Meet us in Washington DC for Climate Week!

I'll be at DC Climate Week next week (April 20th-25th 2026). If you're investing in climate solutions, you should be there too. Why? This is where policy meets private capital.

My friend Justin Brodie-Kommit (GP of Lichen Ventures, investing in climate hard tech) is co-lead organizer for DC Climate Week. Here's what he has to say:

I helped launch DC Climate Week last year, and we were honestly blown away. 4,731 attendees across 152 events in five days. All volunteer-organized. Zero institutional backing.

Last year, speakers included Sir Andrew Steer (former CEO of the Bezos Earth Fund), Bill Nye, U.S. Representative Kathy Castor and U.S. Senator Brian Schatz.

Year two is April 20-26, and we have over 235 events on the calendar this year. Find the full calendar here.

Policy meets private capital

If you've been to New York Climate Week, you know the trade-off. 600+ events, 100,000 people, and you leave exhausted, wondering if you actually learned anything.

DCCW is built differently. It is big enough to draw serious people and small enough that you actually talk to them.

And because this is Washington, those people include the ones writing the rules on federal funding, tax incentives and trade policy. The ground is moving fast on policy right now, and nobody has perfect visibility. That is the whole point of being in the room.

I run the investor programming during the week. Here are some unmissable events for investors:

On Tuesday, 31 climate funds raising over $3B sit across from LPs at the GP/LP Matching Catalyst. Small VCs to growth and PE from across North America. We already have family offices joining from Taipei to London. Every fund gets a dedicated table, and LPs rotate through structured conversations instead of cold introductions.

Also on Tuesday: The Hidden Alpha in Emerging Climate Fund Managers brings GPs and LPs on stage to unpack why emerging climate managers are outperforming established funds and what allocators should be looking at now. Our speakers include CapShift's Javier Monterroso, Juniper Ventures' Michael Luciani, The Good Science Fund's Urvashi Bhatnagar, Lichen Venture's Justin Brodie-Kommit, Private Capital Investments' Katherine Hill Ritchie, and the former Managing Director of Impact Investments at The Nature Conservancy Julie Abrams.

On Wednesday - Earth Day - 45 curated investors sit down at Climate Capital Has No Off Switch: Measuring Impact in a Shifting Landscape to talk about deploying capital when the policy environment is working against you and how to maximize real-world impact while targeting market-rate returns. Panelists from Prime Coalition, CapShift, and GIIN dig into how investors are actually tracking whether their climate capital is doing what they said it would.

See you next week.