Farfarm

Farfarm wrote: Knowing that the fashion industry is one of the most polluting in the world, farfarm exists to innovate within the fashion market and reduce the impact of climate change. So we seek to produce sustainable fabrics from agroforestry in order to regenerate the planet... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

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Wegenerate.Life

Wegenerate.Life wrote: Wegenerate. Life is a a plant-based regenerative business platform of 6 integrated companies that, together, will act as a systemic solution for climate change, health, nutrition and positive impact. Our first product is an innovative functional beverage: a regenerative organic plant-based protein energy-boosting elixir made with special elements from brazilian biodiversity to be initially commercialized in california, u. S... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Brazil

YVY Brasil

YVY Brasil wrote: 90%+ of usual home cleaning products are actually water ! the remaining 5-10% are petrochemical, chlorine and phosphates. Why do they keep moving millions of tons of water around ? why using an enormous amount of plastic bottles to pack all this water ? our oceans know where this sad story will finish up. Yvy (which means soil/land in tupi-guarany, the language of most important native indigenous tribe in brazil) was created to break up this insane chain and disrupt this market. We use only natural/vegetable ingredients in our formulas ! yvy developed small recyclable plastic capsules to carry on our super concentrated formulas reducing by 2/3 the amount of plastic used compared to the current competitors... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Brazil

Intelligent reverse logistics with labor

Green Mining wrote: Green mining has developed an intelligent reverse logistics technology to efficiently retrieve post-consumer packaging and bring it back into the production cycle. Our traceability system ensures that all collected material is sent for recycling. . The startup formalizes work for people with few job opportunities and uses non-motorized vehicles, such as tricycles, to make collections, avoiding co2 emissions... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Brazil

Global Forest Bond

Global Forest Bond wrote: Deforestation is responsible for around 10% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Global forest bond developed a financial solution for landowners who have preserved forests to be payed by the environmental services provided in those areas, such as carbon capture and storage, water production, biodiversity protection, etc. . We use traditional brazilian agrobusiness financial tools, such as agribusiness receivables certificate (cra), making it possible for investors and companies to acquire the rights over the environmental services in the são paulo stock exchange (b3). This greatly reduces the transaction costs and increases trust. . Our certificates are issued yearly, for the environmental services provided in the year before... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Brazil

Milênio Bus

Milênio Bus wrote: Milênio bus is a platform that provides real time information of passenger demand in public buses. With our product, bus companies can manage their routes and the time interval of each bus, according to the number of passengers that usually takes the bus. Simple, right? with these decisions, companies can optimize more than 10% of the bus fleet, and have more than 10% of fuel economy. Not to mention that the passengers will be able to see if the bus is coming and is full/empty through our app!.. Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Brazil

Access to clean water in the Amazon

Amana Katu wrote: Water in the amazon is a paradox: while the region has abundant rainfall and freshwater, over 10 million people lack access tomclean water in the brazilian amazon. Large public water systems are too costly and complex to efficiently reach urban slum areas and riverside communities, where uncollected rainwater causes floods and spreads disease. . As a social business, amana katu trains and employs at-risk youth from regional ngo movimento república de emaús to develop and build low-cost, sustainable rainwater collection and purification systems for use in homes and agriculture, and sell them through an e-commerce platform with a 5-for-1 business model - every 5 systems sold, 1 is donated to a low-income family with no access to water... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Brazil

Adapta Group

Adapta Group wrote: Food and beverage multinational companies (f&bc) own between 20% to 40% of the global food supply chains, most of which use destructive and carbon positive production systems. By bundling together the best available regenerative agriculture technologies and techniques, f&bc contract our services to transform their supply chains into massive carbon sinks. We do so by helping the companies' suppliers implement regenerative agriculture practices and helping them access to credit and technology. Our service is paid by the f&bc (our client) through innovative impact investment mechanisms... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Brazil

Banco de Áreas Verdes (Green Assets Platform)

Banco de Áreas Verdes (Green Assets Platform) wrote: We are an online platform where more than 130 rural real estates with preserved forests in brazil (6 billion square meters) are identified and presented (a) as a compensation product which can be bought by actors who are bound to compensate due to requirements resulting from an environmental licensing proceeding or due to a repressive determination arising from an administrative or judicial enforcement proceeding, and/or (b) as a potential green asset which can be monetized as an environmental service. All the areas registered on the platform have been previously subject to a preliminary legal audit. ... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Brazil

Biohack transforms waste into energy

Biohack wrote: Biohack transforms organic waste with any moisture content into a high added value by-product with high energy potential, using a simple technology, already validated in laboratory tests, but still underexploited in the world. We offer organic waste generators the option of eliminating this exposure of their industrial process through the intelligent use of an innovative treatment with a positive environmental impact, contributing to a cleaner planet. Our process is modular and can be installed in loco, adapted to the ideal needs of each industrial plant, treating the organic waste according to volume generated... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

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