Scaling Green-Tech
Scaling Green-Tech
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Helping green-tech founders and their teams scale and commercialise new climate change solutions by equipping them with practical marketing, business, and industry knowledge
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This podcast delves into various themes crucial for climate startups, such as effective public relations, optimizing event strategies, identifying the perils of greenwashing, and website development. For example, an episode discusses the real value of climate events with practical tips from Joanna O'Malley, while another explores different types of greenwashing every startup should avoid.
Scaling Green-Tech by Adopter is a podcast for people shaping the future of climate technology – founders, investors, and ecosystem leaders at the forefront of adaptation and resilience solutions. As part of Adopter’s mission to accelerate the adoption of high-impact climate innovation, the podcast aims to amplify real voices and practical insights that can help others navigate the startup journey. Our conversations go beyond the hype to bring real, unfiltered stories – the wins, the roadblocks and everything you need to know in between.
Mahima Sukhdev, Chief Growth Officer at GIST Impact, discusses the evolution from ESG 1.0 to ESG 2.0, nature value at risk, and what it takes to grow a data company in an emerging market on Episode 24 of Scaling Green Tech, a podcast by Adopter.
Sukhdev argues that ESG 1.0 was designed to produce glossy numbers for glossy reports, and was never intended to change how decisions are made. GIST Impact was built on a different premise: that climate, nature, and social data should be traceable, methodologically rigorous, and fed directly into the places where decisions happen – portfolio construction, stewardship, capital allocation. Founded 18 years ago as a research lab, GIST has watched this shift play out in real time. A major Indian bank is already seeing default rates rise in its agricultural loan book in ways that can only be explained by climate and nature risk. Clients like Allianz and StoreBrand are now using nature data to build portfolio-level analyses that would have seemed out of reach just a few years ago. GIST's recently launched Nature Value at Risk (NVaR) Solution – built on 25 critical ecosystem services and the Natural History Museum's Biodiversity Intactness Index – is its most detailed attempt yet to put a financial number on what happens when ecosystems fail.
This episode is for asset managers, impact investors, corporate sustainability leads, and founders building in the ESG data or nature risk space.
Find out more about Adopter here: https://www.adopter.net/
Explore GIST Impact here: https://www.gistimpact.com/
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