While there’s lots of angst and hand-wringing — deservedly so — about Canada and the world’s ability to get to net zero carbon emissions by 2050, there are also plenty of commercial opportunities arising because of that effort. At Manitoba Environmental...
Firm Raises $1M Seed Round to Scale Biochar Carbon Removal in Kenya
Climate tech company Bio-Logical has raised a $1m seed round to scale up its operations in Kenya, facilitating its mission to build climate-resilient communities of smallholder farmers around the world. The funding round, led by the Steyn Group and Angel...
Carbon Lock Tech Named “Top-Four” in the Green Dragons Lair Competition
Excerpt: The MEIA Green Dragon’s Lair Pitch Competition offers select Canadian entrepreneurs and innovators the opportunity to pitch their product or technology to a panel of judges and attendees at the biggest cleantech conference in Manitoba.
With Growth in Clean Energy ‘Unstoppable,’ Fossil Fuels Will Peak by 2030, Energy Agency Says
IEA says nearly half of world's electricity supply will come from renewable energy by decade's end The way the world is powered will change dramatically by the end of the decade, thanks to surging demand for electric vehicles and clean energy...
A Startup Battles Big Oil for the $1 Trillion Future of Carbon Cleanup
Christoph Gebald's company, Climeworks, is a pioneer in carbon-capture technology. Can it grow quickly enough to make an impact in the climate fight? (Bloomberg) — Most everyone who’s committed their career to solving the climate crisis comes to the...
What Cleantech Leaders Need to Know About Generating Carbon Offsets
Voluntary carbon markets are growing quickly. But before taking the leap, startups need to do their homework. The pressure is on for countries and corporations to slash greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Earlier this month, the World Meteorological...
How Investing in Cleantech Bolsters the Planet… and Portfolios
Climate-focused venture capital in Canada is no longer a rarity, with investors, corporations and governments now competing for startups’ attention. To make good on all those net-zero commitments made at last November’s United Nations summit in Glasgow,...
The World’s Biggest Carbon-Removal Plant Will Take a Whole Year to Negate Just 3 Seconds’ Worth of Global Emissions.
Direct air capture technologies are showing that carbon dioxide can be drawn out of the atmosphere and sequestered deep underground. But the high cost of such technologies – as well as the practicality of deploying them at massive scale – raises important questions.
Ambitious Climate Goals Call For Rapid Adoption of Canadian Solutions
Canadian cleantech companies are increasingly looking south for opportunities as the Biden administration pushes for new climate-change policies and programs.
Saying “Yes” to Cleantech
In this article, Yung Wu, CEO of the MaRS Discovery District, argues that long-standing barriers to getting cleantech innovations developed, financed and adopted may be starting to come down — and will need to come down — due in part to the challenges of climate change and COVID-19, as well as the need to rebuild our economy.
Dead Plants are Powering Stockholm
The biochar process is ingenious, turning green waste into heat before returning it to the soil as an agricultural nutrient. No wonder it’s turning a profit.