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21 Jan

Not Data But Hardware and Ground-Level Implementation Will Reverse Climate Change

Rudrani Gupta0 CommentsClimate-tech, Startup

“Our parents generation grew up with the promise of an exciting future. My generation grew up with the promise of a bleak future where climate change is real, air is polluted, animals are extinct and icebergs are melting,” says Angad Daryani at The Climapreneur Show with Shweta Dalmia. He further adds, “That’s not a very exciting future to wake up to every day because it feels hollow. No matter how much money you make the future is not exciting.” We all know how climate is changing and pollution is affecting humanity. We have many pointers and data on it. But…

14 Jan

Green Hydrogen Roadmap for India’s Economic Development

Amruta Joshi0 CommentsClimate-tech, Innovation, Mobility, StartupGREEN HYDROGEN

Green hydrogen has become the talk of the country these days. The world is in dire need of a clean, renewable, and alternative source of energy to attain the zero-emissions goal by 2050 in order to curb GHG emissions and stop global warming before the end of the century. Amidst this, the government of India has approved the National Green Hydrogen Mission. It is a very big step towards attaining India’s plan of decarbonising major industrial sectors and transportation. The mission has great potential to help India attain its zero-emission target while boosting economic growth. With the green hydrogen mission,…

06 Jan

Affordable Green Hydrogen at scale: Electrolyzer technology by NEWTRACE

Rudrani Gupta0 CommentsClimate-tech, Mobility, StartupGREEN HYDROGEN

After witnessing floods and drastic climate change in their respective hometowns in India, Prasanta Sarkar and Rochan Sinha came to a conclusion that efforts to reverse climate change needs to be put in now and not ten years later. But what could they do? Many start-ups were already working to impact the climate change. And Sarkar and Sinha wanted to come up with a new and long-lasting solution to climate change. They wanted to build a technology that could not only help reverse climate change but also impact the lives of people, energy and ensure a sustainable future. In an…

04 Jan

How ChargeKart is promoting Sustainable Mobility?

Rudrani Gupta0 CommentsClimate-tech, Mobility, Startup

With the rising adoption of electric vehicles in the automobile business, pollution-free electric fuel is highly demanded. Chargekart, a startup by Geetha Ravali and Arun Reddy Thumma encourages people to reduce carbon emissions not only by using electric vehicles, by selecting a truly sustainable fuel for EVs. The start-up began in May 2022 but the team started working on it a year before. Speaking to Climapreneur, Arun Reddy Thumma said that he and his co-founder started working on Chargekart with an aim to, “promote sustainable mobility” He also said. “...we started our research on electric vehicles which were promoted and…

10 Dec

Phool-India’s first Biomaterial Startup recycling Flower Waste

Vaibhav Singhai0 CommentsClimate-tech, Startup

Phool, India's "first biomaterial startup" was founded in 2017 by the dynamic engineering graduates duo Ankit Agarwal and Prateek Kumar. The Kanpur-based startup Phool which literally means flower has come up with an innovative solution to tackle the problem of the huge amount of floral waste that is daily produced at religious sites and dumped into rivers, posing danger to marine life and water quality in general. The process is quite simple, the company, with the help of local labourers, starts by collecting huge amounts of floral waste from the riverside of primarily three Indian cities. And then the collected…

18 Nov

Epic Cleantec: Changing the conventional flush and forget society.

Vaibhav Singhai0 CommentsStartup, Waterclimate startup, waste water recycling, water

Epic Cleantec, a San Francisco-based startup that is playing a key role in pioneering onsite wastewater recycling techniques. A start-up that wants to bring a revolutionary change in our conventional "flush and forget" society. "Water water everywhere and not a drop to drink '' these famous lines from a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge perfectly describe the tragic water scarcity conundrum of our planet. Let's talk numbers, even though 70% of our beloved planet is roughly covered in water, only 2.5% of it is freshwater, and most of that too is trapped in glaciers. In reality, only 0.007% of total…

18 Nov

Algae-The future of Carbon Capture Technology

Vaibhav Singhai0 CommentsClimate-tech, Startupalgae, carbon capture, climate technology

Carbon emissions are the biggest threat to life on our planet and yet every year about 35 billion metric tons of CO2 is released into the atmosphere. Cutting down the release of carbon emissions is not enough, the enormous amount of life-threatening carbon that has already been released into the atmosphere must also be removed. But how? Luckily, Brilliant Planet, a London-based startup, has found a solution. The CEO of Brilliant Planet, Adam Taylor says that "It takes time to change people, governments, and companies. We’ve got to do something about it." So in 2013, Taylor with his team of…