Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The first few days of COP have ushered in a wave of major announcements and funding pledges. Countries and companies have also kicked off pledges to triple investments in renewables and nuclear, drive down methane emissions, and commit loss and damage funds.   And happy COPing to those on the ground in Dubai! Chairman controversy.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

These include the risk of weak offtaker finances leading to power purchase agreement renegotiations (as in South Africa and India) and rock-bottom auction prices (mostly in Gulf Cooperation Council countries) setting unrealistically low price expectations from governments in more challenging markets. Reflecting on the 2010s.

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Business Green

MAY 27, 2022

In addition, the climate ministers pledged to end all direct public support for overseas unabated fossil fuel energy projects by the end of 2022, declaring that all government support for unabated thermal coal-fired power generation overseas had come to an end in 2021.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The facility is expected to be the first integrated green hydrogen plant in Africa, and when fully developed it is set to boast 100MW of electrolyzers, powered by 260MW of solar and wind capacity. The site at Ain Sokhna has been selected as it is in the Suez Canal Economic Zone providing it with access to global shipping lanes. "It

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

Financers are here to speak to governments. How to achieve this is the focus of the conversations throughout COP. They are working to bolster national capacities to translate high-level climate plans into actionable mitigation and adaptation targets, with clear sectoral links, and embed these targets into investment plans.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 11, 2022

COP26 President Alok Sharma will today call on governments and financial institutions to ramp up flows of finance into those nations most vulnerable to climate impacts ahead of the COP27 Climate Summit at key International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank meetings taking place this week.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Farming will be front and centre at this year’s COP. Leaders have released a four-point “food and agriculture” agenda that calls for governments and industry to work together to find new solutions to climate change–driven food insecurity.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Agenda is billed as 'first comprehensive global plan' to rally companies, governments, and NGOs behind a shared set of adaptation best practices. Of particular concern and focus is Africa, where the private finance share in the total financing of climate adaptation efforts is not more than three per cent, or $11.4bn.

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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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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Nearly $370b in tax credits, clean energy incentives, and investments in green innovation are intended to dramatically accelerate domestic decarbonization in sectors from energy to manufacturing. According to the African Development Bank, Africa has received less than 5.5% It aligns U.S. rhetoric and financing and catapults the U.S.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Carbon markets are set to be one of the key issues at the upcoming COP climate talks, with negotiators tasked with finalising the rules for Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, which aims to create a framework for countries and companies to meet their climate goals by trading carbon credits.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The government has promised a raft of hotly-anticipated plans and policies in the coming months, including the Heat and Buildings Strategy, Food Strategy White Paper, Treasury Net Zero Review, and an overarching Net Zero Strategy, all of which should help unlock billions of pounds of green investment. This is the risk of COP.".

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

In this year, the Year of Climate Action, it will be the top international priority for this government.?? In my first fortnight as COP President, I have been listening to those who have done this before. ??Meeting Last month, I helped launch East Africa's first ‘green bond' on the Nairobi securities exchange.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Of the two exceptions, Denmark and South Africa, the first did not mention Denmark’s role as the largest oil producer in the European Union, while South Africa’s stall was sponsored by the country’s top coal companies. South Africa, Australia, UK, and Germany. South Africa struck a deal on Tuesday for £6.2

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Another COP is coming - the 27th United Nations Climate Change Conference. In addition, there is growing dismay, and anger in many quarters, that the unmet promises of past COPs, especially in providing finance to those that are suffering loss and damage from climate change, are going to make COP27 even more challenging.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 7, 2020

From Amsterdam, Gellert oversaw the company in Europe, Africa and the Middle East for nearly six years, working before that at outdoor gear maker Black Diamond. Edelman named Heidi DuBois as special ESG adviser, coming from the Society for Corporate Governance via BNY Mellon and PepsiCo. The former U.K.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

EU energy emissions fall, Rwanda gets its first mini-grid, and Brazil preps a COP bid. The French Senate this week approved new legislation that will require all large car parks in the country to install solar canopies in support of the government's renewable energy drive. French Senate approves solar car park legislation.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

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. Petrostates are still not fully onboard with the Paris Agreement.

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Business Green

APRIL 1, 2020

The crucial UN climate change summit due to take place in Glasgow in November 2020 has been postponed until next year, amid huge uncertainty and public safety concerns surrounding the escalating coronavirus pandemic, the United Nations alongside the UK and Italian governments confirmed today.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 1, 2023

They will use their connections to network, lobby – and even raise investment. Oil and gas has dominated discussions at past COPs, which have focused on the need to cut greenhouse gas emissions from the energy and transport sectors to tackle dangerous levels of global warming. This year will be different.

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Business Green

JUNE 18, 2020

Many people across the world are looking to governments during this global emergency to provide leadership and clarity to overcome the unprecedented challenges that we are facing. Because finance and investment are the lifeblood of net zero projects - and we can only meet this challenge together.

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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.

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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 This COP caused deep frustrations but it wasn't for nothing," she said. "It The agreement was hailed by activists and developing countries as a major breakthrough.

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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. Sustainable investments have now reached 4 trillion dollars.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

In fairness to the government it has resisted the temptation to spin the Summit as an unqualified success. 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. This criticism is understandable and even necessary.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 14, 2022

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. Ana Paula Assis is general manager for IBM Europe, Middle East & Africa.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

depends on governments doing what they have said they will do, strengthening their plans further, and catalysing the fastest and widest industrial revolution in history. And even now, certain governments are determined to bury 1.5C Pushing warming projections down towards 1.5C trajectory.

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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

OCTOBER 13, 2022

For companies and institutions that have made investments in nature-based solutions and/or buying carbon offsets part of their climate strategy, valuing Indigenous people's contributions means investing in their organizations and projects, and paying a fair price for offsets. "We We have the solutions already.".

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

But green groups were left underwhelmed, after the government confirmed its commitment today to treble climate adaptation funding and support a series of new forest protection projects would come from existing climate finance budgets. Sunak also met with Kenya's new President H.E. We believe that we have a plan," she said. "We

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 25, 2021

Unfortunately, as the economic effects of COVID-19 cause government debts to rise sharply, there is now much less public money available for activities like climate protection or ecosystem restoration — this should sharpen our appetite for innovation. How then to make the shift to a net-zero, nature-positive economy within the decade?

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Business Green

DECEMBER 15, 2022

But fears are growing that the talks could become deadlocked on the issue of funding, after reports emerged this morning that the French government is blocking proposals from developing countries for a new specific international fund for biodiversity and pressuring the EU to do likewise. Business is merely one of them.".

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

alive or this will be the COP where we lose 1.5C," he said. You need to work out how you want future generations to look upon this COP and each of us individually as countries. goal, arguing that "every fraction of a degree matters". We'll either leave Egypt having kept 1.5C It is really up to us to decide.".

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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. ” – Shefali Sharma.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

As such, the COP Presidency should presumably welcome mounting calls for a new era of public-private cooperation on the financial packages that can help developing and emerging economies wean themselves off fossil fuels. The countries where these polluting assets are located are under significant pressure to phase down these polluting assets.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 7, 2020

From Amsterdam, Gellert oversaw the company in Europe, Africa and the Middle East for nearly six years, working before that at outdoor gear maker Black Diamond. Edelman named Heidi DuBois as special ESG adviser, coming from the Society for Corporate Governance via BNY Mellon and PepsiCo. The former U.K.

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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. And so today, from the vantage point of the ending of my time as COP President, I want to take stock of where we are. And navigating this context is our defining challenge. So I'm going to be frank.

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