Fashionable eco friendly backpacks

Koba wrote: Koba stands for compact backpack and accessories. Kobag will be our first product, an innovative backpack with a thermal base for easy storage of food and drinks. We believe that this new feature will help reducing per-capita food waste, making it easier for the everyday worker to bring food from home. Indeed, our backpack aims to blend together the best qualities of a fashionable backpack (captivating design and ease of transport) with the ones of a cool bag (thermal food and drinks isolation). Finally, consistently with our green vision, all our products will be made of eco-friendly materials, thus further reducing our ecological footprint... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Italy

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

Solarity

Solarity wrote: The purpose of solarity is to help the state reach its goals in terms of the number of solar energy panels installed. It is a platform that incentivizes home owners who have a potential roof and financial means to install solar panels. It is based on a referral system which rewards current solar panels owners to act as the psychological push (“a technological evangelist”) to change people’s mind on buying solar panels, and push them to act. It’s much easier to go for a coffee with a friend that you trust rather than having to research for yourself on the internet and trying to motivate yourself to act on something that you’re not an expert in... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Switzerland

Counting Carbon

Counting Carbon wrote: Food accounts for approximately 30% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Taking a number of important factors into account, counting carbon generates a relative score for each food product so that the consumer can easily choose the food products that are best for the environment. By changing consumer behaviour, we can create a competitive advantage for environmentally friendly companies, and drive clean tech innovation along the food supply chain... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Switzerland

Turning abandoned mineral waste into insulation

FenX wrote: Thermal insulation materials are mostly flammable, toxic and having high carbon footprint due to the production process. After the london grenfell fire in 2017, there are increasing demands for non-flammable insulation materials. To address this need, a new type of non-flammable insulation foam is developed at eth zurich. The foam is produced from non-toxic materials and has zero co2 emission during production... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Switzerland

Super-fast broadband enabled dematerialisation

Dematerialisation reflects the move to a more digital society enabled through digital communication, replacing physical objects with digital and on-line equivalents. This also includes reduction in personal travel by moving to on-line transactions. The avoided carbon emissions include: the reduction in embodied carbon from the de-materialisation of CDs, DVDs, games, books, newspapers and mail; and transport emissions savings from personal travel reductions associated with shopping (these savings are offset to a certain extent by an increase in courier/delivery travel emissions). BT developed a methodology to quantify the carbon benefits associated with super-fast broadband (fibre-optic residential internet access), which is driving the uptake of digital distribution of goods and services. Current avoided emissions calculated to 0.307 tCO2 per annum per residential fibre broadband connection (2018). https://www.btplc.com/Digitalimpactandsustainability/Tacklingclimatechange/Ourmethodology/index.htm

United Kingdom

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

An algae based wastewater treatment technology

MicroChar wrote: The main problems in the waste water treatment plants nowadays are connected to the sludge management and sludge disposal, due to the waste’s harsh chemical content, incorporated into the sludge through the chemical treatment. Our technology is offering a unique solution to these problems. Through microalgae biological treatment and biochar filtration we are eliminating the need of any chemical additives, which results in a final sludge product that is totally reusable as a fertilizer in the agriculture and is also a source of a high quality biogas... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Bulgaria

ENLIL-Vertical Axis Wind Turbine

ENLIL-Vertical Axis Wind Turbine wrote: By placing the hybrid vertical axis wind turbine (inclueding a solar panel on top of it) on highways, ‘’metrobus-lines’’ and other transportation lines as well as high-rise residences , enlil will generate energy by using the winds created by the vehicles aswell as the natural winds. It will also measure the city’s temperature, humidity, wind and co2 by using the the build-in sensors and the iot platform. The measurements made by enlil will be used on the carbon footprint map to provide the comfort of the city and it will also contribute to the safety of the city by providing information to. Possible earthquakes in istanbul with the earthquake monitoring station... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Turkey

Smart rice cultivation

Farmers can use Alternate Wetting and Drying (AWD) as a more efficient method of rice cultivation. This involves allowing fields to dry down between floods on rice fields. By decreasing the amount of time fields remain flooded, AWD reduces water use, fuel and electricity use for running irrigation pumps, and the need for nitrogen fertilizers, while also slowing down the anaerobic activity that creates methane gas. However, AWD can be challenging. It requires farmers to control water levels carefully across large tracts of land. It also introduces risk to the rice crops, as it can be difficult to assess depth accurately with only a few measurements at various points in the fields. Together, these barriers have slowed adoption of AWD. AT&T connectivity enables water-level data to be remotely collected and connected to pumping systems to automatically control the water level in the rice fields. This helps both with the implementation of the AWD process and with the data collection required for verification of the carbon credits. Thus the technology helps to overcome barriers to implementation and increases the AWD adoption rate. Current avoided annual emissions calculated based on adoption of IoT-enabled AWD expanded to all rice farmers in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri and Texas. http://about.att.com/content/dam/csr/otherpdfs/10x-Precision-King-FINAL.pdf

United States