Venture Capital in the Climate Spotlight

Published 11 May 2023

VC companies jostle to prove their green credentials. How much should venture capitalists worry about ESG scores and net zero goals when deciding which start-ups to take a punt on? Not much, according to Michael Liebreich, who founded Bloomberg’s New Energy finance research service and is an angel investor in more than a dozen clean-tech start-ups. These include low-carbon fertiliser business CCm Technologies and ChargePoint, which develops electric charging infrastructure in the US and Europe