As I write this Australia just welcomed 2022 and the new year begins to criss cross the world. I am still ten and a half hours away from midnight, but already reflecting on the year behind us and the year ahead. Personally 2021 was a milestone year, having unveiled 2150…

I’ve been having a number of conversations with colleagues and peers in the last few weeks about carbon offsets and mandatory vs voluntary markets. It all started with a philosophical discussion about the time value of Carbon. …

I tweeted out this TED Talks video this morning…and it’s main point has been sitting with me all day… At one point the narrator states “It is the next 9 years that will determine whether we can achieve the targets of net-zero by mid-century.” She’s referring to the steepness…

Like many of you, I read the Sixth IPCC report with growing alarm. It used strong language like “unprecedented” and “irreversible.” And yet the IPCC report is written through a long and convoluted consensus process between scientists, governments and inter-government agencies. …

“The decisions we make this decade… are the most important in human history” David Attenborough to the G7. June, 2021 ___ “Every day you fight, like you’re running out of time Like you’re running out of time Are you running out of time?” Burr to Hamilton in Non-Stop Tick. Tock…

Yes, SPACs have gone from a fringe to a market driver… 248 SPACs in 2020 alone, 200 in the beginning of 2021! And yes, there are questions on whether this mad rush of cash into SPACs signals a peak of a bubble. SeekingAlpha tears down some of the negatives. But…

Today we unveil 2150, a €200 million venture capital fund that seeks to back the technologies that will make our urban environment more efficient, resilient and sustainable. “2150”, our name, represents both our ambition and our legacy. Our ambition is to back technologies that ensure that our cities become a…

If you were given the opportunity to back founders that wanted to change the world — and I mean truly change the world, for the better — would that not be the most amazing job? To dream that the technologies you support can define a certain future outcome? To see…

In 22 minutes I will turn 45… my youngest son has claimed that 44 is when you are officially “old”… so I guess I am now old…or at least halfway through my life (I hope!). But I have a 79 year old father who reads a book a week, walks…