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🎉 It's such a privilege for Rongbient Biotech to be recognized as a Top Innovator by the World Economic Forum - UpLink’s Regenerative Blue Economy Challenge, among other more matured startups (some in their Series A/B) like ATAREC - Blue Ocean Gear - CHITELIX - Greenov - Kind Designs - nextProtein - POLYCHAETA - PolyGone - Reefgen - rrreefs - SeaCras - SolarDuck - Swiss Ocean Tech Ltd. ! We look forward to collaborating with fellow challenge winners and partners, building new connections, and gaining greater visibility to amplify our impact, helping the ocean and the people who depend on it to thrive. 🙌 🌊 Find out more about this milestone: https://wef.ch/47p0Uxj And a big thank you to the Innovation Ecosystem Partners for making this happened. UpLink - World Economic Forum Ministry of Economy and Planning - MEPsaudi WAVE Builders Vision Fauna & Flora G20 CORDAP (Coral Research & Development Accelerator Platform) Global Fund for Coral Reefs NCECKSA Red Sea Global SVCL OceanX AVEVA #Ocean #BlueEconomy #OceanProtection #Regeneration

Corporate Innovation teams often lack a 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘢𝘤𝘩 to 𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻. At Pioneers.io, we thus designed a step-by-step approach to take advantage of green technologies and develop successful climate ventures 👇 ✅ 𝗦𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗜𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 - Understand climate trends and future scenarios - Define the company’s climate vision and ambition - Identify innovation gaps ✅ 𝗦𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗜𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗙𝗶𝗲𝗹𝗱𝘀 𝗠𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 - Mapping sustainable innovation fields - Identifying must-win battles and strategic action - Roadmap to close climate gaps ✅ 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗔𝗽𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗦𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗻𝘁 - Ideation of innovative ideas and applications of green technologies - Use case selection, concretization, and validation - Global Green Tech partner scouting and collaboration or climate venture building Learn more on our climate website: https://lnkd.in/dKZ8iyNd What's your take on climate innovation? What tools and methods do you use in your company to develop "green" offerings and business models? Do you follow a streamlined approach? Eager to learn from you! Thomas Höpler Daniel Hoffmann Iris Kattinger Magdalena Neidhart Julia Weber Ulrike Regner Jutta Grabenhofer Ruth Moss Thomas Glanzer Gregor Mihaljević Andreas Theil Fabio Wurm Alexander Hell Ashna Mudaffer Andreas Hosiner Eva-Maria Weidenthaler Jasmine Yvonne Schweitzer #climateinnovation #sustainability #climatetech #innovation

🌍✨ Successful Earthshot Entrepreneur’s Club Event Highlights! ✨🌍 Yesterday, our Earthshot Entrepreneur’s Club hosted an inspiring first event focused on tackling the five key areas linked to the prestigious Earthshot Prize! 💡🌱 Entrepreneurs, innovators, and changemakers gathered to share ideas and solutions that align with the Earthshot goals: Protect and Restore Nature: Startups shared game-changing ideas to rewild ecosystems and protect biodiversity. Clean Our Air: Solutions ranged from innovative air filtration systems to policies combating air pollution. Revive Our Oceans: Ocean cleanup technologies and sustainable fishing practices were the hot topics in this session. Build a Waste-Free World: Circular economy ideas dominated, with discussions on upcycling and reducing waste in production. Fix Our Climate: Entrepreneurs presented groundbreaking technologies to reduce emissions and scale renewable energy. The energy and enthusiasm were contagious, and the collaborations formed here will undoubtedly contribute to a brighter, greener future. 🌍🔥 #Earthshot #Innovation #Sustainability #Entrepreneurship #ClimateAction #EcoInnovation Hilary Roberts Brian Baillie Sophie Turner Matthew Preston Kairen Skelley Angela Archer HELIX@Leeds

🌍 You can't host a Climate Week without showcasing Climate Tech... 🌍 From next Monday (!!!) - Climate Action Week Sydney in partnership with Greenhouse and over a dozen leading investors, founders, accelerators and climate support organisations are putting on 18 (mostly free) events focussed on climate tech. These Climate Tech events cover a breadth of topics from deeptech commercialision, scaling hardtech research, investor discussions, climate tech showcases for company directors, to marketing case studies, and networking events. The program is highly relevant for existing founders, policymakers, researchers, corporate sustainability leads, company directors, and anyone interested in getting more involved in Sydney's climate tech ecosystem. Some of the climate tech events I will be checking out: 🎉 Official Opening Program on May 13th features Investible Climate Tech Partners Virescent Ventures Novalith Sicona Battery Technologies New Energy Nexus Main Sequence Greenhouse and many many more... 🚀 Scaling Climate Tech Showcase: Accelerating commercialization, internationalization, and scale. Featuring Claire Mula Greenhouse University of Technology Sydney 🌱 ClimateTech Scaleup Showcase for Directors: Presented by Always Carbon Greenhouse James Stewart 🌏 Action Dialogue: Taking Australian climate tech to Southeast Asia. Hosted by Padang & Co Derrick Chiang Adam Lyle 💡 Success Stories: Showcasing startups addressing industry challenges. Presented by KPMG High Growth Ventures Kylie Little ☀️ Raise and Shine! A Climate Tech Global Growth Breakfast Meet-Up: Organized by Climate Salad Mick Liubinskas Olivia Utharntharm 🔍 PANEL & ROUND TABLE with Climate Tech Founders: How can we help bring your vision to life? Featuring Emile Rastoll, Terra.do Refilled ArcSense ⚡ NSW Power-to-X Technology Showcase: Powerfuels including Hydrogen Network. Presented by NSW Decarbonisation Innovation Hub Thomas Gao 🌱 Foundation Building of a ClimateTech Start-up: Hosted at @fishburners Dr Leila Alem 🤝 Climate Tech Co-Founder Speed Networking: Presented by EnergyLab Startmate Samantha J. Wood Kaya Moore Looking forward to seeing some of you there! #ClimateAction #ClimateTech #Sustainability #Innovation #ClimateChange #TechForGood

Interested in **Carbon Technologies**? Want to learn about current challenges in the carbon-tech arena and dive deep into its untapped potentials? Come join us in this first-of-its-kind brainstorm event, where we will be joined by carbon-tech experts Menashe Zelicha and Dan Deviri who will teach us about the carbon-tech market and spice things up with personal stories from their experiences in the climatech space. The event will be held at the newly established sustainability center at Mazeh 9, Tel Aviv, on January 17th at 7pm IST. The event is completely free, all for the climatech community, by the climatech community. Registration links are available in the first comments. Looking forward to seeing you there! #climatech #carbonmarkets #carbonremoval #enterpreneurship #brainstorming

🌍 Today is World Environment Day! 🚨According to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, up to 40% of the planet's land is degraded, directly affecting half of the world's population and threatening about half of global GDP ($44 trillion). The number and duration of droughts have increased by 29% since 2000: without urgent action, droughts could affect more than three-quarters of the world's population by 2050. 🛰️This is where #spacetech comes to action: Space-based technologies, such as remotely sensed data, have enhanced scientific understanding of water cycles, air quality, forests and other aspects of the natural environment. These surveying and monitoring tools provide valuable information on the state of ecosystems, which offers objective support for positive environmental action, including conservation and sustainable resource management. 💦 With our INNO4CFIs Project, we are leveraging cutting-edge technologies and nature-based solutions to promote sustainable environmental practices, with a focus on carbon farming, reforestation, and agroforestry systems to increase CO2 uptake while nurturing vital environmental benefits like freshwater production, soil restoration and biodiversity enhancement starting with planting 6000 trees in Europe. Discover the #greenrevolution👇🏽 INNO4CFIs is a project co-funded by the European Regional Development Fund through the innovative #I3 instrument and coordinated by Fondazione E. Amaldi. European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency (EISMEA) | Treedom | Space4Good | Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche | F6S | Circonnact - Regenerative Circularity | Universidad de Salamanca | National Technical University of Athens | AINIA |Novobiom | TREEO 🌱 Cooling the planet | AB Corporation | European Commission | Consorzio di ricerca Hypatia | Agenzia Spaziale Italiana | European Space Agency - ESA | #italygivingyouspace #spacecolutions #businessapplications #sustainability #Innovation #carbonfarming #greentech #naturebasedsolutions #EUinnovation #ERDF #circulareconomy #climateaction #climatesolution #worldenvironmentday

Our 2024 ClimateTech Index found that the 1,000 best funded UK ClimateTechs are worth £26bn, which is a superb success - but startups across the sector face challenges and the climate crisis demands us to go further, faster. So what do we plan to do next? We've got 5 priorities this year: 📈 Carbon Markets - through our Carbon Markets Innovation Forum we will pushing for Government action to create a high quality, high integrity voluntary carbon market that (where appropriate) intersects with the compliance market. 🍔 Feeding the Future - a campaign to put technology at the centre of food security and sustainability policy for this (and the next) government. This means cutting edge novel production and empowering farmers to increase sustainability whilst securing production. 🏘 Built Different - a campaign to accelerate the decarbonisation of construction and the built environment through the use of tech, and reform of EPCs to incentivise truly sustainable behaviours. 💰 For FOAK's Sake - a campaign to produce policy solutions to the late-stage valley of death funding gap that our ClimateTech Index showed so starkly. This means investigating the role of policy in supporting first-of-a-kind (FOAK) demonstrators to increase the number of ClimateTech scaleups in the UK. 🗳 A ClimateTech Manifesto - ahead of this year's General Election we want to convene the ClimateTech ecosystem to lay out a plan for the next government, in partnership with our friends at techUK, Tech Nation, Undaunted: Tackling climate change with innovation, and Cleantech for UK. We're after partners for all of the above, drop me a line if you'd like to get involved.

🌱 Calling all changemakers! The #EuropeanCarbonFarmingSummit in Valencia, Spain, is set to convene from March 5-7, offering a platform to advance robust #carbonfarming markets and policies across the #EU. Learn more 👇 https://lnkd.in/edqCpwKm Fondazione E. Amaldi, Planet srl, Treedom, Space4Good, AB Corporation, National Technical University of Athens, AINIA, F6S, Novobiom, TREEO 🌱 Cooling the planet, #Rancho, Circonnact - Regenerative Circularity, BISITE Research Group, University of Salamanca (Universidad de Salamanca), Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche #INNO4CFIs #I3instrument #climateaction #sustainability #innovation #greentech #naturebasedsolutions #EUinnovation #ERDF #circulareconomy #climatesolution

"The green premium is the cost difference between a cheaper product that increases pollution and a more expensive alternative that offers climate benefits. In order to get people on board with new technologies, we need to close that gap." Many of HG Ventures' portfolio companies are working to narrow the grren premium in their respective industries, and we are excited about their breakthroughs becoming more mainstream. In this article for MIT Technology Review, Casey Crownhart examines the green premium and the imperative to reduce or eliminate it (behind a paywall). https://lnkd.in/gA343b5e 

The key message from #ClimateWeekNYC was clear: we need to move faster and smarter. So, what's standing in our way? For the hard-to-abate sectors pushing to bridge the gap between innovation and commercialisation, several critical barriers are stalling progress: 1️⃣ Financing Gaps: The dreaded "Valley of Death" is very real for first-of-a-kind (FOAK) projects. High costs and perceived risks make it tough for these technologies to secure early-stage investment. Investors are hesitant due to complex scaling needs and delayed returns. Is there an opportunity for the large (energy) players to co-ordinate their efforts in FOAK and pool risk? Yes. 2️⃣ The Offtake Conundrum: Offtake agreements are necessary to secure financing, but financing is necessary to secure these agreements! This stalemate is blocking final investment decisions in the transformative capital intensive projects, slowing our pathway to lower carbon world. We need early believers willing to back these ventures and pave the way. Less 'fast followers', more 'first movers'. 3️⃣ Regulatory Uncertainty: Evolving regulations — especially in emerging sectors like green hydrogen and sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) — are adding another layer of risk, making decision-makers hesitant. Clearer policy signals could unlock stalled investments and accelerate deployment. Many of these challenges boil down to a data gap. There’s uncertainty around how different technologies will evolve and what their true impact will be. That’s why Atoma Research is on a mission to provide the data and insights needed to de-risk investments and drive capital to the most impactful climate tech solutions. 💡 Ready to go from 'first-of-a-kind' to 'next-of-a-kind'? Reach out to see how we can help your institution confidently navigate the future of climate tech. Thanks again to the Innovate UK team for supporting Atoma Research as part of the UK trade delegation. Dilruk Yahathugoda Dr Stafford Lloyd Kara Cartwright #ItsTime #ClimateTech #Sustainability #Innovation #HardTech #ClimateAction #GreenHydrogen #SAF #NetZero #InnovateUK