Across
- 4. – Investment fund launched by Bill Gates and others to support climate companies
- 6. - Protocol operationalizing the UNFCCC by committing industrialized countries to limit GHGs
- 14. - Dirty air responsible for 7 million premature deaths annually
- 15. - Carbon accounting platform with funding round co-led by Moritz and Doerr
- 17. – 1 and 2 are germane, but not 3 according to the SEC
- 19. – One of these can be 2,000 times as potent as carbon dioxide
- 20. – Country representing over 50% of 2023 renewables growth
- 24. – Warming event that has previously impacted GDP by as much as 10% in coastal tropical countries
- 26. – US policy estimated to reduce emissions by 31-44% by 2030 compared to 2005 levels abbr.
- 28. – 196 parties committed to limiting global temperature increase to well below 2 degrees Celsius
- 31. – Lithium-ion alternative with potential to double vehicle range and reduce charging time
- 33. – International treaty protecting the ozone layer
- 34. – Oceans absorb 30% of this from human activities
- 35. – Long-term energy agreement that is an analog for other sustainable offtake adoption
- 36. – An increasingly scarce resource in the Southwest United States
- 38. – The process of capturing and storing atmospheric carbon dioxide
- 40. – Engineered removal type abbr.
- 42. – Wetland forming across bodies of water
- 43. – Key vote in IRA passage
- 45. – Their clean car rules are being adopted by over a third of other US states abbr.
- 47. – Largest global producer of renewable energy globally
- 48. - Tom Steyer climate firm
- 50. – Compensation for carbon emissions
- 52. – Big tech firm whose emissions increased 48% between 2019-2024 largely due to data center energy consumption
Down
- 1. – Company transferred their shares to support climate causes in 2022
- 2. – Thermostat start-up acquired by Google for over $3 billion
- 3. – 2023 high school graduate who was previously named Time Person of the Year
- 5. – 2007 Nobel Peace Prize recipient
- 7. – Over 50% of this EV maker’s deliveries originate from one Shanghai factory
- 8. – Price volatility of this commodity reached historic levels in 2022 in Europe, US, and elsewhere abbr.
- 9. – Chunk that is melting at 9% per decade
- 10. – This could generate 4 million times more energy per kg of fuel than burning oil or coal
- 11. – Nautical organization housing the US’s oldest scientific agency (from Thomas Jefferson’s presidency)
- 12. – Annual S&P Global conference in Houston with 10k+ participants abbr.
- 13. – Organization originating with a failed sailing voyage to a nuclear test site after a Joni Mitchell concert
- 16. – These step up and step down
- 18. - You can get this for any of over 130 carbon project types
- 20. – Contributes to roughly 35% of aviation’s global warming impact
- 21. – Upwards of 40% of Southern US homeowners have this efficient alternative, versus 5% in California
- 22. – Energy sources contributing to nearly three-fourths of human-caused emissions
- 23. – Not Impossible
- 25. – 72% of North American corporations admit to doing this to appease customers’ sustainability interests
- 27. – The prices for a battery of this element fell 14% in 2023 from unprecedented 2022 increases
- 29. – Network with advanced metering – the US had 110 million meters for theirs as of 2021
- 30. – These utilize more than 20% of Ireland’s total metered electricity
- 32. – Grassroots environmental organization
- 34. – System originating in the U.S. to address acid rain
- 37. – Absorbs more carbon from the atmosphere than it releases
- 39. – Bleaching of this killed up to 30% of Aussie resource
- 41. – Sticky contributor of up to 9% of worldwide emissions
- 43. – Sequesters carbon up to four times more efficiently than terrestrial forests
- 44. – Cow fart chemical formula
- 46. – One of the longer acronyms among carbon project types
- 49. – Industry aspirations to match these hourly abbr.
- 51. – This year’s is in Baku, Azerbaijan