Boris Johnson, the UK Prime Minister, penned an oped in the Financial Times calling for a 12 billion-pount, 10-point plan to effect Britain’s green recovery. Johnson wants to create 250,000
Continue readingBoris Johnson’s green plan puts advanced nuclear in top three
The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected two teams—one led by TerraPower in partnership with GE Hitachi, building a 345 MWe sodium fast reactor with a molten salt energy
Continue readingDOE announces funding for three advanced reactor builds
Mindy Lubber, CEO and president of Ceres, perhaps the leading corporate sustainability non-profit focused on building business support for acting on climate, announced the issuance of a major report on
Continue readingFinance Experts Are Ringing the Alarm About Climate Change
Exxon Mobil Corp., the most prominent U.S. fossil fuel company, and one widely reviled for four decades of stonewalling action on and deliberate, deceptive obfuscation about the risks of climate
Continue readingExxon Mobil booted off the Dow Jones Industrial Index
Climate Action 100+ (CA100+), the largest asset manager activist alliance, with more than 450 investor members which collectively manage $40 trillion in assets, has secured climate action commitments from 70%
Ray Rothrock, famed Venrock VC who has made multiple investments in advanced nuclear, together with Ellen Hughes-Cromwick and Farah Benahmed, discuss the critical role that professional venture capital (VC) has
Continue readingOil and gas investments reach their “sell by” date
Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central Bank, wants to use the €2.8tn asset purchase scheme in the fight against climate change. This marks the first time that the ECB
Continue readingLagarde puts fighting climate into agenda of European Central Bank’s bond program
BlackRock is seeking to assert belated leadership after having failed to combat climate change for most of the last decade. With $7tn in assets, the world’s largest fund manager is
Continue readingBlackRock CEO, Larry Fink, warns of risks posed to markets by climate change
Impact Alpha, a news service for “impact” investors, reports on stepped up investment by climate-savvy investors, willing to make long-term bets and data from Cambridge Associates showing a rebound in
Continue readingCleantech investing rebounds but critical capital gaps remain