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Battery energy storage provider Lightshift Energy announced that it has raised $100 million from clean energy-focused investment manager Greenbacker Capital Management (GCM), with proceeds from the financing aimed at supporting the expansion of the company’s utility-scale energy storage solutions. Energy storage solutions and infrastructure are emerging as a key energy transition investment area. Storage forms […]

Cleantech startup EVOLOH announced today that it has raised $20 million, with proceeds aimed at advancing the company’s solution enabling efficient, low-cost clean hydrogen production. Founded in 2020, California-based EVOLOH manufactures high-performance electrolyzer stacks – the core component of electrolyzers – for hydrogen production. The company’s platform, Nautilus, utilizes liquid alkaline technology designed to minimize […]

Climate Management & Accounting Platform (CMAP) provider Persefoni announced today the release of Persefoni Pro, a new free, tool aimed at enabling businesses to measure and disclose their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Launched in 2020, Persefoni’s SaaS platform enables companies and institutional investors to measure, analyze, plan, forecast, and report on their carbon footprint.

Die Dynamik bei Artikel-8-Fonds lässt nach, doch das Wachstum ist noch immer signifikant, so die Experten der Scope Fund Analysis GmbH. Bei Artikel-9-Fonds sei das Vermögen im Vergleich zum Vorjahr jedoch kaum gestiegen. Scope gebe einen Überblick über das nachhaltige Fondsuniversum gemäß SFDR.

Retail giant Walmart announced today a series of new clean energy investments and purchase agreements, aimed at adding nearly 1 gigawatt of renewable energy capacity across the U.S. The new commitments follow the announcement by Walmart in January of plans to accelerate its energy transformation strategy, with an ambition to enable as much as 10 […]

Zurich-based Direct Air Capture (DAC) company provider Climeworks announced today that it has signed a new 9-year carbon removal agreement with the LEGO Group. The new deal also includes a carbon removal agreement with KIRKBI, the Danish family office for the Kristiansen family, which owns The Lego Group. The combined agreements are valued at over […]

Economic pressures have had disparate effects on asset managers’ use of ESG as well as their willingness to advertise around it. Some have leaned into it as a value creation and protection tool, while others have substantially decreased their focus on or mention of it.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced today the selection of 33 projects to be awarded up to $6 billion in funding aimed at advancing technologies to help significantly reduce emissions across hard-to-decarbonize industries across sectors including chemicals, steel, food, refining and cement, among others.

The study found a “green rush” towards climate funds in both the private and public markets over the past few years, with more climate funds launched in private markets between 2020 and Q3 2023 than in the previous nine years combined, and with these new funds representing more than 70% of the $90.5 billion of […]