Climate Tech Newsletter: November 10, 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 stories point to a two-track transition: major actors pumped new money and rules into adaptation and carbon markets — Gates’ $1.4B pledge, the UN’s market, the EU’s target — while fast-growing AI/data-center loads, UK efficiency cuts, and leadership uncertainty around China expose the system’s practical limits, plus ongoing coal reliance in Brazil and grid-reliability fixes in Texas still.

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1. Our Laws Must Catch Up to Data Centers’ Rising Power
   November 7, 2025 – Utility Dive

2. Cutting Home Insulation Funding Will Imperil UK Climate Goals, Reeves Told
   November 8, 2025 – The Guardian

3. Stop worrying about your AI footprint. Look at the big picture instead
   November 6, 2025 – MIT Technology Review

4. Gates Foundation Pledges $1.4 Billion to Help Farmers Adapt to Extreme Weather
   November 7, 2025 – Reuters

5. Can China Fill the Vacuum in Climate Leadership?
   November 4, 2025 – Reuters

6. Why Coal Still Clings On in Renewable Energy Powerhouse Brazil
   November 8, 2025 – Reuters

7. Science-Based Climate Targets Report Boosts Corporate Reputation and Decarbonization
   November 3, 2025 – ESG Dive

8. Heineken Uses Renewable-Energy Heat Batteries to Decarbonize Portugal Brewery
   November 5, 2025 – ESG Dive

9. UK Science Academy Sees Promise in Solar Geoengineering, But Not as Sole Climate Fix
   November 5, 2025 – E&E News

10. Shell Funds Carbon Removal Plant That Makes Water
    November 7, 2025 – E&E News

11. UN Launches Carbon Market in Bid to Accelerate Climate Action
    November 7, 2025 – E&E News

12. Feds: Wind and Solar Are Propping Up the Texas Power Grid
    November 3, 2025 – Canary Media

13. Zohran Mamdani Pushes Clean Energy and Building Decarbonization
    November 6, 2025 – Canary Media

14. Mikie Sherrill Victory Seen as Boost for New Jersey Renewables and Offshore Wind
    November 5, 2025 – Canary Media

15. Puerto Rico’s Energy Future: Distributed Solar or Centralized Grid?
    November 4, 2025 – Canary Media

16. Top Countries Racing to Decarbonize Factories — China Leads
    November 7, 2025 – Canary Media

17. What a New Model of Climate Finance Can Look Like
    November 4, 2025 – Bloomberg

18. Japan to Funnel Investments in 17 Strategic Sectors to Ignite Growth
    November 5, 2025 – The Asahi Shimbun (AJW)

19. This Startup’s Metal Stacks Could Help Solve AI’s Massive Heat Problem
    November 5, 2025 – TechCrunch

20. Millions to Receive Free Electricity in 2026 Thanks to Australia’s Solar Boom
    November 5, 2025 – TechCrunch

21. Menifee’s EV-Powered Homes: A New Era in Energy Independence
    November 6, 2025 – IEEE Spectrum

22. Wildfire-Destroyed Trees, Biomass Burial and the Push for Carbon Credits
    November 8, 2025 – Inside Climate News

23. EU Launches $108B Investment Plan to Accelerate Clean Fuels for Aviation
    November 8, 2025 – ESG News

24. Batteries: Powering the Clean-Energy Future
    October 31, 2025 – MIT Climate Portal

25. Microsoft Leads on Climate: $800M CIF Drives Clean Tech and AI Energy Deals With ADNOC, Masdar and XRG
    November 7, 2025 – Carbon Credits

26. From Baku to Belém: Can COP30 Deliver the $1.3 Trillion Climate Finance Pledge?
    November 7, 2025 – Carbon Credits

27. Canada Leads G7 With $6.4B Critical Minerals Boost to Secure Global Supply Chains
    November 4, 2025 – Carbon Credits