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Community investment is the missing piece of climate action | Dawn Lippert

TED Climate

CHAPTER

Investing in Communities to Solve Global Climate Challenges

The companies that we've worked with in our portfolio have now raised over five billion dollars in fallo on funding, and they're operating in more than 60 countries globally. I'll give you two examples from the portfolio, one in concrete and one in water. These to be the two most abundantly consumed materials on the entire planet. In 20 18, we invested in a startup that introduces captured carbon dioxide into concrete. But inventing this very cool new technology alone wouldn't do that much to solve the climate crisis.

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