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NovoNutrients wants to turn CO2 into protein
NovoNutrients will be building a pilot-scale plant with help from a $3 million technology and investment deal.
Could the forests and land of Europe offset most of its CO2? This startup hopes to prove it
The voluntary carbon market remains a Wild West. There are few standards, a myriad of approaches, while buyers and sellers are crying out for clarity. And there are lots of…
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A single question changed how Singularity viewed its market
One conversation with a customer changed how Wenbo Shi viewed his product and, ultimately, his company.
Global climate tech investment triples, but cash for tech directly cutting emissions lags
Investment from VC and PE into climate tech is booming, reaching $87.5 bilion over H2 2020 and H1 2021, with in excess of $60 billion in the first half of…
Subscription carbon offsetting platform Ecologi hits $8M total raised, includes General Catalyst
People subscribe to music, so why wouldn’t they subscribe to carbon offsetting to alleviate their conscience about the climate crisis? That’s partly the thinking behind U.K. startup Ecologi, which uses…
44.01 secures $5M to turn billions of tons of carbon dioxide to stone
Reducing global greenhouse gas emissions is an important goal, but another challenge awaits: lowering the levels of CO2 and other substances already in the atmosphere. One promising approach turns the…
Supercritical launches carbon removal offset marketplace for tech firms to reach net zero
It’s a little known fact that the carbon footprint of the technology sector is greater than the entire aviation industry (Aalto University and LUT University). At the same time, tech…
After raising $10M, Ryte launches ‘Carbon KPI’ to measure the CO2 footprint of web sites
As we become more and more aware of the kind of impact we are having on this planet we call our home, just about everything is having its CO2 impact…
New markets emerge for carbon accounting businesses as cities like LA push proposals
Earlier this month, Los Angeles became the latest city to task its various departments with prepping a feasibility study for deploying new software and monitoring technologies to better account for…
Eying sustainability gains for its supply chain, BMW backs Boston Metal’s CO2-free iron production tech
BMW has joined the cohort of investors that are backing Boston Metal’s carbon dioxide-free production technology for steel. The Boston-based startup had targeted a $50 million raise earlier in the…
Carbon Engineering inks Shopify as its first partner for carbon removal as a service
Carbon Engineering is moving ahead with its carbon removal service business, allowing customers to buy the removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere using its direct air capture technology. The…
Two European companies are mapping a future service for direct air capture to sequestration of CO2
The Swiss-based, venture capital-backed, direct air capture technology developer Climeworks is partnering with a joint venture between the government of Norway and massive European energy companies to map the pathway…
Here’s how Elon Musk’s $100 million Xprize competition for carbon removal will work
Elon Musk notified the world that he would be donating $100 million to pursue new technologies for carbon capture, methods through which carbon dioxide can be actively extracted from the…
Microsoft commits to putting more water than it consumes back into the ecosystems where it operates by 2030
One good trend in 2020 has been large technology companies almost falling over one another to make ever-bolder commitments regarding their ecological impact. A cynic might argue that just doing…
LanzaTech is developing a small-scale waste biomass gasifier for ethanol production in India
As part of the continuing global rollout of LanzaTech’s technology to capture carbon dioxide emissions and turn those emissions into fuel and chemicals, the company is rolling out a new…
CO2-based vodka startup Air Co. fully redirects its tech to making hand sanitizer for donation
A NYC-based startup that developed technology that extracts carbon dioxide from the air and combines it with water to create vodka has redirected its entire production capacity toward producing hand…
CO2 in the atmosphere just exceeded 415 parts per million for the first time in human history
The human race has broken another record on its race to ecological collapse. Congratulations humanity! For the first time in human history — not recorded history, but since humans have…
Oil and gas giants Chevron and Occidental are backing tech to combat carbon emissions
Carbon Engineering, a Canadian company developing technology to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and process it for use in enhanced oil recovery or in the creation of new synthetic…
The energy debate isn’t going away anytime soon… if ever. Two of the big topics are of course, foreign oil and global warming. We want it here, we want it…
Today Sharp Japan [JP], the city of Sakai and Kansai Electric Power [JP] announced [JP] the so-called “Sakai City Waterfront Mega Solar Power Generation Plan”. Under the initiative, two mega…