User Interviews for Emissions Reduction Tool

Aug. 24

OnePointFive conducted user interviews and insights gathering for the CRANE Tool, which is an open-source tool that helps to assess the emissions reduction potential of climate technologies. The CRANE tool includes emission reduction potential, sensitivities, and market sizing for ~234 climate technologies, and has over 1,500 users including notable climate technology investors.

Given OnePointFive’s experience in the solution development and use cases of climate technologies within the finance sector, our expert team:

Conducted 33 user interviews* with climate investors, enabling organizations (e.g. incubators, accelerators, etc), climate tech entrepreneurs
Collated user interview insights on the use cases, benefits, pain points, user feedback, and impact of the CRANE Tool
Aggregated and co-developed 10 key insights alongside survey results conducted by the solution development team
Help to draft and review the CRANE User Report 2021 which was published in July 2021 to the general public to improve uptake of emissions reduction potential evaluation when investing into early-stage climate technologies

Overall our user interviews,resulting feedback and insights informed climate technology and emissions reduction measurement solutions needed by the climate finance sector - and improvements to the future development of the CRANE Tool.

*Our interviewees included: Analog Devices, Autodesk Foundation, BCG, Breakthrough Energy, Caprock, CleanTech Open, Cleantech Scandinavia, EarthShot, Ecosia, Elemental Excelerator, Energetix Climate, ESG Capital Group, Generation IM, GIIN, Impact Beacon (City Light Ventures), Load AI, MaRS Discovery District, Mars Materials, MassCEC, Muon Vision, OGCI, Prime Impact Fund, CEA Consulting, RenewCO2, RSK Labs, SYSTEMIQ, Zero Carbon, and Climate-KIC