The Business of Solving Climate Change
While trying to find understanding and common ground on the issue of climate change can be challenging enough, perhaps equally challenging is finding ways to help the ailing planet without sacrificing basic business sense. January’s edition of the New York Space Business Roundtable and This Planet’s on Fire, the podcast of the Climate Sense campaign, delved into this challenge more deeply:
New York Space Business Roundtable: Satellites Boosting Sustainable Technologies
The New York Space Business Roundtable contributed to the Climate Sense campaign in January by inquiring if there is a meaningful business case for sustainable technologies in space and satellite.
How are satellites boosting sustainable technologies and what is the level of growth and investment in those enterprises? Over the past several years companies have raised billions of dollars in venture capital or private equity to fund businesses that will enable some aspect of climate change to be addressed. The market that has been discussed for over 10 years seems to flying along with satellites, the first line of defense against a warming planet. In this New York Business Roundtable, we looked at a company, a technology and the investors who daily consider whether these models make “climate sense.”
Speakers for this converation included:
- Paul Gloyer, President, Gloyer-Taylor Labs LLC
- Douglas Helmuth, Remote Sensing Scientist and Former Principal Investigator, Lockheed Martin SSC
- Sanjay J. Wagle, Managing Director, The Lightsmith Group
Methane, the Low-Hanging Fruit
In this podcast, we hear from Dr. Steven Hamburg, Chief Scientist at the Environmental Defense Fund. Dr. Hamburg joins SSPI’s Lou Zacharilla to talk about MethaneSAT, which locates and measures methane emissions from oil and gas operations around the world with precision and at a scale never achieved, providing valuable data for making decisions on climate change.
This podcast is the second episode of This Planet’s on Fire, the podcast of the Climate Sense campaign. The series was made possible with the support of SatSure.
