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Those of us who follow climate change news are used to seeing the bad tidings outweigh the good. We’re slogging through what’s shaping as the hottest summer on record. Glaciers are melting at an alarming rate. And fossil fuel consumption continues to grow. Now, here comes another grim data point: Equity funding to startups focused on cleantech and sustainability is down this year. In the first half of 2024, around $9.6 billion went to seed through growth financings for companies in Crunchbase’s sustainability, EV, and cleantech categories. That’s a decline of 61% from the second half of last year, and…