Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The first few days of COP have ushered in a wave of major announcements and funding pledges. In new funds, energy transition infrastructure is bringing in the big bucks with Brookfield's record-breaking $28B infra fund and Antin's $1.2B Happy Monday!    And happy COPing to those on the ground in Dubai!

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Farming will be front and centre at this year’s COP. The GMA declined to offer a formal comment, however a spokesperson told DeSmog in an email that the group works to “simplify and distil public information” around international events which are “often dominated by an anti-meat narrative”.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

billion to turn North Africa into a regional natural gas hub, and $830 million in oil projects over the next two years, the analysis found. Only two out of the 20 COP27 sponsors, renewable energy provider Infinity Power and real estate developer Sodic, have no strong ties to the fossil fuel industry, the analysis found.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2021

In November, I had the privilege to represent Schneider Electric at the UN's Conference of Parties (COP) on climate change in Glasgow. This COP was unlike the previous 25 iterations, in that it took place during a global pandemic. A few things to watch: The energy transition. One aim of the conference was to 'keep 1.5

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The former Energy and Climate Change Minister had been slated to serve as COP26 President after playing a critical role in securing hosting duties for the UK. It is a one-year thing, it only lasts as long as a COP. Claire O'Neill was originally scheduled to have a very different COP26 to the one she's currently experiencing.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

So much for the “African COP.” It is the very reason they register in droves for events like COP27 and spend millions every year trying to convince us as we scroll through Twitter and Instagram that they are clean and green. Perhaps no continent demonstrates this better than Africa. It’s yet again a festival of polluters.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Specifically, the UK presidency of COP26 wants to see these institutions mobilise increased investment through a series of Just Energy Transition Partnerships that can support developing countries transition away from coal to renewable energy.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 26, 2023

This story was originally published by The Energy Mix , and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate crisis. King urged both regulators and media to report on this phenomenon, and for the former to ensure that such falsehoods are no longer possible.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 25, 2021

Less visibly, more than 80 percent of the ocean in 2020 suffered marine heatwaves , providing more energy for tropical storms, as well as impacting sea life and spoiling fish harvests for the billions of people who rely on the ocean for their food and jobs. Pull Quote.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Last week he gave his thoughts on the key challenges, opportunities, knowns and unknowns of these final weeks leading up to the Summit at the launch event for BusinessGreen 's upcoming Net Zero Festival - although he was compelled to concede that the negotiations process underpinning the Paris Agreement can be somewhat, well, chaotic. "A

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2022

It comes despite Sunak's promise to prioritise environmental issues as Prime Minister on the steps of Downing Street earlier this week, and is likely to ruffle feathers on the global stage given UK will still holds the COP Presidency until it passes on the baton to Egypt at the summit.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Each of these meetings were known as Conferences of the Parties, or COPs, and they have become synonymous with both the world's admirable intention to tackle the climate crisis and the diplomatic quagmire and geopolitical tensions that have repeatedly stymied efforts to curb global emissions. Paris breakthrough. Business pressure.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

With the World Economic Forum's main event postponed until late spring / early summer following the postponement of Davos 2021, this seems an appropriate moment to question how much the world is losing without its annual get together at a tiny resort in the Swiss Alps. But this year will have to be different, again.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Worse still, it has now emerged from new undercover reporting that Saudi Arabia is operating a so-called ‘Oil Sustainability Programme’ (OSP) designed to artificially increase demand for oil across Africa and Asia. Now the air pollution from burning fossil fuels alone is estimated to kill more than tobacco smoke.

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Climate Tech VC

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Some events required a suit and tie, while others felt like next-level science fairs where engineer founders pitch what’s next in climate tech solutions. There were nearly 600 officially affiliated side events , but likely double that many unofficial, individual events scattered across the city throughout the week.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The IPCC’s scientists explain how climate change has been fueling extreme weather events and flooding , severe heat waves and droughts , loss and extinction of species , and the melting of ice sheets and rising of sea levels. Secretary-General António Guterres called the report a “code red for humanity.”. staff and other experts.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

It is a narrative that senior government officials, including those from the United States and the European Union , leaned into over the weekend at various agriculture-focused events at or on the sidelines of COP27, the annual United Nations climate negotiations, held this year in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. “We

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Another COP is coming - the 27th United Nations Climate Change Conference. COP27 in Egypt is going to be taking place alongside war in Europe, concerns about energy security, and significant weather events occurring in both developed and developing countries. Green infrastructure is a key element in addressing 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. Rania Al Mashat, Egypt's minister for international cooperation, recently said : "For us, what we want this COP[27] to be about is moving from pledges to implementation.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Now almost a year on, it is just 23 days to COP27, the end of the UK's COP Presidency, and the end of my time as COP President. Vladimir Putin's brutal and illegal war in Ukraine has precipitated multiple global crises: from energy and food insecurity, to inflationary and debt pressures around the world.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

"I'm not sure whether this technicality around a ratchet is something we would push for or would be in the final text, but it is often the case that when you have these annual events that is sort of implicit anyway, and there is a lot of referring back to previous agreements.".

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The appeals underscored how for many nations, the success of the Sharm El Sheikh Summit depends on its ability to deliver real progress towards the launch of a dedicated funding mechanism for Loss and Damage, after the contentious issue made it on to a COP agenda for the first time this year. Negotiations continue.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

I also want particularly to thank COP President Alok Sharma who has worked incredibly hard to bring countries together. Despite the Covid-19 crisis, we have accelerated action, the COP has responded to the IPCC's call to close the gap towards 1.5, Greenwashing is the new climate denial, and we have seen too much at play in this COP.

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Business Green

JULY 18, 2022

In a video address to more than 40 leaders and ministers assembled at the Berlin event this morning, Antonio Guterres slammed political leaders for failing to take adequate action on tackling climate change and mobilising finance to support poorer nations' efforts to decarbonise and bolster their climate resilience.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Mohamed Adow, director of think tank Power Shift Africa said the achievement came after three decades of appeals for help from climate impacted nations. "To The text on energy was weakened but is at least in. This COP caused deep frustrations but it wasn't for nothing," she said. "It warming target.

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Business Green

APRIL 1, 2020

However, the decision to postpone now leaves huge question marks about global governments' ability to ramp up climate action in 2020 in order to keep the Paris Agreement on track, and also as to whether Glasgow will remain the host of the event if and when it does eventually take place next year.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

It notes that extreme weather events and sea level rise around the world has caused havoc with urban energy and transportation systems, as well as property and critical infrastrucutre, and calls for policymakers to work with all stakeholders to scale solutions that can make cities more resilient in a warming world.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

It was, as ever a highly eventful fortnight, characterised by shifting politics, surging levels of green investment, and escalating fears the climate impacts could be approaching catastrophic 'tipping points'. Once an idea enters the vernacular at COP Summits the chance of it being eventually adopted increases dramatically.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The wave of fresh climate commitments and net zero targets announced by world leaders in Glasgow this week could well have edged the planet onto a warming pathway that is just about compatible with the temperature goals of the Paris Agreement, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). global warming pathway are to be kept alive.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The first full negotiating texts are still not expected until later this evening, or potentially even tomorrow, according to Egypt's COP Presidency. But we are hoping that everyone will rise to the occasion by the end of COP, and realise that while the national interest is very important, something greater than that is at stake.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2020

Other former COP Presidents, such as Laurent Fabius. These events will put human life at risk. billion people have been affected by disasters, 90 per cent of which have been caused by weather and climate related events. Third, energy transition. Civil society organisations. Corporate leaders and finance executives.

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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. With just a few days to go until COP26 kicks off, her pessimism is widely shared. No one likes to say 1.5C

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Business Green

JUNE 18, 2020

Good afternoon everyone and thank you to the London Stock Exchange for organising this event. The International Energy Agency has estimated that $13.5tr of public and private investment in the global energy sector alone will be required between 2015 and 2030 to meet the Paris Agreement targets. clean transport.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

There was also a string of announcements focused on Asia, with Bloomberg reporting this morning that the finishing touches were being put on a "just energy transition partnership" akin to the deal brokered for South Africa at COP26 that would aim to help Indonesia transition off coal power.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

Where people's ability to feed their families becomes precarious and extreme weather and diseases wipe out livelihoods, people may be forced from their homes, and civil unrest may ferment, events that can undermine fragile government, and reverberate around the globe. Yet every country at COP has agreed to phase-down coal power.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Scaling up climate finance has been one of my top priorities as COP President," he said. However, Mohamed Adow, director of Nairobi-based think tank Power Shift Africa and a veteran observer of UN climate talks, slammed the announcement as "utterly shameful".

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

We need immediate action on energy. Countries should also end all new fossil fuel exploration and production, and shift fossil fuel subsidies into renewable energy. By 2030, solar and wind capacity should quadruple and renewable energy investments should triple to maintain a net zero trajectory by mid-century.

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