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? CTVC’s guide to NYCW #163

Climate Tech VC

for Northvolt to build energy storage, $100M for direct lithium extraction, and $60M for heat batteries. ⚡ Advanced Ionics , a Milwaukee, WI-based green hydrogen electrolyzer developer, raised $13M in Series A funding from bp Ventures, Clean Energy Ventures, GVP Capital, and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries.

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Queen's Speech: What is - and isn't - on the government's green agenda for the year ahead?

Business Green

Meanwhile, fears are growing that these various pressures will serve to distract from the ongoing climate and biodiversity crises, as the momentum built up around the COP26 Climate Summit contiuning to dissipate.

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Climate Performance Potential is the unsung predictor of superior financial returns

Business Green

Of the 15 technology areas PWC analysed, the areas that represent over 80 per cent of future emission reduction potential by 2050 - such as solar power, wind power, food waste technology, green hydrogen production, and alternative protein - received just 25 per cent of recent climate tech investment between 2013 and the first half of 2021.

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Boris Johnson promises to 'build back greener', but can he deliver?

Business Green

And the Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy confirmed it is to extend deadlines for the latest round of the Renewable Heat Incentive scheme to help ensure the current pipeline of projects can be delivered. Why then are green business leaders and campaigners so underwhelmed by Johnson's latest green promises?

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5 Shifts Needed to Transform Transportation Systems and Meet Climate Goals

The City Fix

Transportation connects us to one another. It’s how we get to school and work, how we visit our families, and how we access our food and health care. It’s also how we ship goods and deliver services. As economies and.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

The automaker’s sustainability goals include sourcing energy only from renewable sources and getting at least half the materials in its vehicles from recycled, bio-based or renewable origins — by 2030 in the U.S. The Brazilian company, listed on the New York Stock Exchange one year ago, sells beauty and biodiversity as intertwined.

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Transport Decarbonisation Plan: A guide to the government's routemap for net zero transport

Business Green

National e-scooter trials are currently underway in an attempt to understand their environmental impact and modal shift potential, with the government seeking to evaluate whether they should be legalised. It is hard to overstate the importance and urgency of getting this strategy motoring, and getting it right.