Climate Tech Newsletter: April 13, 2025

Climate Tech Newsletter: April 13, 2025

Welcome to last week’s edition of the CBKNY’s Weekly News Highlights. Explore the latest policies, innovations, and market trends driving the future of climate tech.

🌱 Climate Tech Insights: The growing use of AI to accelerate clean energy deployment—highlighted by Google’s effort to streamline grid interconnection delays and the IEA’s warning that AI could either curb or worsen global energy emissions depending on how it's managed.

1. Tariffs are bad news for batteries

   April 09, 2025 - MIT Technology Review

2. This Texas chemical plant could get its own nuclear reactors
   April 09, 2025 - MIT Technology Review

3. Trump EO targets state climate, emissions and ESG policies

   April 09, 2025 - ESG Dive

4. J.P. Morgan Asset Management closes $1.5B climate, forests fund

   April 11, 2025 - ESG Dive

5. EU legislators work to simplify sustainability reporting requirements

   April 10, 2025 - ESG Dive

6. Why Trump axed the Global Change Research Program
   April 10, 2025 - E&E News by POLITICO

7. White House outlines plan to gut NOAA, smother climate research
   April 11, 2025 - E&E News by POLITICO

8. Trump tariffs expected to dim solar’s bright outlook

   April 04, 2025 - E&E News by POLITICO

9. Europe records warmest March ever, EU scientists say
   April 09, 2025 - E&E News by POLITICO

10. Clean energy manufacturing is the path to mineral security
    April 07, 2025 - Cipher News

11. Trump said no new offshore wind farms. One just got underway

    April 09, 2025 - Canary Media

12. Base Power lands $200M for rapidly growing home-battery business

    April 09, 2025 - Canary Media

13. Microsoft inks massive carbon removal deal powered by a paper mill

    April 11, 2025 - Tech Crunch

14. Google thinks AI can untangle the electrical grid’s bureaucracy

    April 10, 2025 – Tech Crunch

15. First-Ever Supercritical CO2 Circuit Breaker Debuts
    April 09, 2025 - IEEE Spectrum

16. Insect protein startup Ÿnsect replaces CEO, secures €10m bridge funding

    April 08, 2025 - Sifted

17. A New Michigan Law Countering Local Opposition to Renewable Energy Is Triggering More of the Same

    April 09, 2025 - Inside Climate News

18. IMO to Impose Carbon Levy on Shipping
    April 11, 2025 - Climate Insider

19. IEA: AI Could Intensify and Also Reduce Energy Emissions

    April 10, 2025 - Climate Insider

20. Occidental, 1PointFive secure permit for DAC facility
    April 08, 2025 - Climate Insider

21. Patch and Varaha Ink a Multimillion Deal to Boost Carbon Removal

    April 11, 2025 – Carbon Credits

22. China’s First-Ever Sovereign Green Bond Hits Global Market: Will It Power Its Net Zero Ambitions?

    April 08, 2025 – Carbon Credits