Elemental Excelerator

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Elemental’s 12th cohort focuses on a range of societal challenges, including sustainable urbanization, building decarbonization, electric vehicle charging, last-mile logistics, recycling optimization and regenerative food production. Of the $12.5M invested in Cohort 12, $7.2M The why: Palm oil is responsible for 1.4%

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Soil Recycling Recycling Carbon 111

Defend Our Future

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Driving Down Climate Pollution. Beyond that, tax credits for buying American-made electric vehicles (EVs) are built in along with money to build EV charging stations, and funds to invest in long-term, climate resilient solutions for farms. climate pollution by 50-52% by 2030. Environmental Justice.

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Climate change Investment Resilience Pollution 98

Business Green

JUNE 3, 2020

Earlier this week, Business Secretary Alok Sharma provided further insight into the government's thinking in an op ed in The Independent in which he declared that the world now faced a choice "between laying the foundations for sound, sustainable and inclusive growth or locking in polluting emissions for decades to come".

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Packaging Resilience Government Climate change 101

Business Green

JUNE 4, 2020

It comes in the midst of the worst economic collapse since World War II, as many countries still struggle with strained public health systems, lockdowns, rising unemployment and the oil price crash. They understand that a science-based recovery is the route to reviving the economy, increasing productivity and delivering job security.

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Resilience Aviation Health Climate change 59

Elemental Excelerator

MARCH 13, 2020

The state had just begun implementation of the cap & trade program, and I was enamored with this new post–AB 32 & SB 535 world that charged polluters and used a fund to bring resources back into communities most impacted by pollution. In my eyes, our environment works both for and against us. Workforce development.

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Innovation Policy Pollution Climate change 75

Greentown Labs

OCTOBER 8, 2020

This new generation of cutting-edge technology is climatetech—technological solutions that mitigate the impacts of climate change and build resilient communities. Resilience technologies prepare people, communities, and infrastructure for the impacts of climate change, with a focus on equity. It focuses our efforts and attention.

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Startups Climate change Resilience Technology 64

E2 Environmental Entrepreneurs

JULY 14, 2020

E2/Environmental Entrepreneurs has a long history of elevating and amplifying the business voice to decarbonize America’s transportation system, in California and across the country, from low-carbon fuel standards to electric vehicle charging access to federal fuel efficiency standards and beyond. Please reach out to me at zamittay@e2.org

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Transportation Fossil fuels Electric vehicle Resilience 78

Business Green

AUGUST 27, 2020

Pressure is mounting on India over its continued support for coal, with both UN Secretary-General António Guterres and the CEOs of major Indian corporates uniting in calls for Prime Minister Narenda Modi to increasingly focus investment on clean energy and electric vehicles in the wake of the Covid-19 crisis.

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Fossil fuels Climate change Investment Government 97

Grist

MARCH 6, 2021

And one of the most polluted. With air pollution wafting into many residents’ homes from diesel trucks making their way from the nearby Port of Seattle, and the Duwamish River declared one of the nation’s largest toxic-pollution Superfund sites, the area anchors a swath of high-pollution, high-health-risk areas.

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Climate change Organic Pollution Health 97

Business Green

MAY 7, 2021

Many of us possess multiple electrical appliances, especially mobile phones, tablets and laptops, too many previous models of which gather dust in bottom drawers. But it missed a golden opportunity to align its economic support with environmental protection measures which could have created jobs and increased resilience.

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Policy Government Fashion Biodiversity 94

Business Green

JULY 17, 2020

Thousands of green projects are raring to go across Europe to help build resilient Covid-19 recovery, study suggests. There can therefore be no excuse for Member States not spending recovery and resilience funds on win-win green investment opportunities.". So in reality it is much less than a 50 per cent chance.".

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Europe Resilience Packaging Investment 90

Elemental Excelerator

MAY 20, 2020

. “There are vast applications that we can move into, from understanding microbial contamination within drinking water, to doing wastewater surveillance to inform public health concerns amongst communities. Paul Francis, CEO of KIGT , shared his vision for making electric vehicles more accessible in more communities.

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Home Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor 96

Business Green

JUNE 23, 2022

You have continued to drive down emissions, to accelerate the roll out of clean technologies, to make electric vehicles and renewables and heat pumps not just the green choice, but the smart and attractive choice. A skeleton that proved another person had taken time to stay with the injured and tend them back to health.

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Cooling Electric vehicle Politics Resilience 41

Business Green

JUNE 25, 2020

The evidence that ambitious climate policies can boost the damaged economy while laying the foundations for long term competitiveness and climate resilience is becoming more compelling by the year. The big question is whether our recovery from Covid can help reshape the path of future emissions and make us more climate resilient," said Stark.

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Policy Fossil fuels Government Climate change 97

Elemental Excelerator

APRIL 21, 2022

Additionally, in the climate technology space, many companies are building B2B (business to business) solutions to upgrade outdated or heavy-polluting systems. Matter has designed sophisticated filters to keep microplastics out of our waterways, protecting public health and ecosystems crucial for reducing carbon emissions.

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Startups Policy Innovation Government 52

AGreenLiving

JUNE 30, 2021

A former research scientist in clean energy and transportation at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Gopal has a grant-making philosophy that focuses on electrifying the global economy quickly, resiliently and reliably with clean power. and Europe.

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Transportation Europe Electric vehicle Climate change 28

Business Green

MAY 17, 2020

Judged by improvements in levels of poverty, disease, war, education and democracy across the world, there has never been a decade like it; we found ways to dramatically improve quality of life, increase resilience and do much more with fewer resources. Progress also continues with the move to hybrid and pure electric vehicles.

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Biodiversity Climate change Ethics Government 36

Green Business Bureau

MARCH 25, 2021

In fact, 789 million people in the world lack access to electricity with 548 million of those in sub-Saharan Africa alone. Without access to electricity, women and girls spend the majority of their lives fetching water, gathering tinder and supplies, and tending to cookstoves. SDG 7 Implementation. Report on progress routinely.

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Energy Energy Fossil fuels Sustainability 88

Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

But within hours of it being signed the pollution-loving Australian government signalled it had no intention to strengthen its disgracefully weak 2030 emissions targets. That will not happen until true net zero emissions is achieved and a global economy has been built that is resilient to the dangerous new world we have unleashed.

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Fossil fuels Government COP Policy 98

Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2022

The health and welfare of the millions of households who are worried about soaring energy bills, the UK's long term economic prospects, and the stability of the biosphere itself all depend on these climate sceptic talking points being consigned to the parallel universe in which they belong.

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Fossil fuels Technology Energy Energy 101

Hydrogen Fuel News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

million) hydrogen fuel project, with contributions from the European Institute of Innovation & Technology as well as Recovery & Resilience funding through Latvia’s Mechanical Engineering Competence Centre. If successful, this could mean a dramatic reduction in pollutants and a healthier environment. million ($1.6

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Hydrogen Pollution Health Technology 128

Green Business Bureau

MARCH 25, 2021

In fact, 789 million people in the world lack access to electricity with 548 million of those in sub-Saharan Africa alone. Without access to electricity, women and girls spend the majority of their lives fetching water, gathering tinder and supplies, and tending to cookstoves. SDG 7 Implementation. Report on progress routinely.

Energy 78

Energy Energy Fossil fuels Sustainability 78

Green Technology

JUNE 21, 2023

The building is powered by 100% renewable energy through community solar agreements with the Sacramento Municipal Utility District, reducing carbon emissions and air pollution as well as the energy demand from the utility grid. The kinetic nature of the building enables a more verdant and calming environment.

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Building Energy Monitoring Sustainability Solar Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring 40

Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

The findings are sure to prompt renewed calls for more urgent action from global governments, businesses, and civil society to do everything possible to rapidly reduce emissions and enhance the resilience of critical infrastructure in the face of worsening cimate risks.

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Sea level rise Ocean acidification Climate change Global warming 83

Business Green

JULY 19, 2022

They also all stressed that they wanted to do more to tackle biodiversity loss and water pollution, and a number of candidates floated new policy proposals. Badenoch is yet to provide an example of policies that could "bankrupt" the UK in pursuit of net zero.

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Climate change Government Policy Biodiversity 61

Business Green

DECEMBER 9, 2021

However, critics of net-zero pledges charge that corporations fall back on "net zero" goalposts to look virtuous while getting a free pass for their carbon-polluting sins and that net-zero deadlines are set so far in the future as to omit any accountability plan. It's really, really hard to get to net zero," Kline said.

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Carbon Real Estate Carbon-neutral Sustainability 47

Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Will improve public health. Would make electricity more dependable. The Wild Horse wind and solar farm east of Ellensburg, Washington on Whiskey Dick Mountain generates electricity for suburban Seattle utility Puget Sound Energy. Electric vehicles are making huge inroads in the market. Is bound to create jobs.

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Solar Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring 83

Business Green

JULY 11, 2022

Fewer charge points for the soaring numbers of electric vehicle owners that the embattled auto industry has bet its future on? Similarly, on the industrial and infrastructure fronts, what does a pause in the net zero transition actually look like in practice?

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Policy Climate change Fossil fuels Energy 69

Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Federal and provincial investments to bring electric vehicle manufacturing to Ontario this week may have saved thousands of local jobs, as Ford Motor Co. A resilient recovery is an important milestone on the road to beating climate change, and it’s paved by Canadians in rewarding, lasting careers.”.

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Resilience Electric vehicle Government Packaging 98

Greenability Magazine

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Electric Vehicles KCI is now the first U.S. airport to feature wireless electric bus charging. Healthy building materials were selected based on emissions criteria according to the California Department of Public Health. airport to feature wireless electric bus charging. KCI is now the first U.S.

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Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Sustainability Solar Energy Monitor 111

Defend Our Future

JULY 19, 2021

climate pollution comes from the power and transportation sectors, and they are also major sources of toxic air pollution. 500,000 new electric vehicle chargers could be built in the U.S. Clean transportation investments and tax credits could create more than 100,000 jobs in the rapidly growing electric vehicle sector.

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Climate change Energy Energy Pollution 121

GreenBiz

APRIL 28, 2021

That is, it allows the market to determine the best way to meet the Clean Electricity Standard. We can continue to leverage the carbon pollution-free energy provided by existing sources like nuclear and hydropower. The plan also encourages greener transportation with electric vehicles.

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Sustainability Climate change Investment Carbon-neutral 361

Elemental Excelerator

AUGUST 12, 2022

With its $60B investment in communities and projects that advance environmental justice — ranging from reducing air pollution and cleaning up ports to mitigating risks from heat islands and helping schools address environmental issues — the bill can help ensure the energy transition is as equitable as it is swift. . Vibrant Planet ).

Building Energy Monitoring 98

Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Energy Monitor 98

Business Green

AUGUST 4, 2022

UK-based electric vehicle (EV) infrastructure specialist Connected Kerb has announced that it has been selected to deliver charging points across New York City, as part of a major pilot project which aims to help accelerate the switch to zero emission cars and reduce air pollution across the city.

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Smart Cities Electric vehicle IoT Transportation 52

Business Green

MARCH 31, 2023

The compronmise agreement sees the Greens back Labour's proposals for a 'Safeguard Mechanism', which promises to regulate emissions from Australia's 215 biggest polluting coal and gas facilities without outright banning new fossil fuel projects.

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Government Aviation Law Fossil fuels 41

Business Green

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Japan's Mazda Motor Corporation has become the latest global auto giant to announce sweeping electrification plans, revealing this week that it plans to invest around $11bn through to 2030 to accelerate its transition to electric vehicles (EVs). US renewables generation to overtake coal for the first time.

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Climate change Government Investment Health 63

EDF + Business

JUNE 18, 2020

Investor, employee and customer pressure on companies to help lead the way to a more sustainable, equitable and resilient future is at an all-time high. and among the largest sources of local air pollution — must be transformed through zero-emissions solutions to meet this target. Transforming transportation is crucial.

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Electric vehicle Electricity Pollution Health 124