Green Market Oracle

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

The first-ever MaRS Impact Week will take place from November 39 - December 4, 2020 and it will tackle some of society's greatest challenges — from smart cities and climate moonshots to ESG investing and creating a fairer version of capitalism. This five day immersive online event is Canada's leading conference.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 16, 2020

This virtual event will take place on October 5th - 9th 2020 1pm - 3pm BST (8am - 10am EDT). As Greta Thunberg declared at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos in January 2020, “Our house is on fire.” Can bold policies save the world? Click here to apply to register as a guest. Limiting global warming to 1.5°C

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Greentown Labs

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Event will bring together climate champions in Boston, Houston, and around the world to celebrate the momentum of the climatetech industry and the energy transition. Focused on empowering the climate technologies of tomorrow, the summit will take place in-person at Greentown’s incubators in Somerville, Mass. Somerville, Mass.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

This major investment will enable BCG to work collaboratively with leading organizations around the world in developing and deploying the most advanced removal approaches, essential to meeting the goals of the Paris Accord.". True to our values and purpose, we have a responsibility to show leadership in this new reality," he said.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 2, 2020

GreenCom is working with Rheinenergie, the energy company serving the German city of Cologne, connecting and managing over 3 megawatts of decentralized energy asset capacity in a 700-apartment smart city district. To register or learn more, click here. The company declined to provide more details on the partnership.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Countries are facing a barrage of appeals from UN leaders to agree an ambitious and pragmatic global deal for nature at the critical COP15 Biodiversity Summit, as the vital talks kicked into action in Montreal yesterday. The UK government this morning published a list of eight priorities it said it would be pushing to deliver at the summit.

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Climate Tech VC

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Subscribe Now 📩 Submit deals, announcements, events & opportunities, or general curiosities for the newsletter at hello@ctvc.co. The news came just as the United Nations was highlighting “first movers and doers” during the Climate Ambition Summit in New York, sparking outrage from many in attendance.

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 28, 2023

In the news this week, $7T for fossil fuel subsidies, the summer brings more tropical storms, and Equinor opens the world’s largest floating wind farm… to power oil drilling. Subscribe Now 📩 Submit deals, announcements, events & opportunities, or general curiosities for the newsletter at hello@ctvc.co.

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2022

At the kick off event for London Climate Action Week, BusinessGreen spoke to Mayor of London Sadiq Khan and event founder Nick Mabey about how regions and cities can drive climate action despite a turbulent political backdrop. But how much power does London actually have to drive the UK's climate agenda?

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Business Green

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Record numbers of delegates from business and finance attended the COP15 Biodiversity Summit, but these actors are not part of official negotiations – so why do they make the trip? In recent years, UN climate summits have become a key fixture in the annual calendar for the CEOs of many large companies.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

It’s easy to forget sometimes, amid their multi-billion pound windfall profits , that some of these firms are modest players in comparison to the state-owned oil companies around the world. trillion market value makes it the most valuable company in the world, logging sales of oil and gas worth hundreds of billions of dollars a year.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Sunak said that from 2025 the rules would be tightened further to make the TCFD guidelines fully mandatory, going beyond the 'comply or explain' approach, and making the UK the first country in the world to make climate risk disclosures obligatory. To do this we must all move faster.

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Climate Tech VC

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Deals of the Week (1/29-2/4) Late-Stage / Growth 🚗 Zum , a Redwood City, CA-based electric school bus developer and service provider, raised $140M in Growth funding from GIC, Climate Investment, Sequoia Capital, and Softbank Vision Fund.   Can’t get enough deals?   Africa’s e-bike journey hits a speed bump. 

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Yet it wasn’t until 1992, with the adoption of the United Nations Framework Convention on Change (UNFCCC) during the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit , that a global movement to inventory GHG emissions, and with that, carbon accounting, began. COP26 brought together 120 world leaders and over 40,000 registered participants.

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GreenBiz

MAY 28, 2020

Developing some of the biggest projects in the world and maximizing the benefits for our communities can provide the resources needed to fund a wave of local infrastructure and community economic development initiatives. This movement one day will be studied in colleges around the world; justice can be done. Showdown at the summit.

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Climate Tech VC

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Subscribe Now 📩 Submit deals, announcements, events & opportunities, or general curiosities for the newsletter at hello@ctvc.co. ⚡ Continuum Industries , a City of Edinburgh, United Kingdom-based energy infrastructure planning platform, raised $10M in Series A funding from Singular and Playfair Capital.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 28, 2020

Developing some of the biggest projects in the world and maximizing the benefits for our communities can provide the resources needed to fund a wave of local infrastructure and community economic development initiatives. This movement one day will be studied in colleges around the world; justice can be done. But it was heard.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 28, 2020

Developing some of the biggest projects in the world and maximizing the benefits for our communities can provide the resources needed to fund a wave of local infrastructure and community economic development initiatives. This movement one day will be studied in colleges around the world; justice can be done. But it was heard.

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Climate Tech VC

MARCH 11, 2024

It’s a Scope 1, 2 material world Last Wednesday, the SEC voted to approve the requirement for public companies to disclose material scope 1 and 2 information, though notably omitting scope 3 disclosures. ⚡ DevEngine , a New York City, NY-based clean energy project development platform, raised $20m from Spring Lane Capital.

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Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 30, 2020

Greta Thunberg may be the the world's most famous activist but she is quick to shine the spotlight on the thousands of other activists around the world. More than a quarter century ago a 12-year-old by the name of Severn Cullis-Suzuki spoke at the plenary session of the Rio Earth Summit. and the Vatican.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 10, 2021

European tree-planting, US clean energy procurement plans, and the rest of the green business news from around the world this week. Associations, NGOs and cities can all report their trees. MapMyTree initiative aims to help European Commission track tree-planting progress. We now have a map, and a new counter to check the progress.

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