Climate Tech Newsletter: December 15, 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

This week’s developments shift climate action from ambition to execution. The EU locked in its 2040 emissions framework with limited foreign carbon credits, India’s record-low battery storage bids raised questions about project viability, and China invested $80 billion abroad in cleantech—underscoring intensifying trade-offs among cost, grid stability, and global supply-chain influence.

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1. Solar Geoengineering Startups Are Getting Serious
   December 11, 2025 – MIT Technology Review

2. EU Agrees to Cut Emissions 90% by 2040 With Limited Carbon Credits
   December 10, 2025 – Reuters

3. Startups Push “No Roof Left Behind” Solar Revolution
   December 8, 2025 – Reuters

4. India’s Record-Low Battery Storage Bids Raise Viability Concerns
   December 9, 2025 – Reuters

5. China Funnelled $80B Into Overseas Cleantech in Past Year
   December 8, 2025 – Reuters

6. Big Tech Shifts to “All-of-the-Above” Strategy to Power AI
   December 11, 2025 – Reuters

7. Green Economy Growth Accelerates Across Food & Agriculture
   December 12, 2025 – Green Queen

8. China’s Alternative Protein Boom: Lab-Grown & Microbial Trends
   December 12, 2025 – Green Queen

9. 95% of Business Leaders See Climate Transition as Growth Opportunity
   December 11, 2025 – ESG Today

10. Google, CalSTRS Back $462M Funding Round for Fervo Geothermal
    December 12, 2025 – ESG Dive

11. The Gigawatt Paradox: Balancing AI Growth and Energy Capacity
    December 2, 2025 – EnergyTech

12. 2025 Climate & Energy Predictions: The Results Are In
    December 12, 2025 – CTVC

13. FirstEnergy Bribery Lawsuit Threatens Icebreaker Offshore Wind
    December 11, 2025 – Canary Media

14. Global Clean Energy Investment Hits New Highs
    December 12, 2025 – Canary Media

15. New York Public Utility Approves Major Renewables Plan
    December 9, 2025 – Canary Media

16. Climate Change Supercharged $20B Asia Flood Losses, Study Finds
    December 11, 2025 – Bloomberg

17. UK Grid Congestion Emerges as Major Clean Energy Bottleneck
    December 10, 2025 – IEEE Spectrum

18. Elvy Raises €500M to Expand Energy Infrastructure Across Europe
    December 12, 2025 – Sifted

19. When Companies Go Green, Air Quality Impacts Can Vary Dramatically
    December 8, 2025 – MIT News

20. Public and Private Capital Fuel Nuclear Fission Funding Surge
    December 9, 2025 – Crunchbase News

21. Big Oil’s Deceptive Climate Ads Promote False Solutions
    December 11, 2025 – Inside Climate News

22. Environmental Groups Demand Data Center Construction Freeze
    December 8, 2025 – Inside Climate News

23. Climate Tech Funding Dips as VCs Seek Exportable Solutions
    December 8, 2025 – Economic Times

24. Verra Issues First CCP-Labeled IFM Credits
    December 9, 2025 – Carbon Credits

25. BESS and Lithium Demand Drive 50% Surge in Energy Storage Shipments
    December 9, 2025 – Carbon Credits

26. Philippines Turns to Carbon Credits to Transition Away From Coal
    December 11, 2025 – AP News

27. Asia’s Offshore Wind Faces New Political and Climate Pressures
    December 10, 2025 – AP News