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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

In 2014, the electrical engineer and MBA became the first woman to lead a U.S. As electric vehicles drive toward the mainstream, General Motors has come full circle as well. It mass-produced the first electric car in the 1990s, then literally crushed most of them in 2003. and globally by 2040. and globally by 2040.

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? $32bn and 30% drop as market hits pause in 2023

Climate Tech VC

🚗 Vertical: Transportation and Energy investment declined, but remained on top. Redwood Materials raised $1bn to build its US battery materials and recycling facility. Redwood Materials received a $2bn loan from the US Department of Energy in Feb 2023. 2 spot behind Energy Storage, which rose from no.2 2 to to no.1.

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? FOAK takes flight #182

Climate Tech VC

  In deals, $75m for batteries, $58m for mushroom-based food alternatives, and $50m for AI enabled satellite monitoring. H2 was awarded $272m from the European Commission’s Innovation Fund while LanzaJet received $14m from the US Department of Energy.    Thanks for reading! Not a subscriber yet? Philanthropy.

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2022 was the year that…

Business Green

Even the negatives — the politicization of ESG investing and reporting, the economic downturn, the energy crisis created by the Russian invasion of Ukraine — are temporal phenomena, part of the regular ebbs and flows of economics and policy. Adobe's all-electric office tower is testament to that. Electrification amped up.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

AGreenLiving

In 2014, the electrical engineer and MBA became the first woman to lead a U.S. As electric vehicles drive toward the mainstream, General Motors has come full circle as well. It mass-produced the first electric car in the 1990s, then literally crushed most of them in 2003. and globally by 2040. .” and globally by 2040.

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? Spinning CO2 into clothes

Climate Tech VC

Now the CEO of Rubi Laboratories , Mashouf wants to clean up the industrial sector and create processes that harness the powerful systems of the natural world to create a sustainable manufacturing ecosystem. cotton) and the energy needed to process fabrics and manufacture the garments themselves (e.g., spinning, weaving, and knitting).