Climate tech investment has tripled, but are venture capitalists flocking to the right green industries?

Cecilia Keating
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Mobility solutions received the lion's share of climate tech funding | Credit: iStock
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Mobility solutions received the lion's share of climate tech funding | Credit: iStock

Heightened focus on ESG in private markets and recent wave of corporate net zero targets have prompted dramatic increase in global climate tech investment, according to new PwC analysis, but fears remain that key technologies are under-funded

Fourteen per cent of venture capital investment in 2021 went into climate technologies, with just shy of $90bn being pumped into solutions geared at reducing greenhouse gas emissions, according to new...

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