Building Resilient, Sustainable Supply Chains for Climate Tech
Resilient, sustainable supply chains are no longer optional for climate tech. They shape investor confidence, customer trust, and the ability to scale. With AI, blockchain, and smart diversification, startups can turn supply chains into engines of growth and climate impact.
Climate Technology Is A New Battleground for National Sovereignty
Climate technology is emerging as a defining arena of global competition, shaping economic security, energy independence, and geopolitical influence. For MENA and Europe, building sovereign green tech capability is no longer optional but essential to future prosperity and resilience.
The Fractional C-Suite: A Leadership Model for Scaling Deep Tech Climate Ventures
Fractional C-suite leadership gives climate tech startups access to world-class expertise without full-time costs. By engaging senior executives part-time, founders can overcome scaling barriers, accelerate market entry, and embed sustainability at the core of their business strategy.
Why Cutting Early-Career Talent is a Fatal Flaw for Climate Tech
Early-career talent is often the first cut in climate tech, but that’s a costly mistake. Fresh graduates and junior engineers bring digital fluency, adaptability, and climate-native perspectives, making them essential to innovation, resilience, and long-term competitiveness in this sector.
Banking the Unbankable Climate Solution: How AI-Driven Finance Can Unlock Capital for Non-Traditional Projects
AI-driven finance is the gateway to funding climate innovators who have historically been shut out by the status quo, using alternative data and advanced risk models to unlock capital for high-impact projects once deemed unbankable.
Beyond Productivity Metrics: Why Governing AI Agents Is the Real Leadership Challenge
In climate tech, AI agents promise speed, but leadership is about governance, not just productivity. Effective AI leadership demands accountability, bias checks, and sustainable impact — ensuring every decision aligns with environmental, social, and climate justice goals.
The Formula E Playbook: Why Climate Tech Must Sell a Better Product, Not Just a Better Planet
Formula E’s rise shows climate tech wins when products outperform on experience, not just sustainability. By turning constraints into strengths and designing for modern consumers, startups can build solutions people want — making the planet’s benefit a natural outcome.
Why Climate Tech Needs ‘Physical AI’
Physical AI is moving beyond language to deliver real-world climate impact. From optimising grids to accelerating materials discovery, these systems sense, reason, and act, helping close the decarbonisation gap through industrial innovation, resilience, and scalable low-carbon solutions.
Why Collaborative ESG Frameworks Provide Competitive Edge
Collaborative ESG frameworks offer more than compliance; they turn climate risk into competitive edge. By embracing partnerships, digital tools, and adaptive strategies, businesses in MENA and Europe can strengthen resilience, unlock sustainable finance, and lead in an era of accelerating regulation.
How Climate Tech Can Escape the Lab
Too many climate tech breakthroughs never reach the market. This post explores why, drawing lessons from the battery sector and offering practical strategies for startups to bridge the lab-to-market gap through innovation, smart financing, digital tools, and ecosystem alignment.
MENA’s Climate Tech Policy: Catalysing Innovation through Global Best Practices
This article explores how climate tech founders can navigate and capitalise on emerging policy trends in the Middle East and North Africa, with insights about global best practices, regional developments, and practical opportunities for innovation, funding, and growth.
The Overlooked Roles Powering Climate Tech Start-up Success
Discover the overlooked roles driving climate tech success - from policy and partnerships to automation and impact. This article explores how non-technical hires build resilience, accelerate growth, and help mission-driven start-ups thrive in today’s rapidly shifting climate and funding landscape.
Why Does Corporate Procurement Still Fail Climate Startups and How to Fix It?
Corporate procurement is holding back climate tech. This article explores the systemic barriers startups face, from risk-averse processes to misaligned KPIs, and sets out a practical playbook for reform. For founders and corporate leaders alike, it’s a call to redesign procurement for speed, scale and climate impact.
Why Integrated Climate Tech Solutions Are Key to Decarbonizing the Built Environment
Green buildings aren’t always low-carbon. Poor standards and fragmented solutions mean “climate tech” alone won’t cut it. Real decarbonization of the built environment demands integration of policy, process, and technology. From lifecycle carbon audits to smart electrification, Nexus Climate explores how MENA and Europe can shift from flashy fixes to measurable impact. The key? Joined-up, practitioner-led strategies that actually work.
How Corporates Can Fuel Climate Innovation Through Tokenized Investments
Corporate treasuries are moving beyond just Bitcoin to tokenized investments, fueling climate innovation. With $22.5 billion in tokenized real-world assets, this shift offers instant settlement, fractional ownership, and radical transparency for climate tech. Despite regulatory hurdles, tokenization bridges financial value with sustainability, allowing companies to achieve both ROI and measurable climate impact.
From Pilot to Impact: Applying AI Leadership Principles to Scale Climate Tech Solutions
Turning AI climate pilots into scaled results is challenging. Many stall due to weak leadership, siloed teams, poor data, and reactive engagement. Nexus Climate emphasizes operational discipline, ecosystem collaboration, and executive buy-in for successful scaling. Five leadership pillars drive real-world impact.
Beyond the Product: How Climate Tech Startups Can Use Emerging AI to Supercharge Internal Innovation
Climate tech startups in MENA and Europe face high-stakes demands to scale fast and deliver impact. But true progress starts within. This article explores how emerging AI can supercharge internal innovation—from R&D to risk management—and why embedding AI into daily workflows is key to unlocking sustainable growth, smarter operations, and real-world decarbonization breakthroughs.
Beyond the Hype: Identifying and Nurturing True "Climate Unicorns" in Deep Tech
True climate unicorns must show real decarbonization impact, not just high valuations. Deep tech solutions need market traction, technological readiness beyond research, and alignment with global climate goals. Nexus Climate accelerates authentic startups through institutional co-founding, global networks, and inclusive practices, bridging funding gaps and promoting diversity.
The Climate Data Vacuum: Why Private Innovation Must Lead When Public Systems Retreat
As public climate data systems retreat, a critical vacuum is emerging—one that threatens progress across climate tech, policy, and investment. At Nexus Climate, we explore how the private sector is stepping up with innovation, AI-driven tools, and cross-sector partnerships. This piece unpacks why data gaps matter, and how practitioners are turning challenge into opportunity across MENA, Europe, and beyond.
“No One Country Can Win AI”: Why Global Collaboration & Policy are Key to Climate Tech Acceleration
The gap between AI hype and real-world progress is real, success depends on collaboration, careful planning, practical investment, and a willingness to learn from early pilots and failures. Adoption isn’t a switch you flip; it’s a journey we travel together.