Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Meanwhile, Michigan approves a bundle of clean energy bills, the UN irons out details for the "loss and damages" fund ahead of COP, and Flexport launches a book and claim model for SAFs.  The Notorious Hannah Ritchie finds that clean energy will require less mining than fossil fuels.  Aka land platypus.

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Business Green

JULY 19, 2022

The Strategy was also criticised for failing to provide sufficient detail on how the government planned to tackle emissions from certain sectors, such as farming and land use and aviation. What would happen if we moved it to 2060 or 2070? We're not going to be here. Let's be realistic.".

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2021

It's hard to think of a greater dereliction of our responsibility as COP hosts.". IPPR Environmental Justice Commission head Luke Murphy said: "Today the Chancellor declared the UK was entering an ‘age of optimism' but instead he used the budget to extend the ages of fossil fuels.

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2023

If the CCC's central allegation is that the government is guilty of complacency and a fundamental lack of focus, the official response from the Department of Net Zero and Energy Security amounts to 'it's a fair cop, Guv'. "We The hugely detailed and widely shared criticisms of the government's underpowered climate policies are simply ignored.

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Business Green

JANUARY 30, 2023

Despite the marked increase in government ambitions, CO2 emissions have increased in every year since the Paris COP in 2015 (bar 2020)," it continues. Crucially, these changes are evident in both the fossil fuel and the clean energy market. Investment in clean energy basically matched that in fossil fuels last year.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

For all the evidence the Paris Agreement has catalysed an era-defining array of clean tech innovations and a remarkable shift in public opinion, there have been baseless arguments that the entire COP process is an exercise in futility. There are many different ways to gauge the success or otherwise of a COP.

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Business Green

MAY 12, 2020

I think the biggest risk that sits before the global mission on net zero is the risk of fossil fuel lock-in," warns Stark. "If If we choose to do what we did in 2009, we will lock in fossil fuel use with our infrastructure choices and we wouldn't have enough time to reverse from that now.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The non-profit has played a pivotal role in mobilising and coordinating corporate climate action in recent years, most notably when it steered a push from a coalition of the UK's largest fleet owners - from Tesco and Centrica to BT to SSE - in support of a 2030 phase out date for fossil fuel cars and vans. This is a tricky issue.

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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. is closing fast. Our hopes and dreams drown in their empty words and promises," she said. "Of

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