Last Week in Climate #156

Your weekly climate digest.

Mar 27, 2026

This newsletter started here on Substack around 4 years ago with 100 initial readers and finally, it’s back here again.

🧘🏻 I realized I want to focus more on writing and curating valuable insights for you and all 26,133 (that can’t be right?) readers, and spend less time making sure the article looks pretty (I hope it still does though?)

🇪🇺 I’ll still put an emphasis on Europe but will mix in important global updates too. The buttons at the end of each section will take you to all the global updates.

💡 All of this data feeds into the new “Sectors” tab on inClimate where you can digest it all based on your sector focus and reach out to experts in their respective fields (not to brag, but it’s pretty sleek)

Last note: Sustainable textiles deep dive drops next Monday

This week:

👋 From the Community
💸 Closed Funding Rounds
📆 Events & Opportunities
📰 News (Europe + Global + Deep Dives)´

From the Community

(this could be you)

Andrea - Heading to SF Climate Week and looking to connect with the community there

Monisha - Building Merloop, a digital product passport platform for fashion brands to track sustainability

Josie - Exploring climate tech roles - background in sustainability consulting and carbon markets

Rita - Building a nature and food app, previously worked on EV charging infrastructure

If any of these resonate with your work, take a moment to reply to their posts - and maybe hop on a call! That’s what I’m building all this for - to make sure the right people talk to each other.

all community updates →

Funding Rounds

(All European equity deals listed here. For global + debt, just click the button at the bottom)

🇬🇧🌱 Tropic - $105M Series C

Gene editing for high-performing tropical crops

🇸🇪🚢 Candela - €30M Series C

Electric hydrofoil boats and ferries

🇩🇪⛏️ Hades - €15M Seed

Laser-based drilling for critical minerals and geothermal energy

🇬🇧🏗️ Cocoon - $15M Series A

Low-carbon building materials via carbon capture

🇮🇪⚡ GridBeyond - $14M Series D

AI-powered grid management and demand response

🇩🇪♻️ Seprify - €13.4M Series A

Sustainable cellulose-based alternative to titanium dioxide

🇧🇪🧀 Those Vegan Cowboys - €12.3M

Animal-free cheese through precision fermentation

🇩🇪♻️ WeSort.AI - €10M Seed

AI-powered recycling and critical raw materials recovery

🇬🇷🌾 Wikifarmer - $8M Series A

Digital operating system for agricultural trade

🇬🇧🌍 Earth Blox - €6.9M

Nature and climate risk data platform for business

🇪🇸☀️ Amelia - $6M Seed

AI quality control for solar park construction

🇩🇪🛰️ Airmo - €5M Seed

Satellite-based methane and CO2 emissions monitoring

🇩🇪🧪 level nine. - €4M Seed

Next-gen catalysts for sustainable chemical production

🇬🇧🌱 Cytotrait - £3M Seed

Gene editing technology for crop improvement

🇪🇸💨 Delfos Energy - €3M Seed

AI-powered predictive maintenance for wind turbines

all 71 global & debt rounds →

Events & Opportunities

(inClimate events coming again soon and you can host your own events too here)

🇬🇧 Carbon13 Venture Accelerator - Applications closing Mar 27
Cambridge, UK (€150K–€250K investment, climate tech focus)

🇺🇸 Clean Fight Energy Storage Accelerator - Applications closing Mar 30
New York, NY (18-month energy storage program)

🇺🇸 C10 Labs AI Nexus Accelerator - Applications open
New York, NY (AI-first accelerator for healthcare, energy, climate & robotics)

🇺🇸 ClimateTech Connect 2026 - Apr 8–9
National Harbor, MD

🇬🇧 EarthScale Cohort 2 - Applications closing Apr 13
UK (12-month climate tech manufacturing accelerator)

🇪🇸 Energy Tech Summit - 7th Edition - Apr 15–16
Bilbao, Spain

P.S. I’ll share more thoughts about community events soon, but if you want to host a meetup in your city, then click this 👇 button and add an event idea - I’ll ping you.

see all events →