Cross-Sector Insights
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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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AI, Data, and the Race to Redefine Mineral Exploration
AI is rapidly reshaping mineral exploration and mining, but not in the way many initially expected. The competitive…
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Lithium Refining: What the U.S. Minerals Stockpile Must Learn from China to Succeed
What an incredible week in San Diego for the Cleantech Forum North America. Amidst the buzz of the 2026…
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It All Comes Back to Supply Chains
I once had a boss who told me that every issue and every answer ultimately comes…
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Resilience Revolution: AI, Earth Observation, and Weather Tech Reshape Climate Risk
In last year’s Global Cleantech 100 report, we anticipated that 2025 could be the breakout year for adaptation and resilience…
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How to Slash Your Individual Carbon Footprint Before Dinner Tonight
It’s true, your efforts are meaningless. I know there are many climate advocates out there who feel overwhelmed by their perceived lack of ability to…
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Outpacing the Flames: What Wildfire Tech Has Taught Us and What Comes Next
Wildfire risk is expanding faster than the systems built to contain it. Across regions, fires are growing larger,…
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Cleantech Under Pressure: Why Asia Pacific Is Moving Forward as Others Pull Back
In our 2026 annual outlook and Global Cleantech 100, we described the cleantech theme experiencing a…
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Postcard Perspectives from the Asia-Pacific Region: Looking Ahead
After assessing which markets exceeded last year’s expectations based on investor insights from across the Asia…
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Postcard Perspectives from the Asia-Pacific Region: Looking Back
Cleantech Group’s Managing Director for APAC, Summer Bae, gathers perspectives from investors across the Asia Pacific to assess which markets exceeded…
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Cleantech’s Next Frontier: Why Global Innovators Choose Canada to Scale
Start-ups and scale-ups today face an increasingly complex political and economic landscape. Fluctuating policies, tighter budgets,…
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2026 Global Cleantech 100 Trend Watch
A Rapidly Evolving Landscape Coming off a 2025 replete with both “known unknowns” and “unknown unknowns”…
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2026 Cleantech Outlook: Sovereignty, Decentralization, and the “Pressure Cooker” Effect
2025 was a year marked by volatility across many industries, with a changed U.S. posture toward…
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The Multi-Use Cases of Smart Transformers: Going Beyond Stepping Up and Down Voltage
The increasing complexity of the modern electrical grid, driven by the integration of distributed energy resources…
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