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.  Tech-enabled credits continue to constitute a big chunk of an anticipated $1T voluntary carbon market , and Oxy is on a development frenzy.

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Business Green

MARCH 12, 2020

Even more worrying is a fact David Wallace-Wells points out in his best-selling book Uninhabitable Earth : more than half of the carbon emitted in the atmosphere today was emitted in the past 30 years. With just one mention of 'renewables' in the entire text, the Paris Agreement is broadly technology neutral.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Here are fifty recently published books on the subjects of global warming, climate mitigation and social change. This is a companion piece to the the 25 books in The Green Market Oracle's well informed readers list. These books are organized in the following six categories: 1. Climate impacts 2. Sustainability and business 3.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 14, 2020

In the well-publicized book The Uninhabitable Earth , author David Wallace-Wells made the case that panic may be warranted , showing what warming of 3, 4, or more degrees Celsius could look like (and it’s not pretty). But companies also told CDP about an upside: trillions in potential markets for low-carbon tech. degrees Celsius.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Rather than limiting demand for flying, GALBA argues the Jet Zero approach instead encourages "unrestrained growth in aviation and airports" and is relying on the hope that new fuels and technologies will be developed to reach the industry's targets of delivering net zero emissions by 2050.

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Business Green

MARCH 12, 2021

Mobilising billions of dollars of low carbon investment is a huge challenge, but it is also a massive opportunity for those financiers willing to innovate in pursuit of net zero emissions. Chief among them is the huge investment gap that must still be bridged before the destination of carbon neutrality can be reached.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The company, an early partner with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, has positioned water and carbon emissions as equally critical in the climate crisis. Last year, Ecolab set a goal for net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, getting halfway there by 2030. No doubt those conversations will be at play in Starbucks’ 50th year.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

From an emissions standpoint, Climate Week 2020 may go in the books as the greenest of all time. . AT&T pledged to be carbon-neutral by 2035, a step up from its previous goal to reduce Scope 1 emissions by 20 percent and Scope 2 emissions by 60 percent. Sessions and panels were virtual. There were no breakfast buffets.

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Mr. Sustainability

MAY 5, 2021

Carbon insetting is offsetting carbon inside the shipping sector, transferring savings from one vessel to another Summary - Reducing carbon emissions in the shipping sector can be hard and expensive. Carbon insetting in the shipping industry is done by GoodShipping. This is a story about carbon insetting.

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Mr. Sustainability

MAY 5, 2021

Carbon insetting is offsetting carbon inside the shipping sector, transferring emission savings from one vessel to another Summary - Reducing carbon emissions in the shipping sector can be hard and expensive. GoodShipping Program - Decarbonize ships and cargo with carbon insetting. This is a story about carbon insetting.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 24, 2021

China represents more than a quarter of all global carbon emissions, and it has spent tens of billions of dollars to build coal power facilities in 152 countries over the past decade through its Belt and Road Initiative. China and the United States together represent 43% of global carbon dioxide emissions.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Several promising carbon reduction measures are combined which are technically viable and based on matured technology, although scaling of existing technologies and cooperation with key partners is required. It originates from Heerema’s ambition to become a carbon neutral offshore contractor.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Italy announces ban on new petrol and diesel cars, EU carbon prices hit record levels, and all the green business news from around the world this week. RUSAL opens new low carbon aluminium smelter. Our smelter in Taishet will help to address the high global demand for low carbon aluminium.".

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Business Green

MAY 10, 2022

We desperately needed the government to tackle the root cause of our energy and climate security problem, and adopt a fossil fuel treaty to keep fossil fuels in the ground. And the Genetic Technologies Bill will support more sustainable food production and reduce the need for costly inputs.

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Business Green

JANUARY 20, 2023

From smart sockets to solar fabric, these businesses and innovations could be great additions to your sustainability toolkit Between 2010 to 2022, "the number of emerging technology companies tackling the climate crisis has increased 4x", to nearly 45,000. Launched in 2020, his startup is "the UK's only carbon-neutral neobank."

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

From an emissions standpoint, Climate Week 2020 may go in the books as the greenest of all time. AT&T pledged to be carbon-neutral by 2035, a step up from its previous goal to reduce Scope 1 emissions by 20 percent and Scope 2 emissions by 60 percent. Sessions and panels were virtual. There were no breakfast buffets.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

The company, an early partner with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, has positioned water and carbon emissions as equally critical in the climate crisis. Last year, Ecolab set a goal for net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, getting halfway there by 2030. No doubt those conversations will be at play in Starbucks’ 50th year.

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2021

One of its leading proponents is Steven Pinker, whose 2018 book Enlightenment Now was once described by Bill Gates as "my new favourite book or all time". Without keeping carbon in the ground, there's no way that we can achieve these climate goals. The fraught world of carbon offsetting.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

But the promise of streamlining the planning process may also offer a much-needed boost for major low carbon energy projects such as nuclear power plants and offshore wind farms. Boosting the ECO scheme could well end up being cost neutral on Treasury with insulation cutting gas demand and so the overall price tag of the bailout.

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Michael Grossman

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

I haven’t gone off the deep end and gone into denial about the scale and urgency of reducing carbon emissions. It’s true; cleantech industries are already creating hundreds of thousands of new jobs t o replace those coal mining and hourly-wage jobs lost to technology. org to represent carbon emissions zooming past 350 PPM.

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Clean Energy Trust

MARCH 5, 2021

February 2021 Cleantech Roundup: Climate Software Gold Rush | Lone Star State Struggles | Jobs and the Energy Transition Credit: Poole Group This month, we’re covering the rush of investing into startups that quantify, manage, and verify carbon emissions reductions, Texas’ grid troubles, new research on transitioning fossil fuel workers, and more!

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

A new report from the Sierra Club has found that more than 40,000 unplugged oil and gas wells are sitting idle across California — potentially leaking planet-warming gas and unsafe chemicals, but no longer actively extracting fossil fuels. According to a 2023 Carbon Tracker analysis , the state’s wells produce on average a mere 3.9

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 22, 2020

A sudden collapse of the industry - called a carbon crunch - could lead to economic disaster of epic proportions. The time is therefore now to plan an orderly wind-down of fossil fuel assets and manage the impact on the global economy rather than try to sustain the unsustainable. This may prove to be terminal. Money is gone.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

Drawing on that mandate, Ardern declared a "climate emergency" and set the wheels in motion for New Zealand’s public sector to become carbon neutral by 2025. She passed a Zero Carbon Bill during her first term that mandates net-zero emissions by 2050 and campaigned on tougher action this term. . percent of its GDP.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 22, 2020

based insurer to achieve carbon neutrality in 2016. . During her five years with Quantis, Bande has advised some of the world’s largest companies in the food, cosmetics and apparels sectors, helping them define science-based targets, insetting initiatives and carbon pricing approaches. Jesse Klein. Jennifer Ballen, 28 .

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Mr. Sustainability

MARCH 4, 2021

An interview about the future of fossil fuels with Daniel Yergin, combined with perspectives from Mr. Sustainability At the start of 2021, an interview with Daniel Yergin appeared in the Financieel Dagblad. His latest book The New Map comes just when the industry is turned upside down. 3) Seems like a lovely cat.

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Mr. Sustainability

MARCH 4, 2021

An interview about the future of fossil fuels with Daniel Yergin, combined with perspectives from Mr. Sustainability At the start of 2021, an interview with Daniel Yergin appeared in the Financieel Dagblad. His latest book The New Map comes just when the industry is turned upside down. 3) Seems like a lovely cat.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Editor’s Note: This is the first article in a new column, Gaslit , which will navigate society’s dysfunctional relationship with fossil fuel disinformation. When you make a fortune producing fossil fuels and you don’t wanna give it up, you will spend a lot of money to be able to do that. Carbon footprint.

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Andrew Winston

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Building New Renewables Is Cheaper Than Burning Fossil Fuels… here. Alibaba Group Announces Carbon Neutrality Goal by 2030… here. Maersk Seeks $150-a-Ton Carbon Tax on Shipping Fuel… here. Simon & Schuster Cancels Plans for Senator Hawley’s Book… here. million U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

The fossil fuels industries still receive various subsidies and incentives. “As we debate long-term solutions, now is not the time to abandon the single most successful policy on the books to deploy clean energy in the near-term.” residents show support for immediate action on the crisis.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

“They’ve done their best to try to prop up fossil fuels, but it hasn’t really come [at] the detriment of renewables.” Meanwhile, the federal government’s carbon-reduction policy abdication has been counteracted by state-level action. But there may be lower-cost alternatives.

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