Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The first few days of COP have ushered in a wave of major announcements and funding pledges. Countries and companies have also kicked off pledges to triple investments in renewables and nuclear, drive down methane emissions, and commit loss and damage funds. sustainable infra fund. . in climate commitments. Chairman controversy.

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Elemental Excelerator

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

This Conference of Parties (COP) was highly anticipated as a critical inflection point where our economies and societies set forth on an ambitious and clearly defined path to decarbonize by 2050 and keep warming below 1.5 There are a variety of different sources of methane emissions and many solutions will be needed to curb those emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Farming will be front and centre at this year’s COP. Animal agriculture is the largest emitter of methane, a greenhouse gas 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide when measured over a 20 year period. Scientists say that unless swift action is taken, methane from agriculture alone will take us beyond a 1.5C

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

We’re going into a COP where this is going to be a big topic, and we don’t really have a definition for it.” Generally speaking, “abatement” technologies are solutions that reduce, or abate, carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from industrial processes, such as carbon capture and storage (CCS). Credit: Matt Hrkac , CC BY 2.0

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The IKEA Foundation has today announced plans to deploy an additional €600m of funding in climate-related projects, as it unveiled a new study detailing how philanthropic institutions can maximise carbon savings through their activities.

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Clean Energy Canada

DECEMBER 20, 2023

This is the first COP where participants found themselves face-to-face with the reality of breaching the 1.5 For Canada to be competitive in the future global economy, it must invest in industries that will be growing in the coming years, which it has been and is set to continue doing.

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Planet Pulse

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Carbon Mapper satellite rendering @ 2021, Planet Labs, Inc. But of course, those old-growth forests are not just some valueless raw material or natural resource, but home to countless Indigenous peoples, vast biodiversity, and the living machinery that not only stores carbon we emit but also helps make breathing on this planet possible.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2021

It would require investment in fossil fuel infrastructure at the time when that system will be winding down - possibly leaving stranded assets behind. It's simply not tenable for the UK to promote shale gas, particularly given the rising international concern over methane leakage. On track to net zero.

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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Today at COP26, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development announced the Banking for Impact on Climate in Agriculture (B4ICA) initiative in partnership with EDF, the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative and the Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

From Loss and Damage and just transitions to rows over fossil fuel phase outs and carbon markets, we take a look at some of the key lessons for businesses from COP27. From Loss and Damage and just transitions to rows over fossil fuel phase outs and carbon markets, we take a look at some of the key lessons for businesses from COP27.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Put a price on carbon. I also want particularly to thank COP President Alok Sharma who has worked incredibly hard to bring countries together. Despite the Covid-19 crisis, we have accelerated action, the COP has responded to the IPCC's call to close the gap towards 1.5, Phase out coal. and coal is in the text.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Despite the tense, last-minute drama, the Glasgow Climate Pact sends a very clear investment signal to businesses and financial institutions, argues Nick Molho from the Aldersgate Group. This is understandable, but it should not detract from the very clear signals that the business and investment community have been sent at COP26.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The climate crisis may have stayed near the top of the political and corporate agenda, net zero commitments have come thick and fast, and renewable and electric vehicle investment may have toppled records, but there is barely a country on the planet on track to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement. pathway by 2030.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

What is carbon accounting? Carbon accounting – also known as a carbon or greenhouse gas inventory – is the process of measuring the amount of carbon dioxide, or other greenhouse gases (GHG), an organization emits. Carbon accounting is a must for any becoming business today.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Glasgow moved us a step closer to this goal, with almost 200 countries pledging to “phase down” unabated coal power in the final text (“unabated” refers to coal power without carbon capture and storage). Firstly, improving disclosures so that investors have a better understanding of the climate risks or opportunities of their investments.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

The UK remains COP President until next November, when it will hand the baton over to Egypt, which is set host the COP27 Summit at the Red Sea beach resort of Sharm-el Sheikh. Indeed, there is no shortage of world-changing points of action for Sharma's COP team to be getting on with over the coming months.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

The wording prompted some observers to speculate "low-emission" energy could be interpreted as including unabated gas power, but others argued it was a reference to nuclear and carbon capture and storage projects. This COP caused deep frustrations but it wasn't for nothing," she said. "It warming target.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

The previous timetable for updating NDCs would have meant they would only have been improved once or maybe twice before the available carbon budget for 1.5C From tackling deforestation to curbing methane emissions, the various multilateral commitments are focused on areas where they can have real impact. trajectory. is barely alive.

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EDF + Business

JANUARY 12, 2022

That’s at risk of happening now as major asset managers have remained silent on a proposed new Environmental Protection Agency rule requiring oil and gas producers to cut their methane emissions. The EPA comment period for the proposed methane regulations lasts until Jan. Methane regulation: Low-hanging fruit on the path to net-zero.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

But this potential problem has to be set against the fact that the global carbon budget is being burnt through so quickly that the world may have had just one more cycle of improved NDCs to be submitted in 2025 before 1.5C Future COPs will re-open this debate and seek to extend it to gas and oil. would be truly dead and buried.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

It is highly likely the row over phasing down or phasing out coal power will return in the coming years and the debate at future COPs will no doubt be extended to address oil and gas. Rules on carbon markets finally wrapped. Polluters have been put on notice. temperature target stands tall.

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Business Green

JANUARY 26, 2023

The IPR, which was founded by the UN-affiliate investor group the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), highlighted a raft of significant new climate policy announcements and investment plans from major Western economies in the past three months.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Given all of the above, all of us invested in the renewables industry hoped for decisive and revolutionary action from the UK’s congress. Both nations have agreed to take steps to reduce methane emissions, to make greater efforts to de-carbonize and to actively transition to clean energy. A betrayal? gap is closed”.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Speaking earlier, Johnson acknowledged that while there had been a flurry of "game-changing announcements" on methane, deforestation and finance last week, the Summit was now "firmly in the hard yards of international diplomacy", adding that "with a few days left there is still a huge amount to do".

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Without deep carbon pollution cuts now, the 1.5-degree By 2030, solar and wind capacity should quadruple and renewable energy investments should triple to maintain a net zero trajectory by mid-century. The climate crisis poses enormous financial risk to investment managers, asset owners, and businesses.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 29, 2021

At the same time, negotiating teams will be wrangling with outstanding technical issues in the Paris Agreement rule book around carbon markets, transparency, common timeframes, loss and damage, and climate finance. Its stated aim is to collectively slash methane emissions across all sectors by 30 per cent between 2020 and 2030.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Moreover, it specifically urges nations to halt "inefficient" coal subsidies as soon as possible, and stop investing in unabated coal projects both at home and abroad, in addition to setting an end date for domestic coal power altogether. — Nick Mabey (@Mabeytweet) November 2, 2021.

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R-Squared Energy

DECEMBER 27, 2023

COP president Sultan Al-Jaber, head of the UAE’s state oil company, faced accusations of using his position to promote fossil fuels. ” Given the relatively low and localized supply of baby kangaroos — as well as Australia’s tiny contribution to global carbon emissions — I don’t think this one makes the cut.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

From President Biden to methane pledges, BusinessGreen explores the biggest developments on the fifth full day of the pivotal climate talks in Sharm EL Sheikh. His] ambitious actions at home now need to be matched by equally robust investments to advance climate action abroad.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2021

of warming, while this week's report from the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) group suggests now 'inevitable' policies could keep temperature increases below 2C. alive," reflects Glen Peters, research director at the Center for International Climate Research in Oslo, who tracks global carbon trends. "In goal within grasp.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 22, 2023

It’s a toss up from our oracles if the carbon market will fall, but all agree that losing the lower quality offsets can only be good for its health. This is one of the best times to be investing in this sector I’ve ever seen.   The overhang of committed venture dollars will also create pressure to invest.

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