Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The first few days of COP have ushered in a wave of major announcements and funding pledges. In deals, major funding includes $116M for hydrogen-powered aviation, $44M for sustainability software, and $75M in project finance investment for SAFs. Happy Monday!    And happy COPing to those on the ground in Dubai!

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

In 2015, nearly 200 countries agreed to “Holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C C above pre-industrial levels , recognizing that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change”.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Machine learning, AI, automation and other solutions can slash firms' carbon emissions and energy usage while boosting their productivity, writes IBM's Ana Paula Assis. We don't need to go back in history to look for the most impactful and devastating climate events.

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Business Green

MARCH 2, 2020

Arguing that "the time is now" for the UK to be a global climate leader, it calls for immediate policy action to ensure that by 2030 all homes are highly energy efficient, petrol and diesel car sales are phased out, wind and solar generation triples, and 10 million heat pumps are installed in homes.

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Climate Tech VC

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

From policymakers to investors, startup founders to corporate sustainability teams, thousands of people rushed around New York this week — oftentimes, literally racing from neighborhood to neighborhood for back-to-back events.  There’s SABA for aviation, ZEMBA for maritime shipping, and a new buyers alliance for trucking.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Saudi Arabia and Australia are assumed to be working hard to strip any mention of fossil fuels from the final text, in line with COP tradition, while reports this afternoon indicated China was fiercely opposed to any mention of a coal phase out. depends on new oil, gas or coal projects.

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Energy Innovation

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Energy Innovation partners with the independent nonprofit Aspen Global Change Institute (AGCI) to provide climate and energy research updates. This recent COP, also a pillar of global progress on sustainability, focused not primarily on climate change but on biological diversity. However, a new review by John J.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

What are the big priorities for COP? But progress was still lacking on Resilience and Energy Transition. Clearly it will be a major achievement for the UK government if the UK can hold a successful COP, so one can only assume the will is there to try to bring it off. Where are the main challenges? Nature and finance.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Saudi Arabia and Australia are assumed to be working hard to strip any mention of fossil fuels from the final text, in line with COP tradition, while reports this afternoon indicated China was fiercely opposed to any mention of a coal phase out. depends on new oil, gas or coal projects.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

In addition, 74 per cent of the poor are directly affected by land degradation globally and over 80 per cent of the human diet is provided by plants, with just three cereal crops - rice, maize and wheat - providing 60 per cent of humanity's energy intake. Consequently, the level of species extinction is truly alarming.

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 16, 2024

  Ship Orders  Yara Eyde, a joint venture between Yara Clean Ammonia and North Sea Container Line, aims to be the  world’s first clean ammonia-powered container ship. Fortescue unveiled a green ammonia dual-fuel ship at COP. Air Liquide is building a hydrogen cracking pilot plant in Antwerp.

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Climate Tech VC

OCTOBER 28, 2024

In deals, $900m for pulsed magnetic inertial fusion, $100m for energy efficiency as a service, and $70m for AI precision weed control. What happened The porous and permeable limestone in Smackover has long been known for oil and bromine deposits, but only recently has industry begun to explore its lithium lode.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

As such, in 2022 81% of S&P 500 companies reported their own emissions (scope 1), and the emissions of the electricity they bought (scope 2). Since the convention’s establishment, the countries involved meet annually during the Conference of the Parties (COP). 30 years later came COP 26 (2021) – held in Glasgow.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

One key takeaway from COP26, however, is the role the technology industry must play if we want to reach net zero targets by 2050. This is the first time that a COP agreement has been made on coal at this level. One is to accelerate commercial viability of renewable energy projects and technology. Fossil fuels - an end in sight?

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Climate Tech VC

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The electric competition is head and shoulders above the legacy automakers and scrappy startups racing to turn EV strategies into production and deliveries, and the trends of Tesla in the US and BYD in China illustrate some of the larger geopolitical tensions in the EV supply chain. Thanks for reading! Not a subscriber yet?

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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

This award is presented to alumni who have demonstrated exceptional leadership through actions such as developing scalable solutions, sharing best practices, collaborating across and within industries, and engaging in environmental advocacy. Department of Energy As a Deputy Director of Partnerships and a Senior Executive Leader at the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

SLB Capturi appeared on a panel at a UK pavilion event hosted and sponsored by the software company AVEVA, which has over 600 oil and gas customers, including some of the world’s biggest fossil fuel companies. CCS in theory works by capturing carbon dioxide from industrial sites before the gas is released into the atmosphere.

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Energy Innovation

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Energy Innovation partners with the independent nonprofit Aspen Global Change Institute (AGCI) to provide climate and energy research updates. This recent COP, also a pillar of global progress on sustainability, focused not primarily on climate change but on biological diversity. However, a new review by John J.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Do the next best thing and read our COP reflections.  The pledge also calls on international banks to include nuclear in energy lending policies to help finance project-killing infrastructure expenditures. Last COP featured the conference’s first nuclear-themed pavilion, and this year boasted eight. Happy Monday! 

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 28, 2025

In other news, what DeepSeek’s new model could do to power demand, banks leaving climate groups, and the USDA's new guidance for clean fuel credits. In deals, $70m for renewable energy management platforms across three deals, $30m for an agritech credit provider, and $16m for energy storage manufacturing.

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Climate Tech VC

MARCH 17, 2025

  We’ve just returned from Texas, where CERAWeek — the "Super Bowl of Energy" — brought together the biggest players in oil, gas, finance, and policy. In deals, $40m in specialty chemicals manufacturing, $28m in direct air carbon capture, and $28m in grid power storage. Full transcript here.)

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Business Green

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Businesses should show a 'certificate of good behaviour' in order to participate in climate leadership events, he said. They should also be reporting their climate political activity," the Rhode Island Democrat said at the GreenBiz VERGE Net Zero virtual event on Tuesday. Sheldon Whitehouse.

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2020

A government spokesperson said the situation was being monitored closely. "We We continue to work towards hosting the event in Glasgow in November, which is eight months away," she said. In my view, this is not a reason to celebrate because emissions reduction should be the result of right energy policies.".

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Global energy shortages and a recent spike in oil prices to a three-year high above $80 a barrel, have dimmed hopes that governments will announce bold new plans to rapidly ditch fossil fuels at the October 31st to November 12th summit. above pre-industrial times by 2100 based on existing policies. warming target remains within reach.

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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Amid all the chaos, we almost forgot it’s COP this week.) In other news, Elon Musk's potential influence on environmental policy; clean energy stocks fell after the election news; and climate policy momentum in local and state elections. Image via Power Brief.   ⚡ Clean firm power : neutral to positive.

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