Climate Tech VC

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

That's why we’ve tapped Elemental Excelerator ’s expertise and experience to unravel the complexities of accessing non-dilutive government funding (in the US). We’ll walk you through the essential steps to prep your climate tech startup for the competitive government grant process. Total funding: $1.2T

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 18, 2021

With new federal bills up for review and debate, and packaging being a bull’s eye, the status of packaging and recycling policy is in flux. But all the work must be underpinned by strong, smart policy,” de Thomas said. Mars, maker of candies and food, has diverse packaging needs. Missed Circularity 21?

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Business Green

JANUARY 26, 2021

WWF calls on government to set legally-binding target to eradicate both legal and illegal deforestation from UK supply chains. Our poll shows an overwhelming majority of people in the UK want to stop the things they buy and the food they eat from causing deforestation overseas, and the UK government has a duty to respond.".

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Business Green

JANUARY 30, 2023

Specifically, the plan commits the government to creating and restoring at least 500,000 hectares of wildlife habitat, through 70 new projects including 25 new or expanded National Nature Reserves. As such the response to the new plan welcomed the new ambitions, but also questioned whether the government will now deliver on its goals.

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Energy Innovation

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

By Olivia Ashmoore This week, Energy Innovation Policy & Technology LLC® and RMI published 48 state Energy Policy Simulator (EPS) models. The free, open-source, peer-reviewed, and nonpartisan EPS model empowers users to analyze the effects of hundreds of climate policies. climate goals. With the release of the U.S.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Plans to lift ban on fracking and curtain legacy EU environmental laws and regulations announced today risk backlash from some of the government's own MPs. But Business Secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg argued revoking EU law was a necessity now the UK has left the trading bloc.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

MAY 1, 2019

Job Description: The Center for Biological Diversity seeks a full-time Clean Transportation Advocate/ Staff Attorney in our Climate Law Institute to join our bold and progressive campaign to advance the urgently needed transition away from fossil fuel vehicles to zero emissions transportation in California and around the country.

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Business Green

AUGUST 5, 2020

The volume of waste produced in England has remained largely the same for the past five years, presenting fresh questions as to how government, businesses, and households can successfully curb waste levels. However, the picture is more encouraging once the findings are measured in the context of the growth of the economy. per cent and 13.4

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GreenBiz

MARCH 23, 2021

Over the past several decades, public health and environmental concerns have made controlling smog a top national policy goal in China and enforcement an increasingly critical issue for companies to navigate. More than a decade ago, national policies laid the groundwork for reducing air emissions in China. Air emission reform in China.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

MAY 1, 2019

Job Description: The Center for Biological Diversity seeks a full-time Clean Transportation Advocate/ Staff Attorney in our Climate Law Institute to join our bold and progressive campaign to advance the urgently needed transition away from fossil fuel vehicles to zero emissions transportation in California and around the country.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act signed into law today not only makes critical investments in our core infrastructure, it creates several new programs to support the increasing electrification of the transportation sector. Funding to state and local governments to procure electric or low emissions ferries.

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Elemental Excelerator

OCTOBER 6, 2023

That’s why we teamed up with Climate Tech VC (CTVC) to unravel the complexities of accessing non-dilutive government funding in the U.S. Here, we’ll walk you through the essential steps to prep your climate technology startup for the competitive government grant process. three climate policy packages since 2021.

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2020

As well as investing directly in shovel-ready green projects, policies mooted in the report include raising taxes on fossil fuels, phasing out new petrol and diesel car sales by 2032, and adding 'green strings' such as green product development goals and climate risk assessment requirements to any company bailouts. Make this a green recovery.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Quite apart from its seemingly frosty reception with global investors, the government’s Growth Plan 2022 policy statement also elicited bafflement from environmental commentators, many of whom seemed dismayed by its apparent “dash for gas”, and volte face on protecting the environment. Realised nationwide, this corresponds to 1.4m

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Business Green

MAY 18, 2021

Defra unveils sweeping package of biodiversity and habitat policies, designed to halt species decline and trigger £500m tree planting programme. In addition, a consultation is set to be published this summer on the government's approach to reintroducing and managing beaver populations more widely across the UK.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2021

The government maintains that it was not required to consider the cumulative climate impacts of the whole strategy, but that it did so anyway and concluded it was consistent with achieving net zero by 2050. Together, these make a balanced package that is entirely consistent with net zero.”.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 2, 2024

Speakers at the meeting included the hardline Dutch organisation Farmers’ Defence Force (FDF), which hit out at EU environmental and trade policy. An event on the MCC Brussels website appears to corroborate this, inviting farmers to attend a protest on January 24 against “the EU’s overzealous green policies” followed by networking drinks.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Rules aimed at preventing companies from importing products into the UK that are linked to illegal deforestation are to be added to the Environment Bill, as part of a package of measures to boost the resilience, traceability, and sustainability of corporate supply chains confirmed by the government today.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

By putting in place the enabling primary legislation that bridges legal gaps, creates new laws, or brings clarity to existing laws. The Act also empowers the UK Government to fund hydrogen though a levy and to set strategic priorities in CCUS though a CCUS Strategy and Policy Statement.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Environmental Audit Committee Chair Philip Dunne talks to BusinessGreen about the need for 'a tax system fit for net zero Britain' and the right time to judge whether the government has delivered on its green recovery promises.

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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

MARCH 23, 2023

There is a high likelihood that states may be involved in litigation, as both defendants and plaintiffs, particularly as civil society activists seek to ensure that national-level policies and action are as ambitious as possible, and as controversies over the type and nature of new energy technologies continue to play out," they said. "It

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Business Green

MARCH 1, 2022

MPs on Parliament's Public Accounts Committee (PAC) have today provided a withering assessment of the government's Net Zero Strategy, claiming the UK still has no clear plan for how the transition is to be funded, nor how much decarbonising the economy could cost consumers and businesses.

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Business Green

MARCH 29, 2023

The latest figures come as the UK was ranked the fifth most attractive European country for EV market potential in the latest Electric Vehicle Country Attractiveness Index from Cornwall Insight and law firm Shoosmiths.

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Business Green

JULY 2, 2020

Global review of climate litigation highlights increasing instances of activists and governments using courts to force climate action from businesses and governments.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

The change will be introduced as an amendment to the EU's climate law. billion ($807 billion) coronavirus recovery package that contains the EU Green Deal, including the condition that 37 percent of the funds will be used to meet green objectives. billion of grants and loans available from its recovery package.

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Business Green

JULY 7, 2020

Ahead of Chancellor's summer update, MPs and business leaders step up calls for government to deliver sweeping green stimulus plan. The past two months have seen a tidal wave of letters, reports, and coalitions setting out the case for the government to prioritise climate action through its imminent economic stimulus package.

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Front And Centered

AUGUST 29, 2022

Overall, climate and environmental justice advocates count somewhere between $17 billion and $44 billion generally heading in the right direction for frontline communities out of a $369 billion energy and environment spending package. The Act also empowers the federal government to negotiate drug prices. Gaping Gaps.

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Business Green

JULY 2, 2021

International group of scientists call for new plastics non-proliferation treaty that binds governments to ambitious target to phase out virgin plastic. Around 47 per cent of all plastic produced is used in packaging, but a further 14 per cent is used in textiles and six per cent in transport.

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Business Green

MARCH 23, 2023

Speaking exclusively to BusinessGreen , the Conservative MP and author of the government-commissioned Net Zero Review, warned there was a "wall of capital" that would be invested outside of the UK if the revamped green policy programme that is expected to be announced by Ministers next week falls short of investors' hopes.

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Business Green

MARCH 27, 2020

Following an EU Council meeting yesterday, heads of governments issued a statement setting out its core priorities for limiting spread of the Covid-19 virus, providing medical equipment and assistance, and tackling the socio-economic consequences of the crisis currently gripping the planet.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

BREAKING: Incoming Prime Minister promises to 'govern as a Conservative', as she pledges to tackle people's soaring bills and long term energy supply concerns. In a short speech, Truss praised Sunak and her predecessor as Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, before promising that her focus would be on "delivery" against her government's plans.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 26, 2020

In 2018, Germany appointed a commission drawn from industry, government and civil society to find a broadly acceptable way to close the nation’s substantial coal mining and power plant infrastructure. There are also compensation packages for workers in mines and power plants who lose their job as a result of the coal exit laws.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 6, 2024

The Packaging Reduction and Recycling Infrastructure Act would dramatically cut the amount and toxicity of plastic garbage New Yorkers throw away by targeting the source. It would reduce plastic packaging in New York by half over the next 12 years, and it would prevent a slew of toxic chemicals from being used in those materials.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Prime Minister Liz Truss has this afternoon resigned after just 44 days in office, following Number 10's chaotic handling of yesterday's Commons vote on the government's controversial plans to lift the moratorium on fracking in the UK. The Conservative Party has shown it no longer has a mandate to govern," he said.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 10, 2022

A 2020 research project led by the Centre for Innovation Management Research (CIMR) at the Birkbeck University of London, investigated the behavior of large-capital companies with respect to Environmental, Social, and Governance ( ESG ). Marketers should not present a product or package as compostable if it’s not. Compostable Claims.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 8, 2020

On Tuesday, Ofgem revealed a total investment package of at least £40 billion ($53.3 The new investment package is part of Ofgem's second Revenue = Incentives + Innovation + Outputs framework (RIIO-2), set to be implemented in April 2021, which will guide transmission network investments from 2021-2026. Last month the U.K.

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