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Where are they now? Catch up with 30 Under 30 alumni

GreenBiz

We reached out this spring to check in, asking those inclined to weigh in on how current events have changed their world views. We reached out this spring to check in, asking those inclined to weigh in on how current events have changed their world views. Where are they now? Catch up with 30 Under 30 alumni.

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COP26 left the world with a climate to-do list: Here are 5 things to watch for in 2022

Renewable Energy World

How much the world achieved at the Glasgow climate talks – and what happens now – depends in large part on where you live. In the developed world, countries still have to internalize, politically, that bills are coming due – both at home and abroad – after decades of delaying action on climate change.

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Mapped: The Rapid Rise of Voluntary Carbon Markets

DeSmogBlog

But there are very real concerns about how these companies are going to meet their goals, with many relying on purchasing carbon credits generated by others’ efforts not to pollute, rather than reducing their own emissions as much or as fast as they can. Today’s eco-conscious consumer is no stranger to net zero pledges.

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December 2020 Cleantech Roundup: Cleantech 2.0 | Fungi Protein |Semi-Autonomous Technology

Clean Energy Trust

Photo by Olga Subach on Unsplash Technically, MIT Technology Review’ s articleHow VCs can avoid another bloodbath as the clean-tech boom 2.0 As you’ve likely noticed, more and more climate-focused venture firms are emerging with a newfound confidence in the future of cleantech. Hello Cleantech 2.0 Help make Cleantech 2.0

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COP27: 10 things businesses have learnt from the Sharm El Sheikh Summit

Business Green

he COP27 Climate Summit finally closed early on Sunday morning , delivering both an historic deal to introduce a new Loss and Damage fund and recriminations over governments' continuing failure to accept unabated fossil fuels need to be phase out in the coming decades.

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Despite net-zero pledges, banks used $750 billion to finance fossil fuels in 2020

GreenBiz

Despite net-zero pledges, banks used $750 billion to finance fossil fuels in 2020. Net-zero commitments may have ricocheted across banking sector over the last 18 months, but big banks' attestations of climate concern did not stop many from expanding financing for the world's top fossil fuel firms during the pandemic year.

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Janet Yellen on financing a sustainable future

GreenBiz

I first started working on climate change in the 1990s, advising President Clinton as Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers in the run-up to the 1997 Kyoto Conference of Parties. We understood that the potential cost of climate change was significant. . Yellen’s to the Institute of International Finance.