Clean Energy Ventures - 1792 Exchange

Rating Overview

Clean Energy Ventures is Medium Risk.

Clean Energy Ventures is Medium Risk. The company often yields to political activism in shaping corporate governance, potentially alienating consumers, dividing employees, and harming shareholders. The company implements race and identity-based policies that replace merit, excellence, and integrity with preferential treatment and outcomes. The company occasionally embraces corporate initiatives that redirect its central focus from business goals to partisan policies and divisive issues at times. This approach fails to safeguard free exercise, free speech, and free enterprise.

Rating Criteria

Corporate Weaponization Risk Levels
Criteria	Risk Level
Cancellations	Medium Risk
Discriminatory Philanthropy	No Data
Employment Protection	High Risk

Corporate Weaponization ⓘ

Corporate Governance and Public Policy Risk Levels
Criteria	Risk Level
Advocacy Bias	High Risk
Funding	Lower Risk
Political Actions	No Data

Corporate Governance and Public Policy ⓘ

Rating Criteria Detail

Criteria Risk Level Rationale

Corporate Weaponization

Criteria:

Has canceled customers, suppliers, or vendors due to their political views or religious beliefs OR corporately boycotts, divests, or sanctions regions, people groups, or industries.

Risk Level:

Medium

Rationale:

Clean Energy Ventures is a signatory of the Principles for Responsible Investment, incorporating ESG issues into investment analysis, decision-making, and other business practices (1)(2). However, the company has not canceled customers, suppliers, or vendors based on political views or religious beliefs (3).

Criteria:

Charitable giving (including employee matching programs) policies or practices discriminate against charitable organizations based on views or religious beliefs.

Risk Level:

N/A

Rationale:

Clean Energy Ventures does not publish charitable giving guidelines (1).

Criteria:

Employment policies fail to protect against viewpoint or other discrimination and/or are ideological in nature.

Risk Level:

High

Rationale:

Clean Energy Ventures appears to prioritize diversity over merit in its leadership composition. From its 2020 Climate Impact Report: “Our main focus for 2021 is to expand our dealflow to include more gender and ethnically diverse leaders by networking with groups and VC funds focused on underrepresented founders and leaders” (1). The company appears to prioritize diversity over merit in its hiring and recruitment. From its Diversity Equity and Inclusion page: “we aim to improve the diversity of our constituency across race and gender by seeking new team members and interns from diverse backgrounds” (2). The company offers unconscious bias and DEI training to its employees (3). The company protects its employees against viewpoint discrimination (4).

Corporate Governance and Public Policy

Criteria:

Uses corporate reputation to support causes, organizations, or policies hostile to freedom of expression.

Risk Level:

High

Rationale:

Clean Energy Ventures was part of the Net Zero Asset Managers initiative prior to NZAM’s suspension in 2025. Its membership indicated a commitment to carbon neutrality with its investments by 2050 (1)(2)(3). The company is a signatory of the 2026 relaunch of the Net Zero Asset Managers Initiative, which provides resources to asset managers to aid in setting climate goals. Based on the company’s NZAM profile page, it has individually committed to 100% of Fund I and Fund II companies commit to reach net zero by 2050 (4)(5)(6). The company is a Ceres Network Member, committed to carbon neutrality by 2040 (7)(8)(9). The company supports DEI within its business practices. From its 2020 Climate Impact Report: “As an organization, we’re committed to positively impacting Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) in our community” (10).