Power plant limits – from Obama-era standards on new fossil plants (2015) to Biden’s 2024 guidelines requiring carbon capture retrofits on coal and gas units. Together, these rules were projected to ...

Removals: Engineered GGRs — like DAC, enhanced weathering, and BECCS (woodland carbon still TBD) — will be eligible under the ...

If you’re bullish on the energy transition, you’re bullish on mining. With every new battery pack and wind plant, it’s becoming more apparent that the energy transition is a metals transition. Over a ...

Building climate tech projects is tough. Building a first-of-a-kind (FOAK) climate tech project is much tougher. From securing financing to forging a partnership with a developer, the inherent ...

From “FOAK fatigue” to funding flux, climate tech investors are navigating a trickier, more tactical market in 2025. A few months ago, we fielded an investor market sentiment survey, in partnership ...

The Five P's of FOAK preparation (source: Sightline Climate) This is Part II in our FOAK playbook series. In Part III we’ll be looking at the FOAK financing roadmap and the different routes for ...

Thought we were done with this FOAK series? NOAK! Think again. Before we set you off on your merry deployment way, we’ve got one more project scaling step left from Pilot to FOAK, now to NOAK and ...

There’s $13B of VC and $20B of Growth / PE dry powder from closed, climate-specialized funds in 2023 so far. These funds have invested a cumulative $30B since the start of 2021, alongside earlier ...

Climate tech exits have been steadily moving up and to the right along with funding and dry powder. The total number of IPOs, SPACs, and M&A transactions increased by ~70% YoY in 2021, then again in ...

The good, the bad, the eligible (Source: Sightline Climate) This is Part III in our FOAK playbook series. We'll be switching it up over the next few weeks, then return to your regular FOAK programming ...

2023 investment was down 30% compared to 2022, marking the first annual investment and deal count declines in climate tech since 2020. There was a notable peak in Q3 at $12.5bn, boosted by mega rounds ...