anymore??
By Alexander Rozenfeld
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The Internet is Drowning - Are We Adapting?
The Internet is Drowning - Are We Adapting?
By Alexander Rozenfeld
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Rebuilding and Resiliency Questions Post Harvey. Part II of Journal
Rebuilding and Resiliency Questions Post Harvey. Part II of Journal
By Alexander Rozenfeld
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How can VCs create a collaborative and community-driven culture?
In my experience, a typical VC portfolio is not designed for collaboration. As it is financially driven, the goal is to have sufficient diversity that covers alpha, beta, and sector risks. A new model is needed. Climate Impact Capital has been piloting a hybrid Venture Capital portfolio approach that is based on deep collaboration between each company in the portfolio, and between the companies and the limited partners. Companies support and benefit from each other’s product launches as part of an integrated, technical and commercial model at the portfolio level. We believe that this is the best approach for solving wicked problems, like climate change, and the energy transition. Anyone doing something similar?
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What are the top research needs for climate change adaptation and resilience?
There is also technical transformational change. This includes geo-engineering large-scale modifications of Earth's climate to counteract the effects of global warming. Of the methods, solar radiation management is by far the quickest, least expensive, and has the most potentially unintended side effects (i.e. altering rain patterns, ozone layer changes, and unilateral governance). Geo-engineering is not a substitute for reducing emissions but more of a Hail Mary given the lack of real and timely progress on GHG reductions. We need more conversations on this topic, with international agreements on trials and protocols, to create a basis for decision-making and management of consequences.
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What are the top research needs for climate change adaptation and resilience?
I would like to raise the topic of how incubators help the co-production of knowledge and what are the current gaps they are not addressing. From my experience with climate change "focused" incubators like Greentown Labs and PnP, they do foster a community and create an environment for generating new ideas and solutions. However, incubators have not fostered B2B knowledge and IP co-production. Each company is still out for itself and there is a perception of a zero-sum game for sharing sources of investment capital. We are developing methodologies for collaborative incubators and investment platforms. We plan to create ecosystems for growing value through collaboration and join IP/product development. Welcome any co-production!
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What are the top research needs for climate change adaptation and resilience?
I disagree. There are tools and methods! System dynamics models are powerful tools for understanding and influencing complex systems, such as climate change. When I was at MIT this was already a well-established field. MIT professors support such models for climate change including the En-roads model, which simulates the interactions between energy, economy, and environment - https://www.climateinteractive.org/en-roads/ Critically, they have been running global workshops (including at COP) to help managers, policy-makers, and citizens build and test climate action scenarios. The model allows users to explore the effects of different policies and actions on greenhouse gas emissions, global temperature, energy mix, and other indicators.
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🎓 Its with great joy I want to share that I have completed my “Mission Impossible Task” – the 20 month Executive MBA program at the MIT Sloan School…
🎓 Its with great joy I want to share that I have completed my “Mission Impossible Task” – the 20 month Executive MBA program at the MIT Sloan School…
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As the shortest kid in school, I was an easy target for bullies. When I was about eight, I befriended a kind teenager who looked out for me. 60 years…
As the shortest kid in school, I was an easy target for bullies. When I was about eight, I befriended a kind teenager who looked out for me. 60 years…
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Some 'X's' mean more than words on X! Like my late-uncle's "X" which he signed after being shot by sniper after advancing 3/4-mile from the…
Some 'X's' mean more than words on X! Like my late-uncle's "X" which he signed after being shot by sniper after advancing 3/4-mile from the…
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Experience & Education
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Climate Impact Capital
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Member Board Of Directors
The Climate Solutions Community
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Science and Technology
Board Members provide steer and advice on increasing collaboration on climate solutions between technical and engineering disciplines, with a deep focus on chemical engineering.
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Advisory Board Member
World Economic Forum
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Environment
Partnering to Accelerate Sustainable Energy Innovation, Advisory Board Member, providing feedback and content for System Initiative on Shaping the Future of Energy.
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Member Of The Advisory Council
HARC | Houston Advanced Research Center
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Environment
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Russian
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NVCA
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