The agriculture sector is in crisis. Over the last few decades, the agriculture industry around the world has grappled with surges in labor and input costs, abrupt climate pattern shifts, pesticide resistance, and a growing, urbanizing population.

To date, 50+ CREO members (25% of members) have already invested in a collective 100+ portfolio companies and 25+ members have given a collective 350+ grants or program-related investments (PRI) in emerging markets.

In a 2023 survey sponsored by the European Commission, nearly half of Italians identified climate change to be one of the most serious problems facing the world. Italy is particularly vulnerable to climate impacts.

Nature-positive investments in ocean startups are on the rise, with investments in habitat management and ecosystem restoration leading the pack.

Nature is at a critical crossroads. Nature regulates our biosphere and provides society with tangible natural resources, regulating services, and intangible cultural assets that form the basis of human welfare.

Clean firm generation is essential to the growing and decarbonizing grid of the future.

Fervo Energy has emerged as a leader in the sector, has met or exceeded several technical and project milestones, and believes it has derisked its projects enough to attract debt financing to scale deployment.

Aquaculture1 is rapidly growing in importance as the global population’s demand for protein increases, demonstrated by an increase in production of 609% from 1990-2020, with a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 6.9%

As the world faces the urgent challenge of transitioning to a decarbonized economy, deploying innovative climate hardware that is less polluting than legacy technologies has become imperative.

After years of investment in climate technologies, project developers have begun deploying these solutions in large-scale demonstration and commercial projects.1 These bigger projects are usually expensive, sometimes costing hundreds of millions or billions of dollars.

The offshore wind resource is massive, 71 TW per the World Bank.1 According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), the global offshore wind resource is 18x the world’s current electricity demand and, of this, 80% is floating and 20% is fixed

Investors should target the VGI subsector for growth equity as increased electric vehicle (EV) adoption and an increasingly stressed grid due to other macrotrends (e.g., electrification, data center use, constrained transmission) will continue to drive the value proposition