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