Climate Tech

170 bison in Romania's Tarcu Mountains are capturing 10x more carbon than the same land without them. That's 54,000 tons per year across 48 square kilometers. In Romania's Tarcu Mountains, rewilding researchers have be…

Qatar Investment Authority x Speedinvest: Doha's new $250 million fund to boost its AI startups ecosystem I've been tracking Qatar's investments in startups and I can tell you that this partnership is a MASTERCLASS in e…

Perovskite solar has been "5 years away" for a decade. Tandem PV just opened a factory. The company launched a 65,000 square foot commercial demonstration facility in Fremont, California. Annual capacity: 40 MW. The pa…

📣 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 Climate risk reports are getting better every year. Yet buildings are getting designed as if none of them existed. 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐠𝐚𝐩 𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐲 𝐈'𝐯𝐞 𝐣𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐟𝐨.𝐚𝐢, 𝐚𝐬 𝐚𝐧 �…

A 10-story timber building just survived 88 simulated earthquakes. It walked away without a scratch. No repairs needed. Steel and concrete structures crack under that kind of stress, leak carbon through repairs, and co…

🚀 Giacomo Aiello and I attended Contech Connect at STATION F while building Climate For All as part of the 21st by CentraleSupélec incubator. The event offered a clear snapshot of where the European AEC sector is headi…

A Dutch research organization developed a perovskite solar module on flexible foil, bent it around a curved composite roof tile, and retained 12.4% efficiency. Standalone module hit 13.8%. Only 1.4% loss from the curvatu…

Construction accounts for 10-20% of global emissions. I rarely see it in climate portfolios. Cities worldwide face massive housing shortages. By 2050, billions more people will live in urban areas, and that means billio…

Below zero... For about 200 years, we have been using the atmosphere as a giant waste disposal for the CO2 emitted as a result of the roughly 900 billion tons of fossil fuels humanity has burnt. That is now causing catas…

Amsterdam just banned fossil fuel and meat ads across all public spaces. 4.3% of outdoor ads were fossil fuel. 0.1% were meat. So this isn't really about ad volume. The ban covers billboards, buses, trams, and metro s…