Cross-Sector Insights
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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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Bolstering Minerals Security in the Wake of Supply Constraints and Ongoing Geopolitical Tensions
The Problem with Current Financial Systems Are… Current financial systems are a significant bottleneck—or even an active deterrent—to long-term climate…
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Why the Energy Transition Looks Different Everywhere
The global energy transition is diverging along regional lines. What’s possible–and profitable–in one place may not be in another. In Europe,…
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Cleantech’s Anti-Hero: It’s Me, AI. I’m the Problem. It’s Me.
I’m tired of AI. There, I said it. And I know I’m not the only one. Conversations about its…
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Recycled Aluminum: A Trump Environmental Success?
Aluminum—that’s right aluminum—is rapidly becoming a focus for American remanufacturing ambitions. President Donald Trump’s recent doubling…
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Where Adaptation Becomes Innovation: Inside the 2025 LATAM Cleantech 25
We’re excited to share the second edition of our LATAM Cleantech 25 report. The world looks…
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The Cold Chain Conundrum
What is the Cold Chain? The cold chain is the global transportation and distribution of temperature-controlled…
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AI at the Crossroads of Climate and Innovation
The Age of AI: Promise, Power, and Paradox The last 36 months have witnessed an extraordinary…
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Spark of Innovation: How Tech Is Catching Wildfires Before They Burn
The Market Is Heating Up Early wildfire detection sits at the crossroads of several transformative trends…
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Grow, Flow, or Slow: How the Cleantech 50 to Watch Innovators Are Navigating 2025’s Shifting Currents
Last year, as we published the Cleantech 50 to Watch, the world stood on the edge…
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Postcard Perspectives from the Asia-Pacific Region
The Asia-Pacific cleantech landscape is at an inflection point. After a decade of chasing breakthrough returns,…
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Cleantech Companies to Watch from the Asia-Pacific Region
This quarter’s ‘Companies to Watch’ highlights companies that our guest investors from the region think our…
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Beyond the Headlines: APAC’s Fusion Ambitions and the Rise of Energy-Efficient Compute
In last quarter’s APAC analysis, we covered a wave of electric mobility deals that indicated a…
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Post-Oil Opportunities: Kazakhstan’s Cleantech Potential
The first country in Central Asia to commit to climate neutrality by 2060, Kazakhstan has demonstrated…
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What’s REEally Happening with Rare Earths?
It was 4th grade where I got my first introduction to the periodic table. Our teacher…
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Reducing Energy Consumption From Data Center Cooling By Eliminating Heat-Generating Components
As AI Energy Demands Grow, Improved Power Electronics Will Be Needed As AI becomes integrated into…
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The Greenest Red State: A Texas-Sized Cleantech Transformation
The Lone Star State, a long-known global energy hub, is emerging as a cleantech capital. A…
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Crop Science Innovation in 2025: The Frontline of Climate Resilience
In 2025, agriculture is no longer just about yield—it’s about survival. As climate volatility intensifies, land…
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How Emerging Economies are Building Cleantech Capacity in Today’s Ever More Fragmented World
Earlier this year, more than 60 cleantech ecosystem representatives from 11 countries came together in an…
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The Forecast Revolution: How Innovation Is Disrupting the Weather Industry
Weather forecasting has typically been the domain of national meteorological agencies running physics-based models. Today, that…
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An Overview of the Global Battery Recycling Industry
Over the past three years, battery recycling has received heightened attention, raising critical questions: What is…
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Minerals, Meet Microbes: A Potential Match Made in Metal Heaven
Do you smell what the rock is cooking? Well, if you’ve been paying attention to the…
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Generating Carbon Offsets in Carbon Farming
Soil carbon and carbon farming deal with organic carbon that is present or stored in soil. …
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