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Automotive World
The new partnership between MINI and JVP invests in, builds, and scales emerging and fast-growth companies from Seed to Series B that are shaping the future of cities through novel climate- and urban-focused technology solutions. The joint venture between MINI and JVP will fuel the next generation of URBAN-X.
Bloomberg
A carbon-credit startup co-founded by Adam Neumann raised $70 million from venture capitalists and other backers, showing investors are still willing to bet on the controversial WeWork Inc. entrepreneur.
CleanTechnica
In this article, I’m going to dive into the report, which you can also view here. The study covered solar in US schools and it revealed a lot of good things, including that K–12 schools in Pennsylvania more than doubled the total amount of solar that had installed over the last five years. The report also included a few success stories and provided a how-to guide for schools that are interested in going solar. …
Financial Times
The US securities regulator is poised to crack down on exaggerated environmental, social and governance credentials in investment products, preparing standards for a sustainable funds industry that has boomed to almost $3tn.
Smart Cities World
WEF uses metaverse for private-public collaboration
World Economic Forum
Given more than 60% of carbon emissions within cities typically come from buildings, a concerted effort to decarbonize real estate is needed sooner rather than later. With little harmonization or integration, cross-border real estate investors and end-users are struggling to navigate the global net zero carbon regulatory landscape.
We Are Tech Women
She leads on fundraising and platform activities in non-German speaking markets, fostering connections with property investors, who seek to better leverage technology in their portfolios. Through her work, she helps to strengthen the fund’s brand across the continent. Her experience in VC includes being on the investment team at a supply chain-focused fund and in a platform role at the VC spin out of multinational real estate investment manager Round Hill Capital. …
McGill
As the impact of climate change intensifies and accelerates, there is growing urgency to radically transform areas that can be substantially decarbonized. Buildings are among the largest emitters of greenhouse gases (GHG) however the vast majority of existing Canadian building stock was constructed with no energy code in place. Developing a systematic and scalable approach to retrofit existing buildings and communities to reduce their GHG emissions will help Canada achieve its carbon reduction …
TechCrunch
Berlin-based Zolar has bagged €100 million (~$105 million) in Series C funding to expand its supplier network for small solar systems to meet rising demand for clean energy.
TechCrunch
Singularity Energy, a SaaS platform that reports on carbon emissions for the electricity grid, has closed a $4.5 million seed round led by Spero Ventures and Energy Impact Partners and joined by existing investors, including Third Sphere and J Ventures.
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