GreenBiz

MAY 26, 2020

The lead backer on the latest round is Singapore's sovereign wealth fund GIC, which explicitly embeds sustainability considerations into its investments. There are also two highly recognizable minority "non-participating" investors: pop star Katy Perry and media queen Oprah Winfrey, who previously invested in Apeel in 2019. . "I

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Elsewhere in the drive for low-carbon aviation, ATI Boeing Accelerator this week opened applications for the second cohort in its programme bringing together investors and sustainability start-ups. lifecycle and resilience, and energy. The latest moves follow an eventful summer for the fledgling green aviation sector.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 10, 2024

In total investment, this drums up to $48 trillion, far below the needed $75 trillion. For metals and mining, CAPEX is the most resilient and remains around 6% of the total cross all scenarios. trillion, 55% lower than the consultancy’s net zero 2050 scenario, which maps out what’s required to meet the Paris Agreement targets.

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Elemental Excelerator

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Elemental Excelerator, a leading nonprofit investor in climate technology for deep community impact, introduced its latest cohort, bringing its total amount of investments to $79M. These 15 climate companies will join an existing portfolio of more than 150 investments. invested in Cohort 12, $7.2M Of the $12.5M

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

But it will in fact accelerate the global economic recovery, strengthen public health, create good and well-paying jobs and make us more resilient to future shocks. Sustainable aviation fuels that are waste-based or synthetic and produced with renewable electricity, not food. per cent of aviation fuels.

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Business Green

JUNE 4, 2020

But they understand that this is the time to rebuild a healthy economy that is more resilient to future shocks, be it from pandemics, floods, or wildfires. The aviation industry has been hit hard by the pandemic, with flights grounded. Businesses, investors and cities are leading this shift in spite of the recent losses.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Projects designed to spur the decarbonisation of shipping, healthcare, industry, and aviation are among the latest cohort of recipients of the government's Regulators Pioneer Fund, which aims to support initiatives that remove regulatory barriers to innovation.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 17, 2022

Mark Simmons, conditioning monitoring manager at NGET, stated: “Maintaining and investing in our transmission infrastructure is critical to a safe and reliable electricity network. The drones will be flown at such a distance to gather detailed close-quarter data, which will then be processed using artificial intelligence (AI).

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MARCH 15, 2021

This technical memo presents modelled jobs and other benefits from investments through 2030 that could be catalyzed by revenue from Substitute Senate Bill 5126 (SB5126), the Climate Commitment Act. In this technical memo, I describe methodology, modelling, and revenue and investment results. Summary of Results. billion to $4.1

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MARCH 15, 2021

This technical memo presents modelled jobs and other benefits from investments through 2030 that could be catalyzed by revenue from Substitute Senate Bill 5126 (SB5126), the Climate Commitment Act. In this technical memo, I describe methodology, modelling, and revenue and investment results. Summary of Results. billion to $4.1

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Business Green

JANUARY 26, 2021

Hundreds of businesses around the world have joined forces on a new initiative geared at accelerating the decarbonisation of carbon-intensive sectors, from aviation, cement and steel, to aluminium, chemicals, trucking, and shipping, which are collectively responsible for almost a third of global emissions.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Things that not long ago seemed an environmentalist's pipe dream — net zero supply chains, cheap energy storage, decarbonised aviation and shipping, circular value chains, enlightened investors — now seem not only possible, but inevitable. Meanwhile, development of cleaner aviation and shipping fuels is moving along nicely.

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Business Green

JUNE 14, 2020

The government must adopt a test to ensure any recovery package helps to build economic resilience and meet our commitments to end the UK's contribution to climate change by 2050," she added. The campaigners stressed it is vital that recovery plans help boost private sector investment in the net zero transition.

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EDF + Business

JULY 11, 2023

In April of last year, the IPCC estimated that we need to invest $48 trillion between 2020-2050 to reach net zero. Beyond running incubators, a growing number of companies are utilizing independent investment arms, or corporate venture capital (CVCs), to invest corporate funds into early-stage climate startups.

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Business Green

JANUARY 5, 2021

Responding to the criticism, a Gatwick spokesperson argued the expansion was a "long-term project for growth and resilience" that would help boost the UK's pandemic-stricken economy, and insisted the 'northern runway plan' was environmentally sustainable.

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Business Green

JULY 24, 2020

A report published today by UK-based consultancy Vivid Economics warns many governments are neglecting to consider the broader sustainability and resilience impacts of company bailouts and stimulus packages offered to the agriculture, industry, transport, energy and manufacturing waste sectors.

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Business Green

JUNE 28, 2020

The UK's post-crisis economic recovery package presents a major opportunity to accelerate investment on climate adaptation and cutting emissions to net zero," Jones and Dunne wrote. This is necessary to avert an even greater future national and global crisis caused by climate change.

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38 North Solutions

MAY 3, 2024

1 The credit is an investment tax credit, meaning it equals 30 percent of the qualified investment for such taxable year with respect to any qualifying advanced energy project placed in service in the taxable year. To help build more resilient, diverse and secure U.S.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 28, 2022

So what's really the impact of these impact investments? Still, they've proven to be an attractive investment for many. Centreing climate resilience and adaptation. While climate resilience and adaptation are central to Iron Ox's theory of change, the startup doesn't negate the pressing need for decarbonization.

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Business Green

MAY 24, 2021

Government confirms £30m of new investment in a range of projects designed to enhance natural carbon sinks. Advocates of so-called nature based solutions argue that they can deliver significant emissions reductions while also bolstering flood resilience and enhancing biodiversity.

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Clean Energy Trust

DECEMBER 6, 2021

This includes about $50 billion for resilience, $7.5 So, it is not the major climate legislation that is in the potential reconciliation bill, but a sizable set of investments in its own right. The First Movers Coalition is committing to buying volumes of climate friendly solutions in steel, trucking, shipping, and aviation.

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Business Green

JUNE 25, 2020

The evidence that ambitious climate policies can boost the damaged economy while laying the foundations for long term competitiveness and climate resilience is becoming more compelling by the year. The big question is whether our recovery from Covid can help reshape the path of future emissions and make us more climate resilient," said Stark.

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Climate Tech VC

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Corporate carbon footprint tracking collects $27M, and forestry and battery interests intersect to invest $18M toward bio-graphite for lithium-ion cells. Lowercarbon Capital, the Chris Sacca-led investment fund, raised $550M across two new funds for new and existing companies. In deals this week, sustainable agriculture reaps $250M.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

This evening Boris Johnson unveiled the government's much anticipated 10 Point Plan for a Green Industrial Revolution, promising to deliver £12bn of funding in a bid to unlock £36bn of private sector investment in the net zero transition. Business is fully committed to delivering a green and sustainable recovery from the pandemic.

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Business Green

APRIL 16, 2020

You will recall that Shell has three strategic ambitions: to be a world-class investment case; to thrive in the energy transition to a lower-carbon future; and to maintain a strong societal licence to operate. Being a world-class investment case means being financially robust and resilient.

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2023

Endorsed by governments over the weekend, the report's 'summary for policymakers' cover text is a critical resource for business leaders and investors looking to bolster near-term resilience and boost long-term profitability amidst an ever-worsening climate crisis. of warming. Delivering on the Paris Agreement's goal of 1.5C

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Business Green

AUGUST 11, 2020

The report adds that "shifts in government policy to support more renewable electricity schemes as part of a green recovery would encourage private investment to drive innovation and could help provide confidence in the economy at a crucial time".

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 6, 2021

There were also significant ties to banks and investment vehicles supporting polluting industries, as well as to thinktanks and lobbying groups with a history of campaigning against climate action. US bank Wells Fargo is facing a resolution to remove its Chair.

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Business Green

JUNE 4, 2020

The focus on green measures comes alongside plans to reduce VAT from 19 per cent to 16 per cent for six months starting in July 1, increase loans for small businesses, and increase investment in R&D and digital infrastructure.

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Business Green

APRIL 16, 2020

Meanwhile, a handful of projects are set to be delayed until 2021, including the EU's climate adaptation strategy, work on a new forest strategy, initiatives to promote sustainable aviation and maritime fuels, and the programme to empower consumers through the green transition.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 29, 2020

In a way, we are seeing this crisis as an illustration of how expensive the failure to build resiliency can ultimately prove. airline to announce a carbon-neutral domestic operation, purchasing sustainable aviation fuel and rolling out fleets of airport electric ground vehicles, to name a few. Willemijn Brouwer (2018).

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Business Green

MAY 26, 2020

The lead backer on the latest round is Singapore's sovereign wealth fund GIC, which explicitly embeds sustainability considerations into its investments. There are also two highly recognisable minority "non-participating" investors: pop star Katy Perry and media queen Oprah Winfrey, who previously invested in Apeel in 2019. "I

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Just a week after the government finally unleashed its Net Zero Strategy , Heat and Buildings Strategy and the Treasury's Net Zero Review, replete with a flurry of fresh policy and investment, it was now the turn of the Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, to set out the government's spending plans for the next year and beyond.

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Business Green

JULY 8, 2022

The government also stressed that the $246bn of green infrastructure investment contained in the plan is dependent to a large extent on international support, with the plan warning that inflationary pressures and the country's worsening debt position would "limit Egypt's ambition on allocating future climate investments".

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Business Green

MARCH 12, 2020

Roadbuilding bonanza - A major £27bn investment in roadbuilding between 2020 and 2025 was announced, in what Sunak dubbed "the largest ever investment in England's strategic roads". How the government marries any aviation tax reform with the need to decarbonise remains a critical question.

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Business Green

AUGUST 13, 2020

Writing in the foreword to the paper, Jerome Mayhew MP said the government had an "opportunity to reboot our economy and create jobs, by accelerating the rollout of clean and resilient infrastructure and stimulating low carbon industries across the UK". "As

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Business Green

JANUARY 28, 2021

Taskforce on Scaling Voluntary Carbon Markets unveils recommendations on how to scale up investment in emission reduction programmes, but environmental campaigners remain unimpressed. And it stresses that global emissions targets are likely to be missed without a fresh approach for driving investment in negative emissions projects.

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