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| 29.11.2024 | The Future of Alternative Proteins: Navigating the Hype and Reality | The landscape of alternative proteins is shifting. Recent analyses reveal a slowdown in patent applications for cultivated and plant-based meats. This change follows a period of rapid growth, echoing the cycles of innovation. The Gartner Hy... |
| 29.11.2024 | The Rise and Fall of Alternative Proteins: A New Era for Plant-Based and Cultivated Meats | The landscape of alternative proteins is shifting. Once hailed as the future of food, plant-based and cultivated meats are now navigating a complex terrain of challenges and opportunities. The hype has subsided, but the journey is far from ... |
| 27.11.2024 | Slowdown in Patent Applications for Cultivated & Plant-Based Meat Signals Levelling After Hype Cycle Peak | Analyses by IP firm Appleyard Lees reveal that patent applications for cultivated meat have plateaued following a period of significant growth, while plant-based meat patent applications have fallen for the first time since 2013.
While the ... |
| 16.05.2024 | ‘People don’t realize how much fashion needs new materials’ but biomaterials investors can be hard to find, say experts | Fashion brands are desperately seeking new, sustainable materials as they come under increasing pressure to produce garments with improved environmental credentials, experts told the audiences of last week’s SynBioBeta conference in San Jos... |
| 11.04.2024 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Windfall Bio scoops up $28m, TerraClear bags $15m, Ginkgo buys AgBiome assets | This week, Windfall Bio, a US company capturing methane to make biofertilizers, announced a new funding round, as did lab automation company Reshape Biotech, and TerraClear, which makes a rock-picking ‘bot for agriculture.
In the M&A wo... |
| 14.03.2024 | With $1bn in farm operating lines, FBN sees ‘a greater need for financing’ on the near horizon | “This year is probably going to be a tougher year than last year,” says Dan English, general manager of financing at Farmers Business Network (FBN) when asked about the financial outlook for farmers in 2024. “Farmers are going to have to be... |
| 11.03.2024 | Climate and infrastructure startups are leaning into modularity — and investors are paying attention | Tech Climate and infrastructure startups are leaning into modularity — and investors are paying attention
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| 03.12.2023 | Fintechs go shopping | Welcome back to The Interchange, where we take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. If you want to receive The Interchange directly in your inbox every Sunday, head here to sign up! We’re back and making up for lost time... |
| 24.11.2023 | WeWork masqueraded as a tech company, but offices are places not platforms | Source: Shutterstock article-article-body
On November 6, the co-working firm WeWork filed for bankruptcy. WeWork, founded by Adam Neumann and Miguel McKelvey in 2010, had a simple business model: it signed long-term leases on urban building... |
| 16.10.2023 | Corporate investment in climate tech is about more than dollars | According to the United Nations, avoiding the worst impacts of climate change could cost $4.3 trillion a year by 2030. A large percentage of this funding will come from public sources; however, private capital also has an important pa... |
| 11.10.2023 | Getting Ahead: A Guide To Complying With New ESG Regulations | Robert Michlewicz, CEO, Visual Lease. |
| 05.10.2023 | Rising Together: Tackling Climate Change Across The Value Chain | 0 shares
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As the great and the good gather for Climate Week NYC, we are served with a poignant reminder of the extensive efforts underway in both the private and public spheres to improve the state of our climat... |
| 28.09.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Paine Schwartz launches $1.7bn agrifood fund, Cricket One unveils new plant, Infarm ‘declared bankrupt’ | Agrifood’s biggest news this week is PE firm Paine Schwartz closing its $1.7 billion food- and agribusiness-focused fund. Fund VI is “exclusively focused on sustainable investments” in food and agribusiness, and the firm has already deploye... |
| 27.07.2023 | 4 Ways Coders Can Fight The Climate Crisis | Suzanne DiBianca is EVP and Chief Impact Officer at Salesforce. |
| 03.07.2023 | Is Food Disruption Over? How Alt Meats Could Rise From the Trough of Disillusionment | Innovation in the food industry could be set to slow down in the coming years, according to research by Rabobank.
The firm says that while the past decade has seen unprecedented food disruption in the form of innovations such as meat altern... |
| 12.06.2023 | Plant-Based. The Death Knells of an Industry, or the Calm After the Storm? | Today in the UK, the unfortunate news regarding Meatless Farm’s mass redundancies arrived, as sadly predicted over the past week. And right on cue, conventional media was ready and waiting, sharpening its knives, eager to assign the now tri... |
| 11.06.2023 | Impact Insights - May '23 | Curated by our Sustainability Strategist, Åsne Burgess Øyehaug.
■A turning point for impact investing
A new white paper from the World Economic Forum (WEF) has surveyed the impact investing landscape and concluded that impact investing ha... |
| 25.05.2023 | Some climate-tech startups want you to believe AI tools can save the planet — but it's not that simple | Advertisement
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Artificial-intelligence-powered robots that can separate a water bottle from a diaper may bring the world one step closer to a cooler planet — or at least that's what Matanya Horowitz hopes.
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| 24.05.2023 | Some climate-tech startups want you to believe AI tools can save the planet — but it's not that simple | Redeem now
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Artificial-intelligence-powered robots that can separate a water bottle from a diaper may bring the world one step closer to a cooler planet — or at least that's what Matanya Horowitz hopes.
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| 05.05.2023 | Establishing An Effective Scope 3 Reporting Process | Marion Verles is CEO of SustainCERT, a global carbon impact verification organization making credible climate action the new norm. |
| 20.04.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Canopy raises $60m to help forests, CropX nets $30m for farm management | This week, non-profit organization Canopy raised funds to help restore forests and farm management platform CropX landed $30 million. Restaurant tech platform Odeko secured $53 million, while a new CRISPR-based research project kicked off a... |
| 12.04.2023 | Revving Up the Future: The Impact of Emerging Transportation Trends in Southeast Asia | Imagine a future where the bustling streets of Southeast Asia are dominated by silent electric vehicles, autonomous cars navigating traffic effortlessly, and even flying taxis whizzing through the sky – a future that is not only technologic... |
| 27.03.2023 | Ways to Win in Climate Software #1: Find Product-Budget Fit | Welcome to “10 Ways to Win in Climate Software,” an Energize series defining the playbook for sustainability SaaS entrepreneurs. In case you missed it, catch up on our series opener and the Ways to Win countdown:
While many software invest... |
| 08.03.2023 | Verizon Announces Year 2 of Climate Resilience Prize to Advance Innovation for Climate-Tech Solutions | Listen to this story:
Verizon’s second Climate Resilience Prize will award a total of $500,000 to four climate-tech organizations innovating to reduce climate change impacts on communities
The four winners will be selected based on whether ... |
| 22.02.2023 | Maximizing resilience and benefits of distributed energy resources | Meeting decarbonization goals set by the U.S. government will require integrating an increased number of distributed energy resources (DERs) on the energy grid. Successfully integrating an increasing number of DERs, such as solar and wind, ... |
| 14.02.2023 | Corporate Cafeterias: A Bright Spot For Plant-Forward Diet Change | 6 Mins Read Over in foodservice, behavioral architecture and future-thinking operators are ushering in an age of plant-forward corporate cafeterias, which is good news for both the planet and a new generation of climate-conscious talent.
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| 02.12.2022 | Plant Prefab nabs $42M to crank out ‘extremely sustainable’ custom homes | Prefabricated homes always seem to be on the cusp of something big — solving housing shortages, tackling systemic waste or just generally ushering in the “very up-to-date.” But in the U.S., new prefab housing still represents a small fracti... |
| 22.11.2022 | Enriched Ag discusses its $9m mega-seed round & how it could help ranchers rein in cattle emissions | US-based Enriched Ag recently closed a $9 million seed round for its grazing and carbon insights platform for ranchers and landowners.
Radical Ventures and Future Ventures led the round.
Enriched Ag will use the funding to develop and deplo... |
| 26.10.2022 | Take The Lead: Why Investors And Customers Should Get In On The Ground Floor | Managing Director of Clean Energy Ventures, a VC firm investing in companies commercializing disruptive clean energy technologies. |
| 27.09.2022 | Why We Invested in SINAI | Energize Ventures is proud to lead the $22 million Series A investment in SINAI Technologies, the decarbonization intelligence platform, marking our third investment in carbon market infrastructure. Energize is joined by Stardust Equity and... |
| 12.08.2022 | 5 Global Challenges Shaping How We Are Doing Business Today | We know from Stoicism that when it comes to tackling challenges, what matters most does not reside in their complexity, timing, or even our current skills. What matters most is having the right state of mind. Learning to look at challenges ... |
| 21.07.2022 | ESG a SHAM? Maybe Elon Musk is right. | Alexandra Smith, Tech Times 21 July 2022, 06:07 am
When Elon Musk declares on Twitter that 'ESG is a sham' - as reported in Green Buzz Weekly - it's a statement that we at FuturePlus pay attention to. Why? Because there are some fundamental... |
| 12.07.2022 | Why indoor farming needs to seize the energy efficiency opportunity | Dave Dinesen is CEO at CubicFarms, based in Langley, British Columbia, Canada.
The views expressed in this guest commentary are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect those of AFN.
Imagine walking into the grocery store and picking... |
| 01.06.2022 | Cutting carbs: The role of PPAs in decarbonizing C&I | Cutting carbs: The role of PPAs in decarbonizing C&I
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Commercial and industrial activities contribute a substantial amount of the United States’ emissions footprint. Fortunately, recent ye... |
| 29.05.2022 | Crypto Carbon Credits: The Canary In The Coal Mine In The Race To Net Zero | Carbon trading, a practice established in the 1990s, is now at a turning point; one where blockchain technologies has the power to make a lasting impact. Already, crypto-backed trading of carbon credits has been heralded as a saviour by ena... |
| 26.05.2022 | Eating Insects Could Cut Your Environmental Impact By More Than 80%, Finnish Study Says | Voravut Ratanakommon, from Boston, looks at fried rice with meal worms that he ate at a pop-up ... [+] restaurant. Menu items included grasshopper burger, meal worm fired rice and bbq buffalo worms. Boston Globe via Getty Images |
| 17.05.2022 | Biochar Teams Sweep 4 of 15 XPRIZE $1 Million Climate Innovation Awards | “It [Biochar] is being newly embraced as a true carbon removal solution at scale.”--Microsoft
It [Biochar] is being newly embraced as a true carbon removal solution at scale.”
— Elizabeth Willmott, Carbon Program Manager at MicrosoftPORTLAN... |
| 14.05.2022 | South African copper thieves are screwing up the future of electric vehicles | Sign up for the Fortune Features email list so you don’t miss our biggest features, exclusive interviews, and investigations.
South Africa is by far the world’s largest producer of platinum, a precious metal that is among the rarest on Eart... |
| 25.04.2022 | Meeting ESG Investors Where They Are With The Right Data | Mukund is CEO of Benchmark Digital Partners, LLC. |
| 05.04.2022 | General Motors, Honda join forces to develop affordable electric vehicles that cost less than $30,000 | Throughout the year 2020, Tesla vehicles accounted for 79% of new electric vehicles (EVs)registered in the US. Just a year later, that number has dropped by about 10 percent.
According to recent data that came out for 2021 as part of a new... |
| 02.04.2022 | This 23-year-old founder of Indian footwear startup turns plastic waste into a multi-million dollar business | Plastic pollution is a worldwide problem that affects the marine environment. The problem is not just about million tons of plastic floating in our oceans and its contribution to climate change, but it is also about its effect on the health... |
| 25.03.2022 | These Chinese EV tech startups are disrupting the electric vehicle market with swappable car batteries | One of the reasons for the slow adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) is cost. According to a recent survey, 37 percent of people say the most common reason for not buying an electric vehicle was a lack of fast charging points followed by 35 ... |
| 22.03.2022 | Bitcoin Mining and ESG: A Match Made in Heaven
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Strengthening the power grid | Bitcoin mining hasn’t been able to shake its dirty reputation.
Producing the original cryptocurrency and keeping its proof-of-work network secure is an energy-intensive process – we all know that – and bitcoin’s carbon footprint is big. Ver... |
| 08.03.2022 | The Future Of Power Digitalization: Understanding The Real Value Of Electricity In Creating More Sustainable Buildings | Executive Vice President of Schneider Electric’s Digital Energy Division. |
| 02.03.2022 | Why We Invested in NCX | Energize Ventures is proud to lead the $50 million Series B investment in NCX—the leading marketplace for quality carbon credits. J.P. Morgan, Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), Dalus Capital, and Clearvision Ventures also joined the round, a... |
| 13.02.2022 | Backing sustainable agriculture with decentralized inclusive finance | Join today's leading executives online at the Data Summit on March 9th. Register here.
By Jan Stockhausen, chief legal architect of Etherisc.
It can be difficult to comprehend why meaningful climate action is so hard to achieve. While the s... |
| 13.02.2022 | Backing sustainable agriculture with decentralized inclusive finance | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
By Jan Stockhausen, chief legal architect of Ethe... |
| 09.02.2022 | ‘Woke capitalism’ is a new ideology for a digital economy | Brett Hurt Contributor
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| 03.02.2022 | Do Consumers Want Or Need These Biotech Foods? | A sequencing chromatograph showing a DNA sequence and a sample of DNA from the human genome mapping ... [+] project carried out by the Medical Research Council in Cambridge. (Photo by SSPL/Getty Images) SSPL via Getty Images |
| 31.01.2022 | Carbon Farming Could Make Agriculture More Climate Positive But Only If There Are Defined Terms | 5 Mins Read
As the effects of climate change intensify and paths for limiting global warming narrow, politicians, media and environmental advocates have rallied behind “carbon farming” as a mutually beneficial strategy for society, the envi... |
| 31.01.2022 | Schneider Electric : How Semiconductor Fabs Can Design a Greener Future | Fabricating a single chip requires 1.6 kg of petroleum and 32 kg of water
Semiconductor manufacturers are under the pressure to meet booming demand while reducing their high environmental impact. The market has grown around 17 percent this ... |
| 24.01.2022 | Electrified Air Travel? ZeroAvia Wants To Make It Reality | David Thompson, Tech Times 24 January 2022, 10:01 am
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Five hundred miles in a 50-seat, electrically powered aircraft: It's an audacious goal but the founder of ZeroAvia, a pioneer in electric powertrains for aviation, beli... |
| 18.01.2022 | Rebound Plastic Exchange to facilitate global trade of recycled plastic, reducing plastic pollution | ABU DHABI, UAE, Jan. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- International Holding Company (IHC) today announced the establishment of Rebound Ltd to create an innovative solution to reduce the world's plastic pollution. The new subsidiary will launch Rebo... |
| 18.01.2022 | IHC launches Rebound Plastic Exchange to facilitate global trade of recycled plastic | ABU DHABI, UAE, Jan. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Abu Dhabi’s International Holding Company (IHC) today announced the establishment of Rebound Ltd to create an innovative solution to reduce the world's plastic pollution. The new subsidiary will... |
| 05.01.2022 | Is ‘Net Zero’ Our Best Hope For Curbing Emissions Or A ‘Dangerous Trap’ Of Self-Delusion? | |
| 23.12.2021 | Op-ed: Who's defining sustainability for aquaculture? | Tony Chen is co-founder and CEO and Emily Payne is head of content at Manolin, a sustainable aquaculture technology company.
Consumer interest and regulatory pressure have driven a global shift in capital toward more sustainable and transpa... |
| 14.12.2021 | How cold storage could be an antidote to Africa’s hefty food imports | For Julian Mitchell, it is unconscionable that Kenya spends so much money importing food. In the first six months of 2021, Kenya spent $909.4 million on food imports—while 30% to 40% of locally-grown crops each season are wasted due to inef... |
| 03.12.2021 | A step forward for CO2 capture | The air we breathe has a carbon problem. But in Hellisheidi, Iceland, a geothermally active plateau just outside of Reykjavik, a new technology is taking a small but mighty step toward fixing it.
A plant called Orca, built by Climeworks, is... |
| 11.11.2021 | Tackling food waste, from farm to fork | By Nina Lund, EMEA retail and consumer goods lead
As the European Parliament signs off on its flagship Farm-to-Fork plan and events such as World Food Day gain momentum, the issue of food waste is rapidly rising up the collective agenda. On... |
| 09.11.2021 | These 10 leaders are transforming how corporate America tackles climate change | 2021 was marked by devastating, costly climate disasters from heat waves to wildfires to floods. Corporate leaders started to recognize the role that business plays in mitigating climate change. Insider highlights the top 10 people tackling... |
| 28.10.2021 | Are Companies Missing A Huge Opportunity By Approaching Carbon Neutrality Backward? | Senior Vice President of Strategic Accounts at Redaptive Inc., leading business development for client energy efficiency solutions. |
| 20.10.2021 | How sustainable fiber procurement will affect future forests | "There's no day that's any better, in my opinion, than a day spent in nature," Roger Lynch, fiber supply manager at WestRock, reminisced.
That's just what Lynch's job calls for - days spent deep in nature, walking through the wood... |
| 19.10.2021 | How the climate crisis is transforming the meaning of ‘sustainability’ in business | In his 2021 letter to CEOs, Larry Fink, the CEO and chairman of BlackRock, the world’s largest investment manager, wrote: “No issue ranks higher than climate change on our clients’ lists of priorities.”
His comment reflected a growing uneas... |
| 14.10.2021 | Best practices for eco-friendly remote work | Adobe | Sustainability guide for working at home
Remote work surveys from PWC indicate that 70 percent of U.S. workers want to continue working from home after the COVID-19 pandemic. Other studies, like this one from HBR, have shown that working fr... |
| 28.09.2021 | Agriculture produces just 1% of carbon credits, data suggests | Agriculture-related emissions offsetting projects account for just over 1% of all carbon credits issued, with only transportation-related projects issuing less, according to data from the Berkeley Carbon Trading Project.
However, other type... |
| 28.09.2021 | How Urban Solar Greenhouses Are Contributing To Urban Environmental, Social & Economic Sustainability | PALM BEACH, Fla., Sept. 28, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- FinancialNewsMedia.com News Commentary Experts and visionaries agree that urban farming will have a great impact on the future of food. Urban Agriculture (UA) is defined as the growing, proce... |
| 24.09.2021 | National Plastic Tax Proposal Follows The Enactment Of New State Level Plastics Fees | Recycle trash bin for bottles and cans in front of the United States Capitol Buildinggetty |
| 21.09.2021 | ZeroAvia Lands on World Economic Forum’s Technology Pioneer List | Share
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The World Economic Forum (WEF) awarded ZeroAvia a spot on its exclusive “2021 Technology Pioneers” list. The annual list lauds only 100 companies worldwide in the earl... |
| 12.09.2021 | Trees To Capture Carbon (And Cash) In Nation’s First Project On State Forest Land | Scenic views like this are available throughout the more than 100,000 acres of the Pigeon River ... [+] Country State Forest. Michigan Department of Natural Resources |
| 20.08.2021 | Cleantech Funds Scaling Up To Take On Climate Change In 2021 | 50 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
When one faces a seemingly insurmountable problem, a common piece of advice is to break up the job into smaller pieces. Some progress, the thinking goes, is better than doing nothing.
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| 20.08.2021 | Cleantech Funds Scaling Up To Take On Climate Change In 2021 | 37 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
When one faces a seemingly insurmountable problem, a common piece of advice is to break up the job into smaller pieces. Some progress, the thinking goes, is better than doing nothing.
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| 08.08.2021 | Federal funding at the forefront | The Sunday Briefing | Good morning and welcome to the new subscribers reading this Sunday.
As the day’s fourth cup of coffee courses through my veins—a 5:00am emotional roller coaster courtesy of the Canadian Women’s National Soccer Team will do that to ya—I inv... |
| 25.06.2021 | Why We Need An Operation Warp Speed For Agriculture | June 25, 2021 7 min read
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As cities reopen across the United States, economies revive and people de-mask, we owe it in part to Operation Warp Speed.
Despite challenges, the $18 b... |
| 18.06.2021 | Five Tech Innovations That Will Shape The Future Of Shopping Experiences | CEO of Cheesecake Labs, a software design and engineering company that helps you build successful tech products. |
| 04.06.2021 | You always have to learn something new: A day in the life of a sustainability professional in tech | Bucharest, Romania ~
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To do business responsibly, within social and environmental boundaries, has already become the status quo for companies in many economies around the world. But to do so often requires a strategic shift in the c... |
| 27.05.2021 | Using Captured CO₂ In Everyday Products Could Help Fight Climate Change, But Do Consumers Want Them? | 5 Mins Read
By: Lucca Henrion, Joe Árvai, Lauren Lutzke & Volker Sick
Would you drink carbonated beverages made with carbon dioxide captured from the smokestack of a factory or power plant? How would you feel if that captured carbon dio... |
| 26.05.2021 | A Fortune 500 CEO recruiter shares the one trait to develop if you want to be a corporate leader: adaptability | Clarke Murphy, CEO of executive search and recruiting firm . Russell Reynolds
Clarke Murphy is a CEO recruiter and adviser for Fortune 500 companies.
He said board rooms are looking for leaders with a high “LQ” or learning quotient.
Having ... |
| 26.05.2021 | A top Fortune 500 CEO recruiter shares the one trait to develop if you want to be a corporate leader: adaptability | Clarke Murphy, CEO of executive search and recruiting firm Russell Reynolds. Russell Reynolds
Clarke Murphy is a CEO recruiter and adviser for Fortune 500 companies.
He said board rooms are looking for leaders with a high "LQ" or ... |
| 20.05.2021 | Tech leaders: Prepare your organization for a new power grid | Image: pan demin/Shutterstock
Electricity has largely been taken for granted by people who are several generations removed from the novelty of replacing candles and oil lamps with the magic of electric light bulbs. Instead, we plug our devi... |
| 11.05.2021 | Coffee Tech Startup Commits To Paying Colombian Farmers 20% More To Achieve A Living Income | Workers harvest coffee beans in El Paraiso department, 100 km east of Tegucigalpa, Honduras, on the ... [+] border with Nicaragua, where coffee crops are grown, on February 10, 2019. - Honduran coffee producers are going bankrupt since most... |
| 04.05.2021 | How Tech Helps Farmers To Profit While Going Green | 43 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
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2020 will go down as the “Year of Net Zero.” Corporate commitments to deliver net-zero emissions by 2050 doubled, and all eyes are on our biggest green-house gas emitters—namel... |
| 04.05.2021 | How Tech Helps Farmers To Profit While Going Green | 12 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
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2020 will go down as the “Year of Net Zero.” Corporate commitments to deliver net-zero emissions by 2050 doubled, and all eyes are on our biggest green-house gas emitters—namel... |
| 21.04.2021 | The carbon question: Making global carbon markets work for farmers | Editor’s note: This post about carbon markets is part of a collaboration with F&A Next, an AgFunder Network Partner. F&A Next was founded by Anterra Capital, StartLife, Rabobank, and Wageningen University & Research.
F&A Nex... |
| 06.04.2021 | APPHARVEST, INC.
AppHarvest : 3 ways to build meaningful ESG metrics | 3 ways to build meaningful ESG metrics
Authenticity matters, and the public isn't colorblind to greenwashing. To that end, it's vital that companies purporting to take ESG action do more than give lip service. As Engine No. 1's Michael O'Le... |
| 01.04.2021 | Energize announces partnership with CDPQ to invest in companies leading the energy transition |
The energy transition is happening faster than even the Energize team expected. Decision-makers with market influence — from federal and state governments to large corporations — are rolling out ambitious renewable energy goals and commit... |
| 31.03.2021 | Startups have about $1 trillion worth of reasons to love the Biden infrastructure plan | The sweeping infrastructure package put forward today by President Joe Biden comes with a price tag of roughly $2 trillion (and hefty tax hikes), but gives startups and the broader tech industry about $1 trillion worth of reasons to support... |
| 30.03.2021 | How Corporations, Customers, and Conservation Are Finding Common Ground | The notion that commerce and conservation could thrive and discover common ground once seemed farfetched. But the two have moved so much closer together that recently even the acting head of the Securities and Exchange Commission has been e... |
| 15.03.2021 | Swedish battery manufacturer Northvolt receives a $14 billion order from VW | Northvolt, the Swedish battery manufacturer which raised $1 billion in financing from investors led by Goldman Sachs and Volkswagen back in 2019, has signed a massive $14 billion battery order with VW for the next 10 years.
The big buy clea... |
| 11.03.2021 | Cisco’s Digital Acceleration Program Helps T0 Close The Digital Divide | Dima Kandalaft drives Cisco's Country Digital Acceleration Program for the Middle East and Africa ... [+] balancing national priorities and grassroots perspectives to close the digital divide. Courtesy of Dima Kandalaft |
| 24.02.2021 | How 3D, Location Intelligence Can Help Drive A Sustainable Ocean Economy | The ocean, already the world's seventh-largest economy, is in trouble—and now comes the part where we realize we have the technology to do something about it. |
| 23.02.2021 | Mukesh Ambani says he will make batteries ahead of a boom in electric vehicles | As of now, Ambani’s plan sounds a lot like Elon Musk’s Tesla minus the electric vehicles.
India’s richest man is making a strategic shift towards renewable energy.
This is significant because over 60% of RIL’s consolidated revenue comes fro... |
| 18.02.2021 |
Recycling: Not your father's environmental issue
| To raise recycling with today’s environmentally-minded younger generations might solicit an “OK, Boomer” type of response; they are focused on the seemingly more existential challenges of climate change, environmental justice or imperiled o... |
| 09.02.2021 | Novus Capital : February 8th Newsletter | Greetings!
Our newsletter, to be delivered twice monthly, will explore pertinent issues related to smart technology, clean energy and sustainable agriculture. Our goal is to keep a finger on the pulse of industry trends and how they relate ... |
| 01.02.2021 | How Do You Define Carbontech? The Big Climate Tech Hype for 2021 | Elon Musk recently announced he would give $100M to the team that can develop the best carbon capture technology. If 2020’s peak-hype for climate tech (beyond climate tech itself) was Green Hydrogen, 2021 is kicking off with a strong focus ... |
| 27.01.2021 | We’re Already In The Second Cleantech Bubble | So far so good!getty |
| 26.01.2021 | What Gets Measured Gets Managed: How Sustainability Reporting Can Help Save The Planet | Can stakeholder capitalism be a force for good? More and more business leaders are valuing ... [+] sustainability in response to consumers behavior. getty |
| 11.01.2021 | How Wall Street Can Win On Climate In 2021 | Written by Ben Ratner, Senior Director, EDF+Business. |
| 11.01.2021 | 2021 Energy Predictions: U.S. Clean Energy Standard, Tripling Energy Storage, State Shift From Gas, Electricity Transition, Billions In Climate Investment | 2020 was among the most unexpected years in American history but despite a global pandemic, a renewed civil rights movement, and the most tumultuous election in memory one trend held steady: clean energy’s unstoppable rise. |
| 08.01.2021 | Our Last, Best Shot: Why 2021 Must Be The Year Of Climate Action | Commemorating the fifth anniversary of the Paris Climate Agreement, climate activists spelled out ... [+] the dire need to limit global warming.dpa/picture alliance via Getty Images |
| 10.12.2020 | The 8 F’s of Indian agritech investing | Editor’s note: Aditya Jahagirdar is a member of the investment team at Ankur Capital, based in Bengaluru, India. A B Chakravarthy was previously principal at Menterra Venture Advisors in Chennai, India, where he led the firm’s agriculture-r... |
