Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/316749 
Authors: 
Year of Publication: 
2025
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 17794
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper provides a primer on climate technology entrepreneurship, recognizing its limitations and potential adverse consequences. Climate technology entrepreneurship is needed to contribute to mitigation of and adaptation to climate change, and to help decouple economic growth from resource use. This paper identifies and describes three climate technology gaps: (i) an energy climate tech gap, an (ii) overshoot climate tech gap; and (iii) a resilience climate tech gap. The paper furthermore argues that policies for supporting climate technology entrepreneurship, including entrepreneurial ecosystems and mission-oriented approaches, have significant shortcomings. Furthermore, the paper concludes that Artificial Intelligence (AI) is unlikely to make a difference to the world's climate change predicament. Hence, climate technology entrepreneurship is no panacea for climate change and ecological overshoot caused by human activity. On its own it will not save the world.
Subjects: 
climate change
entrepreneurship
climate technology
sustainable development
JEL: 
L26
Q54
O31
L53
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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