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COP26: The role of investors and greentech startups in delivering decarbonisation

On day two of COP26’s ‘World Leader’s Summit’, Finextra attended European finance consultancy Oxera’s ‘Economics of Climate Change’ session, which brought to life the role that both investors and greentech startups can play in delivering decarbonisation.

03 November 2021

Company announcement/sustainable

Climate science platform Cervest scores $30 million fundraise

Cervest, creator of the world's first AI-powered Climate Intelligence (CI) platform, today announced it raised a $30 million Series A round led by Draper Esprit. Cervest seeks to help enterprises, financial services companies, and governments quantify climate risk down to the asset level and, for the first time, across multiple decades and threats.

20 May 2021

News/sustainable

Betting on AI to reduce risk in sustainable investment

The quest toward improving corporate sustainability is mired by uncertainty: uncertainty of emissions volume, extreme weather events, timing of such events, and inevitably, the toll they may take on investment. This uncertainty is regarded by investors as risk.

22 January 2020

Finextra TV/sustainable

Understanding Sustainable Finance risks and making data driven decisions

Mark Hodgson, Chief Business Officer, Cervest, speaks to Hannah Wallace, FinextraTV, at Sustainable Finance.Live about understanding sustainable risks and making data driven decisions in the context of climate change, the challenges in assessing the data necessary to build sustainable solutions, the role of AI and ML in tackling those hurdles and what this means for commercial banks.

11 December 2019

News/sustainable

The impact of climate risk on investment decisions and disclosure law

Climate change is predicted to cost 200 of the world’s largest companies $1 trillion over the next five years, according to a survey conducted by the charity CDP. But should the financial services industry be concerned? The answer is yes and for two fundamental reasons: the impact on investment and disclosure laws.

21 November 2019