UK companies attracted 18% of Europe’s cleantech investment amid a record year of funding for the sector, according to new data. The report, compiled by IP and R&D tax credit firm GovGrant, shows that last year investors poured £134bn into cleantech firms across Europe.

The inaugural LinkedIn Top Green Voices highlights 15 thought leaders in Australia and New Zealand who are posting insightful content and shaping conversations around sustainability, climate change and protecting the environment.

Actor and environmental campaigner Cate Blanchett and clean technology expert Danny Kennedy explore eco-anxiety, optimism and hope in the face of climate change.

Climate change is an issue that affects everyone on the planet but women and girls are the ones suffering its effects the most. Why? Because women and girls have less access to quality education and later, job opportunities.

At the forefront of the innovation ecosystem is climate tech, with startups and entrepreneurs scaling their mission to solve climate change using digital technologies.

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.

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

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

In the first episode of Futurepreneur, national business editor John McDuling is joined by venture capitalist Nick Crocker to talk through what it’s really like to get a startup off the ground.

No single solution is likely to rescue us from the climate crisis, but four decades of intensive research and development have yielded innovation that could lead us to a cleaner and less volatile future.

Climate activists on campuses across the country have spent years organizing in the name of fossil fuel divestment. That organizing is starting to pay off.

Colleges offer support as young people aim to devote their lives to battling the crisis

Exclusive: Activist says there are many fine words but the science does not lie – CO2 emissions are still rising

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

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.

The Interchange is a weekly podcast on the global energy transformation providing deep insights into technology, markets, projects, company financials, mergers and acquisitions, policy changes, and market data.

🌲 Globally, the climate startups surge continues.

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