Cross-Sector Insights
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It’s Really Getting Hot in Here (and the Apparel Industry Hasn’t Caught Up)
As a famous rapper once said, “Ça commence à chauffer ici.” Roughly translated from French to…
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Paddy Fields and Pipelines: What Aramco’s Investment in Mitti Labs Says About the Future of O&G
Mitti Labs just raised $9.5M in a Series A led by Aramco Ventures, Saudi Aramco’s venture…
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Climate Adaptation’s Summer of Exits: Atmo, First Street, AiDash
Three deals in five weeks, roughly $540M combined. Individually, none of these would have reshaped how…
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Spain Won the World Cup, Beating the Heat by 2030 Is Another Match
Spain lifted its second World Cup over the weekend. The celebration is real, and so is…
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Nth Time’s the Charm? A Look at Nth Cycle’s SPAC
Nth Cycle, a three-time Global Cleantech 100 award winner, announced on July 22, 2026 that it…
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China Is Innovating in Fusion at a New Speed, Expect More
In APAC, as in the Rest of the World, the Cleantech Dealmaking Landscape Has Narrowed to…
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We Can’t Air-Condition Our Way Out of This
Europe is in its second major heatwave in two months, with record June temperatures across the…
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The Other Solar Race: Inside the Fight to Recycle the World’s Panels
Solar energy may be one of the greatest success stories of the clean energy transition. Costs…
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America Once Fed the World, Now It’s Feeding Its Competitors
The U.S. was once the dominant exporter of crops like soybeans, corn, wheat, and cotton. That…
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Cleantech Group’s 1,000
Today we are announcing Cleantech Group’s 1,000, a list of the innovators, investors, corporates, and accelerators…
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The Resource Crisis Big Tech Created Is Cleantech’s Next Best Bet
In the U.S., data centers are scaling faster than current infrastructure can support. There is no…
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Half a Billion Dollars into the Ground: Why Geologic Hydrogen Is Changing Its Approach
Geologic, or “white” hydrogen, has been one of cleantech’s most hotly debated storylines for the better…
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Adaptation in Asia: Your Eyes and Ears on the Ground
Last week marked the first time Cleantech Forum Asia ran a dedicated Adaptation & Resilience Track.…
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A Moment for EV Battery Repurposing
The idea of leveraging EV batteries as backup storage and energy assets is not new. Vehicle-to-grid…
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Will the AI Bubble Pop Before Orbital Data Centers Launch?
Public Opposition Could Doom Data Center Expansion Across the U.S., communities are mobilized against data center…
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It’s Time to Wake Up and Smell the Chemicals
China Now Controls 46% of Global Chemical Sales It got there the same way it took…
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Fervo’s IPO Establishes Enhanced Geothermal Baselines, Presents New Competition to Fission, and Adds a New LDES Class
Fervo Energy began trading on Nasdaq under the ticker FRVO on May 13, 2026, after pricing…
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What’s Actually Happening in Desalination
71% of Earth’s surface is covered in water. Yet 97% is saltwater, unusable for drinking, crops,…
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Recycling Is to Textiles What Carbon Capture Is to Oil & Gas
Innovation is buzzing in textiles recycling, particularly in the EU where Extended Producer Responsibility laws require…
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SAF Was Always Interesting, It Just Took an International Crisis to Make It Feel Relevant Again
Markets tend to discover things twice: once when the investors boom them, and again when a…
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With Microsoft’s Pause, Carbon Removals Will Bottom Out This Year
On April 10, Microsoft announced it would be pausing new purchases of carbon credits. This is…
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Postcard Perspectives from the Asia-Pacific Region: Geopolitics & the Green Transition
Cleantech Group’s Managing Director for APAC, Summer Bae, gathered perspectives from investors across the region to…
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APAC’s New Playbook: State Capital, AI Infrastructure, and the Quest for Self-Sufficiency
The largest cleantech venture deal anywhere in the world in Q1 2026 was not a battery…
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As AI Weather Forecasting Speeds Are Commoditized, Value Is Moving to Accuracy, Data, and Decisions
AI-driven weather forecasting is rapidly transitioning from a performance race to a value-delivery race. While early…
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The Hormuz Crisis Will Have a Long Tail
The crisis around the Strait of Hormuz has reached a new fever pitch today, with a…
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From Efficiency to Resilience: Rethinking Water Security in the Middle East
Water security is becoming a defining issue at the intersection of geopolitics, infrastructure, and cleantech. Nowhere…
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From 2025 Funds to 2026 Futures: Cleantech Investment Trends
The most daunting part of any new year is figuring out how to navigate uncharted territory. The last…
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The Price of War: What the Middle East Conflict Means for Cleantech
As conflict escalates in the Middle East and the Strait of Hormuz under pressure, six of Cleantech Group’s Market Intelligence…
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Sustainability in Food Packaging
The World Is Moving on, While Packaging Is Stuck on Perfect Sustainable biobased packaging solutions are on…
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ROYGBIV Has a Dirty Secret
Just the other day, I learned a surprising and perhaps icky factoid from Levi’s, the American denim company.…
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