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Global climate and sustainability news in the last 24 hours is light on major deals but shows steady momentum in early‑stage climate tech funding, policy‑aligned investment programs, and impact‑screened accelerators; the broader 2026 context is a shift from hype to execution in commercial deployments.[8]

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1. Climate tech startups & accelerators

•Venture For ClimateTech – Cohort 6 open (global, NY‑anchored)

- Non‑profit accelerator recruiting early‑stage climate tech startups globally, with a focus on solutions that can commercialize in New York State.[4]
- Selection emphasizes:
- Potential carbon‑equivalent reduction impact of the tech or service.[4]
- Evidence of substantial business opportunity and market interest.[4]
- Inclusion of underserved communities in development or application.[4]
- Offers initial funding (pre‑seed style), commercialization support, and a path to first customers and pilots; used as a pipeline for later venture and project finance.[4]
- Carbon impact is evaluated ex‑ante (modeled tCO₂e reduction potential) as a primary screen, but no portfolio‑wide realized metric is yet published.[4]

•Early‑stage climatetech gap‑filling – MassCEC 2030 Fund (Massachusetts, US)

- Massachusetts Clean Energy Center launched a US$50 million “2030 Fund” targeting seed and early‑stage climatetech startups based in the state.[6]
- Objective: close funding gaps that “threaten their path to market” for high‑risk hardware and infrastructure‑heavy climate tech.[6]
- Focus: de‑risking technology, helping companies reach early commercial milestones so they can attract larger growth funding.[6]
- Impact framing is climate‑aligned (supporting technologies that enable state decarbonization targets by 2030), but specific per‑dollar carbon metrics are not yet disclosed.[6]

•Deal‑flow & ecosystem signals

- F6S highlights 100 top climate tech companies as of January 2026, including fusion (Helion Energy), carbon markets (BeZero Carbon), circular materials (CYCLIC MATERIALS, Sortera), and carbon‑negative materials (Carbonyx), illustrating breadth of commercial‑stage plays now seeking scale capital.[7]
- Y Combinator lists 49 climate startups in its portfolio, indicating that generalist accelerators continue to increase exposure to hard‑tech climate solutions alongside software.[3]

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2. Clean energy & deployment‑stage climate tech

•2026 seen as “execution year” for key technologies

- Sector analysis for 2026 highlights geothermal power and district‑heating and grid‑scale/thermal energy storage as the main technologies ready for larger‑scale deployment, moving beyond pilot stages.[5][8]
- Investors identify Fervo Energy (advanced geothermal) as one of the climate/clean‑energy startups most likely to reach public markets in 2026, underscoring growing confidence in firm low‑carbon power as a commercial asset class.[5]
- Industrial thermal energy storage for load‑shifting is singled out as ready to scale at plants, directly reducing fossil fuel consumption and associated CO₂ emissions in heavy industry, though explicit tCO₂ figures vary by project.[5]

•Shift from hype to execution

- An industry review characterizes 2026 as the year when climate tech “moves from hype to execution”, with attention shifting to project finance, risk‑transfer tools and real‑world performance rather than only valuations and fundraising headlines.[8]

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