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5 circular economy startups we've got our eyes on

GreenBiz

In 2020, investments into early stage climate tech companies topped $60 billion and grew at a faster rate than all VC investments from 2013 to 2019. Textiles and the fashion industry account for about 20 percent of global wastewater pollution, 10 percent of global carbon emissions and 17 million tons of municipal solid waste.

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Lessons from 3 emerging bio-based material technologies

GreenBiz

Lessons from 3 emerging bio-based material technologies. The company’s first technology, MycoComposite, precipitated the subsidiary Mushroom Packaging , which I discussed with Ecovative’s business development lead, Meghan Olson. Fri, 02/19/2021 - 00:40. trillion opportunity by 2030.

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Not all carbon removals are created equally

Business Green

LSE's Josh Burke sets out the risks of prematurely incorporating carbon removal technologies into carbon markets. Carbon removals are needed because net zero targets - as implied by their name - are based on net emissions levels, which are important to distinguish from gross emissions. New net zero standards.

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What Alberta Premier Danielle Smith Gets Wrong About Heat Pumps

DeSmogBlog

Smith’s comments were made in the context of home heating costs within a wider discussion concerning carbon taxes and the affordability crisis. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced a three-year “carbon price carve out” for home heating oil in October 2023. percent annually from 2013 to 2020.

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Media brief: What are carbon offsets and how can they be used?

Clean Energy Canada

Offsets offer a carbon polluter (like the operator of a steel plant) an additional option to comply with government rules that limit carbon pollution. Carbon offsets have been enabled under international law in the 1997 Kyoto Protocol and were first used internationally in 2001. WHAT ARE OFFSETS? HOW ARE OFFSETS USED?

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More wind and solar capacity could save some of the world’s most important rivers

Renewable Energy World

Improvements in other energy storage technologies will also catalyze and accelerate the transition to grids dominated by wind and solar sources. By Jeff Opperman, Michele Thieme, Rafael Guevara Senga, Amit R. Cambodia provides a clear example of the potential for expansion of solar power and grid investments to avoid high-impact hydropower.

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UK?s Largest Solar Project Approved, Will Snub Government Subsidies

GreenTechMedia

enjoyed a boom period for large-scale solar between 2013 and 2017, rivaling Germany as the hottest market in Europe. The last two rounds of the biannual CFD tender have been closed to onshore wind and solar , with the government taking the view that those technologies were mature and could stand on their own two feet.