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Accelerating Sustainable Food Business Solutions to Reshape Our Cities

Impact Hub

The UN predicts that by 2050, this proportion will rise to more than two thirds. Technological leaps have enabled many (though by no means all) of us city-dwellers to sustain ourselves adequately, despite breaking our traditional connection with agricultural life. Photo: Kina Mama. A translocal collaboration is born.

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Singapore’s InterContinental Energy Attracts $115M Funding from GIC and Hy24

AsiaTechDaily

This infusion of capital is projected to accelerate further the company’s efforts to expand the production and adoption of green hydrogen, a key player in the global transition towards cleaner and more sustainable energy sources. InterContinental Energy’s expansive portfolio of projects is among the world’s largest.

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TechCrunch: Where top VCs are investing in construction robotics

Dream It

The main thing is getting construction companies and contractors to accelerate their adoption of the tech and the labor shortage issue is putting substantial pressure on them to act. According to UN forecasts, the number of people living in cities is expected to double by 2050, growing from 3.5 billion today to more than 7 billion.

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ZeroAvia’s hydrogen-powered vision for aviation nets $21.4 million from Amazon, Shell and Bill Gates-backed fund

TechCrunch

“By 2050 everybody wants to be zero emission and net zero. 2050 is one vehicle lifetime away. The governments are going to come in and say we’re going to force the acceleration of the vehicle generation turnover,” he said. It will also require government intervention. But] we are already too late.

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Impact Hub and Goodwings Partner to Remove Carbon from the Atmosphere

Impact Hub

Together, we aim to mitigate the negative impact of climate change and help to meet the Paris Agreement goal of limiting global warming below 2°C by 2050. To accelerate the transition to a more just and sustainable future. Through enabling collaboration for impactful and scalable solutions.

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Subak, which incubates data-for-climate not-for-profits, announces six startups in 2022 cohort

TechCrunch

Its one-year+ accelerator program is specifically focused on startups that are trying to come up with innovative ways to use and share data to tackle climate change, rather than being more broadly open to climate startups of all stripes (i.e. government minister and a former MD of Microsoft for Startups U.K.

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AgBiome lands $166M for safer crop protection technology

TechCrunch

The company has grown to over 100 employees and will use the new funding to accelerate production of its two new products, building out its manufacturing capacity in North America and expanding its footprint internationally. We don’t want to pollute the Earth, but we have to find a way to feed 9 billion people by 2050,” Obloj said.