Taking Action on Climate, Sustainability, and Environmental Justice.
Founders, funders, corporates, government, and community stakeholders gathered in Long Beach, California to address climate, sustainability, and environmental justice issues and opportunities to solve them.
After an hour of networking, I moderated two panels covering: 1) investment trends, corporate and government customer needs, and funding; and, 2) innovative solutions. It is encouraging that solutions for climate, sustainability, and environmental equity are increasingly linked with more efficient and lower cost operations as well as benefits and cost savings in public health. Clean air, water, and land objectives should not be viewed solely as societal debt and regulatory compliance imperatives but as inclusive business opportunities driving greater economic growth.
Embracing Incremental and Radical Innovation for a Fair and Sustainable World
“Keep looking for doors that create more impact and that will lead you to a very fulfilling journey.”
Janice Tran, Co-Founder & CEO of Kanin Energy
The Columbia Climate School students know how to bring people together to enable what we need to do. We need to tackle climate change now. The climate crisis has made daily headlines with extreme heat, drought, fires, and floods affecting communities across the globe. For new ventures, urgent environmental sustainability needs are more than a societal debt. They represent a massive business opportunity for incremental and radical solutions.
Partsimony founders share their journey launching a climate impact supply chain optimizer.
Nobody was worried about supply chain disruptions six years ago.
My student founders and I welcomed Rich and Roland Mokuolu, cofounders of Partsimony, as guest speakers to Columbia’s H4H impact venture incubator course on Wednesday. The dynamic duo- who happen to be identical twins, engineers, former investment bankers, and distributed supply chain specialists- shared their story of launching a machine learning-enabled supply chain optimizer that addresses the pain points of commodity volatility, supply chain risks, and geopolitical disruptions.