Climate Tech Newsletter: March 30, 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

UN’s expansion of Paris crediting mechanisms, breakthroughs in fusion energy, and Airbus’ renewed hydrogen aircraft push highlight a global pivot from policy to technology-driven climate action.

1. Startups That Set Out to Fix the Climate Are Now Talking About Jet Fighters

   March 23, 2025 - WSJ

2. How to save a glacier
   March 27, 2025 - MIT Technology Review

3. South Korea contains main blazes in week-old wildfires

   March 28, 2025 - Reuters

4. Global renewable power capacity falls short of targets despite record growth last year, says IRENA

   March 26, 2025 - Reuters

5. China to expand carbon trading market to steel, cement and aluminium

   March 26, 2025 - Reuters

6. Shell, Equinor, TotalEnergies to invest $714 million in carbon storage expansion
   March 27, 2025 - Reuters

7. GridPoint Raises $45 Million to Expand Platform to Decarbonize Buildings, Stabilize Grids
   March 27, 2025 - ESG Today

8. Airbus Reconfirms Commitment to Develop Hydrogen-Powered Aircraft

   March 26, 2025 - ESG Today

9. Calif. bill would expand state’s emissions authority amid Trump pushback
   March 27, 2025 - E&E News by POLITICO

10. Three keys to unlock the true potential of carbon markets
    March 26, 2025 - Cipher News

11. How Massachusetts is trying to turn EVs into grid batteries

    March 24, 2025 - Canary Media

12. Bill Gates-backed Commonwealth Fusion Systems hits key reactor construction milestone

    March 25, 2025 - TechCrunch

13. Revel opens first EV fast-charging hub in San Francisco

    March 24, 2025 - TechCrunch

14. New UN carbon credit mechanism okays first credits — and highlights flaws

    March 24, 2025 – Trellis

15. Modvion Builds Wind Turbine Towers from Engineered Wood
    March 26, 2025 - IEEE Spectrum

16. The Saya de Malha Bank | Reporting | The Outlaw Ocean Project

    March 25, 2025 - Inside Climate News

17. Will Texas Become ‘the Epicenter of a National Nuclear Renaissance’?

    March 25, 2025 - Inside Climate News

18. Farmers in Trump country were counting on clean energy grants. Then the government moved the goalposts.
    March 26, 2025 - floodlight

19. SEC Drops Legal Defense of Climate Disclosure Rule, Leaving Its Future Uncertain

    March 28, 2025 - ESG News

20. Type One Energy Issues First Realistic,Unified Fusion Power Plant Design Basis
    March 27, 2025 - Climate Insider

21. Schneider Electric Plans to Invest Over $700 million in the U.S., Targeting Energy & AI Sectors

    March 26, 2025 – Climate Insider

22. Apple launches US$99M clean energy fund in China

    March 26, 2025 – Climate Insider

23. Top 3 Pure-Play Battery Stocks to Watch in 2025

    March 26, 2025 – Carbon Credits

24. National Bank of Canada Targets $20 Billion in Renewable Energy Lending by 2030

    March 27, 2025 – Carbon Credits