ClimateHack

Moving the needle on Sustainable Fashion x DeepTech 🧵 🪡 The fashion industry is responsible for 2 to 8% of global CO2 emissions – greater than all international flights, maritime and shipping combined.  According to Imperial College London The need to decarbonise the industry is undeniable. Behind every piece of garment we wear is an entire value chain behind it that calls for many opportunities for decarbonisation. This week ClimateHack Ambassadors Kim D. and Denis Frischmann hosted the next edition of ClimateHack Berlin on the intersection of sustainable fashion and DeepTech Together we explored solutions fuelled by scientific and technological advances through the lens of fashion hubs (Max R. Gilgenmann from VORN — The Berlin Fashion Hub), corporate players (Laura Coppen from H&M Group) and start-ups (Mario Osterwalder from circular.fashion) Thank you to everyone who joined us to ask their questions and get involved in scaling the solutions.

How clean is the air you breath? As Kristen Tapping of GOROLLOE says, a pressing issue is that people have no way of knowing the quality of air around them because air pollution is invisible. 🧮 In Numbers 7–9M deaths are attributed to air pollution each year. 61% of them are linked to fossil fuels. What’s more, the global cost of health damages associated with exposure to air pollution is US$8.1 trillion, equivalent to 6.1 percent of global GDP. In fact one study says that less than 1% of our planet has safe levels of air pollution. And with climate change, air quality risks are only getting worse. 🗞️ The Good News Startups are stepping up to the challenge. And analysts project that the air quality monitoring market will reach $7.6B by 2028. An opportunity ripe for investment? These startups think so: actoVent GmbH l Adsorbi l Aerospec l Air Aware Labs l Airly l AirSpeQ l Airveda l Carbon Reform l GOROLLOE l nafas - Air Quality Solutions l Neoplants l Origen Air Purifiers l Persium l Photio l Pluvo l Pollution Solution l Smart Air l The Tyre Collective l U-Earth Biotech l uHoo l Zero2.5 Biotech Pte Ltd 🚀 Opportunities A win-win for climate and health. Considering the long-term health effects from air pollution, clearing the air of harmful pollution would be a major win for human health. Big returns - according to the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), every $1 spent on air pollution control yields an estimated $30 in economic benefits. Market opportunity - passive air quality monitoring solutions – as opposed to active air quality improvement solutions – seem to dominate. Which means there’s a wide open market opportunity for innovators willing to explore the latter. ❗️Risks The solutions are often dependent on city-wide infrastructure and requires a complex level of monitoring. Capital intensive - not only do startups need software and hardware, but also access to the smart and expensive minds of environmental experts, engineers, and data scientists. Mostly invisible - air pollution doesn’t strike the same chord with people as more visible man-made damage like plastic islands in the ocean and piles of fast fashion waste in landfills. There's an urgent need for stringent regulation and enforceable air quality regulation for public and work-spaces. Dive into the data, case studies and 3 core classes of pollution with HackTrends: https://lnkd.in/e7eKVG64 With thanks to Peter Havers, Nikunj Dudani and Ava Bahrami for sharing their knowledge on the topic. And to Meg Kendall for the great write up.

80 people joined us for the ClimateHack Energy run this weekend in Nairobi Gathering in the beautiful Karura Forest. We heard from Claire Baker, a renewable energy expert from BioLite who shared the latest off-grid renewable energy technologies, implementation and adoption challenges and the role of public-private partnerships in accelerating adoption Along with a 5k run or 3k walk through the forest. And the opportunity for any of the attendees to take part with a 30-second pitch to the audience. Nairobi's first ClimateHack Energy Run was made possible thanks to Florent Nduwayezu, Kevin Banister and Asad A.. See you next time 🇰🇪

21 air pollution adaptation startups 🪟 Air quality innovations beyond carbon capture technologies haven’t been at the forefront of the conversation. Yet air pollution is a problem that affects the entire globe. And while the problem is concentrated in some places more than others, we all breathe the same air. Luckily, these startups are working on ways to clean up the air we breathe. Across urban pollution, indoor pollution and road pollution: actoVent GmbH  Adsorbi  Aerospec  Air Aware Labs  Airly  AirSpeQ  Airveda   Carbon Reform GOROLLOE  nafas - Air Quality Solutions  Neoplants  Origen Air Purifiers  Persium  Photio  Pluvo  Pollution Solution  Smart Air  The Tyre Collective  U-Earth Biotech  uHoo  Zero2.5 Biotech Pte Ltd With thanks to Peter Havers, Nikunj Dudani and Ava Bahrami for sharing their expertise on the topic. And to Meg Kendall for the great write up. Check out the full report: https://lnkd.in/e7eKVG64

With 10% of global emission produced by Fashion, the need to decarbonise the industry is undeniable. Behind every piece of garment one wears is the entire value chain behind it that calls for many opportunities for decarbonisation. On the 23rd of July, we welcome you again to the new edition of ClimateHack Berlin about #SustainabilityFashion meets #DeepTech, where we explore different areas of solutions fuelled by scientific and technological advances through the lens of Venture Capital (Robina v. Stein from Contrarian Ventures), corporate players (Laura Coppen from H&M Group) and start-up (Mario Osterwalder from circular.fashion) My co-host Denis Frischmann will gladly welcome you while I admire from a far the great conversations ✨ Link for registration: https://lu.ma/7t3wkict

Catch up on what happened last week in Climate in < 5 mins 🌎 📈 What’s up? Data from the latest EY European CEO outlook survey shows that over half of European CEOs have elevated sustainability to a higher priority over the past year, though institutional investors are less aligned. 📉 What’s down? Mycorena has filed for bankruptcy 💡 Good Read: Sifted’s thoughts on whether the climate tech funding gap is a myth are worth a read. 🍚 US startup Mitti Labs raised $3 million to tackle methane emissions and water wastage in rice farming. 🌾 UK-based Permia Sensing secured £150,000 from the British Design Fund for its precision farming techniques 🧫 Meatly secured regulatory approval from the UK Food Standards Agency to sell its cultivated pet food, becoming the first company in Europe permitted to sell cultivated meat. 🥚 Finland’s Onego Bio secured €14 million 💨 Copenhagen-based Again raised $43 million, in a Series A funding round led by GV (Google Ventures) and HV Capital, to capture CO2 and ferment it with hydrogen to transform it into valuable green chemicals. 👷♂️ German startup VARM secured €5.7 million in a seed funding round led by Emerge and Pale blue dot. 🌳 Earthshot Labs raised $5.5 million Series A funding for its nature-based carbon project financing platform 🌡 Quatt raised €25 million in a funding round led by Blue Earth Capital AG. ⚡️ Heimdall Power, based in Oslo, secured €22.9 million Series B funding to optimise utilities with its “Magic Balls”. ☀️ UK-based Naked Energy raised £17 million at the first close of its Series B funding round. 💫 Marathon Fusion came out of stealth with $5.9 million in seed funding to improve the economics of fusion power plants. 🏭 Sweden’s Arkion (formerly Skyqraft) secured $4 million, in a funding round led by Subvenio Invest, for its energy infrastructure inspection platform 🔋 Swiss startup BTRY received €153,000 from Venture Kick 🔍 HackTrends on Tracking Methane Emissions with 14 companies globally working on Tracking Methane Emissions, including Mirico and Insight M 🪨 44.01, based in Oman, secured $37 million Series A funding for its mineralisation technology 🔎 French startup Entalpic secured €8.5 million in a seed funding round led by Breega, Cathay Innovation and Felicis. 👕 Syntetica raised €4.2 million, in a seed funding round led by EQT Ventures 🔋 Lyten secured investment from Luxembourgs’ Future Fund 2 🤖 TETMET secured funding from rpv for its Adaptive Spatial Lattice Manufacturing approach 🔌 itselectric raised $6.5 million in a seed funding round led by Failup Ventures and Uber. 💧 Enzo secured €2.3 million seed funding for its AI-powered IoT solution 🇩🇪 Nucleus Capital secured €6.5 million from KfW Capital 🎟️ Get one of the 15 remaining super early bird tickets for the HackSummit in NYC See the full recap: https://lnkd.in/esHsbXHW

Colourless, odourless, and invisible to the naked eye. Methane is a powerful GHG. And while climate conversations are typically hyper-focused on carbon reductions, reducing methane emissions is actually considered the low hanging fruit of climate change mitigation. There are 3 main culprits behind human-caused methane emissions: 🗑️ Landfills 🌾 Agriculture 🛢️ Oil and gas sector With almost half of agriculture-related methane emissions from the digestive process of cattle, also known as enteric fermentation. Reducing methane emissions would make a significant impact on our climate change mitigation efforts. While a report from the United Nations says that a 40%–45% reduction in methane emissions by 2030 is one of the least costly pathways to keep warming below 1.5 ℃. Advanced satellite detection and imaging technologies are providing the critical data that make emissions reductions possible. And these are the startups making it happen: Aeromon  Andium  Bluefield Technologies Satellite Applications Catapult Insight M  GHGSAT  Kayrros  Kuva Systems  LongPath Technologies, Inc.  Mirico  Orbio Earth (YC S23)  Picarro  Project Canary  SeekOps Inc. Take a read of the full report packed with data points, opportunities and challenges in the space: https://lnkd.in/e2SWnaT5

Tracking the invisible: MRV for Methane Emissions Methane emissions from U.S. oil and gas facilities are 3x higher than predicted by official government estimates, approx. 3% of total flows on average, making the need for reliable measurement rather than estimation even more acute. At these levels of “leakage” natural gas could be considered a “dirtier” fuel than coal, making methane reduction critical in the industry. Bob Flint of Mirico tells us. We must reduce methane emissions to meet our climate goals. But it’s hard to manage what isn’t measured. That’s why startups are hard at work innovating new ways to monitor and track this invisible gas that is rapidly warming our atmosphere. Here's how: Aeromon (fugitive emission measurements, Finland)  Andium (methane monitoring for wellsites, USA)  Bluefield Technologies (methane leak monitoring, USA)  Satellite Applications Catapult (methane monitoring, UK)  Insight M (methane emissions management, USA)  GHGSAT (industrial emissions monitoring, Canada)  Kayrros (methane super emitter tracking, France)  Kuva Systems (methane monitoring and quantification, USA)  LongPath Technologies, Inc. (continuous methane emission monitoring, USA)   Mirico (high sensitivity laser technology for real time gas sensing, UK)  Orbio Earth (YC S23) (actionable methane intelligence, USA)  Picarro (methane emissions management, USA)  Project Canary (emissions intelligence, USA)  SeekOps Inc. (gas emissions inspection ops, USA) Take a read of the full report: https://lnkd.in/e2SWnaT5

Here's what happened last week in Climate: ♻️ NovoNutrients raised $18 million in a Series A funding round led by Woodside Energy and CM Venture Capital. 🪰 ByBug raised $1.4 million seed funding to build a platform to produce recombinant proteins from genetically engineered black soldier flies 🐟 Big Idea Ventures launched a new plant-based seafood company, Bayou Best Foods 🍄 The Better Meat Co. secured a “no questions” letter from the FDA 🧈 Savor has developed a butter prototype made from CO2 and hydrogen, 🏢 Scaler raised $10 million in a Series A funding round led by Plural. 🏭 Paris-based Yama secured $3 million to “revolutionise Direct Air Capture” 📊 German startup kolum.earth raised €2.1 million pre-seed funding for its carbon regulation compliance platform 💨 Fugu Carbon secured $1.67 million seed funding to scale production of its low-cost CO2 capture technology 🤝 Treeconomy, Nattergal Ltd and Naturalis Biodiversity Center are partnering on a first-of-its-kind purchase of carbon removal credits from a rewilding project at 100 euros per tonne. 🛢 Dynelectro secured €11 million to further develop its technology, which focuses on next-generation solid-oxide electrolysis ⚡️ epilot GmbH raised €10 million from Expedition Growth Capital to help transform the energy sector with its cloud-based software 🏢 ORUS ENERGY secured €2.2 million in a pre-seed funding round led by b2venture, Asterion Ventures and Ring Capital. 🏡 Switchee raised £5 million to help prevent mould and lower heating bills in British homes ❌ London-based solar startup Glowb announced that it is shutting its operations 🔌 HackTrends Report on Superconductors for Energy with thanks to Chloe Coates of Zero Carbon Capital ♻️ Polystyvert raised $16 million at the first close of its Series B funding round, led by Infinity Recycling. 🌤 Scipher Technologies (now Sircel), secured $5 million from Kilara Capital to tackle solar panel recycling. 📦 OSY Group received a five-figure grant from Innovate UK 👕 GALY secured investment to produce cultivated cotton from plant cells. 🛩 UK-based Unum Aircraft Seating raised £3.5 million to develop lighter, more sustainable business-class aircraft seats. 🔌 EV charging startup Evos secured $4 million at the first close of its Series B funding round ☀️ Dutch solar car company Squad Mobility received a grant of €1.35 million, 🚑 Germany’s ERC System came out of stealth to unveil an eVTOL designed specifically for patient and casualty transport 🛩 Joby Aviation completed a 523-mile test flight with a hydrogen-electric prototype eVTOL 💰 Funding announcements from: Frumtak Ventures, Flagship Pioneering, Kembara Fund I FCR, LUMO Labs 🎟️ Lock in the VERY best rate for the next 2 HackSummits 👀 Good reads from: August Solliv, Sightline Climate (CTVC), First Momentum Ventures, Boston Consulting Group (BCG), The Good Food Institute, Oliver Bolton, Synthesis Capital See for yourself https://bit.ly/4cT3kpK

Bees, pollinators and urban biodiversity 🐝 This week we met in Amsterdam to discuss how we can advance urban biodiversity in the Netherlands and beyond. Three innovators shared their solutions: Ru Wikmann @ BeeSage: Helping beekeepers monitor, measure, and act on the health of their apiaries to ensure healthy bees, maximize honey output, and boost pollination within local food and nature ecosystems. Mike Odenhoven @ Sumthing: Tackling greenwashing by bringing transparency and accountability to nature-based projects around the world Beert Atsma @ Natoere: Developing "Biotegel", a novel interlocking modular planter made of organic materials that is designed for slopes to ensure proper drainage and reduce erosion while boosting biodiversity and soil health Thank you to Bart Krull and the team at SustainaLab for offering their space in the new Matrix One building at Amsterdam Science Park - Science & Business organisation and to our brilliant Ambassador Aaron Endré for bringing together a great group of un-bee-lievable investors, innovators and operators. See you next time in September 🇳🇱