Our futures depend on a thriving climate economy. We’re building it one climate commodity at a time.

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what we do

Enabling the climate economy of the future, today 

Climate Commodities (CC) is a commodity merchant focused on the next generation of raw materials enabling the transition to net zero. CC provides offtake and feedstock marketing and physical trading and is also a producer of critical minerals.

In addition, Climate Commodities operates a reinsurance platform and climate positive infrastructure through subsidiaries in Mineral Processing & Refining, Transportation & Logistics, and Renewable Power & Alternative Fuels. 

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Focus area 01

CC Finance

CC Finance provides customized financing solutions spanning project financing, corporate & platform financing, and supply chain & trade financing.

Focus area 02

CC Trading

CC Trading provides offtake contracts, feedstock contracts, and integrated product marketing services.

Focus area 03

CC Insurance

CC Insurance provides feedstock and offtake insurance across all major verticals of the climateeconomy/energy transition.

Focus area 04

CC Contract Marketing

CC Contract Marketing provides outsourced marketing services and appointment setting services for technical salespeople.

Focus area 05

CC Processing

CC Processing constructs and operates critical minerals materials processing, refining assets and associated support infrastructure. CC Processing is continually onboarding strategic partners ranging from host corporates, host jurisdictions, original equipment manufacturers, and other related stakeholder in the critical minerals and materials sector.

Focus area 06

CC Renewable Power

CC Renewable Power & Alternative Fuels provides decarbonization solutions to corporates, municipalities, educational institutions, non-profits and foundations, asset managers, and allocators. Our core competencies lie in the solar and energy storage area. CC Renewable Power has recently built out capabilities in green hydrogen, blue hydrogen, renewable natural gas, and waste to value.

Focus area 07

CC Transportation & Logistics

CC Transportation & Logistics is a low-carbon transportation development platform with capabilities spanning rail, pipeline, and maritime subsectors with particular focus on low-carbon rail infrastructure.

Focus area 01

CC Trading

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CC Trading provides offtake contracts, feedstock contracts, and integrated product marketing services to climate technology corporates, asset managers, banks, insurance companies, project developers, and engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contractors. CC Trading’s team possesses multi-billion dollar commodity trading experience globally across a wide variety of commodities, physical structures, and financial structures. Climate Commodities has married digitization, automation, and deep domain knowledge of commodity trading to develop new markets for climate smart commodities by delivering highly structured offtake and feedstock contracts to its customers.

Focus area 02

CC Insurance

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CC insurance provides customized risk transfer solutions to enable the climate economy through Climate Risk Partners. Climate Risk Partners focuses on unlocking the trillions of dollars of capital that are ready to be deployed into the energy transition across venture, growth, infrastructure, green bonds, public markets, and government support through innovative insurance products. Products include but are not limited to technology performance solutions, counterparty credit risk management, host risk, tax credit recapture, warranty obligations, and commissioning risk. 

Focus area 03

CC Finance

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CC Finance provides customized financing solutions to enable the climate economy. CC Finance’s capabilities span the following sample products in both a principal and agent capacity: project equity, project credit, corporate equity, corporate credit, supply chain finance, trade finance, factoring, and reverse factoring. 

Focus area 04

CC Processing 

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CC Processing constructs and operates critical minerals and materials processing and refining assets and associated support infrastructure. CC Processing retains capabilities across the critical minerals and materials value chain with a particular focus on graphite products, lithium products, white fused alumina, and brown fused alumina. CC Processing is continually onboarding strategic partners ranging from host corporates, host jurisdictions, original equipment manufacturers, and other related stakeholder in the critical minerals and materials space.

Focus area 05

CC Renewable Power & Alternative Fuels

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CC Renewable Power & Alternative Fuels operates EnergyLink Decarbonization Solutions, which provides decarbonization solutions to corporates, municipalities, educational institutions, non-profits and foundations, asset managers, and allocators. Our core competencies lie in the solar and energy storage area, but we have recently built out capabilities in green hydrogen, blue hydrogen, renewable natural gas, and waste to value. We also provide development capital to project developers in the aforementioned areas on a selected basis. 

Focus area 06

CC Transportation & Logistics

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CC Transportation & Logistics invests in and operates transportation & logistics assets and operating businesses globally. CC Transportation & Logistics capabilities span rail, pipeline, and maritime sub-sectors with a particular focus on rail infrastructure. 

Focus area 07

CC Packaging

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CC Packaging acquires and operates small to medium-sized packaging companies focused on sustainability globally. CC Packaging focuses on operating businesses that provide counter-cyclical features and specialty capabilities.

Focus area 08

CC Asset Management

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CC Asset Management provides outside investors with select opportunities to participate in our business activities with a particular focus on interval, private credit, infrastructure credit, and tax-advantaged infrastructure fund products.

Climate Commodities Coverage Universe

A carefully curated universe of products critical to enabling the climate economy. 

Zirconium
Waste
Zinc
White Fused Alumina
Wallastonite
Vanadium
Vermiculite
Tungsten
Tin
Titanium
Telluride
Tellurium
Solar Trackers
Tantalum
Solar Wall Panels
Spodumene
Solar Shingles
Solar Roof Tiles
Solar Paste
Solar Cells
Solar Modules
Soda Ash
Silicon Wafers
Silicon Ingots
Silicon
Selenium
Rutile
Rhenium
Ruthenium
Rubidium
Rhodium
Rare Earths
Racking and Mounting
Quartz
PV Ribbon Material
PV Encapsulant
PV Glass
PV Connectors
Pouch Cell Material
PV Backsheets
Potash
Polysilicon
Platinum Group Metals
Phosphourous
Mullite
Phosphate
Osmium
Olivine
Niobium
Nickel Foil
Nickel
Molybdenum
Lithium Compounds
Mercury
MC4 Connectors
Manganese
Lithium
Magnesium
Kyanite
Junction Boxes
Iron Ore
Iridium
Industrial Hemp
Indium
Ilmenite
Germanium
Hafnium
Hydrogen
Helium
Graphite Anode Materials
Graphite
Copper Foil
Gallium
Electrolyte Solutions
Fluorspar
EVA Sheet
Electrodes
Copper
Cobalt
Chromium
Cathode Materials
Calcium Carbide
Calcinated Bauxite
Cadmium
Boron
Brown Fused Alumina
Bismuth
Binders
Bauxite
Battery Packaging
Battery Electrolytes
Ammonium
Antimony
Aluminum Frames
Aluminum Foil
Aluminum
Zirconium
Waste
Zinc
White Fused Alumina
Wallastonite
Vanadium
Vermiculite
Tungsten
Tin
Titanium
Telluride
Tellurium
Solar Trackers
Tantalum
Solar Wall Panels
Spodumene
Solar Shingles
Solar Roof Tiles
Solar Paste
Solar Cells
Solar Modules
Soda Ash
Silicon Wafers
Silicon Ingots
Silicon
Selenium
Rutile
Rhenium
Ruthenium
Rubidium
Rhodium
Rare Earths
Racking and Mounting
Quartz
PV Ribbon Material
PV Encapsulant
PV Glass
PV Connectors
Pouch Cell Material
PV Backsheets
Potash
Polysilicon
Platinum Group Metals
Phosphourous
Mullite
Phosphate
Osmium
Olivine
Niobium
Nickel Foil
Nickel
Molybdenum
Lithium Compounds
Mercury
MC4 Connectors
Manganese
Lithium
Magnesium
Kyanite
Junction Boxes
Iron Ore
Iridium
Industrial Hemp
Indium
Ilmenite
Germanium
Hafnium
Hydrogen
Helium
Graphite Anode Materials
Graphite
Copper Foil
Gallium
Electrolyte Solutions
Fluorspar
EVA Sheet
Electrodes
Copper
Cobalt
Chromium
Cathode Materials
Calcium Carbide
Calcinated Bauxite
Cadmium
Boron
Brown Fused Alumina
Bismuth
Binders
Bauxite
Battery Packaging
Battery Electrolytes
Ammonium
Antimony
Aluminum Frames
Aluminum Foil
Aluminum
Zirconium
Waste
Zinc
White Fused Alumina
Wallastonite
Vanadium
Vermiculite
Tungsten
Tin
Titanium
Telluride
Tellurium
Solar Trackers
Tantalum
Solar Wall Panels
Spodumene
Solar Shingles
Solar Roof Tiles
Solar Paste
Solar Cells
Solar Modules
Soda Ash
Silicon Wafers
Silicon Ingots
Silicon
Selenium
Rutile
Rhenium
Ruthenium
Rubidium
Rhodium
Rare Earths
Racking and Mounting
Quartz
PV Ribbon Material
PV Encapsulant
PV Glass
PV Connectors
Pouch Cell Material
PV Backsheets
Potash
Polysilicon
Platinum Group Metals
Phosphourous
Mullite
Phosphate
Osmium
Olivine
Niobium
Nickel Foil
Nickel
Molybdenum
Lithium Compounds
Mercury
MC4 Connectors
Manganese
Lithium
Magnesium
Kyanite
Junction Boxes
Iron Ore
Iridium
Industrial Hemp
Indium
Ilmenite
Germanium
Hafnium
Hydrogen
Helium
Graphite Anode Materials
Graphite
Copper Foil
Gallium
Electrolyte Solutions
Fluorspar
EVA Sheet
Electrodes
Copper
Cobalt
Chromium
Cathode Materials
Calcium Carbide
Calcinated Bauxite
Cadmium
Boron
Brown Fused Alumina
Bismuth
Binders
Bauxite
Battery Packaging
Battery Electrolytes
Ammonium
Antimony
Aluminum Frames
Aluminum Foil
Aluminum
Zirconium
Waste
Zinc
White Fused Alumina
Wallastonite
Vanadium
Vermiculite
Tungsten
Tin
Titanium
Telluride
Tellurium
Solar Trackers
Tantalum
Solar Wall Panels
Spodumene
Solar Shingles
Solar Roof Tiles
Solar Paste
Solar Cells
Solar Modules
Soda Ash
Silicon Wafers
Silicon Ingots
Silicon
Selenium
Rutile
Rhenium
Ruthenium
Rubidium
Rhodium
Rare Earths
Racking and Mounting
Quartz
PV Ribbon Material
PV Encapsulant
PV Glass
PV Connectors
Pouch Cell Material
PV Backsheets
Potash
Polysilicon
Platinum Group Metals
Phosphourous
Mullite
Phosphate
Osmium
Olivine
Niobium
Nickel Foil
Nickel
Molybdenum
Lithium Compounds
Mercury
MC4 Connectors
Manganese
Lithium
Magnesium
Kyanite
Junction Boxes
Iron Ore
Iridium
Industrial Hemp
Indium
Ilmenite
Germanium
Hafnium
Hydrogen
Helium
Graphite Anode Materials
Graphite
Copper Foil
Gallium
Electrolyte Solutions
Fluorspar
EVA Sheet
Electrodes
Copper
Cobalt
Chromium
Cathode Materials
Calcium Carbide
Calcinated Bauxite
Cadmium
Boron
Brown Fused Alumina
Bismuth
Binders
Bauxite
Battery Packaging
Battery Electrolytes
Ammonium
Antimony
Aluminum Frames
Aluminum Foil
Aluminum
Zirconium
Waste
Zinc
White Fused Alumina
Wallastonite
Vanadium
Vermiculite
Tungsten
Tin
Titanium
Telluride
Tellurium
Solar Trackers
Tantalum
Solar Wall Panels
Spodumene
Solar Shingles
Solar Roof Tiles
Solar Paste
Solar Cells
Solar Modules
Soda Ash
Silicon Wafers
Silicon Ingots
Silicon
Selenium
Rutile
Rhenium
Ruthenium
Rubidium
Rhodium
Rare Earths
Racking and Mounting
Quartz
PV Ribbon Material
PV Encapsulant
PV Glass
PV Connectors
Pouch Cell Material
PV Backsheets
Potash
Polysilicon
Platinum Group Metals
Phosphourous
Mullite
Phosphate
Osmium
Olivine
Niobium
Nickel Foil
Nickel
Molybdenum
Lithium Compounds
Mercury
MC4 Connectors
Manganese
Lithium
Magnesium
Kyanite
Junction Boxes
Iron Ore
Iridium
Industrial Hemp
Indium
Ilmenite
Germanium
Hafnium
Hydrogen
Helium
Graphite Anode Materials
Graphite
Copper Foil
Gallium
Electrolyte Solutions
Fluorspar
EVA Sheet
Electrodes
Copper
Cobalt
Chromium
Cathode Materials
Calcium Carbide
Calcinated Bauxite
Cadmium
Boron
Brown Fused Alumina
Bismuth
Binders
Bauxite
Battery Packaging
Battery Electrolytes
Ammonium
Antimony
Aluminum Frames
Aluminum Foil
Aluminum

Global reach

Accelerating the deployment of climate tech on a global scale.

With staff in New York, London, Brussels, Bogota, Kigali, Denver, Jackson Hole, and Dallas, Climate Commodities global reach is unparalleled. The Climate Commodities platform applies an institutional framework to operating businesses within a historically opaque industry set to play a vital role in developing markets for the next generation of commodities critical to enabling the climate economy.

leadership team

A legacy of expertise and experience meets a passion for change.

Climate Commodities' platform senior leadership is dually comprised of former hedge and private equity fund managers and former business operators spanning physical commodity trading, mineral processing & refining, renewable power & alternative fuels, transportation & logistics, insurance, & reinsurance. Climate Commodities was founded by Benjamin Banwart, Nicholaus Rohleder, and Julian Tung. Mr. Banwart previously served as an Energy & Commodities Portfolio Manager at the $60 billion dollar New York-based hedge fund, Millennium Management, and as an Commodities & Energy Portfolio Manager at Castleton Commodities (Louis Dreyfus), one of the largest global commodity merchants. Mr. Rohleder has served as the Chief Investment Officer of a private family office focused on Energy, Commodities, & Reinsurance and as an Energy, Commodities & Reinsurance Portfolio Manager prior to Climate Commodities. Mr. Rohleder is an Adjunct Finance Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania alumni, Columbia University alumni, and former Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree. Mr. Tung is a former First Lieutenant in the Singaporean military and holds two degrees from Columbia University.

founders

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Benjamin Banwart

Co-founder

Benjamin Banwart is Co-Founder of Climate Commodities (CC).  At CC, Mr. Banwart serves as leadership for CC’s operating businesses in physical trading, mineral processing & refining, transportation & logistics, renewable power & alternative fuels, and reinsurance.

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Nicholaus Rohleder

Co-founder

Nicholaus Rohleder is the Co-Founder of Climate Commodities (CC). At CC, Mr. Rohleder sits on the steering committees of CC’s operating businesses in physical trading, mineral processing & refining, transportation & logistics, renewable power & alternative fuels, and reinsurance.

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Julian Tung

Co-founder

Julian Tung is Co-Founder of Climate Commodities (CC).  At CC, Mr. Tung directly supports the leadership for CC’s operating businesses in physical trading, mineral processing & refining, transportation & logistics, renewable power & alternative fuels, and reinsurance.

executive team

John Jose

MANAGING DIRECTOR, FINANCE

Cody Edgeworth

CEO, CC INSURANCE SOLUTIONS

John Rouse

CEO, CC CONTRACT MARKETING

Scott Dickman

CEO, CLIMATE COMMODITIES PACKAGING

Patrick Uwihoreye

MANAGING DIRECTOR, AFRICA

Pace Ralli

MANAGING DIRECTOR, CLIMATE COMMODITIES PROCESSING

Ellis Sullivan

CEO, CLIMATE COMMODITIES PROCESSING

Chris Ihler

CEO, CLIMATE COMMODITIES RENEWABLE POWER

advisory board

Aaron Ratner

Advisor

Andrew Malloy

Advisor

Brian Greenstein

Advisor

Eran Golan

Advisor

Kerry Dukes

Advisor

Scott McNeill

Advisor

Tom Soto

Advisor

Simon Rogers

Advisor

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