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Adaptation

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How technology can help nature

Xylo Systems is a biodiversity intelligence platform supporting businesses in measuring, minimising and reporting their impact on nature.
Companies

The future of construction is here with Earthbuilt

EarthbuiltÂŽ is the future of construction. It is an ultra-low carbon extrusion produced by machines that compress construction waste to form structures and wrap them in high-tensile membranes.
Industry

Thriving climate tech innovation ecosystem of SA

In partnership with the Department of Industry, Innovation and Science, Climate Tech is on the agenda to thrive in South Australia.
Companies

Resourcing the net-zero transition

Industry Report partner NextOre uses tech to make mining more sustainable
Events

South Australia Climate Tech Showcase - Feb 8, 2023

South Australia boasts more renewable energy than any other state, but how do we make sure South Australia also becomes the net exporter of climate tech solutions?
Companies

Quality produce that doesn't cost the earth

Meet the founders who want to create the world's most sustainable supermarket.
Companies

Australian vine health technology set to grow

Deep Planet is helping Australian viticulture adapt to the effects of a changing climate
Companies

SwitchDin's smart grid is making renewable energy equitable and efficient

SwitchDin paves the way for an intelligent, renewable grid.

News

Our food system isn't ready for the climate crisis

The world's farms produce only a handful of varieties of bananas, avocados, coffee and other foods – leaving them more vulnerable to the climate breakdown

April 19, 2022
Found by:
Olivia Utharntharm
Climate of Change with Cate Blanchett and Danny Kennedy

Actor and environmental campaigner Cate Blanchett and clean technology expert Danny Kennedy explore eco-anxiety, optimism and hope in the face of climate change.

April 19, 2022
Found by:
Olivia Utharntharm
How ‘choice architecture’ can help fight climate change

There is a solution to reducing carbon emissions that gets less attention than solar panels or electric cars: “choice architecture,” or behavioral design, that can help influence consumers to make better decisions for the climate.

April 19, 2022
Found by:
Olivia Utharntharm
Emerging tech can help counter the effects of climate change

University of Sydney scientists discuss how emerging technologies in the food, transport and energy sectors have great potential to address the climate challenge.

April 19, 2022
Found by:
Olivia Utharntharm
McKinsey launches new climate technology effort to accelerate decarbonization

Today, we’re pleased to announce the launch of the McKinsey Platform for Climate Technologies (MPCT) to help clients identify, develop, deploy, and scale technologies for transforming carbon intensive products, services, and systems.

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
Carbon Capture: Early Days of a $1 Trillion Industry?

Carbon capture can help both reduce the carbon footprint of certain industries and, uniquely, remove legacy carbon from the atmosphere; even the most ambitious emission-reduction scenarios maintain a share of fossil fuels usage, suggesting carbon capture solutions are needed to achieve full decarbonisation.

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
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
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
Carbon offset producers question buyer motives

Mega gas expansions such as Origin’s Beetaloo Basin project in the NT and Woodside’s Scarborough plans will need carbon offsets to meet investor demands and global rules. Now, some indigenous groups and land-based carbon farmers responsible for creating those credits are getting worried they will enable more emissions.

April 8, 2022
Found by:
Olivia Utharntharm
A cut-and-paste attack on electric vehicle batteries and renewables is spanning the globe. But is it right?

Unattributed extracts from an essay decrying renewables and electric vehicles are being used to undermine their environmental credentials

April 8, 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
We will get there: Qantas sets 2030 green target

Qantas on Thursday pledged to lower its net carbon emissions by 25 per cent from 2019 levels by the end of this decade, setting a new target en route to its existing ambition of hitting net-zero by 2050.

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
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