Source page: McKinsey & Company
Commentary
Climate tech weathers the storm
Investing | Climate change
April 21, 2023 – Bucking the headwinds that roiled most capital markets, climate-related private-market technology investments increased in 2022, with power, transportation, and water the biggest targets for funds. That growth seems poised to continue this year, in part thanks to policy support in the United States and Europe, according to senior partners Fredrik Dahlqvist and Anders Rasmussen and colleagues.
To read the article, see “Climate investing: Continuing breakout growth through uncertain times,” March 13, 2023.
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Stacked bar time series by sector.
Layout / body structure
A single set of yearly stacked columns runs from 2017 to 2022, with the legend listed on the right and a second row below the chart showing climate-tech investment share of total PE and VC funding.
What is being compared
It compares climate-related private-market equity investment totals over time and shows how those totals are divided across sectors such as power, transportation, water, agriculture, hydrogen, oil and gas, building, consumer, waste, and industrials.
Measurement system
The main vertical measure is billions of dollars invested, while the bottom strip reports climate-tech investment share of total PE and VC funding in percent.
Visible structure inside the graphic
Each year is one stacked column with a dark power segment forming the base and smaller colored sector layers above it, so the reader can compare both the rising total height and the changing sector composition year by year.
Main takeaway from the visual
Investment accelerates sharply after 2020 and reaches its highest level in 2022, with the power segment dominating the stack and the other climate-tech sectors layering on top to push the total much higher than in the earlier years.
Key standout values or extremes
The headline gives the 2022 total at 196 billion dollars versus about 75 billion in 2019, nearly a threefold increase, and the bottom row shows climate-tech share rising from 6 percent in 2017 through 2019 to 12 percent in 2022.
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