Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 5, 2024

We've been meticulously tracking climate tech investment, deal by deal, since the term ‘climate tech’ emerged. In 2023, a challenging macro environment marked by higher interest rates and a cautious private investment market raised the hurdles for deployment.

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Business Green

MAY 23, 2021

Government says latest cash boost for carbon capture and hydrogen projects should help support up to 60,000 jobs. spending plan designed to accelerate the roll out of green technologies across the UK's energy-intensive industries, predicting the latest phase of its Green Industrial Revolution will help create up to 60,000 jobs.

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Business Green

MARCH 16, 2021

The announcement of the policy package is part of a new Industrial Decarbonisation Strategy that will be published later today, the government revealed. He added that achieving the UK's net zero ambition and shorter term pledge to slash emissions by 68 per cent by 2030 against 1990 levels would require major transformation of its economy.

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Business Green

JULY 21, 2020

PM marks first year in Number 10 with support for raft of CCS, hydrogen, green construction, space and transport projects. The space funding programme is also aimed at supporting innovative AI technologies and 5G communications.

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Business Green

AUGUST 15, 2022

Liz Truss, Rishi Sunak and Downing Street face mounting pressure to ramp up support for energy efficiency and billpayers as autumn draws nearer. Britain's cost of living crisis is getting worse, leaving people scared about how they'll get through the winter," said Starmer.

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Business Green

JULY 22, 2020

As MEPs enter talks over EU Council's €1.8tr recovery package and budget deal, many key green questions remain. Of the overall €1.8tr package encompassing the recovery funding and the 2021-27 budget, EU leaders agreed that 30 per cent should be earmarked for the bloc's climate objectives and transition to net zero.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The government has today promised to accelerate the roll out of low cost renewable projects by shifting the timetable for clean power contract auctions from once every two years to every year. The more clean, cheap and secure power we generate at home, the less exposed we will be to expensive gas prices set by international markets.".

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Business Green

MARCH 16, 2021

The announcement of the policy package is part of a new Industrial Decarbonisation Strategy that will be published later today, the government revealed. He added that achieving the UK's net zero ambition and shorter term pledge to slash emissions by 68 per cent by 2030 against 1990 levels would require major transformation of its economy.

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Business Green

JUNE 28, 2020

International post-crisis stimulus spending is likely to dwarf existing spending on climate change and strategies that deliver new carbon-intensive energy, transport, and industrial infrastructure projects would prove a "historic mistake", they warned.

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Climate Tech VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

  KoBold Metals discovered a major copper deposit, which could be the start to solving growing supply and demand imbalances brought on by copper’s fundamental role in the energy transition.    In deals, geologic hydrogen digs up $245m, $181m across six EV deals, and Brookfield’s $10bn climate transition fund.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 8, 2022

million) 2022 Open Innovation Programme aims to develop and deploy net-zero technologies to accelerate clean energy production and reduce offshore emissions. The competition is hosted by the Net Zero Technology Centre, which aims to develop and deploy technology to accelerate an affordable net-zero energy industry. containment c.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 18, 2023

for grid enhancements and $7B for hydrogen fuel hubs. Since the IRA passed, 265 clean energy and manufacturing projects worth $100B+ have been announced. 🏦 The Loans Program Office kept busy. Proterra, the dominant electric bus maker, was just one high profile example. 💪 Climate joined the labor movement.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Annual Monitoring Report adds to calls for government to deliver clearer delivery plans and more stable funding settlements for critical net zero infrastructure. However, it warns that the "the next step is for government to set out clear plans to deliver these goals".

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Business Green

MARCH 24, 2021

But Ministers insist end to financial support for overseas fossil fuel energy projects, £16bn transition plan for North Sea, and climate compatibility test for new projects can put UK on track to net zero emissions.

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Business Green

JULY 25, 2022

Galvanising business investment behind the UK's climate goals should be a top priority for the new Prime Minister, argues the CBI's Tom Thackray. And with the wide-ranging disruption caused by our recent summer heatwave fresh in their minds, businesses will be looking for a bold and ambitious agenda to emerge.

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Business Green

APRIL 19, 2021

Political and business leaders have certainly talked a good game in the wake of the coronavirus crisis. This morning sees the publication of the International Energy Agency's (IEA) influential Global Energy Review 2021 and it makes for sobering reading. Global carbon emissions are set to jump by 1.5

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JANUARY 18, 2021

Momentum envisions a world where clean energy, water, and transportation are abundant, affordable, and available to all. Momentum designs, develops, and deploys innovation campaigns for organizations working on transformative water, energy, transportation, and manufacturing technologies. About Momentum. About the Role.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 29, 2022

In this edition of Smart Energy Finance (SEF) Weekly, the US Senate is set to pass a new clean energy bill that boasts $369 billion into clean energy and energy security. 369 billion into US energy security and clean energy programmes. 369 billion into US energy security and clean energy programmes.

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Grist

MAY 18, 2021

It had been about a year and a half since he left his job at an aerospace company to found a clean energy startup in San Francisco with three of his friends, but the path to success he’d once envisioned had crumbled. I was just like, ‘I don’t know if I would invest in Charm,’” he recalls telling their investor that day. “I

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Business Green

MARCH 15, 2023

But players across the green economy were quick to point out the government's package of policies and tax changes was notably bereft of focus on three other critical 'E's that are planks of a prosperous economy: environment, energy, and efficiency. We need an industrial strategy that removes barriers to investment.

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Climate Tech VC

JULY 7, 2023

AtmosZero is focused on replacing the gas boilers that create the steam to power industry. I ended up publishing an article in Joule in early 2021 on this with Greg Thiel , director of technology at Energy Impact Partners, essentially saying: to decarbonize industry, we need to decarbonize heat first. Second dead-end is hydrogen.

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Business Green

JULY 6, 2022

And it has been at pains to insist that the move away from polluting energy, products, and services towards cleaner alternatives will avoid the mass unemployment prompted by poorly managed industrial transitions of the recent past. But the LCREE survey provides a somewhat patchy snapshot of green jobs in the UK.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

To identify the powerful actors most actively lobbying against these key EU regulations and policies, DeSmog analysed corporate reports, lobbying records, official position papers, responses to public EU consultations, media events, and meetings held with various EU bodies over the past two years. Meet the Industry Trade Groups.

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GreenTech Gazette

AUGUST 21, 2020

Sustainability is big business! But how much of this is investment in green innovation, and how much of it is marketing bluster. But which are the companies putting the effort in, and which are simply making a few strategic changes to their packaging? Image by Geralt via Pixabay. Clean Air / One Tree Planted. McDonald’s .

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Grist

OCTOBER 1, 2022

But as promising as chemical recycling and next-generation plastics may sound, experts also say some of the most realistic solutions to plastic pollution involve eliminating it from packaging as much as possible. Should packaging all be the same color of plastic to avoid dye-based contamination in recycling processes?

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Business Green

JUNE 22, 2020

We need a green recovery which supports jobs, supply chain companies and energy communities.". For example, the decommissioning of older offshore rigs, progressive reductions in flaring and venting, and major capital investment programmes to use electricity rather than gas to power offshore facilities are all highlighted.

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2021

Businesses that advertise in the UK have had to comply with rules around environmental claims for decades, and it is now more than 13 years since the advertising watchdog ordered Shell to pull an ad that used flowers floating from refinery chimneys to promote a carbon capture and utilisation project.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

These 20 C-suite executives have steered their companies forward through much disruption, providing inspiration for the possibilities of advancing sustainability, social responsibility and circular business models — sometimes all at once. In 2014, the electrical engineer and MBA became the first woman to lead a U.S.

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Business Green

MARCH 4, 2021

Would Rishi Sunak deliver the sweeping net zero financial plan and green stimulus measures that businesses, campaigners, economists, and scientists broadly agree are urgently needed to meet statutory climate goals? Ahead of yesterday's Budget, anticipation was high. If we want a better future economy, we have to make it happen," he said.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2020

In the latest addition to its 'green recovery' package, the European Commission yesterday unveiled a flurry of crucial green strategies, targets, and policies, ranging from new green building and renewable energy programmes, to tighter rules governing chemical use and methane emissions.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The agency said the strategy represened an unprecedented effort to drastically slash pollution and accelerate the transition to clean energy. "No While big polluters focus on increasing their profits at our expense, California is protecting communities, creating jobs and accelerating our transition to clean energy.".

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Climate Tech VC

JUNE 30, 2023

In fact, late-stage and growth investments in climate tech saw a greater dropoff than the market as a whole, potentially exacerbated by the relative capital-intensity of the physical asset climate tech businesses. Quarterly investment totals dropped to $6.6B in Q1’23 and Q2’23, respectively.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 14, 2023

Entrants in the final furlong include an on-demand clothing manufacturing technology that eliminates 20 billion unsold garments each year, 100% compostable protective packaging that replaces single use plastic, and an Oxford University spin-out that changes the way valuable metallic resources are mined, refined, recycled, and processed.

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Elemental Excelerator

AUGUST 12, 2022

In addition to celebrating the bill’s clean energy cost-cutting measures and job-creating potential, we are providing a few additional considerations and themes that are relevant to our portfolio and systems change work. This is the largest climate funding package Congress has ever passed. Allume Energy , Transcend ).

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

utilities such as Duke Energy , Dominion Energy , Southern Company and Xcel Energy. Each still plans to build new natural gas power plants in the near term, despite the additional emissions they will cause. electric grid relies on fossil fuels for 63 percent of its generation, and according to the U.S.

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Business Green

MARCH 16, 2022

Energy security and net zero requires a rethink of the way energy consumed and used. But what policies do experts think shuold feature to the government’s upcoming Energy Security Strategy and Spring Statement? It was a glaring omission.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 25, 2024

Choosing Sustainable Energy Another actionable step towards a greener future involves considering how the energy you use is produced. You can explore providers that use renewable sources, such as wind or solar power, on the Choose Energy platform. It also promotes local economies and can lead to less packaging waste.

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