What climate impact looks like before it's measurable and how we invest anyway
A 45-minute working session on how Carbon13 models, measures and reports climate impact from a venture's first day and what it does and doesn’t mean.
Most climate impact reporting measures what's easy, not what's true.
Carbon13 has spent five years trying to model impact from the first day of a venture's life building it into founders rather than bolting it on at exit and being candid about where the model breaks. This session is what we've learned.
We'll cover:
Why impact matters now, and why it is more than a reporting exercise
The curve nobody draws: when impact actually shows up in a venture's life, and what that means for how you back it
ESG built into the founder from day one, not at exit
What SFDR Article 9 really asks of a fund, and how we collect the data
Founder training as an investment edge
Where impact and financial returns stop tracking each other, and why both still matter
The honest list: what we still can't measure, and what we do instead
Format: 45 minutes on Zoom — 30 minutes from Nicky, 15 for questions. 08:30–09:15 BST. You'll leave with our impact-timing curve and insight on how we collect data from every venture under Article 9.
Who it's for: LPs, angels, fund managers and founders who want impact claims they can actually interrogate.
Speaker: Dr Nicky Dee, Co-Founder & CEO, Carbon13. Twenty-five years working at the intersection of startups and sustainability with UNEP, the UK government, Unilever and the World Bank; PhD from Cambridge's Institute for Manufacturing; Fellow of the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership.
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