Clothes from space, fossil fuel phase-down by mid-century, and extreme heat across southern Europe

Plus the latest startup innovations and breakthroughs

Fast fashion clothes waste seen from space in Chile

🗞 News and articles from this week

💸 Money and Finance

• GFI launches Nature Group to encourage investment in recovery solutions

• World’s biggest climate fund makes its largest water investment

• ESG loophole helps drive billions into Gulf fossil fuel giants

• World Bank names CEOs to help bring private funds to climate

✅ Adapting to The Anthropocene

• “They’re in the air, drinking water, dust, food”… How to reduce your exposure to microplastics

• Can you change a polluting industry from the inside? Ex-aviation, mining, and gas employees speak out

• Growing seeds in space to help adapt to climate change on Earth

• “Let them garden”: call for landlords to help tenants and wildlife flourish

• Scientists invent the whitest paint ever to help cool the planet

• France to allow people to claim back between €6 and €25 of the cost of mending clothes and shoes

• Sugar batteries could supercharge the transition to renewable energy

• Climate change is turning the oceans green

🌾 UK Farming

• Farmers to take part in the largest landscape programs

• Loophole lets farmers pollute rivers with excess manure

• New fund aims to boost biodiversity on England’s farms

• 25% of soil samples failing on key nutrient targets

The European lobster (Homarus gammarus) Dave M Hunt Photography/Shutterstock

🛢➔🔋Clean energy transition

• UAE sets ‘mid-century’ goal for fossil fuel phase-down

• New North Sea oil and gas fields “will not meet UK’s energy needs”

• Wind and solar to produce over a third of global power by 2030

• New Iceland tech shakes up global geothermal energy

• Solar farms out at sea are clean energy’s next breakthrough

• BP to make €6.8 billion investment in German offshore wind power

• Offshore wind farms could offer new habitats for lobsters

Flood debris in Kurume, Fukuoka prefecture, Kyushu island. Photograph: Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP/Getty Images

Climate crisis & environment

• Chile’s desert dump for 60k tons of fast fashion seen from space

• 61,000 Europeans died in last summer’s heatwaves

• Japan’s “heaviest rain ever” triggers flooding and landslides

• Plastic pollution on coral reefs gets worse the deeper you go

• US refuses climate reparations for developing nations

• Why some companies are hiding their climate pledges

• UK water pollution incidents still “unacceptably high”

• Cities in the US are sinking due to the climate crisis

• Fashion brands withholding key ESG data

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🚀 Startups and innovations

• Dutch startup Meteory raises €550k pre-seed to track environmental impact with satellite data

• Carbon footprint reduction made simple: Expert advice for businesses, startups to thrive sustainably

• Cheeky Panda to Guest Judge for Startups 100

• Carbon footprint reduction made simple: Expert advice for businesses, startups to thrive sustainably

• Dutch startup Meteory raises €550k pre-seed to track environmental impact with satellite data

• From compostable razors to reclaiming metal from used electronics: Four startups breaking new ground on sustainability

• Nonprofits offer unlikely source of VC funding for climate tech

• Report: Carbon and emissions-tech funding set to beat 2022 total

• Green Concrete Startup Backed by Amazon Raises $80 Million