Empowering healthy decision-making

Atlas Sensing Labs wrote: In a world where air pollution causes 6. 5 million premature deaths annually, in europe 500,000, there are still hundreds of thousands of cities (population > 50,000) where no air quality network exists. Air pollution can not be controlled without data. Our solution provides any urban area with a hyper-local monitoring network combined with modeling for the high spatial-temporal data needed for effective policy decision-making at an accessible price. Lower air pollution levels mean: fewer premature deaths; major savings on health, agriculture, infrastructure, the environment; while also having significant co-benefits for climate change... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Switzerland

Empowering rural under-served families

Project Uthaana wrote: With world bank estimating 1600 daily deaths caused due to waterborne bacterial diseases, 73 million working days lost and over 600 million dollars worth of medical expenditure spent yearly in india. Project uthaana seeks to solve a crucial problem of lack of clean drinking water. Using an innovative approach, project uthaana aims to remedy this issue by providing eco-friendly and affordable water filters made from clay and used coffee grounds... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

India

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

Enabling global plastic recycling

PlasTell wrote: The numerous types of visually identical but chemically different plastics must be separated and recycled separately. Many developed countries use industrial-scale automatic sorting machines, however their high capital cost and infrastructural requirements prohibit their use in developing countries. Instead, developing countries make use of numerous small manual sorting facilities distributed around the country which are extremely limited by their workers' ability to visually identify plastics. We have developed a low-cost and small scale plastic identification device which enables operators in material recovery facilities to quickly and reliably identify different types of visually indistinguishable plastics... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

United Kingdom

Enabling greener electrical grids

Sensero wrote: Losses in the electrical power grid represent one of the biggest expenses for grid operators - nearly € 205 million yearly in norway alone. Power grid operators currently lack the information and the tools to know where these losses occur. . At the same time, 200 million sensors are being implemented in the grid and in homes all over europe, at an investment cost of € 45 billion. These sensors produce vast amounts of data which contain currently hidden and valuable information. . However, there is a huge gap in the market between the available data and the tools needed to leverage it into valuable information. ... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Norway

Enabling sustainable aquaculture

Synthesea wrote: More than 50% of fish eaten around the world come from aquafarms. However, fish need omega-3 to grow healthily and be nutritious. Wild fish are caught and crushed into fish oil, which is then fed to the farmed fish as a source of omega-3. . This means aquaculture contributes to overfishing. One third of all the fish caught around the world are used as feed, not eaten by humans, and the price of wild fish continues to rise as fish consumption continues to grow. . We provide a cheap and sustainable alternative to wild fish derived omega-3. We are developing a bacterial strain that coverts plant oil into a cheaper and purer omega-3, circumventing the need for wild fish... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

United Kingdom

Enabling telecommuters working from home

Connected online communication services provide the means to work across geographies and between businesses seamlessly. This allows employees to use internal systems and connect with colleagues remotely, including from their own home, reducing commuting. Emission savings are achieved through avoiding commuter travel in either cars, trains or buses. Online meeting technology also allows internal and external meetings to be conducted between multiple persons without the need for all people to be physically present in the same place. The use of cameras, screens and smart meeting rooms avoids the need for business travel to the meeting location. The impact of avoided business travel can be significant if air travel is prevented. Current avoided emissions calculated per year (2018). https://www.verizon.com/about/sites/default/files/corporate-responsibility-report/2018/environment/efficiency.html

United States

Energetic manure

Energetic manure wrote: With the help of collective tubes , we gather waste from houses to the inlet which brings the waste to the anaerobic digester. Here waste is being recycled by special methanogenic bacteria which only work in anaerobic environment, in absence of oxygen. The output of this reaction gives a mixture of methane and carbon dioxide which is called biogas which could be used to supply houses with thermal energy and electricity. However, the leftover sludge is, the recycled waste, is sent to the. Tank to be used as fertilizers... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Azerbaijan

Energy Efficiency Consultation Agency

Energy Efficiency Consultation Agency wrote: Our solution is to create a business that is an energy consultation agency where we will be providing an energy audit to stores, workspaces, factories, and schools. For the energy audit service, we will be collecting data about the location energy consumption, analyze that data, then provide recommendations on how they can reduce their inefficient energy consumption or make the company more energy efficient. Instead of using human resources to collect the data, we would be installing a monitoring system with sensors to collect different data... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Cambodia

Energy efficient biomass boiler for industrial SMEs

The innovation from Gtarang Energy Solutions is a high-efficiency biomass furnace for small and medium-sized industries. By including proper mixing of the biomass fuel in the pyrolysis, the solution can reach an efficiency of up to 60% at the scale it is built for, allowing for savings in operational costs as well as reducing environmental impact by reducing harmful emissions up to 80%. The solution also includes a unique flame control which allows for reduction of manual labor in the process.

India