Elemental Excelerator

MARCH 7, 2022

Think of us as a nonprofit VC: First the investor part: We invest $300,000 (for growth strategy development) or $600,000 (for project deployment) to companies across six systems – water, food and agriculture, nature-based solutions, energy, mobility, and the circular economy. Commercialize alternative energy resources such as hydrogen.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

At its core is an ambition for a fully decarbonised power sector by 2035, with electrification, supported by low-carbon hydrogen, leading to a phase-out of fossil fuels from surface transport, home heating and much of industry beginning without delay. The Government has proposed deployment levels of low-carbon options (e.g.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The Department of Energy announced a Hydrogen Shot , a program to make clean hydrogen fuel 80 percent cheaper than it is today, in June. Carbon dioxide removal doesn’t directly cut emissions from any particular industry, like agriculture or aviation. The Carbon Negative Shot is the third program in the Earthshots series.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

In February 2021, German agribusiness giant BASF hosted a virtual wine tasting, a seemingly cozy affair swirling glasses of Portugal’s finest in front of a webcam debating the future of EU agricultural policies. Invited to the event was a small group of Members of the European Parliament (MEPs). Europe’s Green Deal.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The multi-agency report warns that much greater momentum is needed to develop and deploy green solutions at scale across key sectors such as electricity, road transport, steel, hydrogen, and agriculture, which together account for around 60 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions.

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Business Green

MARCH 22, 2021

At the same time, it would create enormous demand for forest and other biomass and come at serious risks for land use, agriculture and biodiversity in the UK and abroad.".

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 28, 2020

GreenBiz readers got excited about climate change solutions that ranged from the new, from the emerging potential of hydrogen as an energy source to changes in plastics manufacturing, to the ancient, such as planting trees. Meanwhile, humans have continued destructive practices such as deforestation and agricultural expansion.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

CH4 Global has announced plans to supply a seaweed supplement for up to 10,000 head of cattle to an agriculture hub near the South Australian city of Port Pirie. Clean Hydrogen. The hype around hydrogen is inversely proportional to its impact so far. Vertical Farming. That's because its potential is huge.

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Business Green

JULY 6, 2021

Left unchecked, he warned, current trends are driving unsustainable management of the planet's bioresoures that threaten to damage both the climate and the natural world, largely by driving deforestation that in turn leads to biodiversity loss and soil depletion, and reduces the natural world's ability to mitigate climate change.

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Energy Innovation

JULY 14, 2020

The authors assert this difference may be due to rural support policies leading to direct creation of jobs in LMICs, as opposed to increased agricultural subsidies in high income countries. Habitat restoration and regenerative agriculture, especially in carbon-rich habitats. Hepburn et al.

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Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Land biomass can be divided into four distinct groups suitable for energy production: wood and processing waste, agricultural crops and waste materials, food, yard and wood waste in garbage, and finally animal manure and human sewage. Agricultural Crops and Waste Materials. We can therefore conclude that roughly 1.3

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In deals, major funding includes $116M for hydrogen-powered aviation, $44M for sustainability software, and $75M in project finance investment for SAFs. Department of Agriculture.   27 countries signed the UAE Hydrogen Declaration of Intent endorsing a global hydrogen certification standard. sustainable infra fund.

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Business Green

MAY 22, 2020

By planting three billion trees over the next decade, increasing organic farming to a quarter of agricultural land, reversing the decline of bee populations, cutting pesticide use in half, and restoring at least 25,000km of EU rivers to a free-flowing state, the strategy promises to "fix our broken relationship with nature".

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 4, 2021

Those that can restore natural carbon sinks through soil sequestration, ecosystem recovery, and regenerative agriculture. North Sea wind installations could produce enough clean electricity and hydrogen to replace the coal-fired smokestacks. They invest in less bad instead of different and better. .

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Low carbon investment is also helping to "level up" the country, the report says, with jobs in sectors like offshore wind, low carbon hydrogen, EV chargepoint installation, and home insulation distributed right across the UK. Britain should also be promoted as a global centre for green investment, the manifesto argues.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Composed of carbon and hydrogen, it enters the environment through livestock, leaks from natural gas systems, landfills and waste from homes and businesses. These include CO2 sequestration or removal, protection from soil erosion and flood risk, habitats for wildlife, pollination and spaces for recreation and wellbeing. Mitigation.

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Business Green

AUGUST 12, 2022

But there is growing confidence amongst academics and engineers that plummeting renewable and energy storage costs and the development of green hydrogen technologies mean a 100 per cent renewables-based energy system could be delivered. Vanuatu submits updated climate plan to the UN.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 14, 2020

This shift is important because the conventional, industrial food and agriculture industries (including the cows) produce a quarter or more of global carbon emissions. In response, the conventional food business is talking more about regenerative systems and specifically “ regenerative agriculture.” What to look for in 2020.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

He will test his theory that the right combination of crops could stash significant amounts of carbon in the ground while enhancing the soil’s fertility. Both the landowner and the solar developer could benefit, he said, from the sale of credits for the sequestered carbon and the enhancements to the soil. In June, Gov.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Priority infrastructure development schemes: wind, hydrogen, CCS, nuclear, fracking, oil and gas. The list of 100 schemes include 86 road initiatives - including road building, road safety and cycle schemes - as well as five new oil and gas projects such as the first phase of the controversial Cambo oil field in the North Sea.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2020

And natural greenhouse gas removals, or carbon sinks, from forests, peatland and soil would need significant scaling up over the next decade and beyond, the report finds, with 460,000 hectares of new mixed woodland required by 2035, and 260,000 hectares of farmland shifting over to producing energy crops.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

It’s throwing $100 million toward biotech solutions for repurposing waste and improving plastics; regenerative agriculture in deforested zones; and building up markets for biological ingredients. Other circular approaches include making vanilla flavoring from discarded rice husks and reusing hydrogen peroxide for paper production.

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Greentown Labs

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Read about our 11 wet lab startups below: Agriculture. Advent Technologies makes high temperature proton exchange membrane (HT PEM) fuel cells that convert hydrogen and other renewable fuels to electricity. Recent wet lab member milestones include American Batte r y Technology Company closing a $39.1M Electricity.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 28, 2020

GreenBiz readers got excited about climate change solutions that ranged from the new, from the emerging potential of hydrogen as an energy source to changes in plastics manufacturing, to the ancient, such as planting trees. Meanwhile, humans have continued destructive practices such as deforestation and agricultural expansion.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

Today we’re announcing AgFunder’s upcoming alternative protein fund to invest in animal protein alternatives, including plant-based alternatives, cellular agriculture, and the picks and shovels technologies required to enable this emerging industry. . Here there be Dragons. billion consumers by 2050.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Most of what’s left is going to be used to power industry, and about half of that gas is going to have to be renewable or zero-carbon — so either from hydrogen or renewable natural gas.". Suggestions from SCE include reducing wildfire risk, restoring degraded natural lands and managing agricultural soils to lock in carbon.

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Elemental Excelerator

OCTOBER 5, 2020

” — Danya Hakeem, Director of Innovation, Agriculture & Circular Economy. FOOD & AGRICULTURE. We are excited to support companies building a more resilient food and agriculture system through climate-friendly ingredient sourcing, reforestation, regenerative grazing, and replacing imports with indigenous crops.”

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Low Carbon Prosperity

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

It can be argued that subsidies for hydrogen powered vehicles slowed the emergence of battery electric vehicles. The sequestration credit applied to all current entities storing carbon in trees and soil internalizes the environmental benefits rural landscapes provide society.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 25, 2020

At this ag-ed powerhouse, popular courses include Food Systems and Intro to Sustainable Agriculture, and researchers are working to enhance carbon sequestration through crushed-rock soil amendments and devising seaweed-based cattle feed amendments to slash dairy cows’ methane emissions.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

It’s throwing $100 million toward biotech solutions for repurposing waste and improving plastics; regenerative agriculture in deforested zones; and building up markets for biological ingredients. Other circular approaches include making vanilla flavoring from discarded rice husks and reusing hydrogen peroxide for paper production.

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Elemental Excelerator

MARCH 9, 2021

For Cohort 10, we’re looking for 15-20 startups from anywhere in the world focused on addressing key challenges in energy, mobility, agriculture, water, or the circular economy. We are particularly interested in innovations around: Technologies at the nexus of water: agriculture, energy, circular economy.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Society had acknowledged that it had “over-estimated” the carrying capacity of soil, water, and air so “current wisdom” would lead us to “unequivocally condemn such past practice.” The act of allowing such by-products to blow into the “open air” was no longer seen as “unproblematic,” he wrote.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

This revolution will impact almost every part of the food system, from agriculture and ingredients to supply chains and workforces. Meet the Innovators Creating a Sustainable Food Sector: Startups working in food and agriculture raised almost $20 billion in funding in 2019.

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

The second is a commitment to sourcing 100 percent of the natural materials Timberland uses from regenerative agriculture, such as leather for boots. Co-Founder & Lead Engineer, Planetary Hydrogen; Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. The first is for 100 percent of products to be designed with the circular economy in mind. Sarah Golden.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

After 60 hours of discussions, deliberations, and expert workshops covering how best to decarbonise everything from transport and heating to electricity and agriculture, 108 members of the Assembly have delivered their verdicts, and they are in turn surprising, predictable, and nuanced, but above all else galvanising.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2023

A CPS spokesperson told DeSmog that the organisation “has in recent years been one of most prominent champions of free-market environmentalism, with a dedicated workstream on net zero which has included work on carbon taxes, emissions offshoring, the hydrogen revolution, clean air zones, green tech and more. Not for her own benefit.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Some communities have taken up agriculture to offset the loss of traditional food sources, like bird eggs that erosion has made harder to find. Silvopasture could make for healthier soil — and keep cattle alive during sweltering summers. That applies on land, too. Anita Hofschneider Midwest Livestock are dying in the heat.

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