Climate Tech Newsletter: July 21, 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

Tech giants Google and Microsoft announce major clean energy and carbon removal deals, signaling rising climate investment. Meanwhile, U.S. solar makers request tariffs, and Europe grapples with dangerous heatwaves and wildfires, revealing infrastructure and health safety challenges.

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1. Air conditioning isn’t just a comfort—it’s a growing safety issue in Europe
   July 17, 2025 – MIT Technology Review

2. California is set to manage power outages with AI
   July 14, 2025 – MIT Technology Review

3. U.S. solar panel makers seek tariffs on imports from Indonesia, India, and Laos
   July 17, 2025 – Reuters

4. Kenyan start-up aims to generate carbon credits from thin air
   July 19, 2025 – Reuters

5. Everyone needs to be able to plug into the electric vehicle revolution
   July 14, 2025 – Reuters

6. Solar, wind projects on U.S. lands will get extra scrutiny
   July 18, 2025 – Reuters

7. How our food system is hurting the climate
   July 17, 2025 – Green Queen

8. Barry Callebaut explores lab-grown cocoa for chocolate production
   July 18, 2025 – Green Queen

9. Japan Fusion Energy Council publishes proposal on fusion regulations
   June 30, 2025 – Fusion Industry Association

10. Democrats eye changes to climate spending clawbacks
    July 16, 2025 – E&E News

11. With time: A swinging pendulum shapes energy and climate change
    July 16, 2025 – Cipher News

12. EU hits new record for clean energy share
    July 18, 2025 – Canary Media

13. The cost of Trump’s push to keep coal open
    July 16, 2025 – Canary Media

14. How Trump’s new tax law would reshape clean energy credits
    July 14, 2025 – Canary Media

15. Solar factories brace for a downturn under Trump’s megabill
    July 17, 2025 – Canary Media

16. Newsom proposes easing oil drilling permit rules in California
    July 19, 2025 – Bloomberg

17. The billionaires betting on nuclear energy’s future
    July 17, 2025 – TIME

18. Microsoft is buying tons of carbon removal from XPrize startup Vaulted Deep
    July 17, 2025 – TechCrunch

19. Google inks $3B deal to buy hydropower from Brookfield
    July 15, 2025 – TechCrunch

20. Democrats push FEMA to declare heat a major disaster
    July 18, 2025 – Inside Climate News

21. Today’s Climate: Wildfire smoke, health, and politics
    July 15, 2025 – Inside Climate News

22. DP World partners with Watershed to scale emissions reporting
    July 18, 2025 – ESG News

23. Carbon capture and storage to grow 4x by 2030 – a turning point for climate action
    July 14, 2025 – Carbon Credits

24. Bitcoin hits all-time high—but will its carbon footprint cloud the rally?
    July 16, 2025 – Carbon Credits