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Alok Sharma: 'Finance and investment are the lifeblood of net zero projects'

Business Green

Business Secretary pushes green finance agenda as he unveils £12m climate fund to support projects Africa, Asia and South America. He said the risks of investing in a net zero future were clear "but actually the opportunities are clearer yet".

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Food waste startup backed by Oprah Winfrey snags $250 million

GreenBiz

The lead backer on the latest round is Singapore's sovereign wealth fund GIC, which explicitly embeds sustainability considerations into its investments. There are also two highly recognizable minority "non-participating" investors: pop star Katy Perry and media queen Oprah Winfrey, who previously invested in Apeel in 2019. . "I

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Group signals new era for wind energy as urgency builds towards COP26 in Glasgow

Envirotec Magazine

We need to be installing wind energy three to four times the current pace, which means we need governments to urgently raise their ambition, simplify red tape, invest in grid and revamp energy markets,” said Ben Backwell, CEO at GWEC. billion tonnes of carbon emissions – equivalent to the annual carbon emissions of South America.

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El Niño could cost the global economy $3 trillion

Grist

The study’s findings, the authors said, point to the need for more global investment in climate resilience and adaptation, particularly in low-income countries that are most vulnerable to the effects of climate change and El Niño. trillion and $5.7 trillion in 2017 dollars, respectively.

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Amazon risks becoming a savannah as deforestation impact grows, study war

Business Green

The Amazon rainforest is becoming less resilient and approaching a potential tipping point which could turn its vital ecosystem into arid savannah, a new report has warned. They found that resilience dropped during the major droughts of 2005 and 2010, as part of an ongoing decline from the early 2000s to the most recent data in 2016.

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After Violent Clashes of 2019, Investors Reassess Chile’s Prospects for Renewable Energy

GreenTechMedia

Chile's unrest threatened to stymie foreign interest in clean power investments that had helped the country's renewables market become one of the hottest in Latin America, with a compound annual growth rate of 31.5 The protests would “only delay some investments," van den Hurk Mir said.

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Smart Energy Finances: Badger acquires smart water solutions & TE Connectivity’s smart grid win

Smart Energy International

We continue to expand our comprehensive digital solutions to operationalise real-time data into actionable insights that improve efficiency, resiliency and sustainability. Other Series B investors are SEB Greentech, DIG Investment (connected to the H&M Persson family) and Gullspång Invest.