London, June 2025 — Barclays Climate Ventures has catalyzed over £508 million in climate technology investment since 2020, according to its newly released 2024 impact report. By investing £203 million of its own capital—often as a lead or co-lead investor—Barclays unlocked an additional £305 million from third parties, mobilizing £2.18 for every £1 invested. The […]
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Tokyo, June 2025 — Nippon Steel has announced a ¥870 billion (USD $6.05 billion) investment to transition three of its Japanese plants to electric arc furnace (EAF) technology, a major step in its push to reduce carbon emissions and meet long-term climate targets. The initiative, supported by ¥251 billion ($1.75 billion) in subsidies under Japan’s […]
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London, June 2025 — Five African countries—Burundi, Ghana, Mozambique, Togo, and Zimbabwe—have outlined their plans to join Mission 300, a joint initiative by the World Bank and African Development Bank (AfDB) aimed at delivering electricity to 300 million people in Africa by 2030. At a high-level meeting in London, the five nations presented their strategies […]
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At the third China–Pacific Island Countries (PICs) Foreign Ministers’ Meeting, held May 28–29 in Xiamen, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi announced a major climate initiative: 100 small-scale projects to address climate change across the Pacific over the next three years. The meeting, attended by representatives from 11 Pacific nations, marked the first time the forum […]
Continue ReadingThe agreement allows EIB Advisory to further increase its impact on supporting innovative decarbonisation projects in line with the Clean Industrial Deal. Companies can now apply for project development assistance via the EIB Innovation Fund Project Development Assistance website. The renewed agreement for the Innovation Fund Project Development Assistance (PDA) is building on the success […]
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In a pioneering move toward sustainable energy and circular economy solutions, Climate Fund Managers (CFM) and Société des Energies Nouvelles (SODEN) have signed a $3 million co-development agreement to build the world’s first industrial-scale, grid-connected cocoa waste-to-energy power plant. The 76 MW Divo Biomass Project, to be located in Divo, Côte d’Ivoire, will transform agricultural […]
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DuPont has reached a significant sustainability milestone, announcing that all 13 of its manufacturing sites in the European Union are now powered entirely by renewable grid electricity. This achievement supports the company’s 2030 Sustainability Goals and advances its commitment to reaching net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. The transition was enabled through a combination of on-site […]
Continue ReadingIn this Q&A, we discussed with author Charlotte Reemts the background behind her team’s recently published meta-analysis focused on invasive bluestems. Why study this group of grasses? Warm-season grasses from these two genera (Bothriochloa and Dichanthium) are interesting because they are important species in their native ranges but have also been introduced into other grasslands […]
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ScottishPower Energy Networks (SPEN), the UK distribution arm of Iberdrola, has announced a €262 million (£220 million) investment to modernise and expand over 20,000 km of electricity grid infrastructure across Scotland and North West England. The initiative, part of SPEN’s ED2 business plan (2023–2028), supports the UK’s transition to electrification and net-zero goals while laying […]
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