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Our Vision and Commitment
We are a socially responsible venture fund focused on sustainable, socially-conscious and ethical investing. Our investment strategy seeks to maximize both financial return and social good.
In general, our investments favor young, early stage companies with services and products that focus on the importance of sustainability issues and carbon offsetting.
Our commitment is to provide these companies with funding to allow them to develop and produce cost-effective technical solutions to mounting global concerns.
Environmental Tech
Environmental technologies will play a vital role in both mitigation and adaptation of the impacts attributed to climate change, energy and resource depletion. On a global scale, individuals, corporations and governments have identified that the use of new environmental technologies is essential to address our impacts on the environment.
Greenhouse Gas
To bring climate change to a halt, global greenhouse gas emissions must be reduced significantly.
In its Fourth Assessment Report (AR4), published in 2007, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) projects that, without further action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the global average surface temperature is likely to rise by a further 1.8-4.0°C this century, and by up to 6.4°C in the worst case scenario. Even the lower end of this range would take the temperature increase since pre-industrial times above 2°C - the threshold beyond which irreversible and possibly catastrophic changes become far more likely.
Projected global warming this century is likely to trigger serious consequences for mankind and other life forms, including a rise in sea levels of between 18 and 59 cm which will endanger coastal areas and small islands, and a greater frequency and severity of extreme weather events.
Climate Change or Global Warming?
The term climate change is often used interchangeably with the term global warming, but according to the National Academy of Sciences, "the phrase 'climate change' is growing in preferred use to 'global warming' because it helps convey that there are [other] changes in addition to rising temperatures."
Climate change refers to any significant change in measures of climate (such as temperature, precipitation, or wind) lasting for an extended period (decades or longer). Climate change may result from:
- natural factors, such as changes in the sun's intensity or slow changes in the Earth's orbit around the sun;
- natural processes within the climate system (e.g. changes in ocean circulation);
- human activities that change the atmosphere's composition (e.g. through burning fossil fuels) and the land surface (e.g. deforestation, reforestation, urbanization, desertification, etc.)
Global warming is an average increase in the temperature of the atmosphere near the Earth's surface and in the troposphere, which can contribute to changes in global climate patterns. Global warming can occur from a variety of causes, both natural and human induced. In common usage, "global warming" often refers to the warming that can occur as a result of increased emissions of greenhouse gases from human activities.
