Nexus India Capital Closes $220M Fund With Cleantech Focus: Mumbai-based Nexus India Capital closed a second early stage fund of $220 million to invest in 20 to 25 startups in clean technology, as well as consumer, business services and media sectors over the next three years – Cleantech Group.
Japan to Label Products With Carbon Footprint: Starting next spring, products in Japan will carry labels displaying the amount of carbon dioxide emitted during the manufacture, distribution and disposal of each product. Food, drinks, detergent and electrical appliances will be labeled – Guardian.
Why the Collapse of the WTO Trade Talks Could Be Good for Cleantech: The breakdown of recent WTO Doha Round ministerial in Geneva might have doomed any large trade agreement but officials are now thinking about tackling smaller trade agreements, starting with “environmental” goods and services – ClimateIntel.
A Conversation with Coskata: Our colleague at the R-Squared Energy Blog ran a post called “Coskata: Dead Man Walking,” which claimed the startup couldn’t possibly achieve $1 a gallon biofuel. Coskata responded, and now, after a lengthy discussion with the company, R-Squared is running the numbers again to see how attainable $1 a gallon biofuel really is – R-Squared Energy Blog.
Solazyme Sees Algae-to-Fuel in 3 Years: Solazyme CEO Jonathan Wolfson says that his company is ahead of the curve and that it plans to have a commercial-scale plant, on the order of millions of gallons, up and running in three years – CNET.
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