Greentown Labs

MARCH 21, 2023

Eighteen startups joined our community in the first months of 2023, working on innovations as diverse as an ammonia-based energy system, sneakers made from food waste, and nano-filters that reduce energy consumption in chemical separations. This system has 5x higher system-level energy densities compared to lithium batteries.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

20 C-suite sustainability champions for 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. Elsa Wenzel. Mon, 01/11/2021 - 02:15.

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 5, 2024

🚗 Vertical: Transportation and Energy investment declined, but remained on top. Redwood Materials received a $2bn loan from the US Department of Energy in Feb 2023. Ascend Elements received a $480m grant from the US Department of Energy in Oct 2022. 2 spot behind Energy Storage, which rose from no.2 2 to to no.1.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Since then, leading industry associations and agrochemical companies have used their lobbying might to push back against core European measures aiming to lead the transition to a more sustainable way of farming. Read more about the industry’s climate lobbying at DeSmog’s agribusiness database. Meet the Industry Trade Groups.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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GreenTech Gazette

AUGUST 21, 2020

Sustainability is big business! It seems as though companies of all shapes and sizes are tripping over themselves trying to show conscientious consumers that they have a strong ethical focus and their sights set on sustainability. Two square meters of these panels can potentially absorb as much CO2 as a mature tree.

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Business Green

JUNE 22, 2020

"Given the limited impact that the severity of the lockdown has had on global emissions, it is clearer than ever that we need a fair, inclusive, and sustainable transition towards climate targets. We need a green recovery which supports jobs, supply chain companies and energy communities.".

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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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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. They had figured it out — but what they figured out had nothing to do with hydrogen. Shaun Meehan was burned out.

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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. Here, BusinessGreen rounds up all of the reaction from the green economy.

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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 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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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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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.

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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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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. Growth investors already picked their horses: Investors made their biggest bets in 2021 and 2022. TPG Rise Climate.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 25, 2024

In our quest to lead more sustainable lives, the sheer volume of information and advice can be overwhelming. Choosing Sustainable Energy Another actionable step towards a greener future involves considering how the energy you use is produced. The Power of Reusables Single-use plastics are a notorious environmental hazard.

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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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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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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021 Elsa Wenzel Mon, 01/11/2021 – 02:15 The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. In 2014, the electrical engineer and MBA became the first woman to lead a U.S.

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Business Green

AUGUST 3, 2021

Deliveries giant announces it is to team up with electric aviation pioneer Eviation to put zero emission planes into service. The fledgling electric aviation sector received another major vote of confidence this week, after DHL Express announced it has placed an order for 12 fully electric cargo planes.

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 8, 2024

  …We hope you didn’t miss our tax credit coverage ;) New year, new IRA guidance on hydrogen, domestic manufacturing, and SAFs.   In deals,   $2.2bn in electric cars, $800m for Octopus’ expansion, and $34m for EVs in India. Verdagy , Electric Hydrogen ).  Antora , Rondo Energy ).

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Business Green

MAY 20, 2022

African green hydrogen plans, new coal-to-clean energy deals, and worsening climate impacts. French and sustainable cuisine in the spotlight during the Games. African countries team up for new green hydrogen initiative. Paris Olympics plans to halve carbon footprint of meals served at the Games.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

But it's vital we don't lose sight of long-term climate and energy challenges and the vital sustainability targets that must solve them. Drax engineers at work within the UK's biggest renewable power plant | Credit: Drax. Biomass wood pellet storage dome and conveyor system, Drax Power Station, North Yorkshire | Credit: Drax.

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Business Green

MAY 10, 2022

The government has today placed a wide-ranging new Energy Bill at the heart of a legislative agenda that it said would prioritise growing and strengthening the economy while helping to "ease the cost of living for families". He added that the legislation "will build on the success of the COP26 Summit in Glasgow last year".

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 12, 2019

To put it into perspective, one cotton t-shirt uses enough drinking water to sustain one human for three years; 2,700 litres. In the constant search for ‘newness’, wardrobes are constantly updated and changed, with clothing becoming as disposable as the packaging it arrives in. The fashion industry is reliant on water. Positive steps.

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

Clean energy for Native American communities. Still others are driving sustainability at nonprofit organizations and consultancies. We’d like to express our appreciation to the World Business Council for Sustainable Business and Net Impact for helping to cast a global net for this year’s nominees. GreenBiz Editors.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

All the top reaction from leading business figures, politicians, campaigners and experts to Kwasi Kwarteng's first major fiscal statement as Chancellor. 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.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

VERGE Energy Conference (VERGE 20) will take place on October 26-30, 2020. This online event can be attended from anywhere, The central theme at VERGE 20 will focus on how energy systems can be decarbonized, decentralized, digitized and democratized. VERGE 20 will be attended by more than 15,000 leaders, it will feature 300+ speakers.

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