Climate Tech Newsletter: February 01, 2025

Climate Tech Newsletter: February 01, 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: Sustainable Innovation & Emerging Trends, Regulatory Shifts & Policy Uncertainty

1. Helion raises $425M to help build a fusion reactor for Microsoft

   January 28, 2025 – TechCrunch

2. EIT InnoEnergy Drives €4.3 Billion in Cleantech Investments and Expands Portfolio with 14 Start-Ups in 2024
   January 27, 2025 – ESG News

3. Trump pauses renewable projects leasing on federal lands, waters
   January 29, 2025 – ESG Dive

4. Shift4Good's €220M fund to target sustainable transport innovation across Europe and Asia

   January 27, 2025 – Tech Funding News

5. 10 Clean Energy Leaders to Know and Follow in 2025

   January 30, 2025 – Climate Insider

6. BBC Publishes First Climate Transition Plan, Detailing How They Intend to be Net Zero by 2050
   January 28, 2025 – ESG News

7. RBC becomes latest Canadian lender to quit global climate coalition
   January 31, 2025 – Reuters

8. Meta turns to solar — again — in its data center-building boom

   January 31, 2025 – TechCrunch

9. Microsoft signs massive carbon credit deal with reforestation startup Chestnut Carbon
   January 30, 2025 – TechCrunch

10. Climate change ignited LA’s wildfire risk — these startups want to extinguish it
    January 29, 2025 – TechCrunch

11. CEFC records $3.5 billion renewables investment push
    January 29, 2025 – ecogeneration

12. Chemical looping turns environmental waste into fuel
    January 29, 2025 – TechXplore

13. 10 Notable Early 2025 Climate Tech Partnership Highlights

    January 27, 2025 – Climate Insider

14. India is breaking records on renewable energy
    January 29, 2025 – Cipher News

15. Heat pumps in Poland, clean energy in Spain and batteries in France

    January 27, 2025 – Cipher News

16. Selling more American gas to Europe: What’s possible and when

    January 29, 2025 – Cipher News

17. Three questions about the future of US climate tech under Trump
    January 30, 2025 – MIT Technology Review

18. Why the next energy race is for underground hydrogen

    January 23, 2025 – MIT Technology Review

19. Insect protein scaleup Agronutris at risk of insolvency: ‘Access to funding has become harder’
    January 30, 2025 – Sifted

20. Switzerland Sets New 65% GHG Emissions Reduction Target by 2035 Under Paris Agreement

    January 29, 2025 – ESG News

21. Zurich Insurance Secures 17,500 Ton Carbon Removal Deal with Nellie Technologies

    January 31, 2025 – ESG News

22. Northern Trust Revolutionizes Carbon Credit Market with Blockchain-Powered Platform
    January 31, 2025 – Carbon Credits

23. Nickel: The Metal Driving the Electric Vehicle Revolution

    January 28, 2025 – Carbon Credits

24. L.A. Burns, and the Municipal Bond Market Wakes Up to Climate Risk

    January 24, 2025 – Barron’s