Greenbuild Monthly Digest: March 2023
ESG & Green Building: Concepts, Trends, and Leadership | April 20, 2023, 1 PM - 2:30 PM ET
Green building, ESG, and sustainable finance are complementary market transformation strategies. This session will provide participants with a fundamental understanding about connections between these fast-growing areas of work and first-hand perspectives from industry leaders.
Women's Voices in Green Building: Pursuing Progress and Opportunity
Elevating the voices of women in our green building community is especially timely during Women's History Month. Women have always been leaders in the sustainability movement. Read more.
Top Stories This Month?
BlocPower Raises Funding to Expand Green Building Retrofits
Bloomberg
Green building technology startup?BlocPower?has raised nearly $25 million in equity funding and $130 million in debt financing to retrofit?tens of thousands of apartments and other dwellings with?climate-friendly appliances. Read more.
Cash, know-how and public support: The recipe for hitting Europe’s green building targets
Politico
If the EU wants to meet its 2050 net-zero target, it needs to rethink the way it builds its cities. The bloc's building stock is currently responsible for 40 percent of total energy consumption and 36 percent of the bloc's energy-related greenhouse gas emissions — that means slashing those emissions will be key.??Read more.
Silicon Valley Bank collapse could slow the transition to clean energy
Washington Post
The?collapse of Silicon Valley Bank?has created new challenges not just for the nation’s banking system, but also for the?Biden administration’s climate agenda, following a harrowing weekend in which many major clean tech companies faced insolvency.?Read more.
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