GreenBiz

MARCH 24, 2021

TCFD steers towards carbon exposure and transition risks. TCFD risks are broadly defined into two categories: physical climate risk and "transition risks." Unlike carbon emissions and mitigation, physical impacts, risks and adaptation to climate change permeate whole systems. Missing pieces.

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 5, 2024

We've been meticulously tracking climate tech investment, deal by deal, since the term ‘climate tech’ emerged. In 2023, a challenging macro environment marked by higher interest rates and a cautious private investment market raised the hurdles for deployment.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 22, 2021

Together with tourism, business travel contributes to the release of almost 5 billion tons of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Corporate events, exhibitions, trade fairs, etc. Remote work software enables business productivity and operations to resume while minimizing workplace carbon emissions. Conference meetings. and Canada.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

MAY 24, 2022

CARB opts to stay the course on Cap-and-Trade Program. Our first post on this topic discusses CARB’s ultimate selection of the third scenario, which adopts a carbon neutrality target for 2045 instead of 2035, as the best among the four. The AB 398 changes to Cap-and-Trade Program started to phase-in on January 1, 2021.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 10, 2022

Federal Trade Commission (FTC) or the U.S. Pose an investment risk. Accordingly, the Business for Social Responsibility uses a matrix to define effective environmental communication using four separate categories. Category #1: Effective Environmental Communications. Category #2: Misguided Greenwash.

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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The investment covers 40% of the Texas facility’s $1.3B project cost and is one of the largest DAC investments to date. Tech-enabled credits continue to constitute a big chunk of an anticipated $1T voluntary carbon market , and Oxy is on a development frenzy.

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Greentown Labs

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Cemvita Factory has received an investment from Mitsubishi Heavy Industries , a Greentown Houston Grand Opening Partner. Patch , a Carbon to Value (C2V) Initiative participant, also raised a $20M Series A. SparkCharge is a winner of LG’s Proto Challenge in the “Energizing Mobility” category. funding round.

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Business Green

MARCH 31, 2023

ICVCM said the new Core Carbon Principles (CCPs) have been developed using input from hundreds of organisations throughout the voluntary carbon market and will set out fundamental principles for high-quality credits which deliver real, verifiable emissions reductions based on the latest science and best practices.

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Green Technology

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Nine eco-friendly resolutions for plumbers and HVAC skilled trade professionals. Ferguson first set a carbon reduction goal in 2016 and is working toward a greener tomorrow. In December, Ferguson received an A- for our commitment to sustainability from the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP). Offer routine maintenance visits.

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Business Green

MARCH 30, 2023

However, today's announcements, while including a host of measures impacting renewables, nuclear, carbon capture, hydrogen, and energy efficiency, extend far beyond energy, stretching into green finance, electric vehicles, carbon border adjustment mechanisms, and nature markets.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 14, 2022

90% of institutional investors are more likely to divest from companies with poor sustainability performance, meaning investors are paying more attention to a brand’s sustainability performance when making investment decisions. What is the return on investment (ROI) of green business certification ? I love the 80/20 rule.)

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Between 2008 and 2017, fossil-fuel industry trade associations in the U.S. As with the financial divestment movement, there is a valid debate about whether engagement with high-carbon firms that are working to reduce their emissions is more effective than simply severing ties. It is a big business. spent almost $1.4 Pull Quote.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JUNE 1, 2022

Our first post in this series discusses CARB’s Proposed Scenario to achieve the state’s GHG targets, which adopts a carbon neutrality target for 2045. Our second post explores how the Cap-and-Trade Program features in the Draft Scoping Plan. The LCFS Program sets annual CI standards that decline over time.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

The remaining 20 percent represents investments outside of fossil fuels, in areas such as renewables, carbon capture and storage, and research into new green technologies. . Green investments, however, make up just 12 percent of these companies’ portfolios on average based on publicly available figures. A Focus on ‘Net Zero’.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 10, 2022

Federal Trade Commission (FTC) or the U.S. Pose an investment risk. Accordingly, the Business for Social Responsibility uses a matrix to define effective environmental communication using four separate categories. Category #1: Effective Environmental Communications. Category #2: Misguided Greenwash.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

Only 10 percent of the projects explicitly commit to using green hydrogen – which is produced from water using a process powered by wind or solar energy, and does not produce the carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions associated with other forms of the energy carrier. The European Commission did not respond to a request for comment.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

While commitments are good, making progress requires investment. Despite COVID-19 and the economic downturn, clean energy investment did surprisingly well in the United States last year. billion on deployment of low-carbon technology in 2020, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance ( BNEF ). Investing in Innovation.

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Business Green

MARCH 5, 2021

UN argues 'rapid deployment' of CCUS needed to meet carbon neutrality goals. The report acknowledges that CCYUS technologies alone will not be sufficient to deliver carbon neutrality in line with the goals ofthe Paris Agreement. The trend now is to shift away from carbon," said Maeda Tadashi.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 3, 2023

Climate-washing litigation confronts various types of deceptive or misleading claims, typically put forth by carbon-intensive corporations, that try to portray their plans, products, or operations as more climate-friendly than they actually are. By contrast, fewer than 10 such cases were filed both in 2020 and 2019.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MARCH 15, 2021

Kevin Tempest, Low Carbon Prosperity Institute. This technical memo presents modelled jobs and other benefits from investments through 2030 that could be catalyzed by revenue from Substitute Senate Bill 5126 (SB5126), the Climate Commitment Act. Based on investments deployed through 2030, totalling $3.7 Summary of Results.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

OCTOBER 17, 2018

In this Low Carbon Prosperity Institute (LCPI) analysis, we explore scenarios of carbon reduction investment performance based on the revenue allocation described in Initiative 1631. The initial carbon pollution fee of $15 per (tCO2e) in 2020 increases annually by $2/tCO2e plus urban-area inflation.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MARCH 15, 2021

This technical memo presents modelled jobs and other benefits from investments through 2030 that could be catalyzed by revenue from Substitute Senate Bill 5126 (SB5126), the Climate Commitment Act. In this technical memo, I describe methodology, modelling, and revenue and investment results. Summary of Results. billion to $4.1

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2021

For now, the government would be better off "nudging" consumers into changing their habits, the report argues, while investing in methane-reduction projects and the development of alternative proteins. The government needs a trade policy that supports its environmental ambitions," the report notes.

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Better Ventures

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Back in those days, there were very few venture funds with an explicit mandate to invest in companies focused on positive social/environmental impact and even fewer that were focused on seed stage, mission-driven technology startups. Additionally, many of our portfolio companies are actively hiring as they scale their businesses.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

While the number of net zero targets across all three categories are up compared to last year, a substantial proportion of these goals remain relatively vague pledges and have not been backed up by decarbonisation strategies or legally-binding targets, the Net Zero Tracker group warned.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

MAY 16, 2022

Subsequently, Senate Bill 32 strengthened the state’s GHG emissions reductions target to at least 40% below 1990 levels by 2030 and former Governor Jerry Brown’s Executive Order B-55-18 established a second statewide goal to achieve carbon neutrality as soon as possible, and no later than 2045.

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 3, 2023

In fact, growth in trade and e-commerce, alongside increasing access to personal air travel in developing economies, have helped drive transportation-related emissions up ~2% each year for the past three decades. Oil and gas players invested in biofuels during the early 2000s with unsatisfactory results. Biofuels Bust 1.0

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Low Carbon Prosperity

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

The latest, most urgent call to action from the IPCC has increased attention on policies to reduce CO2 emissions and enhance carbon sequestration. This article provides a primer on the three major policy building blocks available for reducing carbon pollution: pricing mechanisms, subsidies , and regulations.

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Business Green

JANUARY 31, 2022

However, any attempts to ramp up subsidies for clean tech industries will be watched closely by Brussels and could face accusations that the UK is in breach of the trade agreement it signed with the EU. Many would slam this assessment as categorically unproven, if not actively misleading.

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Climate Tech VC

MARCH 8, 2024

While not quite a plug-and-play formula yet, five primary financing buckets repeatedly back up FOAK with bucks: “Super Round” with Equity, Philanthropic or Catalytic Capital, Strategics, Government, and Project Investment. Investment may come with specific impact metrics based on the funder’s priorities. 

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2022

The findings, published ahead of the Brazilian company’s annual general meeting on Friday, prompted renewed calls from climate campaigners for asset managers to divest from JBS – despite its pledge to hit net zero carbon emissions by 2040. We believe through innovation, investment and collaboration, net zero is within our collective grasp.”.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 10, 2023

As more consumers become conscious of the carbon footprint created by products and services, having a sustainability certification has become a competitive edge for companies. Below we have organized the world’s most popular sustainability certifications into these categories: Corporate sustainability reporting certifications.

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R-Squared Energy

DECEMBER 3, 2019

If global oil demand peaks, as a result of legislation designed to reduce carbon emissions, and more specifically an electrification of the transportation fleet, then the oil industry may follow the steep decline the coal industry has experienced. This left ConocoPhillips as the world’s largest publicly traded, pure oil and gas producer.

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Front And Centered

JANUARY 14, 2021

Instead of focusing on the category of gases that cause climate change, we should work to reduce and eliminate the pollutants that cause immediate health impacts. We often talk about carbon emissions through economic proxies like vehicle miles traveled, gallons of fuel imported, or as parts per million in the atmosphere as a whole.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

But even if we are really successful with renewables and clean tech, we will still have to take millions of tonnes of carbon down from the atmosphere. The new regime will shift towards an economic rewards system that actually encourages carbon sequestration in woodlands and soils, as well as biodiversity uplift."

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Climate Tech VC

MARCH 4, 2024

  Lots of spice for clean investment this week. The US Clean Investment Monitor published its annual report for 2023, which saw clean investment total $239bn, up 38% from 2022. 14% of total investment came from the feds, with $33.7B 14% of total investment came from the feds, with $33.7B Happy Monday! 

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Business Green

DECEMBER 9, 2020

And at the time of writing it seems likely that an unknown number of firms will receive a further body blow from Brexit early in 2021, regardless of whether or not a trade deal is finalised. If businesses had any concerns about the climate crisis they could be forgiven for putting them on hold. And they currently waste a lot of energy.

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