Director of Sustainable Finance, Industry & Diplomacy @BezosEarthFund. Fmr Head Sustainable Investing @BlackRock, Obama White House, @RockyMtnInst. Views my own
Biden will leave office with the strongest climate record of any president—making the largest ever investment in clean energy, regulating to reduce pollution from cars & power plants, bolstering clean energy supply chain resilience, & reasserting US global climate leadership. 🙏
The Bezos Earth Fund has committed to investing $10B into climate and nature programs by 2030. Remodeling the economy to make it more resilient to climate change is an overlooked field and a growing financial opportunity, said Bodnar. By Richard Martin: buff.ly/4eAftl1
Two key areas for climate investment are resilience to warming temperatures and phasing down fossil fuels, says Paul Bodnar, Bezos Earth Fund director. Article by Richard Martin: buff.ly/4eAftl1
Thread: Each week I run a simulation of Australia’s main electricity grid using rescaled generation data to show that it can get very close to 100% renewable electricity with just 5 hrs of storage (24 GW / 120 GWh)
Results:
last week: 100% RE
last 117 weeks: 99.0% RE (1/4)
We’re honored to receive @theiccfgroup's Good Steward Award at its annual gala! Proud to continue collaborating w/ partners at the community, national & international level to accelerate progress toward global conservation goals: bit.ly/45FSmzP.
Investments and financial flows remain off track from the levels needed to protect people, nature and biodiversity — and we’re running out of time to correct course. Join this #SystemsChangeLab webinar for a high-level discussion on transforming finance: bit.ly/3oPRYPF
"There will be a cost to society of adapting to climate change, no question. But that cost is not fixed." - @bodnarclimate
How and when countries and companies take action to build #ClimateResilience will dictate the costs paid in the long run!
#SystemsChangeLab
Join us for an exciting discussion on Thu June 15th at 10:30am ET:
@AvinashPersau15@cathmckenna@rkyte365 and @bodnarclimate will discuss climate finance breakthroughs and steps the finance sector can take to prevent the worst impacts of climate change.
Registration link below.
Investments and financial flows remain off track from the levels needed to protect people, nature and biodiversity — and we’re running out of time to correct course. Join this #SystemsChangeLab webinar for a high-level discussion on transforming finance: bit.ly/3oPRYPF
Thrilled to join this all-star team to drive @BezosEarthFund work on sustainable finance, industry, and diplomacy in service of transformational solutions to protect the climate and nature.
Please join us in welcoming Paul Bodnar (@bodnarclimate) as the Bezos Earth Fund’s Director of Sustainable Finance, Industry, and Diplomacy. You can learn all about Paul’s background here → bit.ly/3o7NO5e.
Welcome to the team, Paul!
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Today's IEA world energy investment report shows a record $1.4tn investment in clean energy in 2022 – and warns against turning to fossil fuels
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(with my pick of the best charts in the report)
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1. A thread on climate hope: There is an extremely important and hope-filled climate paper out in Nature today. It finds that, if all the countries of the world fulfilled their climate commitments, the world would most likely limit climate change to just under 2 degrees C.
The transition to #netzero emissions is already happening. What’s unclear is how it will evolve from here. How can companies and investors navigate this uncertainty? They need a map. Read more ➡️1blk.co/3sm7zo6