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CeraPiper clay cooling pipes. (Courtesy/Haim Zinger); Ofer Berman, Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology (Courtesy)
March 15, 2026, 4:49 pm
Cornell and Technion scientists adapt ancient clay air conditioning tech for sustainable cooling
In innovative study that precedes Cornell students’ push to sever ties with Israeli institution, researchers use traditional ceramic know-how for off-grid chill through evaporation
By Diana Bletter
Illustrative: Students explore local sustainable agriculture as part of a long-running semester academic program at the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies. (Marcos Schoenholz)
February 13, 2025, 11:09 am
Budding climate fund seeks to guide Jewish response to era’s greatest threat
As Trump retreats on environment in US and Israeli commitment wavers, Jewish Climate Trust looks to engage more civic and religious leaders; raises nearly $18m in initial pledges
By Sue Surkes
A demonstrator holds a sign that reads "climate justice now" at the COP29 UN climate conference, November 18, 2024, in Baku, Azerbaijan. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
November 21, 2024, 7:53 am
At the third UN climate confab to be held in a petrostate, fact and fantasy collide
Israeli innovation strutted its stuff in Baku, but a global consensus on carbon-guzzling countries paying for the effects of their consumption is not yet on the horizon
By Sue Surkes
CarbonBlue founders Dan Deviri (right) and Iddo Tsur.
July 25, 2024, 12:00 pm
Company with ‘game-changing’ method for removing CO₂ from air nets over $10 million
While today’s technology can suck a mere 10,000 tons of carbon dioxide from the air annually, Israel’s CarbonBlue seeks to exponentially up efficiency by extracting it from water
By Sue Surkes
Illustrative. An agronomist with equipment to measure the wind speed, temperature, humidity, and solar cell system in a field of grapevines. (Kinwun, iStock by Getty Images)
December 6, 2023, 11:05 pm
Climate tech investments down 60% during first half of 2023
Annual report by Israel Innovation Authority, non-profit PLANETech, says drop is in line with investments for all Israeli tech; follows 320% growth rate from 2018 to 2021
By Sue Surkes
US Vice President Kamala Harris shakes hands with President Isaac Herzog as they speak to the media prior to a meeting at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, July 19, 2023. (SAUL LOEB / AFP/File)
July 20, 2023, 1:41 am
Herzog, VP Harris announce $70 million agriculture tech fund for Mideast, Africa
Five-year initiative will focus on water resources, ‘climate-smart’ agriculture technology; Veep stresses ‘unbreakable bond’ between countries
By Lazar Berman and Jacob Magid
Helios scientists conduct an experiment to produce iron. (Courtesy, Helios)
March 12, 2023, 11:28 pm
Company aiming to create oxygen on moon finds process to make steel plants cleaner
Helios claims that replacing carbon with sodium to prise oxygen out of iron ores — an early stage in steel manufacturing — can slash carbon emissions, energy and production costs
By Sue Surkes
Image of a single RepAir Carbon Capture cell. Atmospheric air enters the cell at the top. Inside the cell, the air is filtered through a separator, with electricity applied to isolate the CO2. Clean air flows back to the atmosphere (represented by green and blue particles at the bottom of the image), while pure CO2 flows out for utilization or storage, represented by red particles. (Courtesy, RepAir Carbon Capture)
December 12, 2022, 11:58 pm
Company extracting CO2 out of air scoops $10 million investment
RepAir Carbon Capture claims that its electrochemical method is cheaper, more energy-efficient, and more scaleable than competitors’
By Sue Surkes
From left: Sinai Gohar Barak, International Ecosystem Development, DeserTech, M.Toumany Diallo, Director of Mali's Great Green Wall agency, Tal Biran Ben Gal of the DeserTech Innovation Leaders Program, M. Modibo Kone, Mali's Environment and Sustainable Development Minister, Nicole Hod Stroh, Executive Director of the Merage Foundation Israel, Andrea Meza, UNCCD Deputy Executive Secretary, and Sarah Toumi of the Great Green Wall Accelerator. (Courtesy, Desertech Community)
November 12, 2022, 8:34 am
Israel’s DeserTech partners with UN to help African nations build ‘Great Green Wall’
Launching program at COP27 climate confab, DeserTech says goal is to develop technologies that can address global challenges, turn Negev into global desert tech hub
By Sue Surkes
A row of solar panels on display at the first Climate Prize Solutions Festival, a climate tech gathering honoring Israeli innovation, October 26, 2022. (Studio Thomas)
October 27, 2022, 11:06 am
Israeli climate tech scientists, startups nab over $2m in prizes at inaugural confab
3 scientists, 7 companies win Climate Solutions Prize, launched last year by philanthropists and Jewish organizations to promote innovative Israeli solutions to climate crisis
By ToI Staff
Design for Israel's pavilion at the UN's COP26 climate conference in Sharm el-Sheikh in November. (Environmental Protection Ministry)
September 22, 2022, 3:01 am
Israel to promote ‘blue and white’ climate tech at its first COP27 pavilion
Ten companies chosen at Tel Aviv confab to be part of delegation to United Nations climate conference in Egypt in November
By Sue Surkes
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