Climatecoin is already unstoppable and this is thanks to all of you.

Letter from the CEO

Dear community,

I am writing you all, positive impact investors and community that support us, on the wave of eagerness and sense of responsibility derived from having been appointed as new Chief Executive Officer at Climatecion.

The board and the Executive Leadership Team have drafted a new strategic plan for the period 2018–2020 and I have been selected to lead the operations and achieve the set goals.

We will convert the vision of our whitepaper into reality and we will achieve our goals by pursuing concrete success cases, creating a positive impact on our planet and achieving an economic return to our investors.

I am really excited with the new challenge, feeling ready to undertake the huge amount of work that this will require.

Nevertheless, I would like to take the opportunity to thank James Haft for his dedication and work as a former CEO, his persistence and commitment allowed Climatecoin to acquire the necessary resources to tackle the next phase. Haft will keep on being part of the executive team as chairman on Climatecoin’s Board of Directors. Contextually, I also want to explain the reasons behind my selection as new project leader.

Over the last decade, I have worked as fundraiser and advisor for UN Environment, the UN’s collaborative programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (UN-REDD), NGOs and governments. I had the opportunity to manage a large number of institutional and fundraising campaigns aimed to preserve natural resources. One of the most successful campaigns I have been working on was “Plant for the Planet”, promoted by UN Environment, where I had the chance to work alongside with the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize Wangari Maathai. Planting one tree per inhabitant of our planet with the aim of offsetting carbon emissions thanks to the support of companies and philanthropists, represented the astonishing outcome of such campaign.

In 2010 I participated in the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, a project aimed to analyze the impact of climate change on humanity and the economy. In 2014, I promoted the B-Corporation movement in Spain, aimed at creating ethical companies and a community of investors moved by an integration of social, environmental and economic objectives. And in 2015 I was part of the team of the President of COP20 during the signing of the Paris Agreement, which represented a historic moment that united 195 countries (almost all the governments of the world) in a common fight against global warming.

My background allowed the board of directors considering my profile like the ideal combination of knowledge on environmental issues, corporate dynamics, positive impact investment, government policy and a deep sensibility towards climate change. Humbled by such decision, I feel that my appointment should start with defining those guiding values required for Climatecoin success. On top positivity, hope and commitment, which represent my deepest motivations for working for the good of the planet and its inhabitants. Then we will need courage, patience, trust, transparency, solidarity, innovation and persistence, these being the pillars and references for our plan and the journey we are about to undertake.

2018 will be a year full of work, as there is so much to do. But I see the evolution of Climatecoin very close to the words that Christiana Figueres, by that time Executive Secretary at United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), told during the signing of the Paris Agreement: “We have moved from an impossible agreement to an unstoppable agreement”.

Climatecoin is already unstoppable and this is thanks to all of you.

José Lindo

CEO at Climatecoin