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News
2 Oct 2020
News
Australia wins big in the ClimateLaunchpad Global Grand Final

More than 3,000 entrepreneurs from 56 countries participated in the ClimateLaunchpad 2020. This year’s global climate competition took place online from 30 September to 2 October. Two Australian start-ups, Elevenstore and Localcycle, made it to the final round of the competition, securing themselves a spot in the coveted EIT Climate-KIC Accelerator. Elevenstore also went on to win the Theme Award for Sustainable mobility, which came with a €5,000 prize to reinvest in their business.
News
18 Sep 2020
News
Aussie cleantech start-up wins place at prestigious EIT Climate-KIC Accelerator

For the first time, an Australian ClimateLaunchpad entry has made it through to the EIT Climate-KIC Accelerator, by winning the Southeast Asian final of the world’s biggest cleantech competition.
Resource
14 Sep 2020
Resource
New Australian guidelines launched to ensure consistent climate change risks assessments and disclosure

The Climate Measurement Standards Initiative (CMSI) has developed a set of open-source voluntary guidelines that will, for the first time, provide Australian banks, financial institutions and insurers with consistent scientific and technical guidance on how to assess the risk of climate-related damage to their buildings and critical infrastructure from extreme weather events.
News
27 Aug 2020
News
Three Cleantech Start-ups win Australian Final of ClimateLaunchpad

From around 50 Aussie entrants, three clean-tech start-ups have progressed to to the South East Asian Final, on September 18 2020 and hopefully, from there, at least one Aussie entrant will make it to the Global Grand Final on September 30 - October 2.
Press
21 Aug 2020
Press
Innovative road surface keeps Adelaide cool in summer

In January, The Cool Road Adelaide project tested how three heat reflective treatments applied to a 100-metre part of Bowen Street West work to reduce heat absorption, cool the area and create a more livable city. The results were compelling, with all three cool road sealants showing a reduced surface temperature relative to the control asphalt road – one by as much as 8.65°C during the day and 4.2°C at night.
Resource
20 Aug 2020
Resource
New report shows potential of innovative road sealants to reduce urban heat island effect

Adelaide, 20 August 2020 – On hot summer days, asphalt roads contribute to heating cities and urban areas, known as the urban heat island effect. This can impact the comfort
News
30 Jul 2020
News
Meet the Aussie entrepreneurs taking on climate change

These entrepreneurs have won a coveted place in the highly competitive pre-accelerator program, ClimateLaunchpad, which also doubles as the world’s biggest cleantech and green business ideas competition.
Press
27 Jul 2020
Press
Industry heavyweights come together to forge pathways towards a decarbonised future

Melbourne, 24 July 2020 – Some of Australian industry’s biggest companies are supporting a new initiative that will see them work together to better understand pathways to achieving net zero
Insight
15 Jun 2020
Insight
Australian green start-ups are fixing the climate crisis

ClimateLaunchpad has been running on a global scale for several years now, but regions differ in terms of how they implement the program, and what sort of cleantech businesses they
11 Jun 2020
Sustainable community becomes a living lab

A vision of how we could live more sustainably into the future is being realised in a quiet pocket of Sydney’s western suburbs.
Press
2 Jun 2020
Press
Australian first industry-science collaboration to develop a common understanding of Australian climate change risks

Representatives of some of Australia’s largest insurers, banks, investors, standards bodies and service providers have joined forces with leading scientists and researchers in a ground-breaking new initiative to develop standards for climate physical risk projections.
Press
21 May 2020
Press
World’s biggest cleantech competition eyes emerging battery sector in Australia

The world’s largest green business ideas competition, ClimateLaunchpad, is turning its eye toward the emerging battery technology sector in Australia, striking up a partnership with the Future Battery Industries CRC for the 2020 program.

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