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Twelve Raises Over $600 Million to Turn CO2 into Clean Jet Fuel

Twelve Raises Over $600 Million to Turn CO2 into Clean Jet Fuel

Carbon transformation-focused cleantech company Twelve announced that it has raised $645 million of capital, including a mix of project equity, a Series C financing and credit facilities, with proceeds aimed at building out the companies capacity to produce sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) from CO2. Nicholas Flanders, Chief Executive Officer at Twelve, said: “Our financing strategy has been to build a…

Take Five: Hard Rain

Deep depressions and high expectations were much in evidence as world leaders gathered for the year’s biggest diplomatic get-together. Adapt or … –  Storm Boris wreaked havoc across much of Europe this week, bringing damage and disruption across Austria, Czechia, Poland and Romania, before heading south to menace Italy. It was easy for amateur meteorologists to draw links to the…

Morgan Stanley Invests $33 Million in ESG Risk Management Software Provider Datamaran

Morgan Stanley Invests $33 Million in ESG Risk Management Software Provider Datamaran

ESG-focused software analytics platform provider Datamaran announced a $33 million investment from Morgan Stanley’s late-stage growth equity private investment platform Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital. Datamaran said that it will use the new capital to accelerate its growth in the U.S. market, and to advance initiatives in generative AI. Founded in 2014, London-based Datamaran provides an AI-powered software analytics platform enabling…

Patience is Not Always a Virtue

Ana Haurie, CEO of Respira, argues for urgency in the development of a high-integrity voluntary carbon market. “No more debating while the world literally burns”, urged UN Special Envoy for Climate Action and Finance Mark Carney earlier this year. They were words to inspire progress – to kickstart the work needed to build a high-integrity voluntary carbon market (VCM) that can be put to…

Why Investing in Waste Matters

Waste treatment and recycling is a major long-term opportunity for investors, according to Stefanie Mollin, Global Equities Portfolio Manager at GIB AM. Waste management is a big – and growing – business, as the global scale of solid waste generation reaches vast proportions. Every year more than 2 billion tonnes of municipal solid waste (MSW) is produced across the planet, as…

Stewardship in a Polarised Environment

Fabrizio Ferraro, Professor of the Strategic Management Department at IESE Business School, considers sustainability-focused engagement in the face of the anti-ESG movement.   Imagine attending the PRI in Person conference in 2014 and asking ESG professionals to assess the likelihood of this scenario: within ten years, ESG investing becomes so politically charged that two candidates for the Republican presidential nomination…

Impacts of a Uniform Global Carbon Tax

Investors and businesses should not underestimate potential future liabilities, says Bethan Rose, Sustainable Investment Analyst at Evenlode Investment. The World Bank accepts that carbon prices need to grow over the long-term to drive investments at the necessary scale and pace. To keep global warming below 2°C, consensus suggests prices must reach between US$50/tCO2 and US$100/tCO2 by 2030. Although globally there…

Air Company Raises $69 Million to Turn CO2 into Sustainable Aviation Fuel

Air Company Raises $69 Million to Turn CO2 into Sustainable Aviation Fuel

Air Company, designer of a platform to produce synthetic fuels and chemicals from captured CO2 and hydrogen, announced that it had secured $69 million in Series B funding to advance its technology to reduce emissions in areas that until now have proven difficult to manage, including aviation. Currently, most sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) is produced from plant-based feedstock, which can…

Phlair Raises €14.5 Million to Advance Low Cost, Scalable Carbon Removal Technology

Phlair Raises €14.5 Million to Advance Low Cost, Scalable Carbon Removal Technology

Phlair (formerly Carbon Atlantis), a company developing a carbon capture system to remove unavoidable CO₂ emissions, announced that it has raised €14.5M in a seed round for the expansion of its footprint and further innovation of its Direct Air Capture (DAC) technology. Direct air capture (DAC) technologies extract CO₂ directly from the atmosphere, and can be used anywhere – unlike…

Google Signs Brazil Reforestation-Based Carbon Removal Purchase Deal

Google Signs Brazil Reforestation-Based Carbon Removal Purchase Deal

Google announced today a new agreement with carbon removal company Mombak for the purchase of 50,000 carbon credits generated through Mombak’s reforestation projects in the Brazilian Amazon. The agreement marks Google’s first-ever purchase of nature-based carbon credits, and follows a commitment announced in March by the company to contract for at least $35 million of carbon removal credits over the next 12…