Bloomberg The head of the European Union’s executive arm said the bloc should pass a new law to fast-track investments in clean tech and boost funding for the energy transition in response to a US climate law it fears unfairly subsidizes American companies. “To keep European industry attractive, there is a need to be competitive with offers and incentives that …

Bloomberg Boston-based startup Sublime Systems has raised $40 million to develop a new technology to produce low-carbon cement. The cement industry contributes as much as 8% to global emissions of planet-warming carbon dioxide. Meeting global climate goals under the Paris Agreement would require reducing that to zero within decades. However, cement has proven to be one of the more difficult …

  Bloomberg Investors’ sentiment for the German economy jumps to the highest level in almost a year, the latest evidence that confidence is building as a squeeze from soaring energy prices eases. The ZEW institute’s gauge of expectations rose to 16.9 in January from -23.3 in the previous month — better than any estimate in a Bloomberg survey of 27 …