Landfills aren't sexy, but they're a huge problem. They emit more greenhouse gas than the entire aviation sector. Half of that is in the form of methane, which is up to 83 times more potent than CO₂ across a 20 year timespan.
In the Global South, landfills are often open pits, flagrantly leaking buckets of…
Methane is incredibly potent: up to 82.5x more potent than CO2 across a 20 year time period. But only a tiny fraction is captured, due to the difficulty of capturing it at low concentrations. Sixteen44, founded by William Ramsay, Mario Michan, and Nelson Dumas, have found a clever, energy-efficient way to do that - and…
Latin America only receives 0.35% of global climate venture capital, in spite of its vibrant and talented entrepreneurial landscape and importance in decarbonization. Part of the problem is a dynamic in which local funds and investors look overseas for opportunities, while local start-ups are overlooked. And when companies scale, it tends to be international investors…
Since the advent of modern air conditioning in 1902, vapor compression has remained the dominant cooling technology. Today, 95% of all cooling equipment relies on it.
As the world gets hotter, demand for cooling is only rising. But air conditioning is hugely energy intensive, using around 20% of all electricity use in buildings. The majority…
10 questions with Christian Fink, co-founder of Astracite
Astracite is making graphite out of CO2 emissions and embedding silicon in it to boost battery capacity by 500%. Powered by green electricity, this process has a 99% smaller footprint than the conventional process, and is carbon negative when using CO2 from carbon capture.
The kicker: it's…
9 questions with Mauricio Porras & Sylvain Ferrière
HERO was founded by Mauricio Porras and Sylvain Franc de la Ferrière after they noticed that civic leaders working on systemic climate action lacked the infrastructure to sustain and scale their efforts long-term. They created a way for funders and citizens to support civic leaders to accelerate…
10 questions with Mark van Baal, founder of Follow This
For a decade, Mark van Baal and Follow This have been doing something deceptively simple: asking oil majors to answer for their climate strategy in public, on the record, in front of their own shareholders.
It's worked better than almost anyone expected. Here, van Baal…
Founders Q&A with Evita Zanuso, co-managing director of Katapult Future Fest
Katapult Future Fest, a transformative gathering of changemakers, is coming to Amsterdam in May 2026 – and we're supporting them! Evita Zanuso, co-managing director, tells us about what makes KFF unique and what we can expect from this edition.
What is Katapult Future Fest?…
Founders Q&A with Noah Planavsky and Gabriella Kitch
Mangroves are powerhouses of carbon removal, but we're only counting a portion of the climate impact from these systems. Professor Noah Planavasky and researcher Gabriella Kitch at The Yale Center for Natural Carbon Capture is working to change that by getting carbon markets to recognize that the…
Q&A with Alexis Grosskopf of Ocean Innovation Africa
We spoke with Alexis, co-founder of Ocean Innovation Africa, ahead of a workshop on marine Carbon Dioxide Removal (mCDR) at the organisation's annual summit on March 23-25th 2026. Q1: Your workshop tackles marine carbon removal from an African perspective. What's the core problem you're trying to…
10 Questions with Seth John of Growing Oceans
Growing Oceans is a non-profit team of ocean scientists who learn from existing natural processes in the ocean that take carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and store it deep in the ocean. A collaboration between Growing Oceans and Tonga is focused on the process of nitrogen…
Q&A with Kees de Gruiter
Underground Forest are reviving an ancient method of building on foundations of wooden piles driven into peat and clay. Burying tree trunks permanently stores the carbon they have accumulated over their lifespans, removing more carbon than any other form of forest management. By using wood instead of concrete for…
