Own your forest without owning any land

AgroTribe wrote: We provide tree plantation services and environment impact measurement to corporates starting from inr 1000 per tree.. Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

India

Aquammodate

Aquammodate wrote: Clean water is a world-necessity, but large amounts of energy are typically required to purify water to drinking-level standards. Our patent-pending technology building on biomimetic water purification and treatment has the potential to lower the energy consumption of water purification processes by 99% with a high selectivity for water and excellent purity, whilst only using renewable components... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Sweden

Optimization of indoor environment

NuLight has developed a system for providing improved well-being of people and optimized resource usage by creating an optimal inside environment. This is done using a mix of technologies: Circadian lighting, which simulates sunlight and therefore the natural feeling inside a building, a motion sensor system that senses how different spaces inside a building is used and adapts the environment accordingly. Furthermore, the entire systems performs data collection and analysis to continuously adapt in order to optimize every part of the building.

Chile

Sustainable cleaning of atmosphere

Zero Carbon wrote: Air pollution in form of particulate matter is an increasing environmental and public health. Problem. According to who, 92% of the world’s population lives in places where air quality levels. Exceed limits. In the european union, the average life expectancy is estimated to be decreased. By 8. 6 months, because of exposure to particulate matter. The world health organization. Estimates the number of deaths caused by air pollution is up to 7 million per year, mostly. Related to asthma, lung cancer, cardiovascular and respiratory diseases. We built a mechanical tree, that harvests renewable energy from the wind and the sun. The... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Slovenia

Cityfilters

cityfilters wrote: We are cityfilter a startup working on techniques to reduce air pollution in metropolitan cities. Air pollution in metro cities and around the world has reached the hazardous level, 70 million people are dying every year due to air pollution (who). There are various solutions (like air purifying tower in china, water sprinklers and huge outdoor air purifiers) available to purify the outdoor air but they need land and time to construct & install and power (burn fossil fuel) for operations. . The major drawback of such solution they use external energy that is generated from the burning of fossil fuel in power plants. Such power plants are one of. Biggest contributor to green house gases (ghg) in the environment... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

India

WAIR

WAIR wrote: Wair is on a mission to give discarded textiles a new life through the power of upcycling. In our first product, we transform "unperfect" jeans and workwear into modern and sustainable sneakers. Textile upcycling is overlooked in the circular fashion agenda, but it is a powerful recirculation strategy, that minimizes the need for new virgin material, and retains the value in the discarded fabrics. Apart from shoes, we also include the consumers in the production of upcycled fashion through upcycling workshops. Here we empower people to take up the fight against fast fashion while getting to create unique fashion pieces and letting their creativity loose... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Denmark

Scaling sustainable transportation

Freelway has a service that optimizes transportation made by individuals and companies through visualization and coordination all transports within a system. Using algorithms to match transport requests with available resources, the solution offers one app-based service which provides economic and environmental benefits for all actors. The service also allows for the integration of a post delivery system for transporting last mile deliveries. The market group is currently rural and urban users.

Sweden

Water purification for developing countries

SolarSack wrote: Solarsack can contain 4 liters of water, and with 4 hours in the sun, the water will be pasteurized, and ready to drink. With about 60 uses, a single solarsack can provide more than 240 liters of water. Solarsack is made to reduce shipping cost, and with a production price 1/5 the cost of a bucket of coal, solarsack can be sold at a profit, and still be affordable to the user. Solarsack is developed based on studies and prototyping in east africa, and the both the purification process and the user interaction is tested with the actual users in africa. Calculation including shipping and distribution still gives solarsack a 1/20 the co2 emission compared to boiling with charcoal, while totally eliminating the use of wood... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Denmark

Technologies to save energy

Vivek Institute Of Consultancy Services In Science wrote: Vicss is a staunch scientific platform where we provide solutions to all engineering science, medical science and technological issues that the students, faculty, medicos and people having innovative conceptions are facing in scientific research platform from ground level to apex level. The platform comprises of students, lecturers and researchers who are having dying interest to bring innovative things into authentic life for the sake of their people’s welfare that is society. It makes people sustainable in their scientific phrenic conceptions by providing all simulated and authentic time practical erudition which they require and well suit their desiderata... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

India

Platform for sharing short distance trips

SPRIDES - Saving Planet RIDES wrote: Through an app for smartphones, sprides is a platform for short-distance rides, connecting drivers and passengers willing to share trips and respective cost in urban areas. So on the one hand people reduces travel costs, optimizing the efficiency of the use of cars, and in the other hand reduce car traffic in urban centers... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Portugal