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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Greentown Labs

JANUARY 24, 2023

Greentown Go alum BlakBear , which provides package-level food freshness visibility, raised a £2.3M Aeromine Technologies received an investment and endorsement from AEC Angels , an investment platform focused on architecture, engineering, and construction technologies. Aja Labs raised a $2.5M seed round.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 27, 2022

If they can invest in the most energy efficient equipment, avoid unplanned downtime with proactive preventive maintenance, optimise operational performance, review the power demands of production processes, this effective energy management and monitoring strategy will help to reduce energy bills. and so is the opportunity to save money.

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Elemental Excelerator

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Elemental Excelerator, a leading nonprofit investor in climate technology for deep community impact, introduced its latest cohort, bringing its total amount of investments to $79M. These 15 climate companies will join an existing portfolio of more than 150 investments. invested in Cohort 12, $7.2M Of the $12.5M

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Business Green

MAY 27, 2021

BEIS announces fresh funding support for three low carbon heat districts and 11 projects geared at decarbonising heating and cooling. will go towards 11 innovative projects that are exploring different ways the UK can develop and use efficient, low-carbon technologies for heating and cooling buildings. A further £14.6m

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Agriculture, raw materials processing, brewing operations, packaging, logistics, and cooling are highlighted in the guide as "brewery emission hot spots" that need to be tackled if the sector to align with climate goals.

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Business Green

JULY 13, 2020

Around £30m of the new funding will support the development of three AMR projects: Tokamak Energy in Oxfordshire, which is focused on developing fusion reactors; Westinghouse in Lancashire, which is working to design a lead-cooled fission reactor; and U-Battery in Cheshire, which is seeking to develop a small gas-cooled fission reactor.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

OCTOBER 6, 2022

As a Senior Venture Associate at Plug and Play Tech Center in the Sustainability and New Materials & Packaging verticals, can you give us an example of the types of challenges you’re facing in those areas on a typical day? The most difficult part about my job is the stage at which we invest.

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Charged

JUNE 5, 2020

Recent studies have found that the return on investment for electric Classes 3-6 trucks in urban settings makes them an ideal option for sustainable freight hauls in the less-than-100-mile range.”.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 7, 2023

The programme offers successful applicants packages of support to drive the commercialisation of energy products and services. Delivered by the University of Birmingham in partnership with Energy Systems Catapult, the Innovator Challenge has been designed for SME innovators working on low carbon energy solutions.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

At the site where four huge cooling towers once belched coal fumes into the air on the edge of the Midlands town of Rugeley, plans are underway to build 2,300 low carbon homes and a net zero carbon school, in a scheme that hopes to provide a new standard for smart, sustainable, and community-centric development in the UK.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Packaging giant Tetra Pak this week announced that it has co-invested over €11.5m with recyclers and industry players in recent months, to help set up four completely new recycling solutions for carton packages in Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Ukraine, and Australia. Tetra Pak announces global recycling capacity push.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 1, 2021

Move away from over packaged bathroom-toiletries and work with local vendors to reuse packaging. Hotel energy demands can be mitigated in a number of ways such as: Investing in energy efficient appliances like ENERGY STAR-rated heating and cooling systems. Implement Eco-Friendly Practices and Use Eco-Friendly Products.

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Business Green

AUGUST 4, 2020

In Europe, it will work with Berlin-based climate tech start-up Planetly to guide investment in climate protection projects around the world in a move that is expected to see it offset over 40,000 metric tonnes of carbon for 2020. We are currently prioritising mitigating the emissions that we directly produce," he said.

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Green Business Bureau

MAY 12, 2022

Are there opportunities to improve energy efficiency and upgrade lighting, insulation, heating and cooling? Products & Packaging – Do our products use sustainably sourced and eco-friendly materials? Is our packaging also safe for people and the planet? PRODUCTS and PACKAGING CHECKLIST. ceiling fan).

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Business Green

MAY 22, 2022

The investment is expected to save an estimated average of £650m of public organisations and taxpayers' money per year on energy bills over the next 15 years. The projected return on investment on many of the projects has shortened significantly as a result of the soaring energy prices experienced in the past six months.

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Business Green

MARCH 12, 2020

The influential analyst firm today released fresh projections looking at the likely effects of Covid-19 - which was officially declared a global pandemic by the World Health Organisation this week - on markets for renewable electricity, EVs, heating, cooling, and the circular economy. We have an important window of opportunity," Birol said.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 23, 2020

Some companies might install energy-efficient lighting and allow their employees to have flexible schedules, while others might invest in sustainable sourcing of materials and a cleaner production process. One way businesses can reduce their environmental footprint is by using biodegradable packaging that can be recycled and composted.

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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The investment covers 40% of the Texas facility’s $1.3B project cost and is one of the largest DAC investments to date.    🏭 Brickeye , a Toronto, Canada-based digital IoT platform for construction sensors, raised $10M from BDC Capital GreenSky Ventures, Brightspark, EDC, and MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund. 

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Maintain efficient heat exchangers According to the Energy Efficiency Movement, heat exchangers, used widely in building heating and air conditioning, refrigeration, and data centre and fuel cell cooling, are rarely maintained adequately. This lack of maintenance, according to the report, could account for up to 2.5%

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 18, 2023

❄️ Macro market cools climate tech venture. Climate tech venture capital dropped 40% in H1’23 but climate-focused funds have still been steadily stacking the green, with at least $33B of investable dry powder ready to deploy in climate tech startups.

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Green Business Bureau

JUNE 27, 2022

Instead of course, the sustainability scorecard might list functional areas for both environmental (energy, waste, recycling, buildings, packaging, supply chain, food) and social responsibility (diversity, inclusion, gender equality, worker wellbeing, fair wages, community support, and charity contributions).

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 15, 2021

This includes reducing paper use, installing LED lighting, properly recycling office materials, and investing in energy-efficient office appliances. 7) Invest in energy-efficient appliances. Ask your supermarket manager if they will look to carrying fewer products packaged in plastic. – Green Business Bureau.

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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

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The government said the facility had "strategic importance" given its role producing fuel for the current UK advanced gas cooled reactor fleet. Our £25m government funding to develop this technology will help unlock private investment and generate new green jobs - all while cutting carbon emissions.".

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Business Green

JULY 29, 2021

As part of a call for evidence launched today today, the government said it was looking to explore High Temperature Gas Reactors (HTGRs) as "the most promising model" for the AMR demonstrator programme, in which it is ploughing £170m investment towards to deliver the first facilities by the early 2030s.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 6, 2021

And to keep all your hard working employees comfortable while they conquer the day’s to-do’s, you can invest in an Energy Star certified smart thermostat. Bic has partnered with TerraCycle, however, to offer a Stationary Recycling Program that accepts all brands of empty writing instruments, glue sticks, and flexible packaging.

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Business Green

JULY 12, 2022

The FT reported that Chancellor Rishi Sunak, who had thought to be broadly in favour of the proposal, had cooled on the idea in recent weeks, following warnings from energy companies that such a move could lead to reduced investment in new clean energy infrastructure.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 26, 2019

trillion in new investments in clean energy, as defined by Bloomberg New Energy Finance, in the past decade. Traditional cost-of-service regulation favors utility capital investment in long-lived assets rather than rewarding utilities for performance against desired policy objectives. DER integration and investments in a modern grid.

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Business Green

MARCH 16, 2023

Together with investment from the Green Investment Bank, the UK created a pipeline of projects making investment in renewable energy supply chain companies attractive, for instance the Siemens Gamesa blade factory in Hull. This is cooling down private investment, and risks delaying other reforms we urgently need.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Jarod Brames, Director of Sustainability for OFS says, “By prioritizing sustainability initiatives, we’re investing in our future. The company also places an earth-friendly focus on packaging, using biodegradable foam that keeps furniture safe during shipping, yet reduces to 5% of its size once the unpacking is complete.

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Business Green

AUGUST 3, 2020

This is because, as the Keeping Us Competitive report which WWF published recently with Vivid Economics showed, investing in reaching net zero can be very good for our economy. Green investment gives returns of between £3 and £8 for every £1 invested. Decarbonised heating and cooling add another 7,000.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The power supplied by the new agreements is expected to reduce Dow's Scope 2 emissions (which cover indirect emissions from the generation of purchased electricity, steam, heating and cooling) by more than 600,000 metric tons of CO2 per year. It's fair to say that plastic packaging has a perception challenge.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Fleets are often the workhorses that toil behind the scenes: the garbage trucks that pick up your trash before dawn; the long-haul semi-trucks that move goods from the port; the bucket trucks that utilities use to fix power lines and keep your lights on; the delivery vans that drop off your packages and help you stay safe inside your homes.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

A sustainability agenda will guide investment decisions at a portfolio level. In 2018, over half of the global asset owners were currently implementing or evaluating sustainability in their investment strategy. The more granular your sustainability baseline, the easier it will be to identify green investment opportunities.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Policy and investment to boost domestic manufacturing and skills training are urgently required to support the heat pump rollout, explains Dr Richard Lowes from the Regulatory Assistance Project. With the global market for heat pumps set to rapidly expand, investment opportunities for heat pump manufacturing are clear.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Using AI, we can build cooling systems that work in harmony with green power generation – with the same benefits for water pumps in fields, hot water heaters, air conditioning and electric vehicles. Through the deployment of smart electric grids, we can reduce carbon emissions from the utility industry by 25%.

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