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21 August 2023

Andrew Smith session panellist at the Official Launch of the South of Scotland Net Zero Investment Guide

1.45pm, Wednesday 30th August 2023 | Smiths at Gretna Green Hotel, Gretna Andrew’s panel with James Oliver, Hampden Group; Dr Poonam Malik, University of Strathclyde; and Rueben Aitken, Scottish Development International will be focusing on ‘Accelerating a Just Transition To Net Zero’, with an opening by Jane Morrison-Ross, Chief Executive, SOSE. South of Scotland Enterprise (SOSE) is […]

Insights

17 August 2023

Is it cheaper to refuel your EV battery or gas tank? We did the math in all (of USA’s) 50 states.

By Michael J. Coren Climate Advice Columnist, Graphics by Naema Ahmed, posted on LinkedIn by Jigar Shah. “Gasoline cars are cheaper to refuel than electric vehicles.” I’ve heard this claim pop up everywhere from Massachusetts to Fox News over the past two years. My neighbor even refuses to plug in his hybrid Toyota RAV4 Prime over what he calls ruinous electricity rates. What […]

Events

4 August 2023

Mission Zero – Scotland’s Path to Zero Emission Mobility

On August 31st at the Arnold Clark Innovation Centre in Glasgow, Energy Technology Partnership (ETP) with support from Transport Scotland and the good folks at Arnold Clark are holding what you might call a summit. The official title we’ve given it is “Mission Zero – Scotland’s Path to Zero Emissions Mobility”. What it’s really about is bringing stakeholders together […]

News

28 July 2023

Greenbackers 2nd Report on Delivery of The Sustainable Blue Economy Finance Principles (The Principles)

Many of the technologies that we look at are closely connected to the developing Blue Economy. Companies like C-Power, Redstack, Gazelle, Triton, Armour Edge, Grafmarine and Zelim and there are more in our pipeline. That is one reason why Greenbackers were early signatories of the Principles. They were launched in 2018, and are the world’s first […]

News

4 July 2023

Scope 3 Emissions Tracking, Blockchain & Bitcoin & the Follically Challenged!

Greenbackers Andrew Smith and Temple Melville of ScotCoin discuss the climate emergency and how blockchain could help track level 3 emissions. Listen now: Greenbackers Andrew Smith joined his old friend Temple Melville to discuss the climate emergency and Temple’s recent project- ScotCoin, Scotland’s first and only crypto currency. SCOT (as it’s known) is formed as […]

Insights

30 June 2023

The cleantech challenge for large industrials…(or the tale of the bear and the butterfly…)

Large industrial and energy companies (excl Powergen) account for about 31% of global GHG emissions. So it follows that they should shoulder much of the burden of delivering the new zero targets that governments and companies have signed up to in recent years. In order to do so, many of them will need to embrace new […]

Events

29 June 2023

Online Roundtable: FX & Fundraising: Derisking Big Money Deals

Greenbackers recently hosted a roundtable with our partners at Corpay, focussing on the importance of managing foreign exchange risks. The replay video is now available. See below. Have you considered the impact of the FX (foreign exchange) market volatility on your bottom line? Or the impact on your fundraise, should funds come from outside of […]

Events

28 June 2023

Andrew Smith from Greenbackers invited to speak at SPE Offshore Europe Conference in Aberdeen

Andrew will address the first post-pandemic in person SPE Offshore Europe conference, focussing on the oil and gas industry’s transition to reach net zero. 5th – 8th September 2023 | P&J Live, Aberdeen, Scotland SPE Offshore Europe is one of the oil and gas industry’s most important European conferences, held biannually in Aberdeen. This year’s […]

News

9 June 2023

IMPORTANT DEADLINE APPROACHING – 27TH JULY 2023

If you are a non-UK business looking to benefit from Scotland’s academic institutions to accelerate their R&D activity you should read this: £100,000 boost to business-academic inward investment | Interface Online (interface-online.org.uk) Scotland has a great environment for early stage businesses with excellent policy support. This initiative is the latest example of that. The Scottish […]

Events

6 June 2023

Andrew Smith from Greenbackers to Speak at EU Commission Energy Transition in Aquaculture Conference

Second appearance for Greenbackers partner Andrew Smith at EU Commission energy transition event in as many months, Andrew is speaking on the Enabling the Energy Transition: Skills & Finance for Innovation Panel. At 11:45 – 13:00 (CET), 16 June 2023 | Auditorium, Musée Art et Histoire, Parc du Cinquantenaire in Brussels, Belgium. The high-level conference […]

Press Releases

1 June 2023

Greenbackers Investment Capital announces services contract award from major technology client

Glasgow, UK (1 June, 2023) – Greenbackers Investment Capital (Greenbackers), a specialist Climate Tech advisory firm announces contract award for technology scouting services from TechnipFMC (NYSE: FTI) a leading technology provider to traditional and new energy industries. Through this collaboration, Greenbackers will provide technology scouting services to TechnipFMC’s Open Innovation Team to increase their engagement […]

News

23 May 2023

Greenbackers Climate Pitch: Success! Connecting new tech ventures to investors, first adopters and go-to-market partners!

The recorded pitching event showcased 16 leading clean tech founders to an in-person audience of over 50 Investors, market partners and a live online audience of global, tech-hungry funds on the 11th of May 2023 at Barclays Eagle Labs Glasgow. Greenbackers gathered pre-screened, curated, investor-ready climate ventures for the first of two annual pitching events […]

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