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The Week in impact investing: Asset Ownership

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The Week’s Podcasts

🎧 This Week in Impact. Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: The divergent vibes at Mission Investors Exchange and the Milken Institute Global Conference. Plus: a call for sustainable mining for minerals essential to the energy transition.

The Week’s Agent of Impact

Ava DuVernay: Changing the narrative in Hollywood and beyond. “We’re a narrative-change studio in a town that is in a time of flux,” director Ava DuVernay told Ford Foundation’s Roy Swan at the closing session of this week’s Mission Investors Exchange conference in Los Angeles. DuVernay’s latest film, “Origin,” is a powerful reflection on the persistence of hierarchy across history and cultures, told through the story of how Isabel Wilkerson wrote her 2020 book, “Caste.” The story of how DuVernay made the movie is equally powerful. “There is no way I can walk into a studio and say, ‘I want to make that film,’” DuVernay said. “I don't want to wait 10 years to make one movie. I want to make 10 movies in 10 years.” To help her move quickly, the Ford Foundation committed $10 million and other impact-oriented investors chipped in another $30 million to make the movie outside of the studio system (DuVernay’s nonprofit studio, Array, committed $5 million of its own).

The Week’s Dealflow

Deal spotlight: Carbon removal tech takes shape. This week, the world’s largest direct air capture facility  kicked into gear in Iceland. Built by Switzerland-based Climeworks, the geothermal powered Mammoth plant will suck in some 36,000 tons of carbon from the atmosphere annually and store it in crystallized form in the bedrock below. (As Bloomberg depressingly noted, that is still less than a minute’s worth of humanity's emissions). While Climeworks has a head start, $650 million in private funding and a coveted Department of Energy grant, a buzzy field of challengers is pursuing different approaches to removing CO2 and keeping it locked away for the long term. 

The Week’s Talent and Jobs

💼 See and share more than a dozen new impact jobs posted this week on ImpactAlpha’s Career Hub and view hundreds of more jobs in impact investing and sustainable finance. Have a job listing to post? Submit it here.

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