Recently, we have finished one of the best climate accelerators in the European Union’s EIT Climate-KIC. We won the right to participate in it by making into the Top 16 in ClimateLaunchpad Global Grand Final, exactly a year ago, in November 2019. How was it? Due to the pandemic restrictions, organizers of EIT Climate-KIC decided […]
Carbominer attracts investments from the SMRK fund
The Carbominer project was featured in the long list of winners of the nomination for “Best Early-Stage Startups” of Ukraine Innovation Awards 2020. How did the Ukraine Innovation Awards go? Due to the Covid-19 outbreak, the event was held completely online on the 2nd of July at the popular Ukrainian online event 42 Investment Summit. […]
The impact investment fund Green for Growth Fund (GGF) announced the 15 finalists of the 2020 Clim@ competition with the best green initiatives to protect the climate. From the 200 applications they received from over 60 countries, Carbominer made it to top 15! How were best green initiatives chosen? Due to the COVID-19 outbreak, the […]
The world’s richest man Jeff Bezos pledged $10bn to help fight climate change, as reported by the BBC. What will the money go for? The money would finance work by scientists, activists and other groups. Writing on his Instagram account, Mr Bezos said the fund would begin distributing money this summer. “I want to work […]
The world’s ocean temperatures reached a new record level in 2019, showing “irrefutable and accelerating” heating of the planet, states The Guardian. “The oceans are really what tells you how fast the Earth is warming. Using the oceans, we see a continued, uninterrupted and accelerating warming rate of planet Earth. This is dire news.” Prof […]
Microsoft has made a ‘carbon negative’ pledge, which means to remove “all the carbon” that it has released into the environment since the company was founded in 1975, as reported by the BBC. What happened? Chief executive Satya Nadella said that he wanted to achieve the goal by 2050. To do so, the company aims […]
Governments are gathered in Madrid just two months after more than 8.7 million people took to the streets for this September’s global climate strikes, marking one of the largest mobilizations in world history. What happened next? Over 500,000 people took to the streets of Madrid last night to strike for climate action. The event was […]
According to the United Nations World Meteorological Organization (WMO), as of the end of October, the average world temperature was 1.1 degrees Celsius higher than at the end of the pre-industrial era and at the end of the 18th century. Therefore, 2019 will be the second or third year ever since records of the world […]
At the 2019 Climate Action Summit, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has identified clear objectives to save the planet. “As the scientific community has told us again and again, we need to cut greenhouse emissions by 45% by 2030; reach carbon neutrality by 2050; and limit temperature rise to 1.5 rise by the end of the […]