What I’ve been quietly working on and what's coming / changing in 2026...

A quick personal memo on what's coming in 2026 and how inClimate and the "Last Week in Climate" newsletter will change.

Hi there,

If you’ve been around inClimate or the “Last Week in Climate” newsletter for some time, you might have noticed that I got a bit quiet since July and stopped sending the weekly digest.

There was a reason for that.

I launched inClimate 4 years ago now, with no tech skills, no proper business plan, no branding, or clear vision. I was just building things that I would have liked to use myself as a European jobseeker, as an investor, and for the climate founders I talked to every day in Berlin.

I honestly had no idea what I was doing, just some intuition and a curiosity to build something meaningful for the climate ecosystem. First just for Europe, then for everyone.

Fast forward to this summer and inClimate suddenly has 20k users, companies paying to hire through the platform, investors paying for deal flow, professionals paying for the community membership…

But all of this happened on a platform that someone with no tech knowledge had built. With a Canva logo…

There was no way to grow inClimate to 100k users or to build the features that users suggested - with this very shaky foundation.

So I spent the past 5 months thinking, sketching, rebuilding, and questioning what inClimate should actually look like if it’s meant to be useful and intuitive for us all in the long run.

That meant no newsletters, ghosting my inboxes, and just putting my head down.

Now, as we’re getting close to the end of the year, things are finally coming together. And hopefully (fingers crossed), I’ll officially relaunch the platform and the Last Week in Climate newsletter in January.

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One thing that became very clear during this phase is that supporting all of you and the climate ecosystem is, at its core, just about connecting the right people.

Tools, platforms and technology matter. But what really moves things forward are people who care, connect, support each other, and keep going even when things feel slow or messy (like the current political climate + job market).

For a long time, I’ve wanted to share more of that human side. Not polished updates or growth numbers of inClimate, but the real process of building something that in the first place is meant to help people in the ecosystem. The doubts, the small wins, the mistakes, the moments where things click.

I’ve also wanted to tell more stories of the amazing people working on those climate solutions.

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So this newsletter is going to shift a little.

Going forward, I’ll use this space to share more of the behind-the-scenes journey of building inClimate, along with stories and thoughts about the people building climate solutions around us.

Sometimes it’ll be reflective. Sometimes practical. Sometimes unfinished thoughts that I’d love to get your input on.

The more structured weekly climate updates will of course continue through a different channel, so you won’t miss those if that’s why you signed up.

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If this sounds like something you’d enjoy reading, I’d genuinely love to have you here.

If not, that’s completely okay too.

I want this to be a space for people who are curious about how we can grow and support each other as an ecosystem, up close and human.

The working title is “People in Climate” - I’m still no branding genius - please help!

I’ll share more soon. :)

Wishing you all a great time with your loved ones over the holidays!

Big hug from Wiesbaden, Germany,

Tim