What's in a name? Why VCs are debating the term 'climate tech'
11 feb. 2025
07:00
There are myriad names for the tech designed to save the planet. But do they make any difference to how the impact movement is perceived and its future? Impact Loop breaks down the debate that's raging in the impact scene right now.
As Impact Loop covered late last week, influential Sweden-born impact VC Pale Blue Dot have stepped away from the ‘climate’ label that has largely defined their strategy since founding six years ago.
Rather than ‘climate’ investments – a term that the founders of Malmö-based Pale Blue Dot now feel is too narrow and has taken on too much political baggage – they will instead focus on investments which ‘optimise’, ‘adapt’ and ‘pioneer’.