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- Innovative and collective action by young leaders is required to address the climate crisis.
- Global Shapers was asked to create a Challenge to support young innovators in scaling their solutions to climate change.
- Nine young climate innovators were selected to receive support to scale up their impact.
Youth around the world are gathering at Stockholm+50, focusing primarily on resilience and nature, in the lead-up COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt. It is crucial that young people develop a common language and mission in preparation for these global summits. They also need support and acceleration for their collective action.
With this context in view, members of the Global Shapers Community(GSC) The Climate Reality Project(CRP), created a Challenge for young leaders to source and champion climate action in their local communities and to raise ambition. This is how they Youth Climate Action ChallengeIt was born.
The Challenge, hosted on the World Economic Forum’s Innovation Platform UpLink, received over 108 submissions. A community of experts carefully assessed them to determine nine UpLink Featured Inventors.
Over the next months, the nine Featured Entrepreneurs will have the opportunity for 1-on-1 mentoring to grow their impact and learn from each other. Forum of Young Global Leaders(YGLs), GSC and CRP Climate Leaders. Forum and CRP will support featured innovators through promotion of work and introductions for established ecopreneurs.
Here are the Featured Inventors who are creating climate action around the globe with creativity, optimism and hard work.
- BluPowerMicro Hydro India is a Micro Hydro solution that provides reliable and resilient Hydropower. It can be installed in rivers or canal sites that are currently unfit for electricity. Their goal is to produce 8000 GW annually by 2030, to improve the lives of 20 million people living in grid-deficient communities around the world.
- Chloride Free Foundation(Brazil), an international non-profit organization, addresses carbon sequestration and is expanding beyond Brazil and the USA. The Foundation’s mission is to promote sustainable, non-chloride agriculture practices among farmers and raise awareness about soil biodiversity.
- Eco Smart Farming (Eco Warriors).(Ghana) offers farmers climate-smart agricultural solutions in local languages. This tech-based solution is scalable and can be used to help farmers in Fodoa who are experiencing loss of their rice crops because of climate change.
- HamsaRecycling(Azerbijan), is a social startup that uses textiles and plastic waste to create shoes, clothing, and other products. They are creating products that are specifically designed for people with disabilities out of recycled materials. HamsaRecycling’s goal is to promote sustainability and inclusion in the fashion industry as people with disabilities are often underrepresented.
- MAA’VA™The United States of America is developing a sustainable carbon sequestering material that turns plastic and non-plastic waste into ecoconcrete. This can be used for both conventional and 3D-printing construction. By optimizing 3D-printing technology, MAA’VA can build environmentally friendly low-cost housing with eco-concrete in one day for 1/10th of the construction cost and half of the construction waste.
- Mudatuga Portugal (Portugal) is an innovative start-up that creates domestic and community compost solutions. It aims to reduce greenhouse gases and prevent the landfilling of organic waste. Compostuga, a Bokashi bin that uses cork residues and allows people to compost any material at home, is the company’s most popular product. Mudatuga addresses Portugal’s growing urban waste problem while aiming to become a catalyst of circular waste management in the Iberian Peninsula.
- Nossa Horta(Brazil), a grassroots movement in Rio de Janeiro that promotes urban agriculture through community gardens, primarily in low-income neighborhoods. Each garden is designed to meet the needs of the community and teaches children and adults about climate change, medicinal plants and unusual foods.
- Subjee-Cooler(India): This portable zero-energy cooling system keeps vegetables fresh for five consecutive days without any energy input. The SubjeeCooler was instrumental in increasing farmers’ income and decreasing food waste during the COVID-19 epidemic.
- Tree SquareThe Philippines Department of Environment and Natural Resources (Philippines), supports a scalable model of urban forest restoration. The project combats climate changes one square meter at the time through collective and personal action to re-green urban areas. Tree Square’s goal is to achieve 10,000 square meters of urban tree coverage across 100 cities in the Philippines, with the potential to scale to other countries in Southeast Asia.
