What is the difference between climate tech and clean tech?

Climate tech includes some similar functions to clean tech, but climate tech primarily focuses on greenhouse gas emissions.

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This includes removing greenhouse gases in the environment and reducing future emissions.

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Climate tech initiatives include the following:

  • Agri-tech. Agri-tech helps mitigate greenhouse gases with initiatives such as reducing livestock manure, using less pesticides and improving crop-growing processes — for example, by using aeroponics.

  • Afforestation. To assist with carbon capture, afforestation creates new forests so that trees can reduce carbon dioxide and add oxygen to the air, reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Organizations work with the timber industry to help restore trees in degraded areas.

  • Carbon capture. The main gas contributing to climate change and global heating is carbon dioxide. Capturing carbon and preventing it from going into the environment can help mitigate the effects. Manufacturers are looking for clean energy using carbon capture technology, which takes carbon from the manufacturer, stores it, and turns it into hydrogen for power with minimal or zero greenhouse gas emissions.

  • Geoengineering. Also referred to as climate engineering, geoengineering’s goal is to alter the climate system to reduce the effects of climate change. One way to do this is to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by capturing the gas and storing it below ground. Solar radiation management is another form of geoengineering that captures and reduces the sun’s rays to prevent warming the Earth.

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What’s the difference between climate tech and clean tech?

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Climate tech includes some similar functions to clean tech, but climate tech primarily focuses on greenhouse gas emissions. However, these emissions are only one portion of society’s effects on the environment.

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What’s the difference between climate tech and clean tech?

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Climate tech is a hot investment in 2022 — next five years could be even hotter

Despite whispers of a downturn earlier this year, investors continue to express confidence in climate tech. Though numbers are down compared with 2021, a year that many agree is an outlier in the VC world, they’re on track to beat 2020 as the second hottest year for investment.

What’s more, deal counts and values were up in the second quarter of this year compared with the first, suggesting that the slowdown has more or less skipped climate tech.

Though deal count is down nearly 19% compared with last year, it was up 15.4% in the second quarter, according to a PitchBook analysis. Total market deal value, down year over year, was up significantly in Q2, and the average value per deal has held steady at $23.6 million, more than triple what it was five years ago.

In some ways, those modest numbers could be interpreted as a slight cooldown. But the sector is probably just taking a breather given its near-term potential. Just five years from now, PitchBook estimates the climate tech market will near $1.4 trillion, representing a compound annual growth rate of 8.8%.

With that kind of growth coming down the pike, there are a lot of different bets to place in the climate tech sector, but a few stand out for their early-stage potential and favorable tailwinds.

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Climate tech is a hot investment in 2022

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State of Venture Q3 2022 Report

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The global venture ecosystem continues its slowdown in Q3’22 as funding decreases 34% quarter-over-quarter.

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Global venture funding reached $74.5B in Q3’22, hitting a 9-quarter low. The new funding level represented a 34% drop quarter-over-quarter — the largest quarterly percentage drop in a decade — and a 58% decline from the investment highs reached in Q4’21.

​Deal activity hit 7,936 deals total, marking a 9.5% quarterly drop and a 7-quarter low.  

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US-based companies raised $36.7B, accounting for just under half of global Q3’22 funding. Some of the quarter’s largest rounds in the region went to companies including TeraWatt InfrastructureTerraPower, and EnergyX.

Other Q3’22 highlights across the venture ecosystem include:

  • Q3’22 saw only 25 new unicorns (private companies valued at $1B+) — the lowest unicorn birth count since Q1’20. The US accounted for the majority (14) of these births. Leading entrants include Zhiji Auto ($4.4B valuation), Tridge ($2.7B), and 21.co ($2B).

  • 100M+ mega-rounds collectively accounted for $29.6B in Q3’22, marking a 9-quarter low and a 44% drop QoQ. Mega-round deal count dropped in all major regions to hit 144 in Q3’22, also a 9-quarter low. 

  • Retail tech funding declined 33% QoQ to $8.5B, even as deals ticked up 5% to 776. Average deal size YTD clocked in at $24M, down 35% compared to 2021 averages.

  • The fintech sector also continued to contract. With $12.9B raised across 1,160 deals, Q3’22 was the weakest quarter the sector has seen since Q4’20.

  • Global digital health deals fell to their lowest levels in 5 years, with $5B raised across just 419 deals. The US led, accounting for more than half (58%) of total digital health funding at $2.9B.

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State of Venture Q3 2022 Report

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PGF7T token info, Green, Web3, Dapps

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Race To Zero Campaign

Race To Zero is a global campaign to rally leadership and support from businesses, cities, regions, investors for a healthy, resilient, zero carbon recovery that prevents future threats, creates decent jobs, and unlocks inclusive, sustainable growth.

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It mobilizes a coalition of leading net zero initiatives, representing 1,049 cities, 67 regions, 5,235 businesses, 441 of the biggest investors, and 1,039 Higher Education Institutions. These ‘real economy’ actors join 120 countries in the largest ever alliance committed to achieving net zero carbon emissions by 2050 at the latest. Collectively these actors now cover nearly 25% global CO2 emissions and over 50% GDP.

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Led by the High-Level Climate Champions for Climate Action – Mahmoud Mohieldin and Nigel Topping – Race To Zero mobilizes actors outside of national governments to join the Climate Ambition Alliance, which was launched at the UNSG’s Climate Action Summit 2019 by the President of Chile, Sebastián Piñera.

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The objective is to build momentum around the shift to a decarbonized economy ahead of COP26, where governments must strengthen their contributions to the Paris Agreement. This will send governments a resounding signal that business, cities, regions and investors are united in meeting the Paris goals and creating a more inclusive and resilient economy.

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WEF Launches Crypto Sustainability Coalition to Leverage Web3 Technologies in Climate Change Battle

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The World Economic Forum (WEF) has launched the Crypto Sustainability Coalition, an initiative dedicated to assessing the role of Web3 technologies in the fight against climate change. The organization, which is composed of 30 companies, educative groups, and other institutions, will research the impact of the energy consumption of these technologies, and how they can be used to aid the current decarbonization efforts.

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WEF to Use Web3 to Fight Climate Change

Web3, a term that groups cryptocurrency and blockchain-based technologies, is currently in the spotlight of energy groups that seek to determine if the use of these technologies is pernicious for the environment. The World Economic Forum (WEF) has decided to take these technologies into account, launching an initiative to investigate if they can be useful to the current fight against climate change.

The initiative, which was announced on September 21, is called the Crypto Sustainability Coalition, and it is composed of 30 different companies, educative organizations, and other institutions interested in this issue. Among these are known cryptocurrency-linked projects, like Solana, Avalanche, Circle, NEAR Foundation, Ripple, and the Stellar Development Foundation, among others.

This coalition, as part of the Crypto Impact and Sustainability Accelerator, another bigger initiative launched this same year, will inquire about the different ways in which these companies can organize to help in this endeavor. Brynly Llyr, head of blockchain and digital assets of the World Economic Forum stated:

An important and unique aspect of Web3 is that it uses technology to support and reward direct community engagement and action. This means we can coordinate the work of many individuals directly with one another, enabling collective action without centralized control.

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Different Study Areas and Criticism

This new initiative has already created different workgroups to investigate three key subjects related to crypto, blockchain, and their usage. One of these points has to do with the energy usage of these technologies, and how these can impact the climate and nature in the future.

Another of the key points has to do with how these Web3 technologies can change and be leveraged in order to decarbonize current activities. These applications might include mining and other decentralized activities.

The third subject has to do with standardizing and putting carbon credits in the blockchain, making the issuance and management of these instruments more transparent and trustable, and opening the doors for more people to participate in these markets.

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WEF Launches Crypto Sustainability Coalition to Leverage Web3 Technologies in Climate Change Battle

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PGF7T token info, Green, Web3, Dapps

PGF500 has a token on the Ethereum network, called PGF7T, which you can use to pay for subscriptions and services within the PGF500 platform.

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We have chosen to adopt blockchain technology for the launch of 2 innovative decentralized Dapps.

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We believe in Web3 and in the strength of communities.

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The token is on the Ethereum smart contract 0x9fadea1aff842d407893e21dbd0e2017b4c287b6 ,

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Web3 tech can be used to fight climate change. Here is how | World Economic Forum

How Web3 could help tackle climate change using regenerative finance – or ‘ReFi’

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  • The global fight against climate change is above all a coordination problem, with investment and policies not being allocated in the most efficient way possible.

  • Decentralized Web3 technologies could improve coordination around tackling climate change because they use local knowledge and actors to guide policies and put funding where it’s needed.

  • The World Economic Forum has launched the Crypto Sustainability Coalition, dedicated to spotlighting real-life use cases for Web3 technologies.

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Climate change is a global coordination problem. The system has failed to coordinate effective policies and capital investment into the commitments necessary to address the most pressing threat to humanity.

To avoid greater loss of life, biodiversity and infrastructure, accelerated action and ambitious climate policies are required to adapt to climate change and rapidly reduce emissions.

So far, progress on adaptation is uneven and the chasm between action taken and what is needed to manage the risks is growing. There are several reasons for this: concerns about the compatibility of decarbonization with economic development, the fairness of global burden sharing on climate mitigation and the risks of competitive disadvantage in both domestic and international markets — to name but a few.

Global coordination technologies that can transcend the mass bureaucratization of climate action are urgently needed. This is where Web3 innovation could help.

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Regenerative Finance

Web3, a new iteration of the internet that harnesses blockchain to “decentralize” management, has positioned itself at the heart of the regenerative finance movement, or “ReFi” — a new economic paradigm that operates at the intersection of climate action and Web3 communities.

ReFi is anchored in decentralized finance, or DeFi, and the theory of regenerative economics. DeFi refers to an alternative financial system focused on the democratization of financial goods and services. Regenerative economics focuses on the creation of systems that restore and preserve the physical resources essential for planetary well-being.

Today, ReFi is a call to action, galvanized by the need to address both the failure of traditional markets to account for the negative externalities of carbon emissions, and the inefficient allocation of resources. This is also a call to action for policymakers to provide legislative direction and support for Web3 innovation in applications as an impetus to positive environmental and social outcomes for all, not just the privileged few. Progress on this latter front is making some headway.

Recently, The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) released its long-anticipated report on Climate and Energy Implications of Crypto-Assets in the United States which provided a balanced and nuanced purview into the Administration’s climate priorities, as it relates to the potential of digital assets. President Biden’s Executive Order explicitly stated the nation’s interest in responsible financial innovation, and since then has reiterated the criticality of a discussion of the potential uses of blockchain that could support technologies for monitoring or mitigating climate impacts.

The emergence of Web3 technology, values and ideas inherent to the ReFi movement can mobilize capital to fund the climate crisis solutions currently being researched by the OSTP, and within the time and at the scale required for the United States to fulfill the Paris Climate Accord’s global commitments. As greater interest and research, as well as robust policy, is invested into the ReFi space, the more effective the incentive for individuals and businesses to take care of the planet.

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Using Web3 tech to reverse ecosystem degeneration

Among the most pressing challenges that Web3 could address are deforestation, land degradation and desertification — life-threatening issues causing food insecurity, biodiversity loss, forced displacement of local communities and the acceleration of climate change.

The planet loses upwards of 80,000 acres of tropical rainforest every day — that is the equivalent of approximately 60,000 football fields a day. This impacts endangered species and climate-vulnerable geographies more severely than others. Africa is particularly vulnerable to land degradation and desertification. Desertification affects around 45% of Africa’s land area, with 55% of this area at a high or very high risk of further degradation.

Similarly, indigenous people are also impacted by the degradation of our land, soil and water. And despite there being about 500 million pastoralists in the world, they are often excluded from the land restoration agenda pulled together by mainly those privileged with the resources to adapt to climate change. Indigenous peoples have no alternative resources. Their resource is the land itself.

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The Crypto Sustainability Coalition

The ReFi movement has provided a space for innovators, creatives and advocates to reconceptualize climate action at a pace uninhibited by the bureaucracy and politicization rampant across legacy sustainability systems. Web3 climate tools and services share values inherent to ReFi and are foundational to the scale of global coordination needed to tackle climate change. These values include building cooperatives, democratic ownership within communities, optimizing community benefit, creative sustainability, radical inclusion, non-extraction and intentional restoration.

The World Economic Forum has formed a new initiative — the Crypto Sustainability Coalition — dedicated to these values and aimed at facilitating a balanced, research-driven narrative shift that spotlights the positive externalities and real-life use cases that abound the ReFi space.

The Crypto Sustainability Coalition is focused on how to leverage blockchain tools to achieve positive climate action. The Forum is collaborating with a multi-stakeholder community of purpose to bridge the gap between traditional and emerging sustainability systems, as well as demonstrate evidence-based thought leadership in a multi-chain Web3 world.

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Web3 tech can be used to fight climate change

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PGF7T crypto info, Web3, Dapps

PGF500 has a token on the Ethereum network, called PGF7T, which you can use to pay for subscriptions and services within the PGF500 platform.

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You will need to have Metamask to pay with PGF7T token.

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We have chosen to adopt blockchain technology for the launch of 2 innovative decentralized Dapps.

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We believe in Web3 and in the strength of communities.

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The token is on the Ethereum smart contract 0x9fadea1aff842d407893e21dbd0e2017b4c287b6 ,

and the code is public at https://etherscan.io/address/0x9fadea1aff842d407893e21dbd0e2017b4c287b6#code

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QuickSwap smart contract:

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