Themes

• Assessing climate change and managing its drivers

  Climate-KIC facilitates entrepreneurship in a new business entity forming across multiple sectors of the economy which offers novel systems and services to measure and manage CO₂ and other greenhouse gas emissions, to predict the future state of the climate system, to detect its response to mitigation and to develop adaptation actions.

   

• Transitioning to resilient, low-carbon cities

  Activities under this theme focus on transforming urban mobility and traffic management systems, improving waste management and recycling systems, ensuring smart and cost effective building technologies – areas which offer enormous business opportunities.

• Advancing adaptive water management

  Reliable water provision to existing urban and rural environments will become increasingly difficult in a warming world, posing challenges on science, technology, policy and the economy. Climate-KIC will explore commercial opportunities by developing sustainable solutions in adaptive water management.

• Developing zero-carbon production systems

  Climate-KIC will help deliver the significant climate change mitigation and job growth potential of low carbon production systems, focusing on bio-renewables, i.e. chemicals, materials, liquid fuel and energy that use biomass as their feedstock and on integrated energy production and consumption.