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Silicon Valley climate innovations need to focus on inclusion

For low-income communities around the world, climate innovations can prove still inaccessible, irrelevant or even futile. If we are all to take part in restoring our planet’s health — which is necessary if we wish to see significant progress on the climate front — innovation will have to expand beyond its current boundaries.

March 28, 2022
Found by:
Olivia Utharntharm
‘OK Doomer’ and the Climate Advocates Who Say It’s Not Too Late

A growing cadre of people, many of them young, are fighting climate doomism, the notion that it’s too late to turn things around. They believe that focusing solely on terrible climate news can sow dread and paralysis, foster inaction, and become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

March 28, 2022
Found by:
Olivia Utharntharm
Two challenges, many solutions for investors: where biodiversity protection meets decarbonisation

As the world sizes up the twin challenges of climate change and biodiversity loss, new approaches are emerging that are set to address both.

March 28, 2022
Found by:
Olivia Utharntharm
Drones will help Telstra plant 158,000 trees for carbon credits

Frustrated by a lack of reliable and credible market supply of carbon offsets, Telstra says it will instead bolster its own stocks by planting 240 hectares of land in northern NSW to store greenhouse gas emissions.

March 28, 2022
Found by:
Olivia Utharntharm
‘Easiest thing to help the planet’: How grocery startups are tackling food waste

A variety of Australian startups are connecting customers and farms directly – removing the middleman and eliminating food waste in the process.

March 28, 2022
Found by:
Olivia Utharntharm
NVIDIA to Build Earth-2 Supercomputer to See Our Future

NVIDIA has revealed plans to build the world’s most powerful AI supercomputer dedicated to predicting climate change.

March 28, 2022
Found by:
Olivia Utharntharm
Climate tech investment boom offers hope

Funding for early-stage and brand new tech to help cut carbon emissions is surging

March 28, 2022
Found by:
Olivia Utharntharm
The hottest investment in 2021? Climate tech.

Corporate venture capital investments in climate tech businesses more than doubled in 2021, setting a new record. Last year, these types of funds funelled $23.2 billion into the sector, which includes renewable energy, energy storage and electric vehicles, among others.

March 21, 2022
Found by:
Olivia Utharntharm
As climate tech heats up, London impact fund doles out £20 million for decarbonisation and sustainable energy

Impact investment company Elbow Beach Capital has launched a venture vehicle with an initial £20 million of committed capital. It is looking to make investments both within the U.K., where it is headquartered, and globally

March 21, 2022
Found by:
Olivia Utharntharm
Hydrogen under $2 in reach as Hysata develops revolutionary process

Hysata, an Australian hydrogen technology company, has developed an ultra-high efficiency electrolyser, a major breakthrough in the industry’s attempt to reach the commercialisation milestone of producing a kilogram of hydrogen for under $2.

March 21, 2022
Found by:
Olivia Utharntharm
Sustainability Report | Atlassian

Atlassian’s sustainability report covers our impacts on climate change, customer trust, diversity and belonging, and investing in education worldwide.

October 13, 2021
Found by:
Mick Liubinskas
‘Double standards’: Australia failing to protect its ecosystems while backing global diversity target

A WWF-Australia report reveals more than 1,500 of the country’s unique ecosystems are lacking protection

October 12, 2021
Found by:
Michael Molitor
Climate Change Replaces Pandemic as Insurers’ Biggest Worry

Climate change has returned to the top of the list of insurers’ biggest concerns as the vaccine roll-out and gradual lifting of health restrictions see pandemic fears ease.

September 30, 2021
Found by:
Mick Liubinskas
Sydney Impact Venture Capital Competition

Sydney Impact Investing (SUIIS) in partnership with Beckon Capital are running a competition for impact startups.

September 28, 2021
Found by:
Charlotte Connell
Avarni is developing a new format to report scope 3 emissions

Avarni is developing a new format to report the Scope 3 emissions of Qantas.

September 27, 2021
Found by:
Michael Molitor
Why it’s more profitable to back women-led start-ups

Tech companies founded and led by women perform better and make more money than those led by men - and the venture capital sector is starting to catch on.

September 20, 2021
Found by:
Mick Liubinskas
Giant Leap raises $15m Impact Fund

Their second fund was raised in a month. Climate is one of their key pillars.

September 9, 2021
Found by:
Patrick Sieb