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"Climate justice is the social justice issue of our time," Heather McTeer Toney said last week at the Techonomy Climate conference in San Francisco.
The EDF VP for community engagement added that "the biggest environmental challenges can't be conquered alone. Private-public sector partnerships and non-traditional collaborations are key to delivering impact at a transformative scale." And that's exactly what's happening, writes climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe at Fast Company. "This is the era of climate innovation," she writes.
"A decade ago, one of our greatest challenges was collecting data to make the economic, social, and environmental case for climate action. Today, the challenge is getting stakeholders - business leaders, entrepreneurs, investors, and policymakers - to act on the data and put forth solutions that drive down carbon pollution and build resilience."
In the first half of 2021, more than 600 climate tech startups raised over $60 billion, a 210% increase from the prior year. "Climate tech investment is booming," Hayhoe writes. "More than 600 climate tech startups raised over $60 billion in the first half of 2021 alone."
That influx of capital is having two impacts: It's driving down the green tech cost curve and making investments in climate tech look less risky. Read the Entire Article
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The winner of this year's Sustainova Startup Challenge in Saudi Arabia has a message for the rest of the world: "If you want to save the planet, you have to start now." The startup contest,...more
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"The only way to get us out of the catastrophic mess we are making of our planet, and everything on it, is through our unique ability as a species to be creative and to apply that creativity in the...more
The Philippines' Masungi Geopark Project has been awarded the " biosphere sustainability award" at the 2024 Asia Pacific Social Innovation Partnership Awards in Taiwan. The award "underscores the...more
The FAA has given the green light to what's being called the "blended wing," a design that would dramatically reduce the amount of fuel needed to power a plane, New Atlas reports. The design from...more
Starbucks is taking a stand against single-use coffee pods: The company has teamed up with recycling company Podback to offer coffee pods for recycling at all of its stores in the UK, reports the...more
One of the world's most prestigious prizes for sustainable development is now open for applications. The 2024 Paulson Prize for Sustainability, which is being held in partnership with China's...more
"No single company can change the industry alone, and we continually drive with value chain partners to design for recyclability at the beginning of a product's life cycle so that plastic waste can...more
Foundation: Gates Foundation
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Novo Nordisk Foundation, and the Wellcome Sanger Foundation are teaming up to fight some of the world's biggest health problems. The three organizations...more
As the world shifts away from fossil fuels, workers in coal-mining states in India are bracing for job losses, Bloomberg reports. According to a report from the Center for Policy Research,...more
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Social Enterprise: Reaching Out to the Private Sector for Help
John Converse Townsend, a Forbes contributor, shares what can the private sector do for a social enterprise. He encourages social enterprises to reach out to corporations for help to scale up their businesses.
