Climate Tech Newsletter: November 24, 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 underscores a turning point: with commercial-scale fusion energy entering view, China mobilising a five-year green-hydrogen push, the EU introducing service-mandates for climate resilience in electricity, and utilities implementing data-centre load flexibility projects, the narrative shifts—electricity isn’t just about “more renewables” but about resilience, flexibility and infrastructural re-engineering globally.

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1. The Future of Electricity
   November 20, 2025 – MIT Technology Review

2. Europe Plans Service to Gauge Climate Change Role in Extreme Weather
   November 20, 2025 – Reuters

3. Trump Administration May Delay Biofuel Import Credit Cuts as Refiners Balk
   November 20, 2025 – Reuters

4. Fusion Energy Is Happening Now: The Global Race to Commercialization
   November 17, 2025 – RealClearEnergy

5. Varaha CEO Talks Carbon Removal Projects, Climate Tech, and Sustainable Agriculture
   November 21, 2025 – ESG Dive

6. Tyson Climate-Smart Sustainability Claims Settlement
   November 21, 2025 – ESG Dive

7. SEC to Sit Out No-Action Requests for 2025–26 Proxy Season
   November 17, 2025 – ESG Dive

8. Philanthropies Commit $300M to Boost Climate-Health Solutions Ahead of COP30
   November 20, 2025 – ESG Dive

9. EU Threatens to Block Weak COP30 Deal
   November 21, 2025 – E&E News

10. ‘Drowning Under Paper’: Vulnerable Countries Push to Cut Red Tape for Climate Aid
    November 20, 2025 – E&E News

11. Where Being Antediluvian Pays
    November 20, 2025 – The Economist

12. A Tour of China’s Electrostate
    November 21, 2025 – CTVC

13. Clean Investment Monitor: Q3 2025 Update
    November 20, 2025 – Clean Investment Monitor

14. How Smarter Software Helps Utilities Build a More Resilient Grid
    November 17, 2025 – Canary Media (Sponsored)

15. New England Low-Emission Heating Program Gets Federal Funding
    November 21, 2025 – Canary Media

16. China–Europe Partnership on Industry Emissions Standards
    November 17, 2025 – Canary Media

17. EV Sales Grow Worldwide
    November 21, 2025 – Canary Media

18. PJM Electricity Affordability and Load Flexibility
    November 17, 2025 – Canary Media

19. China Ramps Up Green Hydrogen With New 5-Year Plan Support
    November 17, 2025 – Bloomberg

20. DOE Gives Microsoft Partner $1B Loan to Restart Three Mile Island Reactor
    November 18, 2025 – TechCrunch

21. How Much of the AI Data Center Boom Will Be Powered by Renewable Energy?
    November 16, 2025 – TechCrunch

22. Underground Nuclear Reactor: Deep Fission Concept
    November 20, 2025 – IEEE Spectrum

23. Electric Boat Battery Innovations for Ships and Ferries
    November 6, 2025 – IEEE Spectrum

24. Advanced Geothermal Expands in Germany
    November 3, 2025 – IEEE Spectrum

25. EU-Backed Solar Buildout Launched in Colombia by Climate Fund Managers & Erco Energia
    November 19, 2025 – ESG News

26. Big Tech’s Rising AI Emissions Push Durable Carbon-Removal Prices to New Highs
    November 18, 2025 – ESG News

27. Brownfields as a Solution for Solar Renewables
    November 21, 2025 – Corporate Knights

28. What the IEA’s New Scenarios Mean for the Global Climate and COP30
    November 18, 2025 – Carbon Credits

29. Japan to Restart the World’s Largest Nuclear Power Plant
    November 20, 2025 – Carbon Credits

30. Indonesia Reduces Nickel Mining Quotas by 120M Tons, Impacting Global Supply
    November 17, 2025 – Carbon Credits

31. Big Tech Leads in Durable Carbon Removal Investments Exceeding $10B
    November 20, 2025 – Carbon Credits