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Rho Impact featured in Ceres' 2024 Climate Report - "Investing in the Future: Unlocking Value Through Avoided Emissions"
With climate change affecting global supply chains, consumer behavior, and regulatory landscapes, this guide lays out how investors can use avoided emissions to identify solutions that address climate risks and investment opportunities from the shift to a low-carbon economy. It walks through the steps to calculate avoided emissions, providing questions investors can ask along the way to use to better understand the underlying assumptions used in the calculation. The transition to the clean economy is a massive investment opportunity, requiring an estimated $125 to $275 trillion by 2050, driving demand for emerging industries, technologies, products, and services. This demand is being catalyzed by key government incentives including the Inflation Reduction Act that help de-risk these climate finance opportunities and make them more attractive to private capital.
Rho Impact's CRANE featured in WBCSD's Avoided Emissions & Sustainability Finance Report
Since the mid-1990s, frameworks like the Greenhouse Gas Protocol (GHG P), Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and – more recently – Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) and Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials (PCAF) have laid out the foundation for emissions measurement, disclosure and reduction by private market actors. These frameworks focus on the quantification of generated or financed emissions following an inventory accounting approach which in turn should lead to accountability and strategies to reduce these emissions.
Prime Coalition and Rho Impact Unveil CRANE Tool to Assess Climate Tech Impact Potential
Prime Coalition and Rho Impact are launching a new open-access tool to assess the impact potential of climate technologies. The new CRANE tool, launched at San Francisco Climate Week, will reduce barriers for investors to consider the emissions impact of climate solutions before capital deployment.
Rho Impact's Contribution to the ECO Report Showcased in the Harvard Management Company's 2024 Climate Report
Since 2020, HMC has embraced investing in low-carbon transition technologies to seek superior risk-adjusted returns through a mix of investments aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions or supporting such solutions. This approach has driven sustainable development and competitive returns, with a focus on private markets and a notable increase in commitments, culminating in over 1% of the endowment dedicated to climate transition investments by June 30, 2023. To get a better sense of the variety of approaches taken by climate-focused asset managers, Harvard highlighted two that are seen as leaders in their field.
Rho Impact partners with UVA Decarbonization Corp for UVA's Decarbonizing Healthcare Initiative
The new Decarbonization Corps, launched by UVA’s Environmental Institute with a gift made by Alec Guettel and Christy Smith, is committed to increasing the pace of decarbonization. Part of this new enterprise is the Decarbonizing Healthcare Initiative. The goal of the Decarbonizing Healthcare initiative is to create a framework for the accounting of a hospital system’s Scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions. UVA and Rho Impact are developing a strong foundation for this framework by conducting Scope 3 GHG accounting for a single healthcare facility, UVA’s Ivy Orthopedic Center.
Rho Impact and Gecko Robotics on S&P Global Commodity Insights Podcast: Energy Evolution
In the latest Energy Evolution podcast by S&P Global Commodity Insights, Gilman Callsen, CEO & Co-Founder of Rho Impact and Troy Demmer, Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer at Gecko Robotics, had the privilege of speaking with co-hosts Power Finance Editor Dan Testa and Senior Reporter Taylor Kuykendall, about the use of robots for power plant inspections with the potential to boost sustainability and lower climate impact.
Meet Our Rho Impact Research Fellows: Shared Passions, Diverse Perspectives
We are thrilled to announce the selection of our Winter 2024 Rho Impact Research Fellows. The demand for impact forecasting practitioners is increasing, and our team at Rho Impact is committed to capacity building in this space, both for our growing team and the wider community of practice. After a rigorous selection process, we have chosen a diverse and highly talented cohort of new Fellows. These individuals share our passion for advancing sustainability through data-driven impact investing and growth of clean technology sectors. We look forward to working alongside them and seeing their contributions to the space!
How Robotics and AI Can Help Cut 853 Million Tons of CO2
Gecko Robotics and Rho Impact explore how robotics and AI can reduce emissions from critical infrastructure, with the potential to cut 853 million metric tons of CO2 annually.
Robots and AI Offer Significant Carbon Emissions Reductions by Operating Centuries Old Industries Better
Gecko Robotics, a company at the forefront of using robotics and AI-powered software to improve the health of the physical world, has joined forces with Rho Impact, a leading impact analytics firm, to unveil groundbreaking findings on the potentially transformative environmental impact of digitizing critical infrastructure.
Rho Impact and Gecko Robotics Report Featured in World Economic Forum Article
Expectations of #AI to address #climatechange often overlook the need to strengthen the underlying data used for emissions and infrastructure #WEF24