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Earth Catalyst gathers & hand-filters the most recent updates from over 1,000 green tech and sustainability organizations. Here are all of the updates; if you subscribe to our free newsletter, we'll send you 3 each weekday we think will be meaningful to you.

Advancing Despite Lag and Drag

Writer: Marshall KirkpatrickMarshall Kirkpatrick

This morning we've gathered over 100 updates from across the world's work on green tech and sustainability. How can you wrap your head around such a teeming array of good and bad news?


Summary

One way to summarize today's news is this: The energy transition is accelerating through tech and nature-based solutions, but risks being throttled by protectionism and cultural drag.


Policy Drag: Decarbonization vs Protectionism

For example, especially descriptive of the state of things may be the tension between China's incredible momentum in making and selling EVs with the US and EU's tariffs on those cars, to make their own domestic auto industries more competitive. At the expense of decarbonization goals. Fahd Isa analyzes this in depth this morning on Earth.org.


Cultural Lag

Root causes are many and complex but one fascinating take is evidenced in Aimee Ambrose's write-up in The Conversation titled Heat pumps have a cosiness problem. Her surveys on "thermal delight" find that many Europeans want to decarbonize, but they also love a good coal fire heating their homes.


Tech and Nature Solutions

Which way forward? Today's stories offer many possibilities, but two very different ones that stand out to me are Saudi Arabia signs world’s biggest battery storage deal with China’s BYD (EV manufacturer) and How Wolves Could Help Bring Back Scottish Forests. A new study found that wolves keeping deer in check, thus allowing saplings to grow into full sized trees, could have decarbonization impacts equivalent to about $200K per wolf each year. (Plus, wolves - yay!)


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-Marshall Kirkpatrick

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Visual of the Day

#8M25: La Via Campesina calls for a Global Day of Struggle

La Via Campesina's official poster for the 2025 International Women's Day (March 8th, or #8M25) illustrates the global peasant movement's call for food sovereignty and women's rights. The venerable organization's About page begins: "La Via Campesina, founded in 1993, is an international movement bringing together millions of peasants, landless workers, indigenous people, pastoralists, fishers, migrant farmworkers, small and medium-size farmers, rural women, and peasant youth from around the world. Built on a solid sense of unity and solidarity, it defends peasant agriculture for food sovereignty."


This year's artwork contrasts sustainable farming practices led by diverse women farmers with the destructive impacts of industrial agriculture and militarization, emphasizing their campaign theme "Defending our rights and Food Sovereignty, united against fascism, violence, and hunger!" The group writes "The 2025 Global Humanitarian Overview by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) warns that more than 280 million people face acute hunger daily. The food crisis is directly linked to conflicts and to the extractivist model, which displaces entire communities and threatens food sovereignty."


Today's Updates

Table of Contents

  • Agriculture (6 stories) - CGIAR, NARO advance climate-resilient crops while Dutch biodiversity films, African storage solutions, and Indian wild rice preservation reshape farming practices


  • Carbon (5 stories) - DAC costs predicted to drop to $100/ton, CCS innovations advance, while biomethane buyers weigh supply risks and Scope 3 reporting evolves


  • Circular (1 story) - Water-based process recovers 99% of perovskite materials, enables 21%-efficient recycled cells


  • Ecosystems (17 stories) - Wildfires ravage Latin America as Ningaloo Reef bleaches, vaquita protection intensifies in Gulf of California, and Scottish wolf reintroduction proposal promises carbon benefits


  • Efficiency (2 stories) - Cultural barriers to heat pump uptake in EU study; IREC revises clean energy training standards


  • Finance (9 stories) - Major funds flow to carbon removal, renewables, and climate tech startups as Altitude, Australia, and Meteomatics secure significant investments, while corporate climate reporting remains strong despite ESG pushback


  • Grid (9 stories) - Nuclear microreactors in Wales, BYD's 12.5GWh Saudi deal, Victoria's 370MWh Koorangie battery launch, FRV's 1600MWh NSW project, and ERCOT supply concerns shape grid infrastructure developments


  • Indigenous (4 stories) - Native American sovereignty demands, Brazilian mining rights debate, Argentine rural LGBTQ+ activism, and Indonesian tribal radio conservation efforts


  • Industry (10 stories) - Geothermal driller Brock Yordy, JinkoESS, SPIC, Plug Power, KI Hydrogen lead industry transitions while GM preps for tariffs and UK seeks green steel leadership


  • Policy (32 stories) - Global policy shifts: US-EU EV tariffs on China, Brazil's UN shipping levy opposition, $2.4M Denbury pipeline fine, Trump admin's environmental justice rollbacks, and Italy's climate litigation ruling


  • Renewables (4 stories) - Major floating solar in Gujarat, Oman's 500MW Ibri III bidding, IEA's 50% solar growth forecast, and multiple European solar expansions


  • Transport (10 stories) - VinFast, Scout Motors, and Climate Impulse lead mobility advances with charging networks, hybrid vehicles, and hydrogen aircraft, while Spark develops e-fuels and China achieves lithium-hydrogen battery breakthrough


Agriculture

CGIAR, NARO advance climate-resilient crops while Dutch biodiversity films, African storage solutions, and Indian wild rice preservation reshape farming practices



Carbon

DAC costs predicted to drop to $100/ton, CCS innovations advance, while biomethane buyers weigh supply risks and Scope 3 reporting evolves



Circular

Water-based process recovers 99% of perovskite materials, enables 21%-efficient recycled cells



Ecosystems

Wildfires ravage Latin America as Ningaloo Reef bleaches, vaquita protection intensifies in Gulf of California, and Scottish wolf reintroduction proposal promises carbon benefits



Efficiency

Cultural barriers to heat pump uptake in EU study; IREC revises clean energy training standards



Finance

Major funds flow to carbon removal, renewables, and climate tech startups as Altitude, Australia, and Meteomatics secure significant investments, while corporate climate reporting remains strong despite ESG pushback



Grid

Nuclear microreactors in Wales, BYD's 12.5GWh Saudi deal, Victoria's 370MWh Koorangie battery launch, FRV's 1600MWh NSW project, and ERCOT supply concerns shape grid infrastructure developments



Indigenous

Native American sovereignty demands, Brazilian mining rights debate, Argentine rural LGBTQ+ activism, and Indonesian tribal radio conservation efforts



Industry

Geothermal driller Brock Yordy, JinkoESS, SPIC, Plug Power, KI Hydrogen lead industry transitions while GM preps for tariffs and UK seeks green steel leadership



Policy

Global policy shifts: US-EU EV tariffs on China, Brazil's UN shipping levy opposition, $2.4M Denbury pipeline fine, Trump admin's environmental justice rollbacks, and Italy's climate litigation ruling



Renewables

Major floating solar in Gujarat, Oman's 500MW Ibri III bidding, IEA's 50% solar growth forecast, and multiple European solar expansions



Transport

VinFast, Scout Motors, and Climate Impulse lead mobility advances with charging networks, hybrid vehicles, and hydrogen aircraft, while Spark develops e-fuels and China achieves lithium-hydrogen battery breakthrough


 
 
 

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