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Steven Bowen

Steven Bowen

After starting as an engineer, Steven has 30 years' experience in the finance/investing world, including in corporate finance, debt markets, broking, and as an activist buy side portfolio manager.

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An 'Industrial Revolution' for efficient buildings?

The European Energy Performance of Buildings Directive could create a massive investment opportunity.

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What caught our eyes - three key stories (week 4, 2024)

Battery recycling's 5% rate myth; Alzheimer's blood test; efficient buildings Industrial Revolution?

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Sunday Brunch: Innovation alone will NOT save the world

Innovation is great. It's the life blood of long term value creation in many industries. But on it's own it's not enough. When it comes to putting your money to work, look beyond this to those companies that are good at taking good ideas, and turning them into profitable businesses.

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Investment opportunities hiding in plain sight ?

A $330bn/year green investment opportunity. What is not to like. So what is the catch ? Yes, it's in emerging markets. But the real challenge is that we need to develop new business models.

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What caught our eye - three key stories (week 3, 2024)

The cost of CCS; do EVs have a longer working life than ICEs?; the reemergence of measles

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Critical minerals - will we have enough?

Kathryn Porter, who writes the Watt Logic blogs, recently did a two part detailed dive into the potential demand from the sustainability transitions for critical minerals. Part 1 sets the scene in some detail. In Part 2, the blog we are highlighting, she looks at the supply situation for two

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We need more (sustainable) mining

If we want the sustainability transitions to actually happen, especially in energy and industry, then we have to accept that more mining (of some minerals) needs to happen. Full stop.

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What caught our eye - three key stories (week 2, 2024)

Green investment opportunity in emerging markets; Critical mineral choke points; Soil carbon credits

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Sunday Brunch: it's companies that will really deliver change (Part 1)

We should not forget that it's companies who will, by and large, deliver the changes. It's companies that will make investments, change products and services, and adopt new operational practices.

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We need to invest a lot more in agriculture

25 leading philanthropies recently issued a joint report, calling for a tenfold increase in funding for regenerative and agroecological transitions to address urgent global agricultural and environmental challenges. They urge that to align food systems with the 1.5ºC goal of the Paris Agreement there is a need to phase

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Could property linked finance unlock £bn of investment?

The Green Finance Institute (GFI) has recently released a report suggesting that introducing Property Linked Finance (PLF) to the UK market could enable £ billions of capital to be raised, to improve the energy efficiency of the UK’s homes and commercial buildings. While the response to the report has been

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What struck a chord in 2023

Articles that went viral in 2023 garnering huge engagement.

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