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☆ Microsoft-backed start-up Heirloom uses limestone to capture CO2
  + stars: | 2022-12-05 | by ( Diana Olick | In Dianaolick | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +2 min
California-based startup Heirloom has a different approach: using limestone to capture CO2 from the atmosphere. Heirloom removes that CO2 by heating the limestone into a powder and stores the extracted CO2 underground. Heirloom spread that powder out on trays, with a robot determining location for maximum CO2 absorption. "We basically just give super powers to limestone to pull a lot more CO2 much, much faster," said Samala. Heirloom says it plans to deploy its first site next year and aims to remove 1 billion tons of CO2 by 2035.
☆ Check out the pitch deck Dandelion Energy, a green-energy company that began at Google's research division X, used to raise $70 million
  + stars: | 2022-11-29 | by ( Sindhu Sundar | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Dandelion Energy came out of a project that started years ago at X, Google's research effort. Dandelion Energy could provide a way for homeowners to defray these costs. In 2015, Dandelion Energy started as a project of what was then known as Google X, now just X, Google's research arm. Dandelion Energy has raised a total of about $136 million, according to PitchBook, from investors including LenX, the venture division of the homebuilding company Lennar, according to the company. Take a look at the pitch deck Dandelion Energy used to raise $70 million in new funding.
☆ Palm oil is in almost everything, and it's devastating rainforests. This Bill Gates-backed company used microbes to create an alternative
  + stars: | 2022-11-03 | by ( Catherine Clifford | In Catclifford | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +11 min
Palm oil grows best in the regions right around the equator, so palm oil producers chop down rainforest and clear that felled vegetation by burning it, making it a prime target of conservation organizations like the Rainforest Rescue and the World Wildlife Fund. Palm oil trees grow at the Cikasungka palm oil plantation, operated by PT Perkebunan Nusantara VIII, in Bogor Regency in West Java, Indonesia, on Monday, June 20, 2022. To make its palm oil alternative, C16 Biosciences uses a wild yeast microbe that makes a functional equivalent to palm oil with a kind of fermentation process. Photo courtesy: Cat Clifford, CNBCChemically, the palm oil that C16 Biosciences makes is not identical to the palm oil that is grown in industrial agriculture farms. However, "it contains the same fatty acids, which are the molecular fingerprints of fats and oils, that palm oil does," Heller told CNBC.
☆ Bill Gates' climate investment firm will put more money into adapting to climate change
  + stars: | 2022-10-25 | by ( Catherine Clifford | In Catclifford | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +7 min
Eric Toone, one half of the investing committee at Breakthrough Energy, speaks to conference attendees at the breakthrough Energy Summit in Seattle on Wednesday October 19, 2022. Photo by Cat Clifford, CNBCSEATTLE — Breakthrough Energy Ventures, the climate technology investment firm started by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, will begin to invest more in companies that help people and businesses adapt to the consequences of climate change. "We're left with adaptation," Toone told the audience. But Breakthrough Energy Ventures is most certainly not a philanthropic organization. And in the past, the Gates Foundation has done a lot of work on adaptation," Toone told a group of reporters in a media briefing in Seattle.
☆ Bill Gates says investment in innovation is the important part of ESG
  + stars: | 2022-10-18 | by ( Emma Newburger | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +1 min
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates on Tuesday addressed the issue of businesses that exaggerate environmental, social and governance credentials, arguing that though corporate sustainability credentials are often controversial, they are still critical for assessing whether to invest in a company. To me, it's not so much who you don't invest in but who you do invest in," Gates said during an interview with CNBC's Diana Olick. "I give people strong points where they're making those investments and becoming customers of those green technologies," Gates said. Global ESG funds received a record $649 billion in investments in 2021 through Nov. 30, up from $542 billion in 2020 and $285 billion in 2019, according to financial services firm Refinitiv Lipper. Definitions of ESG often vary and difficult to measure, creating issues for businesses looking to boast their sustainability credentials to investors.
☆ Bill Gates says rich countries must drive climate change innovation, even though poor countries emit more CO2
  + stars: | 2022-10-18 | by ( Catherine Clifford | In Catclifford | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +2 min
Bill Gates, co-chairman of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, speaks during the Earthshot Prize Innovation Summit in New York, US, on Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022. The first-ever Earthshot Prize Innovation Summit brings together climate leaders to showcase transformative solutions that repair and regenerate the planet. Rich countries are going to have to step up their spending to accelerate the innovation, development and deployment of technologies that will help the world reduce greenhouse gas emissions, according to Bill Gates. In the essay, Gates gives a brief retrospective of how he sees the world responding to global warming in the 15 years since he started learning about climate change. He's generally encouraged by how some governments and private companies have realized the urgency of climate change and begun investing accordingly.
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