Climate Tech News

Market downturn is starting to infect climate tech

What can I do about climate change? 14 ways to take positive action

The climate solution that not enough people are talking about

'Big oil' bankrolls more climate VC deals, a dilemma for founders

5 Climate Tech StartUps Tackling Existential Global Problems

Italian plan to ban lab-grown food criticised as misguided

Elephant in the dining room: Australian start-up makes woolly mammoth meatball

Climate investor group IIGCC unveils net-zero transition initiative

The White House's 2024 budget proposal prioritizes climate tech

Three steps towards building the climate tech talent pool

Climate deal struck after Labor and the Greens reach safeguard mechanism agreement

Rich Lister’s $100m investment in ‘huge commercial opportunity’

Allume Energy SolShare System Brings Rooftop Solar To Apartment Dwellers

Giant Leap for climate tech despite economic slowdown

Global fresh water demand will outstrip supply by 40% by 2030, say experts

Hub71 and Investible’s Partnership Opens Doors for ClimateTech Startups

US regulators say SVB customers will be made whole as second bank fails

Climate agrifoodtech bucks global funding decline as sector brings in $29.6bn in 2022

New Board Appointments Enhance Rumin8's Climate Tech Development Experience

Carbon Counter: Meet the woman who wants to create an Australian 'carbon unicorn'

Electricity is in the air as scientists discover new power source

EU targets 40% of clean tech to be made within the bloc by 2030

EV battery recycler hits 95% recovery rate in world-first collection program

EVs are far cleaner than gas-powered cars — even if batteries require more mining

Ocean treaty: Historic agreement reached after decade of talks

NSW puts $64 million into two green hydrogen hubs amid $1.5 billion in incentives now on the table

Paris, Stockholm, London: Europe’s climate tech hotbeds

Queenslanders to be banned from dumping solar panels in landfill under new recycling program

The polluting flaw in the safeguard mechanism

Mike Cannon-Brookes backs new battery investment fund through his family VC Grok

‘Greenwashing’ firms face steep new UK fines for misleading claims

Nokia launches DIY repairable budget Android phone

Nature based solutions: how nature can help prevent flooding

Conservation efforts celebrated as 26 Australian species no longer need threatened listing

Australia to make area the size of Germany a marine park in Southern Ocean

Six Australian startups that landed $178 million this week

Don’t kid yourself. The climate wars ain’t over yet

Why are BP, Shell, and Exxon suddenly backing off their climate promises?

London ULEZ: Emissions cut in central London by 46% - City Hall data

Climate change agtech startup Loam raises $105 million Series B

Existing Clean Technology Can Cut Australia’s Emissions 80 per cent in Five Years

Michael Liebreich wants existing low-carbon technologies to be scaled up much faster

Planet A Ventures comes out of the door with a €160M European, science-backed climate fund

Osher Gunsberg tips cash into mushroom start-up

Australia blocks coal mine to protect Great Barrier Reef

This solar + storage system is made up of 1,300 second-life EV batteries

Concrete traps CO2 soaked from air in climate-friendly test

Energy Transition Investment Trends

Uber and Lyft told to offer only electric ride-sharing in New York by 2030

The six reasons Australia must change to save its future economy

Laid-off tech workers could find a home at startups trying to solve the climate crisis

Strong El Niño could make 2024 the first year we pass 1.5°C of warming

“Climate Tech Is The Fastest Growing Investment Vertical” Says Crowdfunding Platform Seedrs

NSW sets up Australia’s first corporate carbon cop

Gates, Forrest back Perth’s cow methane-buster start-up

New Solar Panels Allow Farmers to See the Light

Revealed: more than 90% of rainforest carbon offsets by biggest certifier are worthless, analysis shows

Up founder backs climate investing app

Exxon climate predictions were accurate decades ago. Still it sowed doubt

The Jump in Energy Prices Drove More Money to Climate Tech Last Year

Breakthrough solar panel startup SunDrive teams up with Sydney University on $2.78 million research project

What can Australia learn from California's climate change response?

The challenge of delivering a 'climate-positive' 2032 Brisbane Olympic and Paralympic Games

Billionaire bust-up burns Sun Cable project

Carbon credit scheme review rejects criticisms it is flawed, recommends changes to improve transparency

'Ray of hope’: Climate action professionals share why 2022 was an optimistic year

12 Predictions For Venture Capital In 2023

Cop15: historic deal struck to halt biodiversity loss by 2030

Nuclear fusion need not apply: Planet-saving tech is ready to scale

Australian Red Cross announces partnership with local start-up Climasens to scale climate intelligence platform through the Humanitech Lab

NSW declares first renewable energy zone with offshore wind in plan to replace coal

Carbon management startup tackling ‘scope 3’ emissions for business raises $3 million

Albanese government looking at laws to force big business to disclose climate efforts

Global renewable capacity growth set to double over next five years, says IEA

Half of Australia’s biggest companies have net-zero emissions plans, but climate action may come too late

FIVE WINNERS OF THE SECOND EVER EARTHSHOT PRIZE AWARDS UNVEILED

UN Environment: Investments in ‘Nature-Based’ Climate Solutions Must Double by 2025

Is Australia worthy of hosting a COP summit in 2026?

Why climate tech startups need a new carbon-reporting framework

TPG-Backed Carbon Markets Platform Rubicon Raising $1 Billion

Mars Wrigley chocolate bars to be packed in recyclable, reusable or compostable material by 2025

Quarter of VC funding goes to climate tech

Coalition-era $1bn fund rebadged to support clean energy tech

Start-up Forkful secures funding to tackle hospitality industry’s food waste problem

2022 Australian State of the Climate Report

Prestigious Prime Minister's 2022 Prize for Innovation awarded to CSIRO's PhotonAssay™ technology

Australia’s National Electricity Market ‘needs 46GW/640GWh of dispatchable energy storage by 2050’

Can Big Tech’s layoffs help mitigate climate change?

Health in a world of extreme heat

UN launches challenge for cities to harness the power of nature for cooling

Amazon commits $53 million to fast-track innovations by female climate tech entrepreneurs

Clean energy has a tipping point, and 87 countries have reached it

IKEA Foundation to Deploy $600 Million in Climate Funding

Australia risks being a ‘state sponsoring greenwashing’ if it relies on carbon offsets, expert warns

Tech start-ups aim to reshape the economy through net zero

Climate Tech Startup Helps Disaster Recovery With Mobile Renewable Energy Grid

How Country Road is tackling climate change

Renewable energy records tumble around the country as rooftop solar power soars

Zero-emission zones to be created across Sydney, including at Blackwattle Bay, Central

Everledger partners with Ford on pilot project to improve battery recycling