August 2025

The Climate Issue:

Investment and Innovation

Above: Ashlan Cousteau and the Paulette Island Adelie Penguin Rookery, “Saving our Southern Ocean, one algae-based Omega 3 supplement at a time.” – photo courtesy of Philippe Cousteau

As we all know, the “Climate Decade” is upon us – with the unrelenting impacts of climate change from fires, floods and more powerfully destructive storms. With that, let me welcome you to ‘The Climate Issue: Investment and Innovation’. As GreenMoney readers, you know we are solutions-focused, so this issue spotlights potent investable answers to complex problems.

Our spectrum of expert writers includes the conservationist, filmmaker couple, Ashlan and Philippe Cousteau with their first-hand account of marine food web collapse across the Antarctic and Southern Ocean ecosystem – and a way we can invest in a solution; then Karen Sack, executive director of the Ocean Risk and Resilience Action Alliance (a coalition of 120+ finance partners), dives into the trillion-dollar frontier of blue economy investing. Solar energy engineer, Will Wiseman introduces us to Climatize, the rapidly growing investment platform he co-founded to fill a US financing gap for smaller, community-focused, renewable energy projects; and John Howell of Climate & Capital Media investigates insurance companies’ record profits in Big Business and Climate-fueled Disasters.

Climate change represents a primary economic threat, not only to people’s lives and their assets, but to businesses and supply chains. As sustainable investors, how do we protect our communities and our portfolios? Can we stop climate change or mitigate its impact at this point – or both? Is Cleantech our only answer? Your thoughts are welcome. 

 Let me close with some good news, as next month represents GreenMoney’s 30th year online, (33 years since our first print issue). That’s right we launched greenmoney.com back in 1995! And to keep pace with the evolving digital media landscape, we’ve been designing our next edition, content-rich, sustainable investing and business news platform. 

Look for it this fall! We are humbled and grateful to our readers, writers and advertisers who’ve helped us grow GreenMoney’s online mission for 30 years. We can’t promise another 30, but the next decade could bring more change and opportunities for impact investing than ever before. 

Enjoy the rest of your summer!

– Cliff Feigenbaum, founder & publisher

2025 Editorial Calendar-Jan-June-GreenMoney

Saving our Southern Ocean, one Algae-based Omega 3 supplement at a time

Ashlan Cousteau
SeaVoir and Voyacy Regen
To the far south, in the icy ancient waters around Antarctica, the largest climate catastrophe in the history of our planet is unfolding, potentially devastating our planet for generations to come, but you’ve probably never heard about it. Krill, the small but mighty lynchpin for the entire Antarctic marine ecosystem and the food that feeds the entire global marine food web, are being taken from their natural habitat at enormous rates primarily for one really stupid reason: the mass production of Omega-3 supplements.
 

Investing in Ocean Resilience: a sea change in climate finance

Karen Sack
Ocean Risk and Resilience Action Alliance
A regenerative and sustainable blue economy represents a trillion-dollar frontier investment opportunity with the potential to generate significant returns for investors while advancing social and environmental goals. The importance of coastal and ocean ecosystems to the global economy cannot be overstated. Coastal regions are home to almost half of all economic activity and 40 percent of the world’s population.
 

Rewriting the narrative of Climate Change: from sacrifice to opportunity

Will Wiseman
Climatize
As renewable energy engineers, Alba and I saw a gap in the U.S. renewables funding ecosystem that needed solving, as the IEA reflected on its 2023 report: "Small-scale renewable energy projects often face significant financing barriers, as traditional investors and banks prefer larger utility-scale projects that offer lower transaction costs per MW and higher returns." Meanwhile, smaller, community-focused projects (the ones with local impact) kept getting left behind. Might we solve both problems in one move?
 

Building big business from climate-fueled disasters

John Howell
Climate & Capital Media
Despite a $182 billion price tag for losses due to weather-related disasters in the US last year, property and casualty insurers reported a near-doubling of their earnings over 2023. After-tax profits of the industry totaled $171 billion last year, compared to $92 billion the previous year. Last year was also an especially good one for home insurers, who booked the first aggregate underwriting profit on home insurance since 2019.
 

A trillion-dollar fund manager on Climate Investing in 2025

ZERO: The climate race podcast from Bloomberg – Low-carbon tech investments reached $2.1 trillion last year. But with the whole world trying to work out how to navigate US President Donald Trump’s unpredictable policy agenda, is 2025 still a good time to invest in climate tech? This week on Zero, Akshat Rathi interviews Greg Wasserman, head of private company climate investment at Wellington Management, which oversees more than $1 trillion in assets. Wasserman has to make investment decisions here and now about companies and technologies — weighing risks and opportunities in a volatile market.

The Sustainable Indigenous Finance Initiative by Rebecca Adamson

The Sustainable Indigenous Finance Initiative

Rebecca Adamson
First Peoples Worldwide
A collaboration between First Peoples Worldwide and US SIF launched the Sustainable Indigenous Finance Initiative (SIFI) at the SIF FORUM 2025 held in June in Washington, DC to standing room only crowds for both Indigenous Peoples sessions. The SIFI inaugural panel was opened by former Secretary of Interior Deb Haaland followed with a powerful plenary moderated by Mark Trahant Founding Editor ICT, Wharton Professor Witold Henisz, First Nations Major Projects CEO Mark Podlasly, and Kyle Whyte Director of the Tishman Environmental Science Center.
Protecting your home and financial assets in the age of climate change by Brittany Damico, Natural Investments

Protecting Your Home & Financial Assets in the Age of Climate Change

Brittany Damico
Natural Investments
For most Americans, a primary residence remains their most significant asset. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, home equity accounts for 66% of the average American’s net worth. Unfortunately, real estate is highly vulnerable to climate change. In the ‘80s and ‘90s, there were only three to six climate disasters per year, but in the past five years, we’ve experienced 23 per year with a staggering damage price tag of $150 billion annually. The economic losses from the recent Los Angeles wildfires alone exceeded $250 billion.
Drive on Sunshine - why clean tech investors turn to GoSun-GreenMoney

Drive on Sunshine: why Cleantech investors turn to GoSun

Rather than waiting for an EV embedded with solar panels, GoSun designed a solution that works now. Combining the flexibility of a solar generator with the usefulness of EV charging they’ve created a system that’s modular, efficient and practical. The GoSun EV Solar Charger is a 1,100-watt folding solar array that travels with your EV and unfolds when you park, turning any sunny spot into a solar charging station.
2025 Trellis 30 Under 30 rising stars fighting climate change

2025 Trellis 30 Under 30 rising stars fighting climate change at work

What sets apart our 10th annual list of Trellis 30 Under 30 is their ability to turn sustainability efforts into financial returns at companies like Expedia, Kohler, Patagonia and UPS. These aren’t just environmental advocates — they’re young innovators embedding themselves in the machinery of global commerce and systematically rewiring it for a sustainable future.
London Climate Action Week 2025 - Karen Ellis, chief economist at WWF-UK

London Climate Action Week 2025: takeaways for investors

Linda-Eling Lee
MSCI
Discussions throughout the week focused on the physical risk of climate change and its impact on investments. Investors emphasized the rising importance of climate resilience and asset-level intelligence. A finance-led transition to net-zero by 2050 may be out of reach, but innovations in measurement increasingly enable investors to deploy capital that protects against the effects of a warming world while advancing a cleaner, more resilient global economy. Here are some of the takeaways from the week that stood out for us.
CapShift surpasses $1 billion through its platform, strengthening institutional investing impact

CapShift surpasses $1 billion through its platform, strengthening institutional impact investing

Since its launch in 2018, CapShift has built the infrastructure to help financial advisors, donor-advised fund (DAF) providers, foundations, and family offices deploy private market impact investments at scale. The firm now supports impact investing programs across more than 45 private wealth and charitable institutions, including ten of the top 15 DAF providers.
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