Trailblazers in corporate decarbonization

Take a look at innovative start-ups tackling the most pressing sustainability challenges across energy, manufacturing, and mobility

 
 
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Energy

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Raw material extraction and transport requires emission-heavy machinery and often damages surrounding ecosystems. Meanwhile, renewables often require rare earth minerals.

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Energy generation requires significant water and energy while creating both water and air (emission) pollution.

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Renewable solution deployment—especially in such a way that also benefits the local community—is often limited by financial barriers.

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Traditional energy systems increasingly lack grid resilience and reliability. Meanwhile, clean energy lacks efficient and scalable energy transport and storage.

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Utility and infrastructure owners grapple with asset performance and efficiency gaps increasing energy use and carbon footprints.

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The energy system requires huge physical resource allocation, and a key challenge is ensuring those materials do not become toxic and hazardous pollution.

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Manufacturing

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Manufactured goods often rely on virgin materials with high carbon footprints rather than circular models for sourcing materials.

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Industrial processes are energy intensive, generating significant emissions and other pollution streams while also relying on mostly unsustainable materials.

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Lower-carbon manufacturing requires alternative energy sources and more efficient processes (start-ups explored in other sections).

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Distribution of manufactured products requires substantial fossil fuel use, particularly for cargo vessels and trucks.

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Manufacturing plants confront energy-inefficient and emissions-intensive machinery and facilities.

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Often, manufacturing generates substantial landfill waste, and hazardous waste, which it is challenged to dispose of safely and sustainably.

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Mobility

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The traditional mobility sector (vehicle, ship, airplane) relies on high-carbon materials such as non-recycled steel, while EVs also often rely on rare earth minerals.

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Vehicles, ships, and airplanes are highly fuel, emission, and water intensive to manufacture.

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EV and other alternative mobility options face limited infrastructure and lack of EV grid integration, limiting deployment.

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Transportation of materials, parts, and finished vehicles and vessels is heavily dependent on fossil fuels.

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Deploying EV and alternative mobility options requires addressing EV grid integration challenges and efficiency gaps.

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Vehicles and vessels and their parts such as batteries and engines are rarely recycled, even when they use rare earth minerals or other carbon-intensive materials.