Duke Climate Action

 This is big!  Secretary of the Treasurey Janet Yellen state yesterday, "We need to use all the tools at our disposal—creatively, thoughtfully, and at scale. I believe that harnessing the power of markets and private capital is critical. This includes efforts to grow high-integrity voluntary carbon markets. High-integrity VCMs [voluntary carbon markets] offer significant potential economic and climate opportunities. They can enable buyers to source cost-effective credits from different technologies, ecosystems, and geographies. And they can channel capital towards the most effective climate solutions. Today, VCMs are relatively small. But these markets have the potential to support significant decarbonization—if we address some key challenges." Read the entire Remarks by Secretary of the Treasury Janet L. Yellen on High-Integrity Voluntary Carbon Markets https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy2373

We seem to be living out these predictions . . . Increasing heat and rainfall extremes now far outside the historical climate 05 October 2021   https://www.nature.com/articles/s41612-021-00202-w

 I hope that you will enjoy this as much as I did! Reading it made me wonder, "What is each of us doing to take care of the trees near where we live, work, and play?" Reply to share your tips, tricks, and thoughts! Duke’s Oldest Trees: Witnesses to a Century of History | Duke Today https://today.duke.edu/2024/04/dukes-oldest-trees-witnesses-century-history

Here’s Bill Gates' review of climate data scientist Hannah Ritchie‘s new book, Not the End of the World : https://www.gatesnotes.com/Not-the-End-of-the-World  

 Here’s The Guardian’s review of climate data scientist Hannah Ritchie‘s new book, Not The End of the World : https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/jan/04/not-the-end-of-the-world-by-hannah-ritchie-review-an-optimists-guide-to-the-climate-crisis

Check out this interview with Dukie Josh Felser with his business partner Raj Kapoor about their new VC fund, Climatic Earlier this month, Climactic, a New York City and San Francisco, Calif.-based venture capital firm, launched with a $65M inaugural fund. In conjunction with the announcement, Raj Kapoor and Josh Felser replied to our questions about the firm, their strategy, what they like to see in founders and introduced their portfolio companies. Listen here: https://vcwire.tech/2023/12/29/climatic-joint-interview-with-raj-kapoor-and-josh-felser/