Climate Tech

High Stakes. Hard Science. Heavy Scrutiny. Clear Story.

We translate complex climate tech, science, and impact data into narratives investors, policymakers, and customers actually understand. Our team specializes in climate, energy, carbon markets, and sustainability innovations—crafting with the precision this sector demands.

Cut through climate noise
We help climate companies stand out in a crowded, over-claimed market.
Trusted by climate innovators
The climate credibility gap

Your climate innovation deserves trust, but greenwashing has made reporters, investors, and policymakers skeptical by default. Burned by sloppy science and exaggerated claims, they distrust traditional agencies that dumb down technical rigor with fluffy 'impact' language.

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They treat Climate Tech like lifestyle “Sustainability” content

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What's really happening

Generic agencies package your breakthrough like a feel-good environmental story instead of a hard-science, infrastructure, or industrial innovation narrative. Reporters who cover real climate tech don’t respond to vague “green impact” messaging - they want data, accuracy, and technical depth. Without that, your story gets dismissed as soft sustainability PR.

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Navigating the minefield of greenwashing scrutiny

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After years of exaggerated climate claims, journalists, investors, and policymakers are ruthless about precision. Other PR teams use fluffy language that triggers skepticism instead of trust - and they often can’t defend the claims they pitch. In a category where credibility is everything, sloppy messaging does real damage.

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They don’t understand the regulatory or scientific context

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Climate tech is deeply intertwined with policy, regulation, carbon markets, compliance, and scientific rigor. Traditional PR teams don’t speak that language. They miss the nuances that matter to reporters, misstate technical details, and pitch angles that fall flat because they don’t align with the real constraints of the industry.

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They focus on big generic angles, not impactful proof points

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Climate buyers, investors, and journalists want evidence: measurable impact, verified results, credible science, customer outcomes, and practical feasibility. Generic PR defaults to vision statements and buzzwords - which is exactly what climate stakeholders don’t trust. Without proof, your narrative goes nowhere.

The Colab Way

How we deliver media coverage that actually moves your business

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PR veterans who speak climate science

Our team isn’t learning climate tech on the job—we’ve spent 10+ years embedded in the sector. Our strategists and writers have worked across carbon markets, renewable energy, grid infrastructure, decarbonization tech, and environmental policy. We understand the science, the regulatory landscape, and the stakes—and it shows in our stories.

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Messaging built to withstand greenwashing scrutiny

In a sector plagued by exaggerated claims, credibility is everything. We craft narratives grounded in evidence, measurable impact, and scientific accuracy ensuring your story stands up to journalists, analysts, and regulators who have zero tolerance for fluff.

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Integrated policy, market, and scientific context

Climate tech lives at the intersection of innovation, policy, and economics. We understand regulatory frameworks, incentive structures, and market dynamics - and we position your story within that broader landscape so it resonates with serious stakeholders.

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Strategic risk management for high-scrutiny sectors

Climate tech companies operate under intense scrutiny from journalists, regulators, and watchdog orgs. We proactively identify risk areas in your messaging, pressure-test claims, and ensure your narrative can withstand the toughest questions - before they’re asked.

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“Climate founders are building some of the hardest, most meaningful technology in the world. They deserve storytelling that meets that level of seriousness - grounded in evidence, nuance, and impact, not marketing fluff. Climate tech doesn’t need hype. It needs credibility, and that’s something we strive to build for our clients.”

Ashley Mann

COO, The Colab
Overline Content

The outlets where your story belongs

We place clients in publications that reach the audiences that matter for your business. Each placement is targeted, earned through journalist relationships, and aligned with outlets your investors and customers actually read.

From carbon removal to grid tech to circularity, we help climate companies earn credible coverage, avoid greenwashing traps, and build lasting trust.

Common questions from Climate Tech companies

Here's what climate tech companies typically want to know.

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How do we communicate our impact without sounding like we’re greenwashing?

We anchor your narrative in evidence, not marketing language. That means verified data, clear methodology, defensible claims, scientific accuracy, and transparent limitations where needed. Reporters, investors, and policymakers can smell exaggeration a mile away — so we focus on what’s real, measurable, and unique. That’s how you build lasting credibility in a sector obsessed with proof.

Our tech is complicated — can you explain it without oversimplifying?

Yes. We specialize in translating complex climate science, engineering, and policy concepts into clear narratives that remain technically accurate. We’ve worked across carbon removal, grid tech, clean energy, climate finance, carbon accounting, and deep decarbonization. We understand the difference between simplifying and dumbing down. Your story stays true to the science while remaining accessible to buyers, analysts, and press.

How do we stand out when every company claims to ‘decarbonize’ or ‘reduce emissions’?”

We differentiate based on truth, not trend language. That means surfacing your defensible advantages: technology pathways, measurable outcomes, policy alignment, scalability, economics, and where you diverge from the greenwashing offenders. Climate stakeholders don’t want another “impact statement” - they want clarity, feasibility, and a point of view. We can help you build that.

We don’t have perfect data yet — can we still tell our story?

Absolutely - as long as the framing is honest. Early climate companies rarely have complete datasets, long-term studies, or fully deployed systems. We can tell your story in a way that highlight progress, method, validation plans, early signals, pilot results, and scientific rationale without overclaiming. This builds trust rather than risking credibility.

Do journalists covering climate tech understand our technology?

Some do - but they expect precision. Climate reporters are highly informed and quick to push back on claims that lack depth. We prepare you with messaging, Q&A, defensible proof points, and context reporters need to understand your innovation. Because we speak climate science and policy fluently, we act as the bridge between your team and the press.

Tell A Stronger Climate Story

We help climate founders communicate real impact with scientific clarity - earning trust, credibility, and meaningful coverage across business, tech, and climate media.