Coming soon: Our 2026 list of Climate Tech Companies to Watch
Coming soon: Our 2026 list of Climate Tech Companies to Watch
摘要: Climate change and energy
Coming soon: Our 2026 list of Climate Tech Companies to Watch
The negative climate news is piling up, but there are some b
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Climate change and energy
Coming soon: Our 2026 list of Climate Tech Companies to Watch
The negative climate news is piling up, but there are some bright spots of progress if you know where to look.
James Temple
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September 29, 2026
Earlier this month, the UN
announced
the planet will tip past 1.5 ˚C of warming, “likely within the next few years,” squashing any lingering hope that nations would cut emissions fast enough to achieve the loftiest goal of the Paris climate agreement.
In the US, the world’s second-largest-emitting country, its leader continues to deny climate realities and
unravel climate policies
. Big Tech is backpedaling on its climate ambitions, as companies race to build massive AI data centers.
And all this comes amid yet another season of shattered heat records, raging wildfires, and deadly floods.
It can be tempting to give in to climate doom and defeatism. But despite the headwinds, the world has still made incredible progress. Companies are developing and deploying renewables, batteries, and EVs; inventing cleaner means of producing industrial goods; and devising ways to keep cities and people safe even in the face of more extreme weather conditions.
Those advances will only accelerate as costs decline and
people demand
greater climate action, as well as all the economic and health benefits that come with it.
Recognizing our ability to make such progress is why
MIT Technology Review
began publishing our annual list of
Climate Tech Companies to Watch
three years ago.
Once a year the editors and writers use their deep industry knowledge and academic sources to compile a long list of companies around the world that are transforming the way we generate energy, produce goods, move people and things, or mitigate rising climate dangers.
We then conduct several rounds of spirited newsroom debate to winnow that list down to 10 that we believe have done the most, or have the best chance, to make a real dent in emissi