Curated daily by our industry experts. Stay informed on how climate tech is colliding with the real estate industry with these important headlines
The Guardian
The impacts of the climate emergency are now so obvious, only the truly deluded still deny them. Instead, we are at the point where everyone agrees something must be done, but many are making only vague, distant promises of ineffective action. As a result, we are currently on track for a 0.5% cut in global emissions from 2010 levels by 2030, when a 45% drop is needed to avoid climate catastrophe. …
CleanTechnica
Argo AI seems to be one of the top autonomous driving startups out there. It has significant backing from Ford and Volkswagen. Their investments into the company have totaled $1 billion and $2.6 billion, respectively. Last I checked, top global automakers don’t drop a few billion dollars on a company without some serious due diligence and hope that it will pay off.
PlaceTech.
Electric vehicles hit record sales in the UK and US in the first quarter of the year, but wide-ranging challenges could derail the industry’s recent gains.
Canary Media
Mainspring Energy CEO Shannon Miller thinks her company’s fossil-fuel-fired linear generators can be an integral part of a power grid that’s being transformed by renewable energy — particularly as those generators can transition to lower-carbon fuels.
AXIOS
The world runs a growing risk of triggering accelerating and potentially unstoppable sea level rise from the Antarctic ice sheet if greenhouse gas emissions are not strictly curtailed. However, this fate can be avoided if the Paris Agreement’s targets are met, according to two new studies published Wednesday.
Ted
If you’re a frequent flier, you’re also a major polluter. What if there was a way to travel the world with less impact on the environment? In this quick, exciting talk, aviation entrepreneur and TED Fellow Cory Combs lays out how electric aircraft could make flying cleaner, quieter and more affordable — and shares his work on Electric EEL, the largest hybrid-electric plane ever to fly.
CREtech Climate
The global authority on healthy buildings joins the leading consortium of real estate thought leaders advocating for climate tech. New York, NY (May 6, 2021) — CREtech Climate, a platform devoted to educating and inspiring investment in climate tech, sustainability and ESG throughout the Built World, is proud to announce the addition of the International WELL Building Institute™ （IWBI™）as an Industry Partner. As part of this engagement with CREtech Climate, Jessica Rose Cooper, Chi…
Inman
Proptech company OJO Labs and climate property risk platform ClimateCheck have launched an exclusive partnership that will place ClimateCheck’s risk assessment reports on listings in OJO Labs’ real estate search portal, OJO Labs announced on Wednesday.
National Geographic
President Joe Biden has set ambitious goals for fighting climate change: To cut U.S. carbon emissions in half by 2030 and to have a net-zero carbon economy by 2050. The plan requires electricity generation—the easiest economic sector to green, analysts say—to be carbon-free by 2035. …
CleanTechnica
The level of energy consumption and carbon emissions that can be attributed to the world’s cities is astronomical. It is estimated that cities are responsible for 70% of all carbon emissions and consume more than two-thirds of the world’s energy. Given that an increasing amount of the global population is moving to cities, and it’s clear to see that this is a trend that will get worse before it gets better, unless it is addressed. The new VC fund 2150 recognizes that if the carbon footprint of …
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