BrightClouds

BrightClouds wrote: Proposal to reduce the warming effect of co2 in the atmosphere by increasing the earth’s albedo by enhancing low-level marine clouds. This is achieved through a seawater spray installed on existing cargo ships going about their normal voyages. . Brightclouds will act as an intermediary between the future carbon levy regulator for shipping and shipowners to inform, facilitate, verify, and process the data and payments. Shipowners would gain an additional stream of revenue for installing and operating the spray systems... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Cyprus

Making valuable product from waste

BrighterAlgae wrote: Our idea is to grow microalgae near powerplants and use their co2 and warm water to produce biodiesel. And since algae has lot to offer, we make use of everything that helps us to keep the biodiesel price low and profits high... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Estonia

B-Green-XL - sustainable green e-roofs

Brussels Green Deal wrote: B-green-xl - sustainable green e-roofs - greening brussels from the top down. Roof gardens with photovoltaics help tackle air pollution, increase biodiversity and transform buildings into self-sustaining living units. As the capital of europe, brussels should lead by example. The solution consists of green solar roofs as a nature-based services approach to improving air quality, serving as a carbon sink, reducing energy consumption and empowering brussels residents with “green deal challenge competition”. The target is to make 50% of roofs’ usable surface ‘working’ for cleaner air, heat absorption, energy production and well-being of residents by 2025 through community involvement via win-win challenge competition... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Belgium

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

Making insects part of our staple diet

Burgs Foods wrote: There is a rising demand for animal protein worldwide. The current way we produce this protein is however very unsustainable and a drain on our resources and the environment. Crickets as a food are full of the essential vitamins and nutrients the body needs and packed with protein. Additionally crickets require much less food, water and land to rear making it a perfect environmental friendly protein source. . We at burgs foods set out to produce healthy and tasty food products based on insects. Our first product is the burgs burger, a cricket based burger. With the burger and additional food products we want to push a food revolution to make insects part of our staple diets in europe by 2030... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Netherlands

BurnItGreen

BurnItGreen wrote: Burnitgreen is a clean and efficient solution for thermal energy needs and waste utilization. It’s more efficient than other stoves, has advanced computerized control system, compact size and could be easy incorporated with existing heating systems. It works with variety of solid fuel sources and can be used for waste utilization allowing automatic feeding. The temperature inside the firebox is kept around 1000 c, but the burn process could be temporally suppressed allowing efficient burn in wide ranges of power consumption. The innovative combination of heat exchanger and advanced water filter absorbs the thermal energy from firebox, plus all particles and acidic gases... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Bulgaria

Butterfly Effect

Butterfly Effect wrote: The project involves to support local farmers. To achieve this, we have identified 4 main pilot areas of implementation. The first stage involves the establishment of a facility which includes the conversion of organic wastes (state / market / park and garden wastes) that are generated in the province and the introduction of the fertilizer obtained therefrom. Secondly, with the composting machines to be installed in two pilot schools, to ensure the spread of waste recycling to the training process. Thirdly, the installation of a composting machine in a local business to convert its organic waste. Finally, it includes composting machines within a site... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Turkey

Turning useless sludge to useful raw materials

Byeplastic wrote: Byeplastic will be. Activated mainly in a wastewater treatment plant. Where we can exploit the useless sewage sludge to produce a raw material used by bioplastic manufacturers. The whole process outweighs the advantages of other kinds of plastic production as it can reduce the co2 emissions during the production and hence downgrade the importance of petroleum to our lives. It is also costless and biodegradable thanks to its raw material. Our target is to be drastic to pitch in the climate change, changing the plastic!.. Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Greece

Electric three-wheeler city taxi

Bzzt Taxi Pods provides an app-based taxi service in urban areas through the use of small electrically powered 3-wheel taxis at the price point of public transport and with zero local emissions. All the taxi pods in the fleet are Light Electrical Vehicles and the fleet operation is optimized with an inhouse software. Onwards, the fleet could also serve as a flexible and low emission alternative for last mile urban deliveries.

Sweden

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Conversion of wet slam to dry bio coal

C-green has developed a method for eliminating the GHG emissions related to current treatment methods for slam, where the treatment process results in a product can be used as biofuel. The process also has an effective dewatering process (70-90% to 30% in biomass) that does not require external heat to function. Any organic toxins present in the products will be burned in the combustion process and heavy metals or other uncombustiable components can be separated Furthermore, over 50% of the nitrogen in the slam can be extracted as ammonia to be used as fertilizer.

Sweden