Energy
3 takeaways about climate tech right now
What our latest list of Climate Tech Companies to Watch says about this moment. On Monday, we published our 2025 edition of Climate Tech Companies to Watch . This marks the third time we've put the list together, and it's become one of my favorite projects to work on every year. In the journalism world, it's easy to get caught up in the latest news, whether it's a fundraising round, research paper, or startup failure. Curating this list gives our team a chance to take a step back and consider the broader picture. What industries are making progress or lagging behind?
Policy design for two-sided platforms with participation dynamics: Interview with Haruka Kiyohara
In their paper Policy Design for Two-sided Platforms with Participation Dynamics, which was presented at ICML 2025, and investigated the the participation dynamics in two-sided markets. In this interview, Haruka tells us more about such two-sided platforms, the main contributions of the work, and the experiments carried out to test the method. What is the topic of the research in your paper and why is it an interesting area for study? Our paper studied the long-term impacts of decision-making algorithms on two-sided platforms like e-commerce or music streaming applications. In two-sided platforms, multiple stakeholders, such as viewers and content creators, are involved.