Enabling farmers in developing countries

Goats for Water wrote: Goats for water provides alternative financing mechanisms enabling cash-poor smallholder farmers to buy essential household & farming assets such as solar water-pumps, solar home systems and fertlizers. Households pay for the products with goats which uptrade then sells for a profit. Most rural communities lack cash to buy assets that meet their basic needs. Gfw has successfully launched in pakistan serving 7,000 farmers with an 11-person team. Their goat financing mechanism is in place. 16. Rural communities, where solar water pumps now bring water to 22,400 people. They have introduced a goats for solar model, where households can finance purchases of solar home systems, solar tvs and radios with goats... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Pakistan

GeoAirCon

GeoAirCon wrote: With global-warming and population growth, air-conditioning (ac) demand is expected to triple by 2030. Consider the plight of 3. 5 billion people living in hot developing countries that need air-conditioning, but can't afford it. Further, acs are the biggest building ghgs contributor, accounting for 34% of total ghg emissions. There is a dire need to find sustainable means of mitigating & adapting to a hotter climate. Geoaircon is an innovative & cost-effective solution for providing air-conditioning to the masses. With geoaircon, the cooler underground is effectively utilized for cooling through specially designed heat exchangers. This is immensely effective in providing thermal and financial relief while reducing environmental impact... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Pakistan

Fruges

Fruges wrote: Fruges product taaza grow seeds treated with bio-fertilizer and bio-pesticides coated with phyto-polymers. It allows farmers to adopt organic farming fertilizing their crop, protects from any insect or disease with 10% to 50% less water. Taazagrow cuts the energy and transportation cost required to manufacture and deliver huge quantity of fertilizer and pesticides used for conventional farming. Saving approximately 100% of the carbon emitted during the whole production and supply chain. In addition of organic matter in soil by decomposing the organic waste, it restores natural soil fertility, kills harmful microbes and degrade toxic organic chemicals. This eventually improves crop production by 20-30%... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Pakistan

Sustainable Solutions

Sustainable Solutions wrote: To reclaim our planet earth by reusing and recycling various. Disposable products which are otherwise harmful for our environment. We aim to provide eco-friendly, innovative sustainable solution for solid waste. Management. Our main focus is to reuse the plastic pet bottles in concrete blocks. This way we can not only get rid of massive number of pet bottles dumped every. Year but we can also control soil erosion... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Pakistan

Cloop

Cloop wrote: Cloop provides opportunities for underprivileged communities (such as the urban poor, women, and persons with disabilities) to earn additional income while also reducing the amount of plastic waste reaching landfills and waterways. Cloop creates micro-enterprises in these communities and equips them with relatively low-cost and easy-to-use plastic recycling technology. Called cloopcenters, these community micro-enterprises are partnered with other enterprises in the private and public sector, who provide their plastic waste. This is processed through the cloopcenter and sold back to these enterprises in the form of upcycled plastic products... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Philippines

Sari-cycling

Sari-cycling wrote: Our solution to the poor waste management system in our city is to create a social enterprise (called sari-cycling, a wordplay on the tagalog word “sari,” meaning variety, and the english word “recycling”) that will collaborate with sari-sari stores (which are small, community-based convenient stores that are found in every street in the philippines) by deploying recycling bins and environmental awareness posters to unused spaces in front of each store. Sari-sari store owners, who are regulated by local government units, will be incentivized on a monthly basis for providing space for our recycling bins and campaign posters. Our company will also partner with fmcg companies, junk shops, and local government units... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Philippines

Perovskite solar cells

Perovskite solar cells are developed by the University of Warsaw and represent a new class of photovoltaic devices. Their efficiency has reached 24 percent within 8 years of development, which is comparable with silicon solar panels that hav been developed for decades. Estimates say that this generation of solar cells will be significantly cheaper than panels currently available on the market. This is due to low temperature fabrication processing, simple manufacturing and cheap components. Furthermore, there is a possibility to make flexible devices which opens a brand-new application of solar panels.

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I drive with dragon

I drive with dragon wrote: We would like to make public transportation more attractive and. Convenient for kids. We believe that kids can motive their parents to use public transport instead of cars. Additionally we would like children to get into the habit of choosing public transportation. Thanks to this in couple of years there will be no need to change their habit and find alternative solutions. How we would like to do that? we would like to do that by create buses'/trams' spaces more colourful, friendly and attractive for them. We would like to create a zone for kids with dedicated seats and educational puzzles. Furthermore, those puzzles will be educating them in a manner which kids can comprehend. We use dragon that is symbol of cracow, our city... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Poland

Creating real benefits for going green

Green wrote: Jadę, using partnership programs with local brands and companies, along with a simple calculators lets you choose your own priorities, and collect points while riding a bike to work or school. The points you collect allow you to access cultural events, discounts, and other benefits, just for riding your bike. You do not only save money - the app calculates how much time has been saved, calories burned, and how much co2 emissions have been avoided... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Poland

Architectural construction

SUM Green Tunnel wrote: A problem of heat island effect and missing greenery in cities is more and more increasing and serious. . The concept of sum green tunnel is dedicated for urban spaces, especially along communication lines where conditions for trees or shrubs development are unfavorable or impossible. . It is designed as a modular and multifunctional construction covered with evergreen climbing plants. The sum green tunnel is made from 5 m long segments which are able to merge and make together a tunnel from both sides. . Thanks to climbing plants the whole construction cleans polluted air by reducing co2, improve local humidity and muffle the noise from transport... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Poland