Each week, the MCi team shares some insightful and relevant articles that have been on our reading pile, keeping you up to date with the latest developments and discourse from the clean technology sector and the new circular economy.

New Zealand Announces Emissions Reduction Plan

Aotearoa New Zealand’s first emissions reduction plan contains strategies, policies and actions for progressing efforts to limit the global temperature rise to 1.5˚C above pre-industrial levels. Relevant to MCi's technology solutions inlude the goal of reducing the embodied carbon of building materials.

Generation Investment, Co-Founded by Al Gore, Launches USD $1.7 billion Fund

The firm's targets are “driving the transition to the sustainable future” while pulling in somewhere between $30 million and $300 million in annual revenue, according to partner and growth equity head Lila Preston.

2022 Canadian Budget Entices Investors to Pursue CCUS 

This new budget will provide tax credits for enterprises that invest in eligible CCUS related projects. The Canadian government has identified carbon capture as a key component of their transition from an economy reliant on heavy industries; the prospect of the new innovation this might incentivise is incredibly exciting