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Kite Magnetics and Swinburne AIR Hub Unveil Ultra-High Efficiency Propeller for Electric Aircraft

Kite Magnetics, in collaboration with Swinburne University of Technology’s Aerostructures Innovation Research (AIR) Hub, has developed an ultra-high-efficiency propeller designed specifically for electric aircraft, promising significantly enhanced flight performance. The high-efficiency, low-noise propeller is a result of advanced computer simulations that will lead to improved propeller efficiency of up to 92%.
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Improving the sustainability of homes, that's hot!

Top Property is an online marketplace platform dedicated to energy and water efficiency, to improve the sustainability of our homes.
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Charcoal bricks of gold!

From woody wastes, we produce a charcoal briquette that replaces coal in steelmaking, a clean burning gas and a liquid biostimulant for agriculture.
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Women in Focus: Evannah Jayne, Founder and Director of Terran Industries

"We're incredibly proud of the female founders represented in our community. Such diversity in founding teams brings critical new perspectives and ideas to the table." Adapted from the 2022 Industry Report.
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Data and devices are delivering real time climate impact

Industry Report Partner Wattwatchers uses scaleable tech to intelligently solve complex energy demands
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Optimising HVAC for comfort and the climate

Hal Systems uses predictive tech to ensure as the demands of HVAC increase, the environmental cost does not.
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Agtuary harnesses satellite and climate data to help transform the Agri+Food sector

Industry Report Partner Agtuary's co-founder and CEO Angus Muffatti highlights the critical role of climate tech in revolutionising our global Agri+Food systems.
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Accurassi: tech to transform the supply of energy

Industry Report Partner Accurassi provides energy retailers and and financiers with the guidance and personalisation for homes to transition to zero carbon.

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Why we need to stop kidding ourselves about climate change

Climate change connects crucial Australian interests, and we are the developed country that has most to lose from climate disruption.

May 4, 2022
Found by:
Olivia Utharntharm
Report: Climate tech is hitting peak maturity

Climate tech has seen the biggest gain since its last run-up and subsequent bust in the early 2000s, according to a new report Silicon Valley Bank provided exclusively to Axios

May 4, 2022
Found by:
Olivia Utharntharm
Kiwi emissions credits startup Carbon Crop tops up with $1.73 million in pre-Series A

New Zealand based CarbonCrop is a purpose led business with an impressive technology solution bringing a greater level of integrity to carbon credit assessments

May 4, 2022
Found by:
Olivia Utharntharm
LEAFT FOODS YIELDS PROTEIN FROM THE WORLD'S MOST ABUNDANT SOURCE: LEAVES

Leaft Foods is enabling the extraction of protein from the most abundant commodity of any plant - its leaves. On the back of this breakthrough, the company has raised a Series A round of $15M

May 4, 2022
Found by:
Olivia Utharntharm
Environmental impact statement released for Sun Cable's $30 billion solar energy project

Plans to build a massive solar energy project would result in significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions in northern Australia

May 4, 2022
Found by:
Olivia Utharntharm
Climate change will transform how we live, but these tech and policy experts see reason for optimism

It’s easy to feel pessimistic when scientists around the world are warning that climate change has advanced so far, it’s now inevitable that societies will either transform themselves or be transformed. But as two of the authors of a recent international climate report, we also see reason for optimism.

May 4, 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 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
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
‘Easiest thing to help the planet’: How grocery startups are tackling food waste

A variety of Australian startups are connecting customers and farms directly – removing the middleman and eliminating food waste in the process.

March 28, 2022
Found by:
Olivia Utharntharm
State of Climate Tech 2021: Can investment reduce code red?

Society will need a variety of tech solutions – that will help mitigate, adapt to, and understand climate change – in order to respond effectively to the climate challenge

March 28, 2022
Found by:
Olivia Utharntharm
Queensland's electric vehicle subsidy scheme has been announced. Here's what you need to know.

Queenslanders are being offered a $3,000 subsidy from the state government to buy an electric car. However, the offer will not apply to all new electric vehicle sales. Here's what you need to know about how the program will work.

March 21, 2022
Found by:
Olivia Utharntharm
SEC plans to force public companies to disclose greenhouse gas emissions

U.S: From Coca-Cola to Tesla, companies report emissions in widely different ways. A new federal rule is expected to standardize climate disclosures, putting the U.S. on closer footing with other countries.

March 21, 2022
Found by:
Olivia Utharntharm
Gravity could solve renewable energy's biggest problem

To compete with fossil fuels, you need to "make renewables predictable," says Piconi, founder of Energy Vault, which means storing excess energy and being able to dispatch it when required.

March 21, 2022
Found by:
Olivia Utharntharm
What is COP26? Here’s what to know about the global climate summit

Representatives from 196 countries are gathering in Glasgow for crucial climate talks. Here’s what they’ll discuss, and why some people are concerned COP26 might not meet its goals.

October 26, 2021
Found by:
Mick Liubinskas
This might just look like grass, but it has the power to absorb a load of our carbon emissions

Forests have long been celebrated as the natural heroes in the fight against the climate crisis. But another answer to locking carbon dioxide safely away lies right beneath our feet.

October 26, 2021
Found by:
Stefan Knight
Avarni is developing a new format to report scope 3 emissions

Avarni is developing a new format to report the Scope 3 emissions of Qantas.

September 27, 2021
Found by:
Michael Molitor
Cutting methane is the best way to avoid disaster

Drastically cutting methane emissions in the near-term might be our only hope of keeping heating below 1.5°C

September 24, 2021
Found by:
Michael Molitor