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EmpCo desk note: Europe’s anti-greenwash consumer rules apply from 27 September 2026
From ~27 Sep 2026, EU B2C environmental claims face harder substantiation — adjectives without evidence lose their easy runway.
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EU green-claims rules
EmpCo week: swap green adjectives for proof your atelier can stand behind
From 27 Sep 2026, EU consumer rules reward makers who can scope a claim — and punish those who decorate packaging with mood.
EU green-claims rules
Clarity desk: EmpCo is the live rail — the Green Claims Directive is not
Do not build compliance theatre for a stalled proposal. Build claim discipline for Directive (EU) 2024/825 applying 27 Sep 2026.
Materials science · Recyclable productsAbout Le Méridien Maldives Resort & SpaPatémar +1
Shore-to-shorts: when resort retail ties upcycled swimwear to plastic recovery
A Maldives resort collaboration with Bali-made Patémar puts recycled-plastic swim shorts beside reef education — retail as conservation touchpoint.
Materials science · Circular materialsAbout Indorama VenturesKH Editions
From PET bottle to NYFW: what Thai circular streetwear signals for material makers
Indorama’s recycled polyester yarn on KH Editions’ New York looks shows circularity as industrial design culture — not a charity runway.
EU green-claims rulesAbout Torque Agency GroupWylde Connections
Anti-greenwash partnerships: when communications firms hire the evidence desk
Torque and Wylde’s public tie-up mirrors a market correction — claims and diagnostics must ship together or not at all.
PressMaterials science · Circular materialsAbout Indorama VenturesKH Editions
Desk note: Indorama Ventures and KH Editions take Thai circular streetwear to New York Fashion Week
Recycled PET yarn meets Thai streetwear on a New York runway — circularity as design craft, not charity staging.
PressEU green-claims rulesAbout Torque Agency GroupWylde Connections
Desk note: Torque Agency Group and Wylde Connections partner against greenwash — and greenhush
A UK automotive comms shop pairs with a sustainability consultancy so claims and evidence arrive in the same sentence.
Technology · Agriculture
Ecozen Ecofrost: the battery-free solar cold room built for India's smallholders
Three IIT Kharagpur graduates asked why a farmer should sell tomatoes cheap just because there is nowhere cool to keep them. Their answer, Ecofrost, is a farm-gate cold room that runs on sunlight and stores cold rather than electricity, so it needs neither a grid connection nor a battery. Twelve years on, the Pune company behind it has grown into a profitable climate-tech business with revenue above Rs 1,000 crore.
Technology · BiologyAbout MMC Holding International
Magical Mushroom Company: growing packaging to make polystyrene a thing of the past
Open a box holding a speaker, a lamp or a bottle of gin and you will probably find white polystyrene foam. A British company grows a replacement instead: fungal threads knit hemp waste into a moulded insert that protects the product and can then be crumbled into a garden compost heap. Six years after first production, it says it has reached price parity with polystyrene and expects to make about 10 million units in 2026.
Technology · Biology
Solar Foods Solein: Finnish protein grown from air and electricity
A Finnish company feeds one naturally occurring bacterium with carbon dioxide and hydrogen and harvests a yellow, protein-rich powder. Solein is already on sale in the United States inside a sports protein powder, and Factory 02, forty times bigger than today's plant, is in final design. What it still lacks is approval in its home market: the EU novel food decision has now been pending for five years.
Technology · Biology
String Bio PRO-DG: the Indian protein for animal feed that is made from methane
Methane leaks from landfills, farms and gas pipes and warms the planet far faster than CO2. A Bengaluru biotech firm feeds it to bacteria and harvests a protein ingredient for shrimp, fish, poultry, pig and pet diets. PRO-DG cleared a US safety milestone in 2024, and in September 2026 the Gates Foundation backed the same platform's crop products for smallholders in Asia and Africa.
Technology · Finance
Giesecke+Devrient Convego Recycled: the first card body made entirely of recycled PVC
Most "recycled" bank cards on the market used to contain around 85% recycled material.
Technology · Finance
IDEMIA GREENPAY: recycled PVC cards at the scale of hundreds of millions
The greenest card is often not the most exotic one, but the one a bank can roll out to every customer.
Technology · Finance
Thales Gemalto Bio-Sourced Card: the corn-based payment card that went mainstream
Billions of bank cards are made every year, almost all from fossil-based PVC.
Technology · Food
Apeel Edipeel: a plant-based peel that keeps fruit fresh longer, and survived a disinformation storm
Fresh fruit loses water and reacts with oxygen from the moment it is picked, and the clock decides how much ends up in the bin.
Technology · Food
Mimica Bump: a freshness label you can feel, built to end overcautious expiry dates
Expiry dates are set for the worst case, not for how most of us actually store food.
Technology · Food
Orbisk Orbi: the Dutch food waste monitor that photographs every discard
Two former supermarket employees decided they had spent enough time selling crisps and chips.
Technology · Food
S4S Technologies Solar Conduction Dryer: turning India's unsold harvest into income for women
When tomato prices crash, Indian farmers often leave crops to rot because harvesting costs more than the market pays.
Technology · Food
Winnow Vision: the AI camera above the kitchen bin that halves food waste
Commercial kitchens throw away between 5% and 15% of the food they buy, and most do not know what or why.
Technology · Nuclear
Commonwealth Fusion Systems' SPARC magnet: the 20-tesla coil that shrank the tokamak
In September 2021 a nine-tonne magnet in a Massachusetts lab reached 20 tesla and changed the economics of fusion.
Technology · Nuclear
Tokamak Energy Demo4: the first complete superconducting magnet set for a spherical tokamak
Fusion needs a magnetic cage strong enough to hold a plasma hotter than the core of the Sun.
Technology · Ocean
CorPower Ocean C4: the Swedish wave buoy that rode out an 18.5 m storm
Waves carry enormous energy along Europe's Atlantic coast, yet decades of wave machines have been wrecked by the very storms that make the resource so rich.
Technology · Ocean
Minesto Dragon 12: an underwater kite that flies figure-eights to harvest the tide
Tidal currents are as predictable as a calendar, but most of them are too slow for conventional turbines to pay off.
Technology · Space
constellr SkyBee: the European thermal satellite that spots crop water stress before leaves wilt
A thirsty plant closes its pores to save water, stops cooling itself, and warms up by a degree or two long before it looks unwell.
Technology · Space
ICEYE SAR satellite: the Finnish radar microsatellite that sees floods through cloud and darkness
When a river bursts its banks, the sky above is usually full of cloud, and the worst flooding often peaks at night.
Technology · Space
OroraTech wildfire satellites: thermal cameras in orbit that catch fires as small as 4 x 4 metres
In 2025 the EU lost more than a million hectares to fire, the worst season since records began in 2006.
Technology · Space
Pixxel Firefly: India's hyperspectral satellites that read the chemistry of crops, soil and water from orbit
An ordinary satellite camera sees a field in three colours, or perhaps a dozen. A hyperspectral camera sees it in more than a hundred.
Technology · Space
Planet Tanager-1: the hyperspectral satellite that pins methane leaks to a single well pad or landfill
Methane is invisible, odourless in its raw form and, over 20 years, about 80 times more powerful than CO2 at warming the planet.
Technology · Water
LifeStraw Community: the power-free purifier giving whole classrooms safe water in Kenya
In many rural schools, children drink water from a rain tank, a river or a shared borehole, and diarrhoeal illness keeps them out of class.
Energy · CleanTech
Greenway Smart Stove: the Indian cookstove that cuts smoke and firewood for more than three million rural kitchens
In much of rural India, dinner is still cooked on a mud chulha fed with wood, crop waste and dung cakes, filling the kitchen with smoke.
Energy · CleanTech
Heaten HeatBooster: the piston-driven heat pump that turns factory waste heat into 200°C process heat
Factories that make sugar, food, chemicals and paper burn gas in boilers to raise steam, while warm wastewater and vapour go straight down the drain or up the chimney.
Energy · CleanTech
Sistema.bio biodigester: the prefabricated biogas plant turning cow dung into cooking gas and fertiliser for small farms
Hundreds of millions of rural families cook on smoky wood or dung fires, while manure from their cattle releases methane into the air.
Energy · CleanTech
Sunfire HyLink Alkaline: the Dresden-built electrolyser that is scaling green hydrogen from megawatts to 50 MW blocks
Refineries, fertiliser plants and steelworks use millions of tonnes of hydrogen made from natural gas, and that hydrogen carries a heavy carbon footprint.
Energy · CleanTech
Vaillant aroTHERM plus: the propane heat pump built to replace gas boilers in ordinary European homes
Heating buildings is one of Europe's largest sources of carbon emissions, and most homes still burn gas or oil to do it.
Energy · Decarbonization
Heidelberg Materials evoZero: the first cement sold on the back of industrial-scale carbon capture, and why its ramp-up is under scrutiny
Cement is the glue of modern construction, and about 7% of global CO2 emissions, much of it released by the chemistry of limestone itself.
Energy · Decarbonization
Hydro CIRCAL: Norwegian recycled aluminium made from old windows, cars and cans, at about an eighth of the global primary footprint
Making new aluminium from bauxite takes huge amounts of electricity, and where that power comes from coal, each tonne can carry 15 tonnes of CO2 or more.
Energy · Decarbonization
Saint-Gobain ORAÉ: the low-carbon flat glass that turns old windows into new ones
Every window, glass facade and balcony panel starts in a furnace burning natural gas at around 1,500°C, melting sand, soda ash and limestone.
Energy · Decarbonization
SSAB Fossil-free steel: the Swedish steel made with hydrogen instead of coal, and the long road to industrial scale
Making a tonne of steel in a blast furnace releases around two tonnes of carbon dioxide, because coal is used to strip oxygen from iron ore.
Energy · Decarbonization
Vedanta Restora: India's first low-carbon aluminium brand, and the coal-heavy system it has to escape
India is the world's second-largest aluminium producer, and almost all of its smelters run on captive coal power, giving its metal one of the highest carbon footprints anywhere.
Energy · Energy storage
Exponent Energy e^pack and e^pump: the Bengaluru battery that charges an electric auto in 15 minutes
In Indian cities, an auto-rickshaw or cargo three-wheeler earns money only while it is moving. Waiting four hours to recharge, or queuing at a battery swap station, eats directly into a driver's income.
Energy · Energy storage
Invinity Endurium: the Scottish-built vanadium flow battery chasing Europe's long-duration storage gap
Lithium-ion batteries have become the default way to shift solar power into the evening, but they wear out with heavy cycling and are usually built for two to four hours of output.
Energy · Energy storage
Ore Energy iron-air battery: the Delft start-up storing wind power for days by rusting iron
Europe is wasting a growing share of its renewable electricity because there is nowhere to put it when the wind blows hardest. Lithium-ion batteries empty in a few hours, which is not enough for a calm, grey week in winter.
Energy · Energy storage
Polar Night Energy Sand Battery: the Finnish silo of hot soapstone that heats a town on cheap wind power
Finland now has so much wind power that electricity is sometimes almost free, and sometimes very expensive. District heating networks still burn wood chips, gas and oil to keep homes warm through the winter.
Energy · Energy storage
Sunamp Thermino: the Scottish heat battery that replaces a hot water cylinder in a quarter of the space
Millions of European homes keep a large cylinder of hot water in a cupboard, slowly losing heat all day. Switching such homes to heat pumps often means fitting an even bigger tank, and many flats simply have no room.
Energy · Geothermal energy
Eavor-Loop at Geretsried: the closed-loop geothermal radiator that sent its first power into Germany's grid
Conventional geothermal power needs hot rock, natural water and permeable ground in the same place, which is why it is concentrated in volcanic regions such as Iceland, Kenya and Indonesia.
Energy · Geothermal energy
Fervo Energy Cape Station: the Utah plant that made enhanced geothermal a commercial power source
For decades, enhanced geothermal systems were the energy technology that was always ten years away: engineer a reservoir in hot, dry rock anywhere, and you could have clean power around the clock.
Energy · Geothermal energy
NIBE S1256: the Swedish ground-source heat pump that turns one unit of electricity into six units of heat
Most people picture geothermal energy as steaming volcanic power stations. In Sweden, it is a 200-metre hole in the garden and a fridge-sized box in the utility room.
Energy · Geothermal energy
Ormat Energy Converter: the binary geothermal plant behind half of Turkey's geothermal power
Turkey has become one of the world's fastest-growing geothermal markets in the past fifteen years, and most of its plants rely on equipment designed by a single company that started in a small workshop in Israel in 1965.
Energy · Geothermal energy
Turboden geothermal ORC: the Brescia-built turbines turning lukewarm rock heat into firm electricity
Most of the world's untapped geothermal heat is not hot enough to make steam. Below about 180°C, the water that comes out of a well cannot efficiently spin a conventional steam turbine.
Energy · Nuclear energy
GE Vernova Hitachi BWRX-300: the G7's first grid-scale small modular reactor is rising at Darlington
Small modular reactors have been promised for two decades, but very few have moved from paper to concrete.
Energy · Nuclear energyAbout Nuclear Power Corporation of India
NPCIL 700 MWe PHWR: India's home-grown reactor moves into fleet production
India has built heavy water reactors since the 1970s, but for decades its standard unit was a modest 220 MW.
Energy · Nuclear energy
Posiva ONKALO: the world's first deep repository for spent nuclear fuel is almost ready
Since the 1950s, critics of nuclear power have asked one question: where does the waste go?
Energy · Nuclear energy
Rolls-Royce SMR: a factory-built 470 MW nuclear power station, with first orders in Wales and Czechia
Large nuclear projects in Europe have become famous for delays and overruns.
Energy · Nuclear energyAbout Teollisuuden Voima
TVO Olkiluoto 3 EPR: Europe's biggest reactor finally delivers, after 18 years and €11 billion
Olkiluoto 3 was meant to open in 2009 and became a byword for nuclear delays and cost overruns.
Energy · Solar energy
3SUN B60: Europe's biggest solar factory makes heterojunction panels in Sicily
Europe installs tens of gigawatts of solar every year but makes only a tiny share of the panels itself.
Energy · Solar energy
First Solar Series 7: thin-film solar without Chinese silicon, made in the US and India
Almost every solar panel in the world is made from crystalline silicon, and most of that silicon supply chain runs through China.
Energy · Solar energy
Heliatek HeliaSol: a stick-on organic solar film from Dresden
Most of the surface area of our buildings cannot carry heavy glass solar panels: weak roofs, curved surfaces and tall concrete facades.
Energy · Solar energy
Oxford PV tandem module: perovskite on silicon, made in Brandenburg
Silicon solar panels are close to their practical efficiency limit, so the industry is looking for a second layer that can harvest more of the sun's spectrum.
Energy · Solar energy
Waaree ELITE R: India's biggest panel maker scales up n-type bifacial modules
India wants to install hundreds of gigawatts of solar and to make the equipment itself rather than import it from China.
Energy · Wind energy
Aeromine: a bladeless rooftop wind unit built to work alongside solar
Warehouses and factories have huge flat roofs, and solar panels cover many of them, but solar goes quiet in the evenings and in winter.
Energy · Wind energy
Kitepower Hawk: a Dutch kite that charges batteries on off-grid building sites
Construction sites, farms and islands still burn diesel because the grid is full, far away or not there at all.
Energy · Wind energy
Siemens Gamesa RecyclableBlade: offshore wind blades designed to come apart at end of life
Wind turbines are mostly steel, copper and concrete that can already be recycled, but their giant composite blades have usually been cut up and buried or burned.
Energy · Wind energy
Suzlon S144: India's flagship low-wind turbine passes 10 GW of orders
Much of India's remaining wind potential sits at sites with only moderate wind, where older turbines struggled to pay their way.
Energy · Wind energy
Vestas V236-15.0 MW: Europe's flagship offshore turbine reaches commercial scale
Offshore wind is Europe's biggest bet for clean, home-grown power, and fewer, larger turbines make it cheaper to build and run.
Materials science · Circular economy
Attero: India's e-waste and battery recycler turning old devices into battery-grade metals
India generated almost 14 lakh tonnes of e-waste in 2024 to 25, and its electric vehicle boom will soon add a wave of spent lithium-ion batteries.
Materials science · Circular economy
Bosch eXchange: remanufactured car parts with the same warranty as new
Every year millions of starters, alternators and steering systems are replaced in European workshops, and most of the metal in them is still perfectly good.
Materials science · Circular economy
Fairphone (Gen. 6): the Dutch phone you can repair with one screwdriver
Most smartphones are replaced after a few years, and the cobalt, gold and rare earths inside them are rarely recovered.
Materials science · Circular economy
Framework Laptop 13: the upgradeable laptop now in its Pro generation
Most laptops are replaced when one part ages: a slow processor, too little memory or a tired battery.
Materials science · Circular economyAbout SHIFT
SHIFTphone 8: a German modular phone that is waterproof and repairable
Repairable phones have usually forced a trade-off: screws instead of glue meant little protection from water and dust.
Materials science · Circular materials
Made of Air: the Berlin façade panels that lock carbon from farm and forest waste into buildings
Building materials such as aluminium, steel and cement are responsible for a large share of the world's emissions before a building is even used.
Materials science · Circular materials
Notpla: the London start-up replacing plastic linings with seaweed
Most "paper" takeaway boxes and cups hide a thin plastic lining that makes them hard to recycle and impossible to compost at home.
Materials science · Low carbon industryAbout Carbon Clean Solutions
Carbon Clean CycloneCC: the British carbon capture unit that drops the giant columns
Conventional carbon capture plants are dominated by absorber and stripper columns that can tower dozens of metres high and take years to build.
Materials science · Low carbon industry
Coolbrook RotoDynamic Heater: the Finnish turbomachine that makes 1,000°C industrial heat from electricity
Most of heavy industry's emissions come from burning coal, gas and oil to make high-temperature heat, a job that ordinary electric heaters cannot do.
Materials science · Low carbon industry
Ecocem ACT: the Irish-French cement that cuts clinker by up to 70% using today's plants
Cement is responsible for around 8% of global CO2 emissions, mostly from making clinker in giant kilns.
Materials science · Low carbon industry
European Energy Kassø e-methanol: the Danish plant turning sunshine and biogas CO2 into a chemical for LEGO, Maersk and refineries
More than 100 million tonnes of methanol are made every year, almost all of it from natural gas and coal, and it ends up in plastics, paints, fuels and ships' tanks.
Materials science · Low carbon industry
Hoffmann Green H-UKR: the French cement made cold, with no clinker at all
Every tonne of ordinary cement releases several hundred kilograms of CO2, mostly from baking limestone into clinker.
Materials science · Recyclable products
Amcor AmLite HeatFlex Recyclable: a retort pouch that can go back into the plastic loop
Retort pouches, the foil-lined packs used for wet cat food, ready meals and microwave rice, are cooked inside the pack and keep food safe for months without a fridge.
Materials science · Recyclable products
Tetra Pak: swapping the aluminium foil in milk and juice cartons for paper
Long-life milk and juice cartons owe their shelf life to a layer of aluminium foil thinner than a human hair, and that foil is one reason cartons are hard to recycle.
Materials science · Waste management
AMP ONE: the AI-run sorting plant that pulls recyclables out of rubbish bags before they reach landfill
Most rubbish bags still go straight to landfill, even though they contain cans, bottles, card and food that could be recovered.
Green architecture · Green buildings
EcoCocon: prefabricated straw wall panels, now made by robots in Slovakia
EcoCocon takes a waste product from wheat farms, compresses it into a timber frame and ships it as ready-made walls that meet Passive House standards.
Green architecture · Green buildings
Stora Enso CLT: Europe's biggest cross-laminated timber maker hits 1 million m³, then hits the brakes
Stora Enso helped turn cross-laminated timber from an Austrian niche into a mainstream way to build offices, schools and apartment blocks.
Green architecture · Green buildings
Strawcture Eco AgriBioPanel: Indian crop stubble pressed into building boards, now sold in Europe
Every autumn, farmers in north India burn millions of tonnes of rice straw, and Delhi chokes. Strawcture Eco buys that straw and presses it into wall and ceiling boards.
Green architecture · Green buildings
VELUX vacuum glazing: a roof window with triple-glazing insulation in an 11.5 mm pane
VELUX has squeezed the insulation of a triple-glazed window into a pane less than half as thick, by replacing the gas between two sheets of glass with a vacuum.
Green architecture · Green buildings
Viessmann Vitocal 250-A: the propane heat pump built for old radiators, in Germany's new heating rules era
Viessmann's Vitocal 250-A is designed to replace a gas or oil boiler in an existing house without changing the radiators, using propane as a natural refrigerant.
Green architecture · Micro climate systemsAbout Ant Studio
CoolAnt Beehive: a Delhi architect's terracotta wall that cools hot air without refrigerants
Indian households have cooled drinking water in clay pots for centuries. Ant Studio turned the idea inside out, cooling air by blowing it through wet terracotta cones.
Green architecture · Micro climate systems
GAF StreetBond cool pavement: a reflective street coating that cooled a Los Angeles neighbourhood, with a catch
In 2022 roofing giant GAF painted more than 700,000 square feet of streets, schoolyards and car parks in Pacoima, Los Angeles, with a light-coloured reflective coating.
Green architecture · Micro climate systems
Green City Solutions CityTree and EcoBreeze: Berlin's moss air filters get solar power, and a hard look at the evidence
Green City Solutions builds walls of living moss that pull in street air, filter it and blow it back out cooler, sold as a compact alternative to planting trees.
Green architecture · Micro climate systems
Optigrün Retention Roof Flow Control: a green roof that stores rain to cool the city
A normal green roof dries out in a heatwave, just when the city needs its cooling most. Optigrün's retention roof keeps a reservoir of rainwater under the plants.
Green architecture · Micro climate systemsAbout Sempergreen
SemperGreenwall Outdoor: Dutch pre-grown living walls tested for heat and aircraft noise near Schiphol
Sempergreen grows plants into modular panels at its nurseries, so a building can get a fully green facade on the day it is installed.
Green architecture · Resource lifecycle
Kenoteq K-BRIQ: a brick pressed from demolition rubble, with no kiln
A normal clay brick is dug from a quarry and fired in a gas kiln at around 1,000 °C. The K-BRIQ is pressed from crushed old bricks, rubble, mortar and plasterboard, and cured without any firing.
Green architecture · Resource lifecycle
Rhino Machines Silica Plastic Block: pavers and bricks from foundry dust and waste plastic
India's metal foundries throw away fine, dusty sand that is too small to reuse. Its towns are full of plastic too dirty or mixed to recycle. A Gujarat foundry machinery firm melts one into the other and presses the result into paver blocks.
Green architecture · Resource lifecycle
Rotor DC: a Brussels cooperative that turns demolition sites into a building materials shop
Most office strip-outs end in a skip. Rotor DC sends in its own team first, takes out the tiles, stone, timber, doors and lamps that still have value, cleans them and puts them on sale.
Green architecture · Resource lifecycle
Tarkett ReStart: sending old floors back to the factory
Every flooring job leaves off-cuts, and every renovation rips out a floor that was once someone's new purchase. Tarkett's ReStart programme collects both and feeds them back into its own production lines.
Green architecture · Resource lifecycle
TRIQBRIQ: solid timber walls built like brickwork and taken apart block by block
Most mass timber is glued, so at the end of a building's life it can only be shredded or burned. TRIQBRIQ builds load-bearing walls from small wooden blocks held together only by beech dowels.
Green architecture · Sustainable site planning
ACC Permecrete: ready-mix concrete with holes, for Indian car parks that drink the monsoon
Indian cities flood in the monsoon and run dry by summer, often in the same neighbourhood. Much of the rain that could refill the ground hits concrete and runs off into drains.
Green architecture · Sustainable site planning
GreenBlue Urban RootSpace: room for street tree roots under the pavement
Most city street trees are planted in a pit not much bigger than a dustbin, surrounded by compacted ground. They stay small, lift the paving and die young.
Green architecture · Sustainable site planning
Hydrorock: stone wool blocks that hide a sponge under the garden
A wet lawn, a flooded driveway, a downpipe that overloads the sewer: Hydrorock's answer is a block of spun stone that drinks rainwater in minutes and hands it back to the soil over hours.
Green architecture · Sustainable site planning
Wavin Q-Bic Plus Low Carbon: an underground rain store made from recycled plastic
When a cloudburst hits a new housing estate, every roof, road and car park sends water into the sewer at once. Wavin's Q-Bic Plus crates build a hidden tank under the site that catches the peak and lets it go slowly or soak away.
Green architecture · Urban eco innovation
Daily Dump Khamba: Bengaluru's terracotta tower for kitchen waste
Indian kitchens throw away a lot of peels, tea leaves and leftovers, and most of it still ends up mixed with plastic at a landfill on the edge of town. Daily Dump's answer is a stack of clay pots on the balcony.
Transportation and logistics · Biofuels
EnviTec Bio-LNG: liquefied biogas for long-haul trucks
Lorries that run on liquefied natural gas are already common on German motorways. EnviTec makes the renewable version: biogas from farm residues, cleaned into biomethane and chilled to around minus 160 °C until it becomes a liquid that fills the same tanks.
Transportation and logistics · Biofuels
LanzaJet Freedom Pines: the first commercial plant turning ethanol into jet fuel
Most sustainable aviation fuel today is made from used cooking oil and animal fats, and there is not enough of either to fly the world. LanzaJet starts from ethanol instead, a liquid that can be made from crops, farm waste, municipal rubbish or even captured industrial gases.
Transportation and logistics · Biofuels
Neste MY Renewable Diesel: waste fats turned into a drop-in diesel
Old frying oil and slaughterhouse fat are not obvious truck fuels. Neste hydrotreats them into a diesel that is chemically almost the same as the fossil kind, so a bus, lorry or generator can switch over at the pump with no changes.
Transportation and logistics · Biofuels
Praj enfinity: India's bet on ethanol from burning rice straw
Every October and November, farmers in Punjab and Haryana set fire to the stubble left after the rice harvest, and smoke drifts over Delhi. Praj Industries' enfinity process is meant to turn that straw into fuel ethanol instead.
Transportation and logistics · Biofuels
UPM BioVerno: diesel from a pulp mill's leftover tall oil
When pine and spruce are cooked into pulp, a dark, sticky oil separates out. For decades it was burned for heat or sold to chemical makers. At Lappeenranta in south-east Finland, UPM turns it into a diesel and a naphtha that drop straight into today's tanks and crackers.
Transportation and logistics · Clean mobility
Ather Rizta: the family e-scooter that took a Bengaluru start-up national
India runs on scooters. More than any car, the 110 cc petrol scooter is how families get to work, school and the market, and it is a large source of urban air pollution and oil imports.
Transportation and logistics · Clean mobility
Candela P-12: the Swedish electric ferry that flies above the water
Ferries are slow, thirsty and, for their passenger numbers, some of the dirtiest vehicles in public transport. In Stockholm they produced nearly half of the region's public transport emissions while carrying relatively few people.
Transportation and logistics · Clean mobility
Solaris Urbino 12 electric: the Polish city bus that helped electrify Europe's routes
The city bus is the workhorse of urban transport and, with its diesel engine idling at every stop, one of the most visible sources of street-level pollution. It is also the vehicle that has electrified fastest in Europe.
Transportation and logistics · Clean mobilityAbout myStromer
Stromer ST7: the Swiss 45 km/h e-bike that turns a car commute into a bike ride
An ordinary e-bike stops helping at 25 km/h, which is fine for a 5 km trip into town but slow for a 20 km commute. A speed pedelec keeps pushing up to 45 km/h, close to urban car speeds.
Transportation and logistics · Clean mobility
Urban Arrow Family: the Dutch cargo e-bike built to replace the second car
The school run, the weekly shop and the trip to the swimming pool are short, regular and heavy: exactly the trips that keep a second family car on the drive. Urban Arrow designed a bike for them.
Transportation and logistics · EVs
Kempower Satellite: Finland's modular fast chargers that share power where it is needed
A fast-charging site is expensive, and most of the time its chargers are either idle or waiting for a car that can only take part of their power.
Transportation and logistics · EVs
Renault 5 E-Tech electric: Europe's retro city car that made small EVs sell
For years Europe's electric car market was split between expensive premium models and cheap imports. Affordable, European-made small EVs were rare, which kept many city drivers in petrol hatchbacks.
Transportation and logistics · EVs
SUN Mobility battery swapping: India's swap network that sells energy, not batteries
For India's e-rickshaw drivers and delivery riders, the battery is the most expensive part of an electric vehicle, and hours spent charging are hours without income.
Transportation and logistics · EVs
Tata Nexon EV: the made-in-India electric SUV that opened the mass market
When the Nexon EV arrived in January 2020, electric cars in India were rare, expensive or impractical for long trips.
Transportation and logistics · EVs
Volvo FH Aero Electric: the 700 km battery truck that takes on long-haul diesel
Heavy trucks are a small share of vehicles but a large share of road emissions, and long-haul routes were long thought too far for batteries.
Transportation and logistics · Hydrogen aviation
Beyond Aero BYA-1: a hydrogen-electric business jet built around its fuel
Business aviation is the most carbon-intensive way to fly per passenger, and its customers are the ones most able to pay for something cleaner.
Transportation and logistics · Hydrogen aviation
Doosan Mobility Innovation DS30W: the mass-produced hydrogen drone that flies for two hours
Battery drones are useful for short jobs, but they rarely stay up for more than half an hour, which limits how far they can inspect a power line or carry medicine.
Transportation and logistics · Hydrogen aviation
H2FLY HY4: the Stuttgart demonstrator that first flew a piloted aircraft on liquid hydrogen
Gaseous hydrogen tanks are heavy and bulky, which limits how far a hydrogen aircraft can fly. Liquid hydrogen, chilled to cryogenic temperatures, stores far more energy in a lighter tank, but nobody had flown a piloted fuel cell aircraft on it.
Transportation and logistics · Hydrogen aviation
Intelligent Energy IE-SOAR and IE-FLIGHT: British fuel cells that already fly drones and are scaling up to aircraft
Battery drones usually stay in the air for 20 to 30 minutes, which rules out long pipeline patrols, search and rescue over mountains or deliveries to islands.
Transportation and logistics · Hydrogen aviation
ZeroAvia ZA600: the hydrogen-electric engine trying to be the first certified
Small regional aircraft link islands, remote towns and cargo hubs, and almost all of them still burn kerosene or aviation gasoline. Batteries are too heavy for most of these routes.
Transportation and logistics · Logistics software
Alpega TMS: the Belgian-run transport software that puts European road freight online
Europe's road freight still runs on phone calls, emails and paper waybills that travel in the cab with the driver, get lost and are retyped at the other end.
Transportation and logistics · Logistics software
FarEye: the Noida-built software that plans the last mile for global brands
The last mile, from depot to doorstep, is the most expensive and often the most polluting part of a delivery, full of failed drop-offs, half-empty vans and drivers circling for addresses.
Transportation and logistics · Logistics software
Locus: the Bengaluru route planner that IKEA's biggest retailer bought
Every morning, thousands of delivery fleets have to decide which van takes which order, in what sequence and at what time. Done by hand, that puzzle wastes kilometres, fuel and drivers' hours.
Transportation and logistics · Logistics software
Shippeo: the Paris platform that tells shippers when the truck will really arrive
A late truck can stop a production line, leave a shop shelf empty or keep a dock crew waiting. Most shippers only find out when it is already late.
Transportation and logistics · Logistics software
Transporeon: the European freight platform that books trucks, dock slots and carbon reports
Every day, thousands of European factories and retailers have to find a truck, agree a price, book a loading slot and later prove what the trip emitted. Much of that still happens by phone, email and spreadsheet.
Transportation and logistics · Supply chain
Circulor: the London platform behind the world's first EV battery passport
An electric car battery holds lithium, cobalt, nickel and graphite that may have crossed several continents and changed hands a dozen times. Until recently, almost nobody could prove where those materials came from, or how much carbon they carried.
Transportation and logistics · Supply chain
Controlant Saga: the Icelandic loggers that watched six billion vaccine doses in real time
Medicines that spoil in transit are usually thrown away, along with the energy, materials and money that went into making them. Often nobody knows a shipment went out of range until it arrives.
Transportation and logistics · Supply chain
CSafe Silverpod MAX RE: the British-designed pharma pallet shipper that is rented, returned and reused
Most temperature-sensitive medicines still fly in single-use insulated boxes, which keep the cargo cool for a few days and are then thrown away, often in another country.
Transportation and logistics · Supply chain
LivingPackets THE BOX: the Nantes parcel that locks, tracks itself and comes back
Every online order still tends to arrive in a new cardboard box, wrapped in tape and filler, that is used once and thrown away. For valuable goods, the box also gives thieves an easy target.
Transportation and logistics · Supply chain
Tan90 Thermal: the Chennai cold boxes that keep food cool without a fridge on wheels
Much of India's fruit, vegetables, milk and medicine travels without proper cooling, because refrigerated trucks are expensive, scarce and useless during a power cut. A lot of it spoils on the way.
Eco-restoration · CleanTech
Groasis Waterboxx: the Dutch plant cocoon that helps young trees survive on dry, degraded land
Planting trees is easy. Keeping them alive through their first dry summers is the hard part, and on eroded, rocky or arid land many saplings die before their roots reach moisture.
Eco-restoration · CleanTech
MORFO: the French restoration company that sows native forests from drones
Replanting a degraded forest by hand is slow, costly and often impossible on steep or remote ground. Planting a few fast-growing species is quicker, but it does not bring back a living forest.
Eco-restoration · Climate resilience software
7Analytics FloodCube: Norwegian building-by-building flood models that warn of cloudbursts 72 hours ahead
Most flood maps show rivers bursting their banks. But in cities, much of the damage now comes from sudden cloudbursts that overwhelm drains and send water down streets and into basements, often far from any river.
Eco-restoration · Climate resilience software
AIResQ Rain2Resilience: physics-guided AI and Made-in-India sensors that warn Gurugram which streets will flood
Every monsoon, roads in Indian cities vanish under water, trains stall and commutes stretch into hours. Usually the response starts only after the rain: pumping, rerouting and cleaning up.
Eco-restoration · Climate resilience software
Fathom Global Flood Map: the Bristol flood model that maps river, rain and coastal flooding for every place on Earth
Floods cause more damage than almost any other natural hazard, yet for much of the world nobody can say which streets, farms or factories will go under in a 1 in 100 year storm, let alone in a warmer climate.
Eco-restoration · Climate resilience software
Jupiter Intelligence ClimateScore Global: the climate risk platform big banks use to price floods, heat and wildfire into loans
When a bank lends against a warehouse in Houston or a hotel on the Spanish coast, it prices credit risk and market risk in great detail, but until recently it had little hard data on how floods, heat or wildfire might wipe out the value of the collateral.
Eco-restoration · Climate resilience software
Mitiga Solutions EarthScan: Barcelona supercomputing science that tells companies what floods, heat and wildfire will cost their assets
A solar farm in Andalusia, a warehouse near Valencia and a hotel on a Greek island face very different futures as the climate warms, but most companies still judge their sites with weather records from the past.
Eco-restoration · Eco-acoustics
Rainforest Connection Guardian: solar-powered listening posts that catch chainsaws and count species in real time
In a dense rainforest, a ranger standing a few hundred metres from a chainsaw may never hear it. By the time satellites spot the clearing, the trees are gone.
Eco-restoration · Robotics
CO2 Revolution iSeed drones: Spanish seed-firing drones for burned forests, and the evidence gap
A Navarra-founded company that coats native tree seeds in a protective capsule and fires them from drones over burned hillsides, promising fast, cheap reforestation that scientists say still needs proof.
Eco-restoration · Robotics
Reefgen Grasshopper: a seabed robot that plants seagrass seeds by the thousand
A boat-piloted robot that hops along the seabed injecting seagrass seeds into the sediment, built to turn a slow job for divers into one that can cover whole meadows.
Eco-restoration · Sustainable forestry
Husqvarna 542i XP: a professional battery chainsaw with a clutch, built for forest work
A Swedish battery saw with the power of a 40cc petrol model and a clutch that protects the chain and motor, aimed at thinning crews and arborists who want less noise, less vibration and no exhaust.
Eco-restoration · Sustainable forestry
ITC clonal saplings: high-yield tree clones that turned Indian farmland into a pulpwood supply
Disease-resistant tree clones grown by the million at a nursery in Telangana and sold to farmers, who grow them on their own land and sell the wood back for paper and board.
Eco-restoration · Sustainable forestry
Katam Forest: the Swedish app that turns a smartphone walk into a forest inventory
A Lund-made app that films trees as a forester walks through a stand, builds a 3D model on the phone and returns stem diameters, basal area and timber volume in minutes.
Eco-restoration · Sustainable forestry
Logset 12H GTE Hybrid: the Finnish hybrid harvester that stores energy in supercapacitors
An eight-wheeled timber harvester from Ostrobothnia that pairs a diesel engine with an electric motor and supercapacitors, so it can cut big trees with less fuel per cubic metre.
Eco-restoration · Sustainable forestry
Treemetrics ForestHQ: Irish software that tracks a harvest from satellite to sawmill
A Cork-built platform that joins satellite images, harvester data and a field app, so forest managers can plan, watch and prove every harvest, now with an AI assistant called Crann.
Planetary engineering · Atmospheric frontiers
Climeworks Mammoth: the Icelandic plant testing whether direct air capture can grow up
The world's largest direct air capture and storage plant pulls CO2 out of Icelandic air with geothermal power and sends it underground to turn into stone. After a slow start, its upgraded machines are finally hitting their design rate.
Planetary engineering · Atmospheric frontiers
Heirloom: the Californian air capture plant that uses limestone as a carbon sponge
Instead of chemical filters and giant fans, Heirloom bakes limestone, lets the resulting lime soak up CO2 from the air on stacked trays, and repeats the cycle. Its first plant opened in Tracy, California, in 2023.
Planetary engineering · Atmospheric frontiers
Respirer Atmos: the Pune-made sensors mapping India's air, block by rural block
Small, low-power air quality monitors that now sit in every block of Bihar, on Mumbai construction sites and at mines in South Africa, turning the lowest layer of the atmosphere into live data.
Planetary engineering · Atmospheric frontiers
Skytree Stratus: the Dutch air capture machine that feeds greenhouses with CO2 from the sky
A space-station idea turned into a modular machine that captures CO2 on site, so Dutch growers can stop relying on fossil gas boilers and trucked-in industrial CO2.
Planetary engineering · Atmospheric frontiers
Vaisala RS41: the Finnish weather balloon sensor that measures the atmosphere from the ground to the stratosphere
An 80-gram box of sensors that rides a balloon up through the atmosphere twice a day at stations around the world, feeding weather forecasts and the climate record. Its maker is now working to shrink the litter it leaves behind.
Planetary engineering · Geological interventionsAbout 44.01
44.01: the Omani start-up turning CO2 into rock inside the Earth's mantle
Oman's mountains expose rock from the Earth's mantle that naturally reacts with CO2. 44.01 injects carbonated water into it and has shown most of the CO2 turns to stone within weeks. A cement plant pilot in the UAE was formally commissioned this month.
Planetary engineering · Geological interventions
Carbfix: the Icelandic method that turns CO2 into stone in two years
Carbfix dissolves CO2 in water like a soda machine, pumps it into volcanic basalt and lets chemistry do the rest. More than 120,000 tonnes of CO2 have been locked into Icelandic rock this way.
Planetary engineering · Geological interventions
InPlanet: the German-Brazilian start-up using tropical rain and basalt dust to remove CO2
Founded by two friends from Munich, InPlanet spreads crushed basalt on Brazilian farms, where heat and heavy rain speed up weathering. It issued the world's first independently verified rock weathering credits and now finances projects like infrastructure.
Planetary engineering · Geological interventions
Mati Carbon: the XPRIZE winner spreading Deccan basalt on India's rice paddies
Mati gives smallholder farmers crushed basalt from nearby quarries for free, sells the carbon removal it measures, and leaves the extra rice to the farmers. In 2025 it won the USD 50 million XPRIZE Carbon Removal grand prize.
Planetary engineering · Geological interventions
UNDO: the British company spreading crushed rock on farms to pull CO2 from the air
UNDO spreads crushed basalt on Scottish fields and wollastonite on Ontario farms, speeding up the natural weathering that locks away CO2. Microsoft has bought nearly 49,000 tonnes of its removals.
Planetary engineering · Solar radiation management
i2Cool: the Hong Kong coating inspired by Saharan silver ants that keeps roofs cool without electricity
A white, paint-like coating that reflects more than 95% of sunlight and sends heat out through the sky. Born in a City University of Hong Kong lab, it has been used on more than 500 projects in about 30 countries, from Hong Kong towers to grain silos and shipping containers.
Planetary engineering · Solar radiation management
Make Sunsets: the US start-up selling sulphur dioxide balloon launches as cooling credits, and why regulators are alarmed
A two-person company fills weather balloons with sulphur dioxide, lets them burst in the stratosphere and sells the result as "Cooling Credits". It is the most controversial product in this series: tiny in physical scale, but a direct test of who gets to decide whether humans dim the sun.
Planetary engineering · Solar radiation management
Real Ice: the British team pumping seawater onto Arctic ice to keep a bright, reflective surface for longer
Small pumps lift seawater from under the winter ice and spread it on top, where it freezes fast. The goal is thicker, brighter ice that survives longer into summer and keeps reflecting sunlight. It is one of the most watched, and most criticised, sunlight reflection experiments in the world.
Planetary engineering · Solar radiation management
SPACECOOL: the Japanese film that sends heat to space, now selling in Europe from Munich
A thin film and fabric that reflect almost all sunlight and radiate heat out through the sky, staying cooler than the surrounding air even at noon. It wrapped an entire pavilion at Expo 2025 in Osaka and is now marketed in Europe by a Munich subsidiary.
Planetary engineering · Solar radiation management
Thermacool: the IIT Bombay cool roof coating that India's heat policies are making mainstream
A roof coating developed at IIT Bombay and sold by a small New Delhi company, designed to bounce back the near-infrared part of sunlight that heats concrete and tin roofs. As Indian states start to require cool roofs, products like this are moving from pilot projects to building permits.
Planetary engineering · Space frontiers
Kinéis: the French nanosatellite constellation that tracks wildlife, fishing boats and forest fires from orbit
Only a small share of the planet has mobile coverage. Kinéis, based in Toulouse, put 25 nanosatellites into orbit in less than a year to collect tiny data messages from sensors anywhere on Earth. Its users include wildlife researchers, small-scale fisheries and firefighters watching remote forests.
Advanced technology · Extreme environment engineering
ExRobotics ExR-2.5: the Dutch robot that patrols explosive zones and sniffs out methane leaks
In parts of refineries, offshore platforms and chemical plants, a single spark could ignite the air. A small company in Delft builds wheeled robots certified to work safely in those zones, patrolling twice a day, reading gauges and detecting gas leaks while people stay away. In June 2026 its ExR-2.5 became the first robot to earn UL's new hazardous location certification.
Advanced technology · Extreme environment engineering
Kongsberg HUGIN: the robot submarine that maps the underside of Antarctica's melting ice shelves
Satellites can see Antarctic glaciers shrink, but not why they melt from below. A Norwegian-built autonomous submarine called Ran swam more than 1,000 km beneath an ice shelf and sent back the first detailed maps of its underside, before vanishing under the ice in 2024. Its replacement, Ran II, is due this winter.
Advanced technology · Extreme environment engineering
Saildrone Explorer: the wind-powered robot boat sailing around Antarctica to measure the ocean's carbon sink
The Southern Ocean absorbs a huge share of humanity's carbon dioxide, yet in winter almost nobody goes there to measure it. On 20 September 2026, a seven-metre orange robot sailboat left Hobart on a 22,000 km voyage around Antarctica. It is the first of four Saildrone Explorers that will circle the continent for five years, filling one of climate science's biggest data gaps.
Advanced technology · NanoTech
TriNANO: an Indian nano-coating that helps solar panels make more power with less cleaning water
India is building solar farms at record pace, often in dry, dusty places where panels must be washed again and again. TriNANO Technologies, a start-up from Navi Mumbai incubated at IIT Bombay, applies a transparent coating 0.4 microns thick to the glass of new or old panels. It says the coating raises output by about 4% and cuts cleaning water by 55%.