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Climate Tech Women in Focus: Ilea Buffier, founder of Evalue8

Ilea has been at the forefront of carbon accounting for more than 20 years
Industry

Climate Salad's third trade mission to SF

We've returned from our third trade mission to San Francisco, with some key learnings and reflections
Companies

VolDrive Recognised in Australia’s International Good Design Awards for Excellence in Design and Innovation

Onvol's innovative device converts motion into electricity, endlessly powering sensors that provide protection and condition monitoring of assets like wind turbines.
Industry

Queensland: Poised to Lead the World in Climate Tech Innovation

Queensland’s climate tech industry is on a trajectory of growth and innovation, supported by strong government policies, industry collaboration, and increasing customer demand.
Industry

Celebrating the Launch of the Third Australian Climate Tech Industry Report

We've released the 2024 Australian Climate Tech Industry Report and new ACTI data platform
Companies

Transforming the Way We Colour Our World

GGP2 Featured Company: NewEra Bio harnesses the science of synthetic fermentation to produce sustainable textile dyes
Industry

Global AgriFood Impact: Australia's innovative startups lead the way

Australia is home to over 600 climate tech companies, with 12% in the AgriFood space, working to revolutionise our global food systems.

News

BlackRock's Global Impact Annual Report

Reflecting an unprecedented period in history, the report captures not only the reality of the immense challenges we face amid the ongoing global pandemic, but also the resilient responses that so many impact enterprises offer as solutions.

April 19, 2022
Found by:
Olivia Utharntharm
How impact can enhance the risk-return equation

Impact investing is a rapidly growing segment within sustainable investing. It aims to channel money toward the companies that have a positive impact on the world in which they operate – and to deliver outperformance for investors in the process.

April 19, 2022
Found by:
Olivia Utharntharm
Carbon credit: Start-up claims tech measures real-time greenhouse gases

A new start-up claims its technology, using artificial intelligence and spatial data, is the only real-time measure of carbon in the atmosphere and will help catalyse the world’s efforts in combating climate change.

April 19, 2022
Found by:
Olivia Utharntharm
Greenfluence podcast: The mission to restore nature's capital

Co-founders of Cecil Earth, Alex and Rory, share their experience going from Boston Consulting Group and transitioning into the start-up sphere and emphasise resilience and problem-solving as essential skills for both roles.

April 19, 2022
Found by:
Olivia Utharntharm
Scientists identify the missing ingredient for climate action: Political will

This week, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, released a report that emphasised that the barriers to accomplishing progress on climate change are largely political, not scientific.

April 11, 2022
Found by:
Olivia Utharntharm
Podcast: My Climate Journey: Startup Series: BasiGo

A growing body of knowledge about climate change and potential solutions. This series traverses disciplines, industries, and opinions with hundreds of deep-dive conversations with science, technology, and climate leaders. Hosted by Jason Jacobs.

April 8, 2022
Found by:
Olivia Utharntharm
Climate Salad aggressively drives climatetech ecosystem

At the forefront of the innovation ecosystem is climate tech, with startups and entrepreneurs scaling their mission to solve climate change using digital technologies.

April 8, 2022
Found by:
Olivia Utharntharm
World on 'fast track to climate disaster', says UN secretary general

AntĂłnio Guterres says the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reveals 'a litany of broken climate promises' by governments and businesses, and accuses some of them of lying in claiming to be on track to limiting future heating to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels. In a strongly worded rebuke, he says: 'It is a file of shame, cataloguing the empty pledges that put us firmly on track towards an unliveable world'

April 8, 2022
Found by:
Olivia Utharntharm
Green threat: Patagonia to axe discount unless Australian wholesalers reduce footprint

Sustainable clothes maker Patagonia will axe all order discounts for its Australian wholesale partners unless they take steps to reduce their carbon footprint in a move aimed to encourage other retailers to take further action against climate change.

April 8, 2022
Found by:
Olivia Utharntharm
Climate Tech saw $165-billion investment, but there need for more entrepreneurial efforts

There is no denying that almost everything we do today has an impact on climate change, which in turn affects our way of life. This is an issue that cannot be ignored any longer.

April 8, 2022
Found by:
Olivia Utharntharm
Scientists urge end to fossil fuel use as landmark IPCC report readied

The world must abandon fossil fuels as a matter of urgency, rather than entrusting the future climate to untried “techno-fixes” such as sucking carbon out of the air, scientists and campaigners have urged, as governments wrangled over last-minute changes to a landmark scientific report.

April 8, 2022
Found by:
Olivia Utharntharm
CSIRO, Eratos partner to help the world turn data into opportunity

A collaboration between Australia’s national science agency CSIRO and Eratos will help software engineers and researchers develop more informed, effective and scalable digital solutions for owners and managers of natural and built world assets.

April 8, 2022
Found by:
Olivia Utharntharm
The shifting sands of capital

Phil Morle: Today, I am going to talk about $4 trillion moving somewhere else — how global forces are requiring humanity to innovate and how technology might profoundly change industries we have taken for granted as enduring.

April 4, 2022
Found by:
Olivia Utharntharm
Climate VC to invest ÂŁ35m in overlooked climate tech start-ups

The new climate tech investor, founded by AI entrepreneurs and supported by an advisory board which includes a Greenpeace board director and an executive from Google, is focused on backing overlooked start-ups with the potential to collectively remove or replace 1 billion tonnes of greenhouse gases (CO2e) over a decade

April 4, 2022
Found by:
Olivia Utharntharm
Big News From ClimateTech Unicorn, LanzaTech

Climate Tech company LanzaTech has succeeded in engineering new strains of C. auto that would create two additional industrial platform chemicals – acetone and isopropanol (IPA), as well as carbon neutral ethanol.

April 4, 2022
Found by:
Olivia Utharntharm
3D engineering is retrofitting the sea

Human hands have brought our oceans to a crisis point, but these same hands have the power to change that, bit by bit … with a little bit of help from 3D printing.

April 4, 2022
Found by:
Olivia Utharntharm
Climate change: IPCC scientists to examine carbon removal in key report

UN scientists are likely to weigh up technology to remove CO2 from the atmosphere, as they gather to finalise a key IPCC report.

April 4, 2022
Found by:
Olivia Utharntharm
Staff share overhaul paves way for more start-up success: Bassat

Unicorn founder Didier Elzinga and venture capitalist Paul Bassat say proposed budget changes to lift and in many instances remove the cap on employee share schemes puts Australia’s start-up sector on a level playing field with Silicon Valley.

April 4, 2022
Found by:
Olivia Utharntharm
Understanding the SEC’s new carbon disclosure recommendations

The SEC has released a new proposal: that public companies begin reporting their carbon emissions and reductions progress alongside their financial results—with the same rigor.

March 28, 2022
Found by:
Olivia Utharntharm