The clean and renewable energy transition covers economy wide deployment of technologies, products and processes and a vast array of business models from mature technologies and infrastructure to innovative Hydrogen and battery storage businesses, microgrids, industrial process innovation, to digitisation and demand management.

Nature Based Solutions is an umbrella term referring to interventions that harness the power of nature to solve societal and environmental challenges. These opportunities include investments in business models addressing reforestation, protection of biodiversity, mitigation through carbon sequestration, use of data and AI, carbon trading, sustainable agriculture, green infrastructure, ecosystem services markets, and blue economy initiatives.

The food and agriculture sector represents one of the greatest challenges and opportunities in climate solutions, and the solutions required will be multifaceted and diverse. Climate smart and regenerative agriculture is a boom area for investment with businesses that include addressing food security, climate change adaptation, and mitigation, innovative feedstocks as well as alternative proteins from plant-based to cellular meat and produce.

Meeting global decarbonisation targets requires an exponential increase in the supply of key critical minerals and materials necessary to electrify our grid, transportation system and other new cleaner-energy technologies. The mining and downstream processing sectors are adapting and innovating technologies and processes to minimise the environmental and climate footprint of production, redomicile this production onshore and technologies and processes to decarbonising the minerals supply chain.

The transition to a circular economy is gathering pace. Circular economy business models include designing out waste and pollution, renewable, recycled, or highly recyclable inputs in production processes, reducing biodiversity loss, sharing economy businesses, products as service and resource recovery.

Climate tech is broadly defined as technologies deployed to solve the complex and multifaceted problem of climate change. Be it either reducing, avoiding or mitigating greenhouse gas emissions or adapting and building resilience to our changing environment. The technology can be either hardware or software or a combination of both.  Technology innovations are part of a hot, fast-growing, ever-expanding sector.

This sector is attracting significant investment globally in innovative transit models and infrastructure leading to advances in electric vehicles and charging infrastructure, innovations in logistics, micro mobility, sustainable fuels, marine transport, aviation and rail freight. 

Blue economy climate solutions focus on the sustainable use and management of ocean and land-based water resources. Alongside established ocean industries, new emerging businesses are proliferating as part of the blue economy. Addressing challenges from overfishing, habitat destruction, pollution and the impact of climate change, are growing businesses in diverse areas such as aquaculture, marine renewable energy and blue carbon.

As urban and industrial ecosystems evolve, rapid advances in energy efficiency and sustainability in the built environment and infrastructure include innovations in design and construction, heating and cooling, residential buildings, commercial buildings, integrated transport solutions and materials in the supply chain.