The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2022

But despite the challenges, more and more farmers are finding ways to produce food in a way that is environmentally responsible and economically viable. In this article, we’ll take a look at the state of sustainable agriculture around the world. It can also help to mitigate climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

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Business Green

JULY 23, 2021

Even amid the truly serious money flowing into climate tech and sustainable infrastructure, the $2bn infusion disclosed by Generate Capital earlier this week is truly stratospheric. We will not get to the scale that we need, given the scale of the problem, if we rely on government funding or altruism," he said.

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Climate Tech VC

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Our team is proud to unveil Sightline Climate , our new market intelligence platform for the new climate economy. More than 20 leading investors, corporates, and governments already use the platform including the US Department of Energy, BHP, and Galvanize Climate. After all, the new climate economy has grown beyond VC.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 14, 2021

This is the second article in a series. “What we are trying to do as a fund is define what climate change entrepreneurship needs to look like,” Karthik Chandrasekar, the founder of early stage cleantech venture capital firm Sangam, said in an interview at his office early last year. Read part one here.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Partner Insight: Vodafone's Nicki Lyons shares key insights from the recent Vodafone Business UK Customer Sustainability Summit on how businesses can harness technology to reach their decarbonisation goals Climate change has the potential to seriously disrupt our lives. Alongside climate change, we are also facing a biodiversity crisis.

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Elemental Excelerator

OCTOBER 13, 2023

At Elemental, we’re often innovating to fill gaps to scale climate technology and have deep community impact. One gap that we’ve been increasingly focusing on is what we call the “Scale Gap.” There are a variety of factors that include founder knowledge, technology risk and development risk that give rise to the Scale Gap.

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Business Green

JUNE 18, 2021

Top global brands throw weight behind new Business Alliance for Scaling Climate Solutions. A big part of the BASCS mission: Provide a "central, neutral" clearinghouse for hearing about and evaluating climate schemes and solutions, with an initial focus on options for carbon removal. Why do we need another climate alliance?

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Mosaic

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

While it’s true that sustainable infrastructure initiatives like the IRA are contributing to the growth of this industry, since becoming the CTO of clean energy fintech, I have experienced a much deeper appeal that clean tech jobs hold. People who work in clean tech are often there because of a shared mission to help the environment.

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Business Green

JULY 18, 2023

This dichotomy is hard to break, not least because it suits both climate hawks and climate sceptics alike. From the climate hawk perspective, the focus simply has to remain on net zero emissions by 2050 at the absolute latest.

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Business Green

AUGUST 25, 2021

But as pressure to address climate change and sustainability increases, businesses are learning that investing in sustainability and company profitability are not mutually exclusive. Companies can take rapid action by accelerating climate initiatives that already have positive standalone business cases. Click here for more information.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 2, 2020

US tech giants have faced criticism for continuing to work with fossil fuel giants such as Chevron and ExxonMobil, despite their own ambitious climate commitments. Climate action purists will probably argue that any relationship with an oil company is bad news, but this one seems a step in the right direction.

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Business Green

AUGUST 5, 2022

Bill Weihl argues US corporates have a huge opportunity to help deliver genuinely ambitious climate-focused legislation. Within days, Congress is expected to vote on a historic investment ($369bn, to be precise) in climate and clean energy. The climate game is all about speed and scale.) What if we fail?

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Business Green

APRIL 24, 2020

While they're not immune to the forthcoming fiscal challenges, entrepreneurs developing solutions for addressing climate change - from agtech to decarbonization to clean energy and more - are among those proving to be the most resilient. They are in service of helping the climate.". An homage to cleantech.

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Andrew Winston

MAY 4, 2022

I’ll explore why reality makes me uncomfortable in another article coming soon. This article got some good debate on my LinkedIn post. That may be unwise given the economics of clean tech, but people are not purely economic animals. ” every day. Nobody is immune — not CEOs, CFOs, or bankers.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2021

This glossing over of the challenges the UK currently faces operated on two levels: the policy and the rhetoric. Chancellor Rishi Sunak's failure to mention climate change at all in his speech earlier this week suggests the Treasury still hasn't internalised the scale and importance of the global green industrial revolution.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 3, 2020

It takes a village to succeed in climate tech. Solving climate change depends, to some extent, on technological innovation. The world’s leading climate authority, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), published a landmark 2018 report highlighting the urgency of limiting warming to 1.5 Ben Soltoff.

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Climate Tech VC

JULY 7, 2023

I ended up publishing an article in Joule in early 2021 on this with Greg Thiel , director of technology at Energy Impact Partners, essentially saying: to decarbonize industry, we need to decarbonize heat first. The challenge is that it's a really small resource and also there's a lot of demand for it.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 5, 2022

This is my year-end article from Harvard Business Review that I mentioned in my last post (which has many more stories and links). Trends in corporate sustainability have been mostly consistent — an expanding climate crisis, lightning-speed growth in clean tech, rising pressure from many stakeholders, and more.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

More interesting, however, was the reaction of those climate concerned investors and shareholders who have the ability to push BP to accelerate its strategy - or pivot back to its fossil fuel roots. The Climate Action 100+ group of institutional investors called it a "very welcome announcement".

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Business Green

AUGUST 1, 2022

The net zero transition faces myriad challenges. There's the technological challenge of developing the products and services necessary to decarbonise. The infrastructure challenge of deploying them at pace and scale. The financial challenge of funding them. No one much likes to talk abt this.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 1, 2020

These complex challenges can’t be solved in isolation, or by doing business as usual,” said Judson Althoff, executive vice president of Microsoft’s Worldwide Commercial Business, in the blog about the deal. “We These complex challenges can’t be solved in isolation, or by doing business as usual.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Governments are very keen to promote the role of technology when it comes to the fight against climate change. Thanks to this government's unashamedly pro-tech agenda, the UK is attracting the talent and investment our brilliant tech firms need to grow and use digital innovation to help us achieve net zero.". The policy gap.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

This article was adapted from Climate Tech Weekly, a free newsletter focused on climate technologies. The train attracted hundreds of visitors, including Prince Charles, who spent a number of days in Glasgow during the climate summit. So far, Porterbrook has invested more than $10m in the initiative. Hydrogen hype.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Why corporate partners are essential for Third Derivative, a new climate-tech support network Heather Clancy Mon, 11/30/2020 – 03:00 Climate tech is more important than ever, but the systemic challenges entrepreneurs face in shepherding these solutions to commercial success is formidable.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Amid disheartening and discouraging Covid and climate news, there are a lot of reasons for hope, writes Joel Makower. The Covid-19 pandemic, horrific as it's been, has been reasonably kind to the worlds of sustainable business and climate tech. Could becoming 'nature positive' become the next big thing?

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Business Green

MARCH 3, 2021

If global energy emissions can still rise two per cent year-on-year when much of Europe and the US are still subject to varying levels of lockdown and the aviation industry is more contracted than at any point in modern history, then the scale of the decarbonisation challenge looks more daunting than ever.

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Business Green

APRIL 29, 2020

Yesterday was a good day for the global effort to tackle the climate crisis. What focus has been assigned to environmental issues was likely aimed at the Petersberg Dialogue and growing calls for a climate-focused stimulus programme. We live in a world where the default-setting for much of the media is one of studied cynicism.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

It makes buildings healthier , cheaper and is essential to addressing climate change (building operations account for 28 percent of emissions globally — more than all of the transportation sector). It also is a glimpse into financing models that can help commercialize technologies, while ensuring all communities have access to climate tech.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 1, 2021

In stopping climate change, time is as important as tech. This article originally appeared on the author's personal blog, and was written in that capacity. The only sure path to stop climate change is to zero out greenhouse gas emissions as soon as possible. Jonathan Foley. Mon, 03/01/2021 - 01:30.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

I left the Scottish Exhibition Centre and its network of slightly leaky Climate Enormo Tents on Saturday afternoon, just as COP26 President Alok Sharma declared the Summit had culminated in a 'clean' and 'balanced' text. Or as the Climate Change Committee's Chris Stark put it this morning, there are 98 months to cut emissions by 45 per cent.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Bill Gates wants you to step up on climate. Fortunately for the climate cause, Bill Gates for the last half-decade has invested considerably toward innovations to push the planet toward net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. So we cannot only invent new solutions but commercialize them and then scale them up quickly.".

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 6, 2022

For the purpose-driven business operating within the New York district, this Green Business Bureau article looks at the New York sustainability agenda to detail the developments this city is championing to achieve urban sustainability. From this article, you’ll learn what green financing applies to your business.

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Grist

APRIL 20, 2022

As the climate warms, the ancient ice that used to cover an estimated 85 percent of Alaska is thawing. It was thought to be permanent — that any changes happened on a scale of tens of thousands of years,” said Vladimir Romanovsky, a professor emeritus of geophysics at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and a leading permafrost researcher.

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Business Green

JULY 18, 2022

By building on existing initiatives, like the European Green Deal and the ‘Fit for 55' climate package, the plan is designed to also boost the EU economy and industry. The plan understands the importance of scaling up power generation by renewable means. Enrique Vilamitjana is managing director of Panasonic HVAC Europe.

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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.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The clean tech revolution will see battery technologies play a critical role in our cars, our trucks, our power grid, our buildings, and even our ferries. Ramping up battery reuse and recycling is increasingly regarded as critical to ensuring climate goals are met in as sustainable and efficient way as possible.

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Elemental Excelerator

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Innovative climate solutions are entering the spotlight, but deploying those key technologies requires resources. One crucial and coveted piece of the climate capital stack is non-dilutive capital that doesn’t have to be paid back: grants. three climate policy packages since 2021. Total funding: $1.2T

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