Climate Tech Newsletter: March 30, 2025

Climate Tech Newsletter: March 30, 2025

Welcome to last week’s edition of the CBKNY’s Weekly News Highlights. Explore the latest policies, innovations, and market trends driving the future of climate tech.

🌱 Climate Tech Insights: UN’s expansion of Paris crediting mechanisms, breakthroughs in fusion energy, and Airbus’ renewed hydrogen aircraft push highlight a global pivot from policy to technology-driven climate action.

1. Startups That Set Out to Fix the Climate Are Now Talking About Jet Fighters

   March 23, 2025 - WSJ

2. How to save a glacier
   March 27, 2025 - MIT Technology Review

3. South Korea contains main blazes in week-old wildfires

   March 28, 2025 - Reuters

4. Global renewable power capacity falls short of targets despite record growth last year, says IRENA

   March 26, 2025 - Reuters

5. China to expand carbon trading market to steel, cement and aluminium

   March 26, 2025 - Reuters

6. Shell, Equinor, TotalEnergies to invest $714 million in carbon storage expansion
   March 27, 2025 - Reuters

7. GridPoint Raises $45 Million to Expand Platform to Decarbonize Buildings, Stabilize Grids
   March 27, 2025 - ESG Today

8. Airbus Reconfirms Commitment to Develop Hydrogen-Powered Aircraft

   March 26, 2025 - ESG Today

9. Calif. bill would expand state’s emissions authority amid Trump pushback
   March 27, 2025 - E&E News by POLITICO

10. Three keys to unlock the true potential of carbon markets
    March 26, 2025 - Cipher News

11. How Massachusetts is trying to turn EVs into grid batteries

    March 24, 2025 - Canary Media

12. Bill Gates-backed Commonwealth Fusion Systems hits key reactor construction milestone

    March 25, 2025 - TechCrunch

13. Revel opens first EV fast-charging hub in San Francisco

    March 24, 2025 - TechCrunch

14. New UN carbon credit mechanism okays first credits — and highlights flaws

    March 24, 2025 – Trellis

15. Modvion Builds Wind Turbine Towers from Engineered Wood
    March 26, 2025 - IEEE Spectrum

16. The Saya de Malha Bank | Reporting | The Outlaw Ocean Project

    March 25, 2025 - Inside Climate News

17. Will Texas Become ‘the Epicenter of a National Nuclear Renaissance’?

    March 25, 2025 - Inside Climate News

18. Farmers in Trump country were counting on clean energy grants. Then the government moved the goalposts.
    March 26, 2025 - floodlight

19. SEC Drops Legal Defense of Climate Disclosure Rule, Leaving Its Future Uncertain

    March 28, 2025 - ESG News

20. Type One Energy Issues First Realistic,Unified Fusion Power Plant Design Basis
    March 27, 2025 - Climate Insider

21. Schneider Electric Plans to Invest Over $700 million in the U.S., Targeting Energy & AI Sectors

    March 26, 2025 – Climate Insider

22. Apple launches US$99M clean energy fund in China

    March 26, 2025 – Climate Insider

23. Top 3 Pure-Play Battery Stocks to Watch in 2025

    March 26, 2025 – Carbon Credits

24. National Bank of Canada Targets $20 Billion in Renewable Energy Lending by 2030

    March 27, 2025 – Carbon Credits