Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Deals of the Week (11/20-12/3) Late-Stage / Growth ✈️ ZeroAvia , a Hollister, CA-based hydrogen plane developer, raised $116M in Series C funding from UK Infrastructure Bank, Breakthrough, Airbus, Barclays, and NEOM.

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 28, 2023

And with September fast approaching, that means it’s almost time for conference season - in particular, the annual whirlwind that is New York Climate Week! 🛵 Ilectra Motor Group , a Jakarta, Indonesia-based electric motorbikes developer, raised $50M in Series B funding from Horizons Ventures, Foxconn, and Brama One Ventures.

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Business Green

MARCH 25, 2020

The group has also published a series of tips for people wishing to mark Earth Hour, including drawing from a list of planet-friendly foods for "dinner in the dark, camping in the garden or living room, and trying an indoor scavenger hunt. We are intimately interconnected with nature, whether we like it or not.

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Climate Tech VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

  In other news British banks increase their green ambitions while the opposition Labour party drops theirs. 🥩 Heura Foods , a Barcelona, Spain-based alternative protein developer, raised $43m in Series B funding from ECBF, Newtree Impact, Unovis Asset Management, and Upfield.

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Business Green

MAY 21, 2021

Reports suggest UK poised to offer Australia timeline towards tariff and quota-free trade, despite concerns over impact on British food, farming, and environmental standards. If accurate, this will have a massive impact on British farming - and we are still waiting to hear from government," she added.

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Those tires contained guayule, part of an agrarian prototype effort from Bridgestone, the supplier of spec tires for that series. It’s a high-profile demonstration of a new domestically sourced, renewable source of rubber that augments other natural sources like that from the hevea tree and even the Russian dandelion.

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Grist

JUNE 7, 2023

This is the basis of a five-part series we’ll be running over the coming weeks, focused on reframing our ideas about personal action. We’re starting the series with an area of action that’s about as personal as you can get, and one that’s been on my mind recently.

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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

  Today, we're going DAC to the future. Blackrock makes a half-a-bill bet on Oxy’s DAC plant, Stratos, in a bid to capitalize on IRA’s shiny new credits and put DAC on the fast track.   In other news, project cancellation woes abound with NuScale canceling its first-of-a-kind SMR project.

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Grist

MAY 12, 2020

More in this series. Going about our daily lives, we don’t have much reason to learn about the hidden world that sustains us: where our food comes from, where our energy comes from, and where our waste goes. There are perfectly good reasons why people ignore bad news like this. Article continues below. Fun stuff, right?

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Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2021

This story is part of the series Getting to Zero: Decarbonizing Cascadia , which explores the path to low-carbon energy for British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon. You’ve got plenty of company after the events of 2021: Heat waves, hurricanes, fires, and floods hit new and deadly extremes. Here again, the news is good.

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Business Green

JANUARY 25, 2022

For much of the period between the UK's departure from the EU on 1 January 2021 and the final passage of the Environment Act last Autumn, the OEP existed as an interim body within the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs, where it oversaw the government's environmental action on a non-statutory basis.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 29, 2020

But look for future updates and essays on this topic, such as the one digitally penned recently by Jarami Bond (named in 2017). We cannot forget that a better future is 100 percent in our hands, because WE, and only WE, have the power and the resources to make better decisions, to be more conscious. Willemijn Brouwer (2018).

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Low Impact

MAY 30, 2021

I’m doing a series of interviews with people for an upcoming book on building a new economy around a mutual credit core. It’s also a constant flow of terrible news, so even if you believe it, it’s so global and all-encompassing, it makes people feel powerless. But it’s the base of the food chain, that everything else depends on.

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Business Green

JULY 2, 2021

Global heating is the biggest emergency the planet has ever faced, but one would not know it reading or listening to the news. broadcast news coverage. This information-based approach has shaped all sorts of communication, from public safety ads on drinking and driving to news reporting about climate and other important issues.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 14, 2023

The BBC has been accused of “selling the public’s trust” by producing “totally biased” documentaries on the future of sustainable food sponsored by Corteva, one of the world’s largest pesticide firms, potentially in breach of the broadcaster’s editorial guidelines. Over 65 million people watched the first two series of Follow the Food.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

European Livestock Voice says on X (formerly Twitter) that it faces “sensationalist” and “misleading” accusations from critics, claiming it wants only to bring some “balance” to the debate on the future of livestock. “We

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

This story was co-published with Native News Online. By suppressing other plants, fires helped the chestnut trees spread, and the nuts became staples of Indigenous diets — a reliable source of nutrition that people stored in earthen silos or pounded into flour for chestnut bread and other foods. When Neil Patterson Jr.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Lindsay Keenan, European coordinator of campign group Insure Our Future, said: "European insurers are starting to recognise they need to stop supporting all fossil fuel expansion, including oil and gas. Member states are now expected to approve the new rules late this month. Plans for world's largest green hydrogen hub advance.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

The UK's expert advisors on climate, infrastructure, and flood insurance have jointly called on the government to urgently "make a clear statement of ambition" to enhance the UK's resilience to flooding and climate change, following a series of devastating flood events in recent weeks.

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Business Green

JANUARY 15, 2021

Plus Danish diets, China climate policy signals, and all the top green business news from around the world this week. Danish citizens are being encouraged to shift towards more climate-friendly food and drink under official dietary advice issued by the government earlier this month. 90 per cent of people breathe polluted air.".

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AFN Sustainable Protein

AUGUST 29, 2019

And it’s a pretty hot question to fire up AFN’s new “Table Talk” series when across the table this time is a veteran food industry egg-spert like David Wagstaff. The supermarket chain Target also severed ties with the brand over allegations of food safety concerns. Burger King Europe is also interested!”.

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Business Green

MAY 16, 2022

The forces driving us towards a clean future are building and it is increasingly clear that net zero means security, net zero means prosperity, and net zero means preventing the problems of the present from growing inexorably, because many of the challenges we face today would intensify as global temperatures rise," he said.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 14, 2021

"Innovation is critical to meeting the challenge and the good news is that climate tech investment is up significantly across the board," said Emma Cox, global climate leader at PwC. Yet these technology areas are estimated to be responsible for 80 per cent of future emissions reduction potential, it said.

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Elemental Excelerator

MARCH 15, 2022

How can we identify new ways to save energy and reduce inefficiencies in industrial processes? Expanding the renewables-based grid of the future. Guilty pleasure: I read the entire Outlander series. When I started reading it, I was struggling a bit with the seemingly endless stream of bad news. I love connecting people.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Seed Climate justice is the goal, and Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people are keeping a focus on that goal through a series of campaigns supported by the Australian Youth Climate Coalition (AYCC). It presses for governmental law reform and offers support for women-led Indigenous environmental justice groups.

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Low Impact

DECEMBER 6, 2020

This is the first in a series of interviews that will accompany a book I’m writing, that will be published by Chelsea Green – an employee-owned company, and part of the new economy that the book is describing, built around a mutual credit core. Corn futures don’t work like hard currency.

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Business Green

JANUARY 31, 2023

Nature is vital for our survival, crucial to our food security, clean air, and clean water as well as health and well-being benefits. "We The future of our natural environment demands this. Success will not only bring benefits for our depleted natural environment, but also for jobs, food and water security, health and investment."

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Given the general sense of chaos surrounding all of us, Sustainability Veterans members discussed how we stay centered and focused on the mission while not ignoring the news. I am typically an optimist and am using this time to backcast to see the world from 10 years in the future. I keep my (hopefully) future grandchildren in mind.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 20, 2021

In order to strengthen corporate governance and stewardship, the Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC), the local regulator for financial stability, in the last decade introduced a progressive series of directives and measures under the "Corporate Governance Roadmaps" and "Green Finance Action Plans.".

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Business Green

MARCH 1, 2023

Significantly, the pledge places a series of specific expectations on signatories, including a requirement to produce a detailed Nature Positive Plan. The good news is that there is an encouraging nascent market in nature-based projects that is growing fast. We can do this if we work together but it starts with a commitment."

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Why data and measurement are key to a circular economy transition James Woolven Fri, 02/12/2021 – 01:00 This article originally appeared on Circulate News. Our food initiative has also developed a city self-assessment tool for cities to understand solutions to achieve a circular economy of foods.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 22, 2021

The Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle officially opens its doors today, with a performance by British band Coldplay and a series of special events throughout the weekend. Excellent news," tweeted Geneviève Paul , executive director of the Centre québécois du droit de l'environnement. "We

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Eco-Business

MAY 24, 2020

What should be the "new normal" has never been more accessible. In a time of increasing anxiety, The Conscious Festival team knew that it was more important than ever to build resilience, find optimism and explore the future of our planet and our roles in it.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

That has to be good news and helps explains why COP27 will be seen by many countries as a qualified success. There is a good chance that despite the opposition of a few nations a future COP could see the world commit to a full phase out of unabated fossil fuels. Petrostates are still not fully onboard with the Paris Agreement.

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Climate Tech VC

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Battery recycling attracts another big check with a $542M Series D, and food recycling attracts $70M. The gathering underscored the need for changes to climate finance to avoid leaving the world’s most vulnerable nations unprepared and increasingly on the brink of debt crises as they face a future they did not create.

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Eco-Business

MAY 24, 2020

What should be the "new normal" has never been more accessible. In a time of increasing anxiety, The Conscious Festival team knew that it was more important than ever to build resilience, find optimism and explore the future of our planet and our roles in it.

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 22, 2024

Nuclear was in the doldrums for years following Fukushima, with few new plants planned and stagnant investment in new uranium mines and enrichment facilities. ⚡ INERATEC , a Karlsruhe, Germany-based synthetic fuels developer, raised $ 129m in Series B funding from Piva Capital, FO Holding, High-Tech Grunderfonds, Honda Motor Co.,

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