Open Earth Foundation

🎉 Celebrating 4 Years of OpenEarth Foundation! 🎉 Tomorrow, we're proud to mark our 4th anniversary as an organization dedicated to pioneering digital infrastructure for planetary resilience. Over the years, we’ve worked tirelessly to create open-source solutions that tackle the climate crisis—and we’re just getting started! 🌍💡 One of our major initiatives, CityCatalyst, is driving transformative change in urban environments by harnessing the power of data to enable cities to take bold climate action. This initiative is supporting cities and regional governments in their decarbonization efforts as we found that many cities struggle to prepare accurate GHG inventories despite global efforts. A huge thank you to our incredible community of partners, supporters, and team members who’ve helped us achieve so much in such a short time. Together, we’re building a future where technology and transparency empower cities, citizens, and the planet. 🚀🌱 Here's to another year of impact, innovation, and global collaboration! https://lnkd.in/gqsBfUZj #OpenEarth #CityCatalyst #ClimateAction #DigitalTransformation

As the #I4C24 conference ends, Tue Damsø and I take with us countless inspiring ideas to support local climate action. We've also met many actors driving this change - here's hoping we can keep collaborating going forward! One of my takeaways from the last day of the conference is the rising focus on how appropriate #tools and #data can help municipalities develop emission inventories, map climate risks, prioritise climate interventions and monitor their implementation. Climate action planning is complex, and local actors often have very limited resources (especially in the Global South), so appropriate tools are essential to ease their burden. Some particularly interesting tools you should keep on your radar: - The new version of the Data Portal for Cities, developed for the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy (GCoM) by Michael Reuss and team, is now open for sign up! The Portal estimates emission inventories for cities and lets local users refine the inventories with their own data. - The City Catalyst tool from Open Earth Foundation also assists with emission inventories by pulling data from multiple sources, refining, transforming and aggregating it, and making it easily accessible for cities all with one interface. Open Earth is doing excellent work with #opensource tools for climate action! 👏 - We see a rise in #AI tools, which can assist with much of the early work in outline climate action plans, suggesting actions, etc. Language models could also be used to read and extract information from planning documents, lifting a considerably reporting burden from municipalities! This increased focus on tools comes with the awareness that bottom-up action and stakeholder involvement are absolutely essential - they can be supported and complemented by software, but never replaced!

We had a wonderful time with all our partners at the Innovate4Cities event!

Great opportunity to showcase your AI skills in climate adaptation at the Innovate4Cities Hackathon hosted by Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy (GCoM). We are excited to partner in this initiative and support participants. Hack away for Earth ! Learn more at: https://lnkd.in/deiuMtsP

WE'RE HIRING! 🌎 We are looking for a Head of Business Development to join our international fully remote team. As the Head of Business Development, you will spearhead the strategic planning, business modeling and execution of market penetration and revenue generation. This role involves identifying and onboarding pilot project opportunities and fostering strategic partnerships, and driving the adoption of the CityCatalyst product in targeted market regions, especially across North and Latin America, and Europe. You will be responsible for managing relationships with cities to ensure successful implementation and customer satisfaction. You will also actively participate in fundraising activities and grant writing, particularly as it relates to helping governments finance the use of CityCatalyst.   Apply here: https://lnkd.in/gDbZDd3Z Check out our career page here: https://lnkd.in/gwpGEa5R Or reach out to hr@openearth.org if you have any questions.

🌎 Everyday is Earth Day at Open Earth Foundation 💪 This is a battle we must face together. Let’s put our differences aside by putting planet Earth first. https://lnkd.in/gCsYG2Ys #EarthComesFirst #Collaboration #OpenSource #EarthTech #OpenClimate #OceanProgram #ClimateChange #OpenEarthFoundation

Introducing the Playbook for "Place-based Transition Funds" - a blueprint to revolutionize climate finance and foster the climate transition, one community at a time. Developed in collaboration with The Peace Department and Metabolic as the outcome of an innovative Carbon Residency, the playbook aligns the climate transition plan of a whole geography with investable portfolios, and leverages systems thinking to ensure that every dollar invested combats climate change while fostering community resilience and economic uplift. Why it matters? ➜ Scale of Transition: We face an unprecedented pace of emissions reductions. This playbook offers a scalable, yet standardized method that transforms local actions into a global finance mechanisms. ➜ Market Rate Returns for Investors: Investors seeking viable returns can now participate in the climate solution. This playbook bridges that gap, transforming projects from high-risk bets into bankable opportunities using Loan Guarantee Funds. ➜ Empower Local Communities: The playbook aligns capital with local government plans, ensuring that the climate transition uplifts economies and lives. ➜ City Climate Transitions: OpenEarth's CityCatalyst platform supports cities and regions with updated emissions inventories and interoperability across their climate roadmap. The Place Based Transition Fund is the key finance piece at the end of this data driven planing. Learn more at: https://lnkd.in/g2WAtnE2 Dive into the playbook and join us in our mission to foster the climate transition at the local scale: https://lnkd.in/gTTv82XX Special thanks to: Rachel Howard Yihana von Ritter Matthew Moroney Natalia Sofía Alvarez De Jesús James Sternlicht Richard Zimmerman Raj Kalia Lilia Bezer Murray Gray Eva Gladek Jayne Engle Franklin Carrero-Martínez Dark Matter Labs Montauk Climate #climateinnovation #greenfinance #sustainabledevelopment #impactinvesting #circulareconomy #city

WE'RE HIRING! 🌎 We are looking for a Full-Stack Engineer to join our international fully remote team. As a Full-Stack Engineer, you will be key to our mission of applying the latest AI technologies to our platforms. You will leverage your coding, engineering and software experience to build open digital infrastructure, with a particular focus on our newly launched CityCatalyst project. You will work with a team of software professionals to create software that helps track the world’s progress towards the Paris Agreement goals, and improve the data infrastructure for analyzing this. A key implementation to develop is the software development to harmonize climate datasets and drive interoperability across carbon and Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance (ESG) disclosure standards. Everything we do is Open Source, shared freely with the world, to maximize the impact of our work. Apply here: https://lnkd.in/gFGN7EWP Check out our career page here: https://lnkd.in/gwpGEa5R Or reach out to hr@openearth.org if you have any questions.

Thank you Kirsten Dunlop for your vision and leadership. It is a great pleasure and honor for the OpenEarth Foundation to be an active member of the Systemic Climate Action Collaborative, and change the paradigm among NGO collaboration to create transformative change towards a higher planetary resilience

WE'RE HIRING! 🌎 We are looking for an AI Application Engineer to join our international fully remote team. As an AI Application Engineer, you will be key to our mission of applying the latest AI technologies to our platforms. You will leverage your AI engineering, software experience and analytical skills to build open digital infrastructure. You will work with a team of software professionals to create software that helps track the world’s progress towards the Paris Agreement goals, and improve the data infrastructure for analyzing this. A key implementation to develop is the use of AI Large Language Models (LLM) to harmonize climate datasets and drive interoperability across carbon and Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance (ESG) disclosure standards. Everything we do is Open Source, shared freely with the world, to maximize the impact of our work. Apply here: https://lnkd.in/gfN-_Z_Y Check out our career page here: https://lnkd.in/gwpGEa5R Or reach out to hr@openearth.org if you have any questions.