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Gabriela Herculano
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Gabriela Herculano is CEO and Co-Founder of iClima Earth . She has over 25 years’ experience in finance and in energy. She formerly served as an Executive Director at GE Capital ’s Energy Financial Services team in London. She started her career in equity research, covering the Latin American electric utility sector at Lehman Brothers.


Gabriela Herculano
Nov 29 2022
Good COP, Bad COP, Broad COP
The reduced supply of natural gas in Europe is being solved in the short term with an increased use of coal for energy generation. In June, Germany, Austria and the Netherlands announced an emergency restart of coal power plants, postponing the planned decommissioning of the heavy emitters (coal power plants emit more than twice as much as natural gas plants of the same size). The perils of such a trend represent a further reduction in our chance to limit climate change. At the end of October, the UN Environmental Program (UNEP) published its 2022 Emissions Gap Report, pointing out that after a COVID-induced reduction in 2020, 2021 emissions rebounded and reached 52.8 Gt CO2e, above 2019 levels. Yet again, world leaders reconvened to discuss solutions while scientists warned that we are running out of time.
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Gabriela Herculano
Nov 14 2022
COP27, The “Fight of our Lives” and Time Value of Money
COP27, The “Fight of our Lives” and Time Value of Money


Gabriela Herculano
Nov 09 2022
There is no decarbonization without China
There is no decarbonization without China