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Fifth Wall Raises $500 Million for Real Estate Decarbonization Venture Fund

ESG Today

Real estate technology-focused venture capital firm Fifth Wall announced today the $500 million close of its inaugural Climate Fund, aimed at investing in solutions to decarbonize the global real estate industry. The post Fifth Wall Raises $500 Million for Real Estate Decarbonization Venture Fund appeared first on ESG Today.

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Where are they now? Catch up with 30 Under 30 alumni

GreenBiz

As we emerge, we are learning how to build the capability to truly understand, qualitatively and quantitatively, our communities’ vulnerabilities against a much broader set of scenarios. In a way, we are seeing this crisis as an illustration of how expensive the failure to build resiliency can ultimately prove.

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Delivering Net Zero - What It Takes in the Telco Industry

3BL Media

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has warned of ‘a rapidly closing window to secure a liveable future.’ The mobile industry can do two things to help address the climate crisis. Firstly, to rapidly decarbonize as a sector – something that Ericsson is supporting via our ambition. The takeaway.

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How Cisco's CDA Program Facilitates Sustainable Real Estate

3BL Media

Not only is the quick and efficient transition to decarbonized economies best for our planet, but it provides a once-in-a-lifetime business opportunity. Understanding the interoperability of a building’s systems allows for energy-optimized and sustainable outcomes at scale. View original content here. . .

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How Cisco’s CDA program facilitates sustainable real estate

Cisco CSR

Not only is the quick and efficient transition to decarbonized economies best for our planet, but it provides a once-in-a-lifetime business opportunity. Understanding the interoperability of a building’s systems allows for energy-optimized and sustainable outcomes at scale.

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DOE invests $61 million in ‘smart building’ energy efficiency projects

Renewable Energy World

of Energy is backing 10 energy efficiency pilot p rojects that aim to transform thousands of homes and workplaces into resilient smart buildings. DOE is providing $61 million for the "Connected Communities" program, which will equip buildings with smart controls, sensors, and analytics to reduce energy use, costs, and emissions.

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Russia's upending of fossil fuels markets shouldn't change energy transition for Canada

Corporate Knights

But the short-term crisis doesn’t change the inevitable, underlying logic of a rapid transition off fossil fuels. The European Union spent decades negotiating decarbonization strategies that were aggressive by international standards but still mild and equivocal compared to what the science of climate change demands.