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More than money: How corporations can really help climate tech startups

Business Green

Investing in climate funds is great - But it's not the only way to add value European climate tech funds raised $2.6bn in 2021 - an amount double that of the year before. Among those that helped to derive that record figure were a range of corporations. But venture capital is a long-term game.

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The top 25 most sustainable fleets

GreenBiz

Thanks to converging forces — including supportive policies, dropping battery costs and aggressive climate goals — transportation leaders at large and small organizations are increasingly turning to new zero-emission and low-carbon options that decarbonize fleets and in some cases save money. The definition of fleet is evolving.

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Why 'climate tech' is the new cleantech

Business Green

Will the term crash and burn or will it find successes and help make real progress with the climate crisis? This article is adapted from GreenBiz's weekly newsletter, Transport Weekly, running Tuesdays. Subscribe here. So, will we dust off the term cleantech and try again or will it look like something else?

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Big names including Amazon, Honeywell, Mitsubishi line up behind green hydrogen

Business Green

A flurry of funding rounds have underscored how many big corporates are keen to turbocharge the fledgling hydrogen market. There are concerns , however, that the technology may enable more tar sands development. Despite its many investments in climate technologies, Amazon's overall emissions rose 18 per cent in 2021.

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It takes a village to succeed in climate tech

GreenBiz

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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Three ways your organisation can embrace a net zero mindset

Business Green

The story of how Sandra Noonan landed her job as chief sustainability officer for the fast-casual restaurant company Just Salad offers a vivid illustration of the appeal of net zero for a growing number of consumers - and the mindshare companies can claim by being transparent about the details of their journey.

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A Blockchain Crash Course: How It Can Enable the Clean, Smart Grid

Andrew Winston

(Another article from my column for MIT Sloan Management Review. This is my attempt at an "explainer" on blockchain, describing it as simply as I can, and exploring how it may help build the clean grid. But some techies think it will revolutionize more than money. I will dive into other uses later.).