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Vienna’s journey to carbon neutrality
EIT Climate-KIC is working with the city of Vienna to identify climate initiatives and to link them systematically to push beyond incremental change. Austria wants to be climate neutral by 2040 and EIT Climate-KIC is helping its capital city rise to the challenge by linking energy efficiency and other forms of district renewal with green...
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Friendly Fruit: growing more sustainable fruit supply chains
Fruit production — like all agricultural practices — must adapt to climate change. Supply chains are already experiencing negative impacts from warping climates, with early and erratic crop flowering, reduced quality of fruits, the emergence of new diseases, and water supply issues all presenting new challenges. On top of these, larger threats such as floods,...
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Meridia (formerly Landmapp)
Dutch start-up Meridia, a graduate of EIT Climate-KIC’s Accelerator programme, has developed a mobile platform that enables farmers in the developing world to map the boundaries of their smallholding and to obtain legal documentation of their land rights. The problem Deforestation accounts for 15 per cent of global carbon emissions. Tenure security has been shown...
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Blue Green Solutions (BGS)
The Blue Green Dream project enhances the synergy between urban water systems (blue assets) and urban vegetated areas (green assets) and provides effective, multifunctional Blue Green Solutions (BGS). The Problem The mass of concrete, asphalt, glass, steel and other impervious materials that forms our cityscape disrupts natural responses to weather and natural cycles, exacerbating temperature...
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Flexibilization of industries enables sustainable energy systems
On the path forward towards a decarbonized future, renewable energy plays a central role. It is clear and current reality that increasing shares of renewable energy (i.e. wind and solar based) result in increasing volatility of electricity supply and its market behavior. In order to develop a new dynamic equilibrium of supply/demand balances, sufficient ability...
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SWIPO – Smart Wiring for Power Grid Stability
Power outages are very costly for both society and industry. As a result of climate change, with its associated increases in the use of volatile energy sources like solar and wind alongside projected increases in the frequency and severity of extreme weather events, such as storms, floods, hail and forest fires, power shortages and interruptions...
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Water and Energy for Climate Change
We use membrane distillation and desiccant recovery systems to turn low-grade waste heat or renewable solar PVT heat into high-quality and indoor air. Waste heat is produced by a lot of industrial, domestic and energy production processes, and plays a significant part in rising global temperatures. With the WE4CC-II project, we saw a way to...
innovation-spotlight
Arone Energy is pioneering energy solutions to improve Nigerians’ quality of life
Despite Nigeria being Africa’s largest oil producer, the country continues to experience an energy crisis that is costly for businesses, government and citizens. In fact, 43 per cent of the country’s population does not have access to grid electricity. However, work and life must carry on, contributing to a heavy reliance on back-up generators across...
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EIT Climate-KIC launches new accelerator to support solutions for the Built Environment
September 2, 2022 – Following a successful second edition of the Circular Cities ClimAccelerator (a programme that accelerates advanced start-up teams with innovative solutions fostering the circular economy in urban areas.), EIT Climate-KIC has launched a new programme – the Built Environment Circular ClimAccelerator – to accelerate the circular transition of the construction and infrastructure...
IN THE NEWS
Meet the three EIT Climate-KIC innovators nominated for EIT Awards
Three innovators from EIT Climate-KIC’s community have been nominated to win an EIT Awards 2022, which celebrates the entrepreneurial and societal achievements of EIT innovators and aims to inspire a new generation of entrepreneurs across Europe. Each year, the EIT Awards recognises the most promising entrepreneurs and innovators emerging from the EIT’s ecosystem across Europe: from students...
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