GEO

GEO wrote: 62% of households in the kyrgyz republic rely entirely on coal for home heating that causes the loss of time and money spent on the purchase, transportation, unloading, storing coal, dealing with dirt, preparation of firewood used for ignition and the utilization of ash. . Social costs include air pollution from the burning dirty fuel, deforestation, a danger of fire or smoking the room. . A geothermal heating is the only renewable energy solution for homes that is available 365 days a year and can be used just about anywhere in the world. Geothermal heating systems are 400% efficient and provide 100% of the energy needed. . Geo’s team has found a way to make the geothermal heating systems 10 times cheaper... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Kazakhstan

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

Geothermal building cooling system

Geothermal Cooling System by Green India Building Systems and Services Pvt. Ltd. (GIBSS) is an innovative technology that replaces the rejection of heat to ambient air in the conventional systems by the rejection of heat to ground. In conventional air-conditioning systems, the cooling efficiency depends on atmospheric temperature. If the atmospheric temperatures are higher, efficiency of the air-conditioning system is lower and vice versa. The key innovation behind Geothermal Cooling System is the designing of a heat exchanger system that uses the earth temperature, which is much lower than atmospheric temperature to reject the heat. Lower temperatures significantly improve the efficiencies of the air-conditioning systems.

India

Get money from waste

WasteMerchant wrote: Wastemerchant is a digital platform that incentivizes sorting of household/institutional waste by creating a trading platform of such sorted waste. By streamlining such operations in the growing complexities of urban spaces and combined with technological solutions, our platform reduces the costs for governments/municipalities for waste treatment. Our solution promotes sorting which leads to more recycling and reuse and less to landfill and incineration. And fosters a positive environmental impact... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Finland

Global Forest Bond

Global Forest Bond wrote: Deforestation is responsible for around 10% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Global forest bond developed a financial solution for landowners who have preserved forests to be payed by the environmental services provided in those areas, such as carbon capture and storage, water production, biodiversity protection, etc. . We use traditional brazilian agrobusiness financial tools, such as agribusiness receivables certificate (cra), making it possible for investors and companies to acquire the rights over the environmental services in the são paulo stock exchange (b3). This greatly reduces the transaction costs and increases trust. . Our certificates are issued yearly, for the environmental services provided in the year before... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Brazil

Global network for climate

Global network for climate wrote: Colavorative map (geografic informative sistem), different layers users will consult, participate and update. Users will be able to find centralized and trustful information about local and global climate problems and actions. Pined things on the map:organizations and colectives climate problemsforumpollution info/dataecological stores or consumer cooperative.. Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Spain

Go To-U

Go To-U wrote: We provide soft- and hardware- solution to connect business partners, who own charging stations, with ev drivers who can charge their cars for free while using the partners’ services... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Ukraine

GoGreenExperts

GoGreenExperts wrote: The problem: there are products marketed as “green” in most uk consumer segments, but some products are much greener than others. The companies providing the environmentally superior offerings struggle to get this message to consumers. . Our solution: a green product star rating system (like defaqto in the uk insurance market). We will become a trusted, independent, household name in providing green consumer advice. . Why now: there has been a large (and continuing) shift in consumer sentiment in the past 18 months. Many consumers now want to be sure they are making the right purchasing decisions for the environment, but there are no independent experts focussed on helping them make those decisions. ... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

United Kingdom

GOYTI. Sustainable mobility solutions

GOYTI. Sustainable mobility solutions wrote: Almost 3/4 of the population lives in urban areas where transport generates almost 50% of the pollutants that harm people's health. Actual vehicles to move around cities are inefficient and are underused so we address this problem by creating efficient, clean and safe mobility solutions for urban areas adapted to the real needs of the people. Materials used nowadays on vehicles construction come from finite resources as steel, aluminium and petrol; therefore these generate a huge carbon footprint and a unacceptable bad impact to the environment and to the people’s health and life quality... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Spain

Grain storage monitoring

Crover wrote: Cereal grains are the basis of staple food, yet post-harvest losses during long-term storage are exceptionally high, above 20%, making storage the single phase from harvest to final product with the highest losses. This is responsible for about 6% of total greenhouse gas emissions from food waste. Crover is the first robotic device able to ‘swim’ through grains stored in bulk and autonomously monitor their conditions, helping grain operators like farmers and grain merchants maintain the quality of their stock... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

United Kingdom