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August

20

Decarbon Daily - Issue for August 20, 2021

Estimated $1 trillion oil and gas windfall could speed decarbonisation

 www.upstreamonline.com
Oil and gas companies should be making hay while the sun shines and use their current record cash flow windfalls to speed up their decarb...

Is there an investment opportunity for 'bad' ESG assets?

www.internationalinvestment.net
The past 18 months have seen an acceleration of the Environment Social and Governance (ESG) agenda, and this is a positive development. H...

Climate tech: How ESG investing is evolving into ‘a profitable endeavor’

 finance.yahoo.com
As economies across the globe square up to the challenge of slowing human-caused global warming, venture capital firms hope to tackle cli...

Investing in low-emissions energy is the key to the climate crisis

 thehill.com
Last week’s release of The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report highlights once again the imperativ...

Ample raises $160M to scale its battery swapping service

 techcrunch.com
San Francisco-based Ample has raised a $160 million Series C to scale its battery swapping service, the largest round yet for the 8-year-...

BMW secures funding for EV battery aiming to rival range of a traditional engine

 www.cnbc.com
A BMW project centered around the development of a long-distance electric vehicle battery has been awarded £26.2 million ($36.07 million)...
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August

19

Decarbon Daily - Issue for August 19, 2021

National Oilwell Varco, inc (NOV) Q2 2021 Earnings Call Transcript

 www.fool.com
During the second quarter of 2021, NOV's consolidated revenue increased 8% sequentially, and EBITDA improved to $47 million, excluding th...

Congress Pushes New Offshore Wind Supply Chain Tax Breaks

 www.enr.com
To support offshore wind projects gearing up in their states and elsewhere along the U.S. East Coast, Senate Democrats Edward Markey and ...

Petronas delivers first carbon neutral LNG cargo to Japan's Shikoku Electric

 www.spglobal.com
Malaysia's national oil company Petronas has completed the delivery of its maiden carbon neutral liquefied natural gas cargo on Aug. 17, ...

Danish carbon capture project presses ahead

 splash247.com
Ineos, Wintershall and their consortium partners have decided to move ahead with the Greensand carbon capture and storage pilot project i...
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August

18

Decarbon Daily - Issue for August 18, 2021

Rivian Closes $2.5 Billion Funding Round

 rivian.com
Rivian has closed a $2.5 billion private funding round. The financing was led by Amazon’s Climate Pledge Fund, D1 Capital Partners, Ford ...

Houston tech firm Cemvita Factory raises Series A capital

 www.bizjournals.com
A Houston-based company using biotechnology processes to decarbonize industrial sectors closed a Series A funding round.

Regrow Raise $17 million Series A for Carbon Market Monitoring and Verification

 www.einnews.com
Regrow, a pioneering software company that is transforming the sustainable agri-food supply chain industry, announces the close of its $1...

HV System Raises £5 Million from Beehive Equity

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Hydrogen truckmaker HV Systems raised £5.0M (~$6.9M) in venture funding from Beehive Equity Limited, a subsidiary of EG Group. The startu...
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August

17

Decarbon Daily - Issue for August 17, 2021

2021 State of Supply Chain Sustainability Survey - MIT Sustainable Supply Chains

 sustainable.mit.edu
The goal of this survey is to gain a better understanding of the state of sustainable supply chains year by year. This is the 2nd year of...

Sustainability and Clean Tech Meet the ‘Perfect Storm’ as Sector Surges

 huntscanlon.com
A revealing report from the United Nations Global Compact and Russell Reynolds Associates is pointing the way for businesses to help meet...

Pfizer Prices $1B Sustainability Bond

 www.marketwatch.com
Pfizer Inc. on Monday said it priced a sustainability bond of $1 billion of 1.750% senior notes due 2031. The company said net proceeds w...

Industry Leaders Co-Creating Groundbreaking Framework to Evolve Packaging Recyclability

 sustainablebrands.com
Designing a package to be recyclable is currently complex and ambiguous, with no transparent national framework or guidelines in place. T...

Diverse Strategies Needed To Decarbonise India’s Transport Sector

 www.moneycontrol.com
Decarbonisation of the transport sector by mid-century will require a holistic and integrated approach. Leveraging technology to create a...

Carbon Capture Technology Won’t Solve our Emissions Problems

www.inquirer.com
The world is processing the dire warnings in the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report: We are on a path to see ...
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August

16

Decarbon Daily - Issue for August 16, 2021

The Carbon Estimation Platform - An API for Emissions

 www.carboninterface.com
Measure carbon emissions with an API. Develop internal custom tools to estimate your company's annual emissions.

2.5 Tips for Calculating Emissions From an Engine

 www.enveraconsulting.com
Plug and chug versus bottoms-up data approach to calculating emissions.

44.01 Secures $5M to Turn Billions of Tons of Carbon Dioxide to Stone

 techcrunch.com
Reducing global greenhouse gas emissions is an important goal, but another challenge awaits: lowering the levels of CO2 and other substan...

This Startup Uses the Cooling Towers on Buildings as Carbon Capture Devices

 www.fastcompany.com
On top of a nondescript industrial building in the Bay Area city of San Leandro, a company is pioneering a new way to fight climate chang...

Climate Crisis Drives Impact Investing

 www.themiddlemarket.com
With severe wildfires scorching Montana and California and a new climate report from the U.N. pointing to devastating consequences if act...

Carbon Capture Tech Becoming Cost-effective as Emissions Price Soars

 www.worldoil.com
Skyrocketing carbon prices and a “code red” warning about the threat posed by climate change are giving fresh momentum to a technology th...
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August

13

Decarbon Daily - Issue for August 13, 2021

Landfill Gas Extraction Systems & Methods

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Described herein are embodiments of a control system that automatically (1) determines whether a gas extraction system is in a state in w...

Compound for Capturing CO2 and Improving Soil Arability

 worldwide.espacenet.com
Disclosed is a compound for capturing carbon dioxide and improving the arability of soil. The compound includes a quantity of calcium hyd...

Selective Lithium Extraction from Brines

 worldwide.espacenet.com
Processes are provided for the selective recovery of lithium from brines using aqueous redox reactions, involving lithium extraction into...

Repair of Structures Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

 worldwide.espacenet.com
Methods and apparatus for performing repair operations using an unmanned aerial vehicle (2). The methods are enabled by equipping the UAV...
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August

12

Decarbon Daily - Issue for August 12, 2021

Planet's Space Data SPAC is Bigger Than Suborbital Tourism

 qz.com
Planet is the most mature space company to come to market—it had more than $114 million in revenue last year, which is more than comparab...

Sourcewater Launches GPS Analytics and Satellite Intel for Upstream Energy

 www.sourcewater.com
Join Sourcewater and Hart Energy for the launch of FracScape™, a new geospatial intelligence platform that analyzes satellite imagery, mo...

GHGsat Completes $45 Million Series B Funding

 www.ghgsat.com
GHGSat, the global leader in high resolution greenhouse gas monitoring from space, has completed the second tranche of a funding round in...

Permian Pulse: Using Satellite Imagery Analytics To Track the World’s Busiest Oil Play

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Companies are bringing satellite monitoring to the unconventional oilfield—namely the Permian Basin—where they are training machine learn...
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August

11

Decarbon Daily - Issue for August 11, 2021

Diligent Acquires ESG Leader Accuvio to Enhance Climate Reporting Capabilities

 www.businesswire.com
Diligent the global leader in SaaS governance, risk and compliance (GRC), today announced that it has acquired Accuvio, a leading environ...

ChargePoint acquires Amsterdam-based electric fleet manager ViriCiti

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ChargePoint has made its second acquisition since going public in March, purchasing European electric fleet management company ViriCiti f...

SpaceX Acquires Swarm Technologies

 labusinessjournal.com
Hawthorne-based SpaceX has agreed to purchase Swarm Technologies, a company that designs small satellites to manage internet-of-things se...

Chesapeake Energy acquires Vine Energy in $2.2 billion deal

 www.worldoil.com
Chesapeake Energy Corporation and Vine Energy Inc. announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement pursuant to which Chesape...

CleanSpark Acquires Second Data Center to Increase Bitcoin Mining Capacity

 finance.yahoo.com
CleanSpark, Inc. (Nasdaq: CLSK) (the "Company" or "CleanSpark"), a clean Bitcoin mining and diversified software and services company, to...

Argus acquires renewable chemicals specialist Oleochem Analytics

 www.prnewswire.com
Energy and commodity price reporting agency Argus has acquired Oleochem Analytics, a provider of renewable chemicals market information. ...
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August

10

Decarbon Daily - Issue for August 10, 2021

Oxy Looks to Ramp Permian Carbon Capture by Early 2024

 www.naturalgasintel.com
The world’s largest direct air capture (DAC) facility, designed to zap up to 1 million metric tons/year of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions...

7 Things to Know About Carbon Removal Markets

www.greenbiz.com
Fifteen years ago, the idea of sucking carbon dioxide out of the air and storing it underground was an anathema to many in the climate mo...

U. S. Steel to Work with Equinor to Assess Hydrogen, Carbon Capture and Storage Development

 www.businesswire.com
United States Steel Corporation (NYSE: X) (“U. S. Steel”) today announced execution of a non-exclusive Memorandum of Understanding (“MOU”...

Denbury Inc. (DEN) Q2 2021 Earnings Call Transcript

 www.fool.com
According to Chris Kendal, Denbury's President and CEO, CCUS utilizes technology that exists today. It can be massively scaled, and it is...
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August

09

Decarbon Daily - Issue for August 9, 2021

What is Carbon Capture Technology?

 www.npr.org
Billions of dollars in the new infrastructure agreement are targeted for a technology that would gather carbon dioxide emissions and bury...

Can Carbon Capture And Storage Save California’s Grid?

 www.forbes.com
California’s ambitious emissions reduction plans are driving the state towards a more expensive and less reliable energy system because t...

EnLink Midstream Reports Second Quarter 2021, Expects 2021 Adjusted EBITDA in the Upper End of June Guidance

 www.prnewswire.com
Our vision is to become the future of midstream by leading in innovation and creating sustainable value for EnLink and our unitholders. ...

AMCI Acquisition Corp. II Announces Closing of $150 Million Initial Public Offering

 www.prnewswire.com
AMCI Acquisition Corp. II (Nasdaq: AMCIU) (the "Company") announced today that it closed its initial public offering of 15,000,000 units....
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August

06

Decarbon Daily - Issue for August 6, 2021

LPs see value creation as leading driver of ESG, say Manulife

 www.privateequitywire.co.uk
Almost four out of five (75 per cent) of LPs expect sustainability to drive investment decisions over next five years, while 66 per cent ...

How PE Portfolio Companies Can Start Impacting Tomorrow Today

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Two CEOs from private equity-backed businesses discuss their experiences implementing ESG initiatives during a panel sponsored by RSM.

How tech (and some humans) is changing the face of ESG

 www.greenbiz.com
The line between climate action and financial performance is blurring quickly. Corporations are increasingly relying on new technologies ...
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August

05

Decarbon Daily - Issue for August 5, 2021

FMC Corporation announces Net Zero Greenhouse Gas emissions by 2035

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FMC Corporation (NYSE: FMC), a leading global agricultural sciences company, announced its goal to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) ...

ESG investing is booming, and investors are 'winging it when it comes to research'

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Interest in environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing has taken off, and there's no sign it's slowing down. And yet, when it ...

Emerging Markets Offer Big Investment Opps for ESG-Focused Investors, Report Says

 www.environmentalleader.com
A new report touting the importance of ESG factors and their impact on investments and investment decisions has found that better environ...

Award Winning ESG Investor Dr. Indranil Ghosh Launches New Podcast Series "Impact Unicorns"

 www.wfmz.com
Dr. Indranil Ghosh—CEO of sustainable investing firm Tiger Hill Capital , award-winning author, and strategic advisor to global leaders—l...
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August

04

Decarbon Daily - Issue for August 4, 2021

Inside the Epic Infrastructure Bill

 www.nytimes.com
What’s in the $1 trillion proposal, from broadband and bridges to ports and pedestrian crossings.

Gordon Signs Agreement for Wyoming and JCOAL Carbon Capture Research

 oilcity.news
Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon and Japan Coal Frontier Organization President Osamu Tsukamoto have signed a memorandum of understanding (MO...

Carbon Clean Awarded FEED Contract for Acorn CCS project

 www.gasworld.com
Carbon Clean has been contracted to carry out the Front End Engineering Desgin (FEED) services for the Acorn carbon capture plant at St F...

A new era for CCUS – CCUS in Clean Energy Transitions

 www.iea.org
The development of CCUS hubs – industrial centres with shared CO2 transport and storage infrastructure – could play a critical role in ac...
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August

03

Decarbon Daily - Issue for August 3, 2021

TPG Announces $5.4 Billion First Close of TPG Rise Climate Fund

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TPG Rise Climate, the climate investing strategy of TPG’s global impact investing platform TPG Rise, today announced the first close of $...

Highlights From The BP Statistical Review Of World Energy 2021

 www.rrapier.com
Earlier this month the BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2o21 was released, covering energy data through 2020. The Review provides a ...

Piedmont Lithium delays timeline to supply Tesla

 www.reuters.com
Piedmont Lithium said it will delay first shipments of lithium chemicals to EV maker Tesla. It does not have a definitive date for when d...

Five Carbon Capture Projects in the U.S.

 www.asme.org
Carbon capture is back. In March, the U.S. Department of Energy announced up to $24 million for research into technology that captures ca...
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August

02

Decarbon Daily - Issue for August 2, 2021

IEA's Roadmap Shows Difficult Journey to Net-Zero

 www.reuters.com
Polarised responses to the International Energy Agency report on achieving net zero emissions by 2050 reveal the enormous challenges of t...

China & India Miss UN Deadline for GHG Pledges

 apnews.com
China and India have missed a U.N. deadline to submit fresh plans for cutting their greenhouse gas emissions in time for the global body ...

Offshore Carbon Capture Storage: A Forecast of Transatlantic Collaboration

 www.offshore-mag.com
The European impetus to reduce and contain emissions has led to a number of different collaborative business partnerships in the UK and E...

Stanford Announces New School, the School of Earth, Energy, and Environmental Sciences

 www.forbes.com
The new school will house the School of Earth, Energy, and Environmental Sciences, the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, the ...
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July

30

Decarbon Daily - Issue for July 30, 2021

Aemetis Negotiating Supply of 1.6 Million Tons Per Year of CO2

 www.aemetis.com
Aemetis, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMTX), a renewable natural gas and renewable fuels company focused on negative carbon intensity products, announce...

Green Plains Announces 5 Locations for Carbon Capture

 www.globenewswire.com
Green Plains Inc. (NASDAQ:GPRE), today announced that all four of its Nebraska biorefineries and its Shenandoah, Iowa biorefinery have en...

Exxon Eyes Gulf Coast for $100 Billion Innovation Hub

 www.houstonchronicle.com
Exxon Mobil said it believes Houston is the “perfect place” for a giant, $100 billion project to capture carbon dioxide emissions from th...

Navigator CO2 Announces 12 Million Tons Per Year Capacity

 www.prnewswire.com
Successful non-binding open season of Midwest carbon capture and sequestration project complete; pipeline project would benefit agricultu...
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July

29

Decarbon Daily - Issue for July 29, 2021

Microsoft's Sustainability Resources - Scope 1, 2, & 3

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Microsoft is committed to becoming carbon negative (removing more carbon out of the atmosphere than the company emits) by 2030. As part o...

Vechain Tracks Emissions on the Blockchain

 www.vechain.com
The VeChain project started in June 2015, focusing on building a trust-free and distributed business ecosystem to enable transparent info...

Devvio Brings ESG to the Blockchain

 www.devvesg.io
DevvESG combines a powerful blockchain platform, a forward-thinking fund, and an environmentally-friendly cryptocurrency to revolutionize...

Open Footprint Forum: Data Accuracy for Emissions

 www.opengroup.org
Reliable tracking of environmental footprint data is a global concern for corporations, governments, and consumers. Accurate data on emis...

Redwood Materials Raises $700M to Expand Battery Recycling

 techcrunch.com
Redwood Materials CEO JB Straubel shared his aspirations last year to turn the startup he co-founded in 2017 into one of the world’s majo...
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July

28

Decarbon Daily - Issue for July 28, 2021

Apple Seeks to Manufacture Battery in USA

 www.macrumors.com
The report says that Foxconn, one of Apple's largest suppliers, and Advanced Lithium Electrochemistry, plan to set up plants in the Unite...

Tesla Surpasses $1 Billion in GAAP Net Income for Q2

 seekingalpha.com
To recap, Q2 2021 was the record quarter on many levels. We achieved record production, deliveries and surpassed over a $1billion in GAAP...

DOE to Move Battery Supply Chain into US

 www.energy.gov
The Federal Consortium for Advanced Batteries (FCAB) brings together Federal agencies that are interested in ensuring a domestic supply o...

Schlumberger and Panasonic Join Forces to Create Lithium Production in US

 www.slb.com
Schlumberger New Energy and Panasonic Energy of North America, a division of Panasonic Corporation of North America, announced today that...
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July

27

Decarbon Daily - Issue for July 27, 2021

Baker Hughes and Samsung Engineering Team up in CCUS and Hydrogen Drive

 www.upstreamonline.com
South Korea’s Samsung Engineering and US contractor Baker Hughes are linking up on low-to-zero-carbon projects involving carbon capture, ...

Baker Hughes Company (BKR) CEO Lorenzo Simonelli on Q2 2021 Results

 seekingalpha.com
We are pleased with our results as we generated strong free cash flow, continued to drive forward our cost-out efforts, and took further ...

10 Pitch Decks from Notable CleanTech Startups

 www.failory.com
Failory showcases 10 pitch decks from clean tech startups over the last few years.

Rice Alliance Clean Energy Accelerator

 ricecleanenergy.org
The Rice Alliance Clean Energy Accelerator was launched to increase the likelihood of success for early-stage startups advancing solution...
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July

26

Decarbon Daily - Issue for July 26, 2021

Japan Showcases Hydrogen at the Olympics

 www.ft.com
Tokyo 2020 is meant to be the “hydrogen Olympics” — a showcase for Japan’s aspiration to make the lightest element in the periodic table ...

Amazon Seeks Clean Energy in Japan Datacenters

 www.reuters.com
Amazon.com Inc is in talks with Japanese power utilities and trading houses to build a renewable power plant in Japan to procure clean en...

Octopus Hydrogen + Luxfer Gas Ink Green Hydrogen Deal

 www.businesswire.com
Luxfer Gas Cylinders - a leading manufacturer of high-pressure composite and aluminum cylinders worldwide – is joining forces with Octopu...

Japan Targets 40% Renewable Energy

 asia.nikkei.com
The Japanese government looks to have renewable energy generate almost 40% of the country's power in fiscal 2030 in the latest version of...
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