climate-finance
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Marco Monroy and the business of making less count
A Colombian lawyer went to Beijing to talk about climate change and found himself negotiating for Diego Maradona. His longer wager has been turning carbon reductions and energy savings into investments that can stand on their own.
Peter Davidson and the distance between money and a working power plant
After running the federal government’s clean-energy loan office, Peter Davidson returned to New York with a practical question: how do you get capital to the projects ready to be built? His answer now spans solar fields, venture investments, and a Brooklyn landmark.
Craig Cogut and the distance between money and meaning
He co-founded Apollo, built Pegasus, and helped turn a hotel brand into a $300 million sale. Now Craig Cogut is working on a harder transaction: connecting private capital to the places that need it.
Ayaan Adam and the price of building for tomorrow
From a mathematics degree to climate finance, Ayaan Adam has spent her career connecting capital with development. At AFC Capital Partners, she is asking investors to account for the weather an African infrastructure project will face long after its opening day.
Fernando Alvarado and the missing piece of clean energy
A solar project can have sunshine, customers, and a willing bank - and still stall. From San José, Fernando Alvarado has built a career financing the gap between a promising plan and a working power plant.
Eduardo Esparza Left the Growth Business to Finance What Grows Back
After two decades spent helping companies scale, the BlueDot Project founder made a deliberate turn: away from growth as the default answer and toward capital designed to restore land, water and community.
Eric Faurot
Eric Faurot is the long-serving CEO of Trellis Group (formerly GreenBiz Group), a B2B media company headquartered in Oakland, California that runs flagship sustainability conferences including VERGE, BLOOM, GreenFin, and Circularity. Over 14 years at the helm, he built GreenBiz into a leading platform for sustainability professionals - combining editorial media, peer networks, and live events - before transitioning to a Growth Leader role in July 2024 when Hana Kajimura succeeded him as CEO. His career traces an arc from tech media event production (COMDEX, INTEROP, Black Hat) to climate and sustainability, making him a rare figure who bridged Silicon Valley-era conference culture with the emerging sustainability economy.
Troy Carter
Troy Carter is the CEO and Co-Founder of Earthshot Labs, a Sebastopol, California-based climate tech company that uses AI-driven ecological modeling, satellite data, and geospatial analysis to develop, finance, and verify nature-based carbon projects at planetary scale. Before founding Earthshot in 2020, Carter co-founded RIZOME, a bamboo building materials company, and was an early employee at Airbnb. Raised on St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands and educated at Stanford, he brings a rare combination of entrepreneurial grit and ecological urgency to the carbon markets, with Earthshot managing 50+ client projects across more than one million hectares and directing $55M+ in project financing.