Happy Monday! Much ado this week around global methane reduction commitments - which are a big deal because methane is 84x more potent than CO2 and contributes to ~25% of global warming. Our heads are on a swivel with COP, coincidently coinciding with a marked uptick in capital commitments to Read more…
Happy penultimate-Monday-to-COP26! With just one more Monday before the UN negotiations officially kick off, there’s minimal news this week as everyone holds their breath - or journeys to Glasgow. We were all 👀 on the TED pre-stage, where an activist didn’t mince her words confronting the CEO of Shell. The Read more…
Happy Monday! In lieu of carbon taxing, US’ own special envoy for climate Kerry is moving in on a big push of big industry towards low carbon procurement adoption. As we alluded to with Friday’s feature on Activate, procurement - buying goods across supply chains - is big dollars and Read more…
Happy Monday! In this week’s issue, climate tech deals bring us around the world - including mega-rounds from British darling, Octopus Energy, and Indian e-mobility star, Ola Electric. Almost $600m of new climate venture capital hits the market - including $330m for Energize Ventures who joined us for Friday’s perspective Read more…
Happy Monday! In this week’s issue, we cover the alignment, deployment, and standard setting of Breakthrough Energy’s myriad approaches to “getting to zero.” In an impressive half decade, they’ve become the most active climate venture investor while rallying corporates, media, and research towards their ambitions. Three $100m+ deals this week Read more…
Happy Monday! In this week’s issue, we profile the rise of a new fund in Japan, the revivals of mammoths, and the unfortunate reality of most mega CCS projects. In the news, John Kerry comes out swinging on methane, a new coalition teams up to deliver the home solar credit Read more…
Happy Monday! Welcome to our 1,020 new subscribers who’ve joined us since our last Monday issue! We’re grateful for our long term collaborators and friends Nat Bullard at BloombergNEF and Shayle Kann at The Interchange for sharing CTVC’s mid-year funding data through their illustrious channels on air and in e-print. Read more…
Happy Monday! Holding folks in Louisiana in our thoughts as Ida makes landfall - it’s hard to fathom reliving sixteen years to the day of Katrina. In this week’s issue, we go deep on EVs and what makes it so hard - tl;dr, the combination of new drivetrains, supply chain Read more…
Happy Monday! It’s so dry in the Colorado River that the federal government officially declared a water shortage, meanwhile it’s raining for the first time on Greenland’s summit. NYC’s ‘back to normal’ concert was cancelled due to record rainfall so instead we curled up this weekend with Tariq Fancy’s The Read more…
Happy Monday! In honor of our exceedingly alarming weather, the NYT started an extreme weather column and they’re likely to be busy. The IPCC assessment report “unequivocally” points fingers at humans as the cause of ~1.1°C of global warming, coincidentally colliding with the passage of the $1T infrastructure bill. We also highlight Read more…