{"id":145236,"date":"2025-03-24T18:58:23","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T17:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.startupbusiness.it\/startups-and-rearm-europe-from-green-to-dual-use-to-develop-innovation\/145236\/"},"modified":"2025-03-24T19:09:18","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T18:09:18","slug":"startups-and-rearm-europe-from-green-to-dual-use-to-develop-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.startupbusiness.it\/en\/startups-and-rearm-europe-from-green-to-dual-use-to-develop-innovation\/145236\/","title":{"rendered":"Startups and Rearm Europe, from green to dual use to develop innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The new updates to the European directives (CSRD<\/strong> and CSDD)<\/strong> thanks to the Omnibus package<\/strong>, certainly do not destabilise large companies, which are by now already ready for such reporting, but MPMIs themselves. Among these are the start-ups, which in recent years, even in Italy, have tried to innovate services and products in pursuit of the objectives of Agenda 2030. <\/p>\n\n

Now European targets have changed, and so start-ups will have to keep up if they are to survive.<\/p>\n\n

The phenomenon has certainly gained momentum in the United States with the arrival of the new president in the White House. Trump<\/strong> is following through on his campaign promises to cancel the Biden administration’s green funding programmes. Although he is facing resistance in the courts and in Congress,<\/a> the rapid changes in rhetoric from companies such as start-ups illustrate the danger of relying on policies that may soon change under a new administration. <\/p>\n\n

In the US, in fact, several start-ups launched to rid the economy of fossil fuels are revising their approach to be more in line with the spirit of the times. On the one hand, some companies that develop climate-friendly metals, cement, and fuel are now emphasising how their products are beneficial for national security<\/strong> (defence<\/strong>), while on the other hand, some green technology developers are looking for a niche in the hot market of artificial intelligence<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n

As was the case in the post-pandemic chaos, some start-ups would like to pivot their core business to survive the loss of the green funding they saw at first.<\/p>\n\n

Indeed, equity funding for climate technology start-ups fell by 40 per cent to $50.7 billion in 2024,<\/strong> a third year of declines, according to research firm BloombergNEF. <\/p>\n\n

“There is a lot of thinking and trying to anticipate the future,” said Jacob Bro<\/a>, a partner at venture capital firm 2150, “Everyone is already relabelling things a bit.<\/p>\n\n

And the Wall Street Journal <\/a>today presents the case of some start-ups: <\/p>\n\n