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We are a special unit of LabGov that empowers marginalized communities to flourish by providing a platform for them to achieve success in leveraging existing climate investment opportunities. These opportunities enable sustained and durable community, economic, and environmental outcomes.
ACCELERATING CLIMATE EQUITY SOLUTIONS

The Opportunity

The ability of the US to meet its international climate commitments equitably for its vulnerable communities requires leveraging government dollars.

Our public-private partnership transactional structures can drive enormous sums sitting inert on the sidelines of the global economy into critical Government, Tribal, and Nonprofit (GTN) Climate projects utilizing modest public dollars.

INNOVATIVE PARTNERSHIPS

The Strategy

01.

Opportunity

GTN organizations have a massive appetite for pursuing Climate projects. Overseas
institutional investors have strong values alignment and plentiful flexible capital.

03.

Service

We have designed an innovative transaction structure to catalyze the investment of overseas investors into GTN Climate projects. The newly introduced U.S. Treasury incentives have generated a large amount of interest among banks and consultancies with relationships to these GTN organizations. However, these service providers have not yet generated viable transactional structures. In contrast, our transaction structures are modeled on successful past experiences.

02.

Challenge

The Inflation Reduction Act offered powerful incentives for Climate projects to private companies. GTN organizations could not use these incentives. Last Fall, the US Treasury Department made those incentives available. Our innovative deal structure is uniquely placed to catalyze deals to scale through these incentives.

04.

Strategy

Our pipeline of projects is formulated through relationships and research, list purchasing, and brokers. We focus on outreach to organizations with specific preferences and the ability to transact swiftly and at scale.

OUR TEAM

Meet the team

We are a team of globally leading experts in public-private-community partnerships with decades of experience in all facets of these deals and deep relationships with all sides of the table

  • Sheila Foster
    LabGov US Director

    Author of Award-winning books and articles.
    Co-Cities projects in cities globally.
    Awards: JPMorgan Chase, NSF, Ford (2x), Rockefeller, Georgetown (multiple-x), Lindback, IUCN, Prose Award, and American Energy Society.
    Expert: Aspen Institute Working Group on Urban Innovation (Member); NYS Bar
    Association (Board); EPA Region 2 TCTAC (Steering Committee); Next American
    City (Advisory Board); Environmental Leadership Institute Environmental Law
    Subcommittee of the NYC Bar (Member); Global Parliament of Mayors (Chair);
    NYC Mayor’s Panel on Climate Change (Member) and its Working Group on
    Climate equity (Co-chair).

  • Sheila Foster
  • Michael Likosky

    Expert Advisor: Governors Newsom, Brown and Cuomo; US Treasury; Mayors Emanuel and Garcetti; Senators Gillibrand, Schumer, Booker, Kerry, and Nelson; and the financing arm of 40 rural CA counties.
    Chaired Governor Brown Task Force to Modernize the $52bn CA Infrastructure Bank.
    Strategic Advisor: Goldman Sachs Merchant Bank, Lazard, D. E. Shaw, Google, Facebook, News Corp, ABC, CBS, NBC, ESPN, Hecate, OHL, AECOM, CCR, and McKinsey including billion-plus deals. Awards: Arts and Humanities Research Council (3x), Ford (4x), Rockefeller (2x),
    Markle (3x), Bloomberg, Chatham House, Arcus, ESRC, and Surdna.
    Global Expert: UN, OECD, EC, AU, Clinton Global Initiative, IDLO, and President Carter Center. Author: 5 books and contributor to Oxford Amnesty Lectures.

  • Michael Likosky
  • Laura Edwards

    Positions: State Department Advisory Committee for Technology & Innovation/Public Private Partnerships; NASA Datanaut, Oxford Said Business School (Guest Lecturer); Oxford Space Institute (Core Member); Global Center for the Future; and Stanford d.school Design Thinking Program.
    Founder: Oasis, SheCanHackIT, eCOCLOSET, Airbank, and 1-Zone.
    Awards/Honors: 2019 as a “Woman to Watch in Innovation” and 2021 Top 50 Leader in Space Tech.
    Work with non-profits and tech startups: via Crowdfunder, Google Launchpad, Storytek, Unreasonable at Sea, and Los Angeles CleanTech Incubator.
    Executive producer/ curator: Academy of Motion Picture Arts, Words Into Pictures: Writers Guild and Sciences, HubFX, FX Mobile, Pittard Sullivan, DirecTV, Championship Gaming, and Luz Engineering Strategic advisor: Crowdfunder, Computers for Youth, Universal Home, Mfactor Entertainment, FX Networks, XPRIZE, Child and Family Guidance, Warner Bros.,and Kairos Global

  • Laura Edwards
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