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Banyan wants to unlock financing for a (more) sustainable future

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When it comes to sustainable infrastructure development, technology is making terrific leaps and bounds. For one thing, the processes remain largely manual, with financing in this sector remaining reliant on emails, spreadsheets and documents in a variety of formats. Streamlined, and indeed sustainable, it ain’t.

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Marie Ekeland launches 2050, a new fund with radically ambitious, long-term goals

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Marie Ekeland has unveiled her next act — and it’s a new fund called 2050. With 2050, Ekeland is going back to the drawing board with a different vision when it comes to investment thesis, fund structure and the firm’s own values. As the name suggests, 2050 has a lot of time to think about these issues.

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Pangyo Techno Valley: Leading the Charge in ESG Management and Building a Sustainable Industry Ecosystem

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ESG embodies a company’s commitment to maintaining sustainable business practices, upholding core values, and transparently reporting non-financial performance metrics. Data from the Global Sustainable Investment Alliance highlights a staggering 605% increase in Sustainably-Themed Investing in 2020 compared to 2016.

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Boasting a pedigree in business intelligence, Sweep launches a new carbon accounting and offset tool

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The new European climate-focused investment firm 2050 , and La Famiglia , a fund with strong ties to big European industrial companies, also participated alongside several undisclosed angel investors from the Bay Area. Corporate sustainability initiatives may open doors for carbon offset startups.

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Proptech in Review: 3 investors explain why they’re bullish on tech that makes buildings greener

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trillion every year between now and 2050, according to McKinsey. Proptech in Review: 3 investors explain how finance-focused proptech startups can survive the downturn. Many of our portfolio companies offering sustainability solutions also save customers money and improve operational efficiency. A deeper look at proptech.

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The climate founders’ guide to the Inflation Reduction Act

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The IRA also includes significant and open-ended financing for projects that broadly reduce greenhouse gasses and accelerate deployment of renewable energy, many of which will likely apply to building electrification projects, such as the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (Sec. Both programs can be combined with the third program (Sec.

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Two European companies are mapping a future service for direct air capture to sequestration of CO2

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There is growing awareness of the need to build capacity to remove CO 2 from the atmosphere to achieve net zero by 2050. Corporate sustainability initiatives may open doors for carbon offset startups. That will be the price range needed to build up the infrastructure and finance it.” Image Credit: Climeworks.

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