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Green Investment: Combining Performance and Positive Environmental Impact
Green Investment Explained: Understand the rise of sustainable investing and how you can participate for both financial and environmental gains.
May 19, 2025
Everything you need to know about the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM)
The Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) is the European Union's new tool to level the playing field between European and foreign producers by applying a carbon price to imported goods. It targets emissions-intensive sectors (steel, cement, aluminum, fertilizers, etc.) and aims to prevent carbon leakage while accelerating global carbon pricing. Its gradual implementation began with a reporting phase (2023–2025), ahead of the mandatory purchase of certificates starting in 2026. CBAM is already influencing European carbon allowance prices through "proxy hedging" strategies.
May 15, 2025
Responsible Savings Barometer: The French and Responsible Investment
This article analyzes the findings of the Responsible Savings Barometer in France, highlighting the increasing awareness of environmental and social issues among the French regarding their savings. It reveals a gap between this interest and actual understanding of responsible investment products, while also exploring emerging solutions like carbon allowance purchases as a direct way to impact climate change. The piece emphasizes the need for greater transparency, education, and clearer regulations to foster the growth of truly transformative responsible savings.
May 12, 2025
Climate Tech: Definition, Key Innovations, and Investment Perspectives
This blog post provides a comprehensive overview of Climate Tech, tracing its roots back to the Cleantech boom of the 2000s and analyzing the reasons for its subsequent decline. It highlights the key differences between Cleantech and the modern Climate Tech movement, emphasizing a more focused approach on measurable climate impact, patient capital, and stronger alignment with markets and policies. The article details the emergence of a new ecosystem supporting Climate Tech, including specialized funds, corporate investments, and supportive government policies. However, it also sounds a note of caution, pointing to recent challenges like the Northvolt bankruptcy, shifts in political support, and a potential investor pivot towards AI. Ultimately, the article underscores that while Climate Tech holds immense promise for driving a sustainable economy, its future success hinges on the continued alignment of capital, government, and industry to overcome emerging hurdles.
May 9, 2025
ESG and SRI: Understanding the Differences and Adopting a Responsible Investment Strategy
The article distinguishes between ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) criteria, a broad and somewhat unstandardized framework for assessing non-financial factors in investments, and SRI (Socially Responsible Investment), specifically the French SRI Label. While ESG aims to evaluate long-term risks and opportunities, its lack of uniformity can lead to confusion. The SRI Label was created to standardize ESG integration but faced criticism for weak requirements. A 2025 reform strengthened it with stricter exclusions and demands. The article suggests that traditional ESG approaches lack quantifiable real-world impact, particularly on climate change, and introduces Homaio's alternative: investing directly in European emission allowances for a more tangible environmental effect.
May 7, 2025
Carbon Credits: Understanding, Analyzing, Acting
Understand carbon credits and their role in offsetting emissions. Learn the difference between credits and allowances, how they work, and key considerations for ethical purchasing. Explore the challenges and limitations of the voluntary carbon market
April 30, 2025
Carbon Allowances: Who Can Buy Them, and How Do They Work?
Homaio enables private investors to invest in the EU carbon market, benefiting from the increasing price of carbon allowances and supporting decarbonization. The EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) uses carbon allowances to drive down greenhouse gas emissions, and Homaio's platform offers access to financial products backed by these allowances. Investing in carbon allowances allows private investors to contribute to responsible investing and benefit from a market with significant growth potential.
April 14, 2025
Decrypting Trump’s impact on Climate - Part 2
Trump's climate action reversal shifts the global landscape, empowering China in green tech and challenging Europe's climate leadership and industrial competitiveness, while emerging markets face financing and policy uncertainty for sustainable investment and responsible investing. This impacts markets, repricing climate risk and creating volatility, requiring European investors to focus on technological sovereignty, socially responsible investments (SRI), green finance and ethical investments.
April 8, 2025
Decrypting Trump’s impact on Climate - Part 1
The Trump administration has dismantled US climate policy, impacting US policy, administration, companies, and consumers. This includes rolling back climate legislation, targeting the Inflation Reduction Act, and embracing climate isolationism, leading to a strategic disabling of America’s climate response infrastructure and impacting clean energy investments. The changes affect environmental NGOs and consumers, shifting towards fossil fuels.
March 31, 2025