Cross-Sector Insights
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Cracking Ammonia: Dissociation and Fuel Innovation
Ammonia is often touted as the fuel of the future. It is gaseous at room temperature…
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Hydrogen: A Fuel Carrier for Heavy-Duty Commercial Land, Maritime and Aviation Vehicles, and Energy Storage
In 2021, 98% of hydrogen was produced from fossil fuels—global emissions reached over 900 Mt of…
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C-Suite, Start-ups and Suits – The Changing Face of Corporate Sustainability
Corporate sustainability continues to move out of the ‘nice-to-have’ and ‘good publicity’ categories and into a…
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Novel Fusion Systems: Z Pinch and Levitated Dipole Fusion Technologies
A few months ago, an article in The Economist highlighted six key players in the private…
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Nature Monitoring: FINALLY, a Solution to the Tragedy of the Commons!?
We cannot address the climate crisis without looking at the biodiversity crisis. Over half of the…
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Hydrogen for Heavy-duty Transport: Use Cases, Roadblocks, and Opportunities
Despite decarbonization targets, emissions from heavy-duty transport have risen steadily for decades — tailpipe emissions are…
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Smart Waste Collection
The world generates 2.1 billion tons of municipal solid waste annually, and this amount is expected…
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Innovation in Built Environment Sustainability
Climate Week NYC offers an unparalleled opportunity (second only to the Cleantech Forum!) to exchange observations…
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2023 50 To Watch Trend Watch
We extend our congratulations to this year’s Cleantech 50 to Watch companies and encourage you to…
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The Growing Pains of the Green Hydrogen Market
The green hydrogen market is forecast to reach $1T by 2050 compared to just $260M in…
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Can Sorbent Innovation Make DAC Viable?
There exist various methods for carbon removal, encompassing both natural and technological approaches. Natural solutions involve…
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Can Plant-Based Protein Ease Livestock’s Environmental Burden?
The livestock industry accounts for approximately 11% of global greenhouse gas emissions while also using huge…
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Ocean Carbon Dioxide Removal: Integrity at a Cheaper Price?
The voluntary carbon market (VCM), where large corporates are paying for offsets to reduce their net-emissions…
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Will Lithium-Sulfur Disrupt the Energy Storage Market?
Materials innovator, Lyten, has announced a $200M Series B fund raise led by Prime Mover Labs…
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Marine Energy Systems: The Potential to Produce 2x the World’s Electricity Demand but Marred by a Sea of Challenges
Marine energy is often thought of as an untapped resource when it comes to renewable energy…
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How Crop Robotics Can Make Our Food System More Sustainable
In all but the poorest countries on Earth, the number of people working in agriculture is…
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Innovation in Cathode Manufacturing: Enhancing Battery Efficiency and Sustainability
Lithium-ion batteries have gained substantial importance in the global energy transformation, playing a critical role in…
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Revolutionizing Data Center Cooling: Immersion Technologies at the Forefront
Data centers, the backbone of our digital world, have experienced exponential growth in recent years, leading…
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The Electrolyzer Race: The Tortoise Versus the Hare
There has been a substantial increase in both the quantity and volume of investment deals in…
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Direct Lithium Extraction: New Technologies to Disrupt Traditional Refining and Mining
Lithium is an essential building block of the low-carbon economy, particularly for energy storage and electric…
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Q2 2023 in Cleantech Investments – A 2020s Status Quo is Starting to Emerge
Cleantech Venture & Growth Investments by Industry Group (2018-H1 2023) Since turning the corner out of…
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Electric Hydrogen: A New Benchmark for Green Hydrogen Scale and Cost?
As we have noted over the past 12 months or so, maturation of end-use technology is…
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Grid-Integrated Fleets: The Nexus of Transport and Energy Decarbonization
EV adoption is picking up. Last year, about 14% of new car sales were EVs, up…
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Reversing Agriculture’s Emissions with Carbon-Fixing Soil Inputs
Agricultural soils emit millions of tons of carbon each year. These microbes and minerals help to…
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Moving Towards a Green Transatlantic Marketplace
The urgent need to transition to a more sustainable economy in the face of the intertwined…
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Sustainable Aviation Fuels: The Rise of eJet
Aviation accounts for approximately 3% of global carbon emissions and 12% of all transportation. With demand…
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Vanadium Flow Batteries vs. Alternative Battery Chemistries: Who Will Dominate the Medium-to-Long Duration Energy Storage Market Near-Term?
Vanadium Redox Flow Batteries (VRFBs) are proven technologies that are known to be durable and long…
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Battery and Energy Materials Innovation Underpin Historic Highs in Cleantech Investments in Asia Pacific
In last year’s APAC Cleantech 25 report (launched August 31, 2022) we noted that, while venture…
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Greening Critical Metals – Mining and Recycling
Mining can be an environmental and social disaster – causing 4-7% of all global GHG emissions…
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Thermal Energy Storage Innovation is Turning Up the Heat
Decarbonizing heavy industries will be one of the toughest nuts to crack for the next decade.…
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