🌿[EDD] Dawn Lippert on Equitable Climate Solutions

​We're opening the doors to this Climate Vine Expert Deep Dive, where we'll be discussing the intersection of climate investing & equity, given her leadership across Elemental Excelerator, Earthshot Ventures, and Emerson Collective.

​About the Expert: Dawn Lippert is Founder & CEO of Elemental Impact, a global climate technology investor and nonprofit impact organization. Under Dawn’s leadership, Elemental has invested in more than 150 startups in the energy, mobility, water, industry, nature-based solutions and agriculture sectors, and those companies have gone on to raise over $8 billion in follow-on funding. Elemental has pioneered a new model for equitable climate solutions that centers social equity in companies’ cultures, products and technology deployments. Over half of Elemental’s portfolio companies are serving customers in low- and moderate-income communities, and two thirds are working with community-based partners. In addition to leading Elemental Impact, Dawn serves as Founding Partner of Earthshot Ventures, a venture capital fund spun out of Elemental in 2021 and backed by Microsoft, John Doerr, Tom Steyer and others. Dawn is also Senior Climate Advisor at Emerson Collective, the investment and philanthropic platform led by Laurene Powell Jobs.

​About Expert Deep Dives:In Expert Deep Dives every Thursday from 12-1pm ET, Candice goes deep with a different specialist or unique voice in climate. Together, they dig into challenges that our guest thinks we should focus more of our energy, and why. At least the last 15 minutes are held for your Q&A, giving you a chance to meet and go even deeper with amazing climate experts you might not otherwise hear from or connect with live.