Climate Change Business Journal® previews its annual analysis of the climate change industry with a dissection of preliminary 2020 data in key climate change industry indicators of global temperature, emissions and weather events, and in key industry segments wind, solar, energy storage, electric vehicle and carbon markets.
Climate Change Industry Trends in 2022
Climate Change Business Journal® assesses the trends shaping the climate change industry in 2022. Greenhouse gas emissions, temperatures and weather incidents track planetary plight, but trends in electric vehicles, the EV supply chain, EV charging infrastructure, renewable energy, hydrogen, nuclear energy, carbon markets and private investment illustrate companies and economies on the move as momentum builds behind the climate change industry.
Munich Re: U.S. Weather Disasters Dominate Global ‘Natural Disaster’ Losses In 2021 3
Berkeley Earth Global Temperature Report for 2021 4
IEA: Global CO2 Emissions Rebounded To Their Highest Level in History 7
Electric Cars Fend Off Challenges to More Than Double Global Sales in 2021 9
Business Council for Sustainable Energy Sees Momentum Build Behind Energy Transition in Public & Private Sectors 12
Forum For The Future Makes The Case For Deeper Business Transformation To Tackle Social and Environmental Crises 14
Ubiquitous Energy Scales Transparent Solar Technology 16
Investment Firm Pollinate Accelerating the Flow of Natural Capital 18
Backed By $65 Million In Funding, Dandelion Energy Expands Residential Geothermal Services In The Northeast And Fortifies Leadership Team 21
NCX Monetizes Forest Carbon To Connect American Landowner To Committed Net-Zero Pioneers; NCX Raises $50 Million to Track & Trade Forest Carbon 23
Climate Tech Venture Capital Gives Carbon Credits Credit Where Credit is Due 26
Boston University Global Development Policy Uses National Climate Funds Tracker to Accelerate and Increase Transparency in Climate Finance 30
Methane Action Seeks to Build a Methane Removal Industry Around Policy, Projects, Innovation & Investment 33
Nuclear Innovation Alliance Brings New Generation of Nuclear Industry Leadership to Policy, Research & Outreach 36
Time to View Nuclear Power Through a 21st Century Lens; Small Modular Reactors Enable a ‘Catalytic Shift in Nuclear Energy’ for Industrial Decarbonization; EBI Model of the Small Modular Reactor Industry 38
Nexus Circular Leads Plastic Revolution; Nexus Circular Secures Another Strategic Investor; Sets Record Production Growth in 2021 42
Green Wave Initiative In the City of Vilnius, Lithuania, Treats Streets as Important Public Spaces; Goal of Planting 100,000 Trees; The Green KPI’s of HUGSI 46
Exhibits in the Edition
Relevant Natural Catastrophe Loss Events in 2021: Natural Disasters Overall Losses of $280 billion
Berkeley Earth Data & Research Methodology
CO2 Emissions From Energy Combustion & Industrial Processes, 1900-2021
Annual Change in CO2 Emissions From Energy Combustion & Industrial Processes, 1900-2021
CO2 Emissions in China & India
Annual Change in CO2 Emissions by Sector in 2020
Global Sales and Sales Market Share of Electric Cars, 2010-2021
Annual Change in CO2 Emissions by Sector in 2021
Scenario for Global CO2 Emissions, 2010-2070 (bil tonnes per year)
CO2 Reductions vs. Removals
Players in the Evolving Carbon Market
Project by Project Accounting of Global Small Modular Reactor Development Arena in 2022
Projected Nuclear Capacity in 2020-2050
Reactors Under Construction by Region: 53.5 GW
Top & Bottom Ranked Cities by HUGSI
Climate Change Business Journal® recognizes 2020 business achievements across a broad spectrum of categories in the climate change industry. The 32 recipients of 2020 CCBJ Business Achievement Awards represent non-profits, associations, and individuals, but mostly the large and small companies that have committed their business assets to climate solutions and that made significant traction in the market in 2020. Several award winners contribute executive Q&As to provide more details on their 2020 award and plans for the future, along with a diverse set of newsmakers and analysts advancing climate change industry objectives.
The 2020s promises be the decade of the climate change industry as factors are aligned for scaling breakthroughs in key segments of the industry. The U.S. climate change industry represents 18% of the global climate change industry. One would expect that with 9 segments, 62 quantified sub-segments and a total of $446 billion in the US and $2.42 trillion worldwide, segment growth rates would not exhibit much volatility. But segment volatility has been in evidence for much of the 2010s, and more volatility may resurface in the 2020s as the next 10 years of the climate change industry is written. However, it seems certain that climate change industry growth will be at two times of more that of GDP growth for the foreseeable future.
Climate Change Business Journal presents a conceptual model by the EBI research team that puts the value of natural infrastructure at $33 quadrillion. Based on a meta-study of natural resource data and environmental economics papers, mostly in the academic realm, CCBJ presents a global policy argument with not a flippant but a serious viewpoint of: ‘You might as well start somewhere’.
This 61-page edition of CCBJ features equal treatment of Green Buildings & Smart Cities and the confluence of the two markets in city and community planning with numerous exhibits and pertinent secondary research to enable companies to define niches for future business growth.
