Climate Investment (CI)

Written By Anjali Deshmukh

Impact Strategy Summary

  • Investment type/ asset class: Venture / Project

  • Stage: VC: Series A-C/D; Project: Pre-FID

  • Geographic Focus: Global but with N.Am/ EU bias

  • Sector: Cleantech

  • Organization type: For-profit

  • Relationship with the companies/ technologies being assessed: Conduct assessments as part of diligence process for investments. 

  • Impact assessment capacity: 1 FT/2 PT dedicated to impact assessment

  • Assets under management/tied to impact assessment: All

  • Strategies to steer towards impact after investment: CI has a commercialization and deployments team who works with our LP base and the wider industry to deploy the technology of our portfolio into their operations to help lower their emissions.

Methodology Summary 

  • Does an existing methodology align with yours? If so, which one(s) Basic framework adjusted from GHG Protocol’s Project Accounting Framework. 

  • Time horizon of assessment: 2030 and 2050

  • Fractionalize shares of impact among interdependent climate technologies: On a case by case basis

  • Fractionalize your share of impact as an investor among many investors: No

  • Metrics tracked: Annual realized, planned and potential impact

  • How realized impact is/will be tracked: Work with portfolio companies to have consistent and standardized reporting every 6 months. Use of external consultants to “verify” our impact report

  • Other assessment or Investment- decision making characteristics you're proud of: Very strong focus on Impact throughout the investment process and comprehensive refreshing of impact assessments on at least an annual basis based on data we receive from the portfolio

  • Resources: OGCI CI Impact Report 2021, Climate Investments Corporate and Impact Report 2022

Anjali Deshmukh
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