Climate Tech Newsletter: November 17, 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

In a critical pre-COP30 maneuver, the European Parliament passed a target to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by 90% by 2040, allowing up to 5% of the reductions through foreign carbon credits. The move underscores the EU’s ambition to maintain climate leadership but also raises concerns about whether domestic industrial cuts will match the rhetoric.

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1. Google’s New Energy Goals — What It’ll Take
   November 13, 2025 – MIT Technology Review

2. COP30: How the World Plans to Pay Its Rising Climate Costs
   November 11, 2025 – Reuters

3. EU Parliament Backs New 2040 Climate Target
   November 13, 2025 – Reuters

4. SBTi Draft Standard Proposes Flexible, Scope-Specific Target Setting
   November 10, 2025 – ESG Dive

5. EU Parliament Votes to Weaken Corporate Sustainability Laws
   November 14, 2025 – ESG Dive

6. Strong U.S. & Asian Data-Center Orders Propel Mitsubishi Heavy Industries’ Energy Business
   November 11, 2025 – Energy Tech

7. What EPA’s Restructuring Means for Climate Policy
   November 14, 2025 – E&E News

8. 1.5°C ‘No Longer Plausible’ as Global Emissions Hit Record
   November 13, 2025 – E&E News

9. A Landmark Energy-Storage Project Is Taking Shape in California
   October 7, 2025 – Canary Media

10. Sizable: Pumped Hydro, Ocean Funding & New Storage Tech
    November 10, 2025 – Canary Media

11. Chart: Carbon emissions are on a better — but not good — trajectory
    November 14, 2025 – Canary Media

12. Inside the Energy Race: Google, Microsoft & More (SOSV Summit)
    November 10, 2025 – Canary Media

13. Australia’s Aluminum Smelters Weigh Renewable-Power Incentives
    November 12, 2025 – Canary Media

14. New York Push to Delay the Gas Ban
    November 11, 2025 – Canary Media

15. Climate Negotiators Turn Focus to Extracting Critical Minerals
    November 14, 2025 – Bloomberg

16. Why Carbon Capture Is a Risky Tool Against Climate Change
    November 12, 2025 – Bloomberg

17. Carbon Direct Buys Pachama
    November 10, 2025 – Axios

18. Sam Altman–Backed Exowatt Wants to Power AI Data Centers With Hot Rocks
    November 13, 2025 – TechCrunch

19. Consolidation Begins to Hit the Carbon-Credit Market
    November 10, 2025 – TechCrunch

20. UN Climate Chief: Global Emissions Projected to Fall 12% by 2035
    November 11, 2025 – Pasifika News

21. Local Governments Scramble to Host ‘Artificial Sun’ Lab for Fusion Energy
    November 11, 2025 – Korea JoongAng Daily

22. International Energy Report Projects Slower Energy Transition
    November 12, 2025 – Inside Climate News

23. Canceled Federal Funding Complicates Green-Hydrogen Steelmaking
    November 11, 2025 – Inside Climate News

24. Study: AI Growth Could Drive Significant Environmental Damage
    November 10, 2025 – Inside Climate News

25. Hong Kong Issues $1.2 Billion Digital Green-Bond Package
    November 13, 2025 – ESG News

26. How the ‘Abundance Agenda’ Could Unshackle the Green Economy
    November 11, 2025 – Corporate Knights

27. Battery-Powered Appliances Make It Easy to Switch from Gas to Electric
    October 30, 2025 – MIT Climate Portal

28. From Now to 2060: How Canada’s SMRs & Maritime Nuclear Power Will Drive Net-Zero
    November 11, 2025 – Carbon Credits