Browsing: Climate

This week, UC Berkeley students will settle into lecture halls and around seminar tables for their first classes of fall semester. While some courses will be longstanding prerequisites, others will be brand new, designed to equip students for a rapidly changing world and to think deeply about it. Some students will dive into the past,…

Every discussion of climate finance in Afghanistan eventually collides with a question that is rarely asked out loud: should this country receive climate finance at all? Everything else—how the money should flow, what it should fund, which region should be prioritized—is downstream of that first question. And as long as it remains unanswered, or answered…

Welcome to Climate Tech Startups to Watch, Trellis’s fast-pitch competition featuring the most promising early-stage startups in climate tech this year. 

Generative AI can help scale climate services to meet growing demand. This approach is illustrated here with two prototype AI systems designed to enhance access to climate data, support decision-making, and improve efficiency. Key concerns are identified around responsibility, quality, and trustworthiness of AI outputs. Emerging best practices in system development are linked to core…

The All Aboard Coalition may have fallen short of its ambitious goal of raising $300 million to co-invest in promising climate tech ventures, closing its fundraising at $133 million. 

______________ OPINION By William Matovu and Wangui Muna Climate finance has become increasingly effective at funding climate interventions. It has been far less effective at creating businesses capable of attracting commercial investment. Public and concessional finance alone will never meet Africa’s investment needs. As governments prepare for another round of global climate negotiations, the challenge…

Credito Emiliano accepts wheels of Parmigiano Reggiano as collateral. A warming climate is putting that unusual system to the test.

On July 15, temperatures along the East Coast were close to 100 degrees Fahrenheit, with the heat index in New York City (a measure of what the air temperature feels like to the human body when actual air temperature and relative humidity are combined) reached roughly 104 degrees. The city had already extended its heat emergency operations, keeping hundreds…

Climate tech investment is finding its footing in 2026. After worldwide funding reached $40.5 billion in 2025, an 8 percent increase, the market is maturing and investors are writing bigger checks to fewer companies with proven technologies. Many new ventures are focused on AI’s voracious appetite for power.

Guy Ningabo was born and raised in Burundi, East Africa, one of the poorest nations in the world, during a civil war that lasted over a decade (from 1993 to 2005). The country entered a political and human rights crisis in 2015 that claimed hundreds of lives and drove teenage Ningabo and his family to…