With its four brands BMW, MINI, Rolls-Royce and BMW Motorrad, the BMW Group is the world’s leading premium manufacturer of automobiles and motorcycles and also provides premium financial and mobility services.

The BMW Group production network comprises 30 production and assembly facilities in 14 countries; the company has a global sales network in more than 140 countries.

In 2017, the BMW Group sold over 2,463,500 passenger vehicles and more than 164,000 motorcycles worldwide. The profit before tax in the financial year 2017 was € 10.655 billion on revenues amounting to € 98.678 billion. As of 31 December 2017, the BMW Group had a workforce of 129,932 employees.

The success of the BMW Group has always been based on long-term thinking and responsible action. The company has therefore established ecological and social sustainability throughout the value chain, comprehensive product responsibility and a clear commitment to conserving resources as an integral part of its strategy.

The BMW Group has the vision to be the most successful and sustainable premium provider of individual mobility. Therefore, the company has set itself ten strategic sustainability goals running through to 2020. The goals focus on three areas “Products and services”, “Production and value creation” and “Employees and society”.

The BMW Group is addressing the challenge of reducing CO2 and pollutant emissions in order to protect the climate and air quality. Our portfolio’s move towards lower-emission, more fuel-efficient vehicles is in line with the wishes of many of our customers. Since 2007, our BMW i project has been developing electric vehicles, and has resulted in completely new concepts for individual mobility. The sustainability performance of the BMW Group has received positive ratings from renowned rating agencies.

TOMRA was founded on an innovation in 1972 that began with design, manufacturing and sale of reverse vending machines (RVMs) for the automated collection of used beverage containers.

Today, TOMRA creates sensor-based solutions for optimal resource productivity – helping our customers increase their financial results and reduce their environmental impact.

TOMRA’s ambition is to be a leader in the resource revolution transforming how the world obtains, uses and reuses its resources in the Food, Recycling and Mining Industries.

We believe in order to move forward, we need to rethink and rework how things have been done in the past and move from a linear model to a circular economy. Driven by our vision we strive to use our knowledge, resources and technologies to contribute to a better world.

• -Every year 35 billion used beverage containers are captured by our reverse vending machines. The avoided greenhouse gas emission equals the annual emissions from 2 million cars—each driving 10,000 kilometers.
• -715,000 tons of metal are recovered every year by our metal-recycling machines. The equivalent of 4,031 Boeing 747s.
• -Our steam peelers process 15m metric tons of potatoes a year with 1% higher yield than alternative. That extra percent is enough to feed 6m people every year

Understory makes the invisible visible by providing hyper-detailed real-time data on weather, atmospheric and air quality conditions, enabling leaders and policy makers to optimize their approach to improving air quality and achieving environmental goals.

Understory works with local governments to install and operate networks of Understory’s economical, rugged and maintenance-free RTi weather stations, which provide the data that allows municipal officials to see the true and entire picture of environmental conditions.

Now, officials can build political capital by designing transparent environmental programs backed by detailed data to prove the positive and effective differences being made.

Because Understory’s technology provides accuracy at a fraction of the cost of all comparable solutions, municipalities can now afford to fight pollution.

Bluewater is a world leader in innovating, manufacturing and marketing premium water purification and delivery solutions for homes, businesses and public distribution systems. Bluewater’s premium water purifiers deliver unmatched clean water delivery efficiency that harness the company’s patented second-generation SuperiorOsmosis™ technology to provide unmatched purification efficiency, operating capacity and service life.

Delivering up to 7,000 liters of direct-flow purified water a day, SuperiorOsmosis™ technology slashes the water wastage common to traditional RO systems by over 80 percent and removes contaminants such as toxic metals, chemicals, pharmaceutical residues, micro-organisms, and micro-plastic particles down to 0.0001 microns in size.

Bluewater has put providing clean water access to everyone on the planet and ending reliance on single-use plastics at the heart of its business vision. Bengt Rittri, the Swedish environmental entrepreneur who founded the Stockholm-based company, has made it Bluewater’s mission to reimagine point-of-use water delivery.

Believing the health of the planet demands imaginative thinking to halt the vast tide of plastic waste that sees over one million plastic bottles sold every minute, Bluewater has committed to harness human ingenuity to provide more people globally with on-demand clean drinking water in ways that can help end to the need for throwaway plastic bottles.

Bluewater water purifiers and public hydration stations are today available in Europe, the United States, China, South East Asia and South Africa, where they are helping to shape a more sustainable and water-wise future to safeguard human and planetary health.

Climate Blockchain Initiatives is a disruptive financial ecosystem that aims to promote and drive funds towards enterprises that are showing their commitment to climate change mitigation.

Its trading platform, Climatetrade, is a decentralised carbon credits marketplace that uses blockchain technology to allow corporations and individuals worldwide to compensate their emissions, and project developers to generate additional income and revenue stream based on their performance in terms of carbon dioxide reductions.

The Climatetrade technology uses the Climatecoin (CO2 Token), a cryptographic utility asset aimed to work as trading currency for certified carbon credits, allowing seamless, fast and efficient trading operations, while at the same time resolving the problem of macro and micro cross country payments.

Delta, founded in 1971, is a global provider of power and thermal management solutions. Its mission statement, “To provide innovative, clean and energy-efficient solutions for a better tomorrow,” focuses on addressing key environmental issues such as global climate change.

As an energy-saving solutions provider with core competencies in power electronics and automation, Delta’s business categories include Power Electronics, Automation, and Infrastructure. Delta offers some of the most energy efficient power products in the industry, including switching power supplies with efficiency over 90%, telecom power with up to 98%, and PV inverters with up to 98.8% efficiency. We have also developed the world‘s first server power supply certified as 80 Plus Titanium with over 96% efficiency.

Headquartered in Taiwan, we regularly invest 6% to 7% of our annual sales revenues in R&D and have worldwide R&D facilities in China, Europe, Japan, Singapore, and the U.S. Delta is a frequent recipient of international awards and related recognition for innovation, design, and corporate social responsibility.

Since 2011, Delta has been selected each year for the prestigious Dow Jones Sustainability™ World Index (DJSI World). In 2018, we were also included in the DJSI Emerging Markets Index for the 6th consecutive year. Delta was ranked by CDP (formerly the Climate Disclosure Project) at the Climate Change Leadership Level.

In response to the challenge of climate change, Delta will remain committed to the research and development of innovative, energy-saving products, solutions and services that contributing substantially to the sustainable development of mankind.

Siemens AG (Berlin and Munich) is a global technology powerhouse that has stood for engineering excellence, innovation, quality, reliability and internationality for more than 165 years. The company is active in more than 200 countries, focusing on the areas of electrification, automation and digitalization.

One of the world’s largest producers of energy-efficient, resource-saving technologies, Siemens is a leading supplier of efficient power generation and power transmission solutions and a pioneer in infrastructure solutions as well as automation, drive and software solutions for industry. The company is also a leading provider of medical imaging equipment – such as computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging systems – and a leader in laboratory diagnostics as well as clinical IT.

In fiscal 2016, which ended on September 30, 2016, Siemens generated revenue of €79.6 billion and net income of €5.6 billion. At the end of September 2016, the company had around 351,000 employees worldwide.

Siemens is the first large industrial company that announced to become carbon neutral by 2030 and to half its carbon footprint by 2020 vs. 2014. With products and solution from its Environmental Portfolio, Siemens helped its customers to reduce their carbon emissions by 521 million metric tons in fiscal 2016.

As the world’s largest beverage company operating locally around the globe, The Coca-Cola Company has an enduring commitment to building sustainable communities. The Company is focused on programs that reduce its environmental footprint; support personal well-being; create a safe, inclusive work environment for its associates; empower women; and enhance the economic development of the communities where they operate across more than 200 countries and territories.

The Coca-Cola Company refreshes consumers with more than 500 sparkling and still brands and choices across more than 3,600 beverage products. Led by Coca-Cola®, one of the world’s most valuable brands, the Company’s portfolio features 20 billion-dollar brands and sells approximately 1.9 billion servings a day. Globally, the Company is the No. 1 provider of sparkling beverages, ready-to-drink coffees, and juices and juice drinks.

A global business that functions on a local scale in the communities where it operates, The Coca-Cola Company is able to reach communities around the world through its nearly 250 bottling partners and more than 700,000 associates systemwide.

The Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI) is a multilateral development bank that has as a mission to promote the economic integration and the balanced economic and social development of the Central American region, which includes the founding countries and the non-founding regional countries, attending and aligning itself with the interests of all of its member countries.

CABEI was created in 1960 as the financial arm of the region´s integration and development process. Its resources are continuously invested in projects that foster development to reduce poverty and inequality; strengthen regional integration and the competitive insertion of its member countries in the global economy; providing special attention to environmental sustainability. For more information visit www.bcie.org.

Cleantech21 (C21) is a not-for-profit Swiss foundation with an 11-year operating track. C21 was among the first to raise the issue of the Fourth Industrial Revolution’s innovation potential for climate action in early 2016.

As part of this, C21 has initiated #Hack4Climate (H4C), a 5-year innovation program designed to accelerate exponential climate solutions at scale. Given the significance of the climate-task ahead and the limited time left, the #Hack4Climate logic is simple: Only with far reaching, ‘disruptive/exponential’ innovation will the targets of the Paris Agreement be achieved.

#Hack4Climate focuses on the intersection of climate and three key technologies:

1. Internet of Things (IoT)
2. Distributed Ledgers (DLT, ‘Blockchain’), and
3. Artificial Intelligence (AI).

The program is provider-/technology-neutral and consists of three main tracks:

1. Challenge Definition (clearly specifying on what to innovate);
2. COP Event (yearly anchor event during COP climate conferences, incl. hackathon and use case studio);
3. Use Case Accelerator (selecting and supporting the best teams/challenges to become use cases as part of an 18-months program).

At the core of the program is the #Hack4Climate community. With its climate focus, #Hack4Climate can mobilise leading developer-talent globally for projects with purpose.

The #Hack4Climate affiliate program is directed to innovation partners (firms, NGOs, foundations) and impact partners (impact investors). Partners benefit through (1) learning from interaction with the ideation/prototyping process, (2) access to human resources (intrinsically motivated, top global talent pool), (3) quality PR exposure (during COP- and partner-events, in the community), and (4) tangible CSR/impact (interesting and relevant climate action). Affiliate partners can actively contribute to the definition of challenges, participate in COP events (facetime with developers), and are offered first cooperation and participation rights as part of the accelerator.

We must take giant leaps forward to avoid catastrophic climate change. Staying within a 2°C rise in warming demands radical changes to the way we currently live in cities – from how we use natural resources, materials and energy, to how we transform our built environment, our mobility, and the way we grow and consume food.

EIT Climate-KIC is Europe’s largest public-private partnership established to catalyse systemic change through innovation. Our Theory of Change is focused on creating human agency across our community to help change systems, through exploration, experimentation and demonstrations to enable viable alternatives at scale.

We work across whole value chains, applying leverage through finance, skills, and technology to influence behaviour, policy, governance, and market structures to catalyse deep decarbonisation and climate resilience in European societies and beyond.

“Indonesian Biofuel Producers Association” (hereinafter referred to as APROBI), domiciled in Jakarta, Indonesia.

The purpose and objective of establishing APROBI are as follows:

1. Associating private business entities in biofuels industry.

2. Unifying all the business sectors in the biofuels industry in Indonesia to become the power of economic to increase the prosperity of the community, the nation and the Unitary Republic of Indonesia.

3. Being a partner for the Central Government and Local Government in order to develop the policies for competitiveness improvement in both national and international markets.

Members and capacity Installed:

Biodiesel: 21 Companies with installed capacities 11.621.204 KL/year

Bioethanol: 1 Company with installed capacity of 10.000 KL/year with the intention to support the program of Government in developing and using biofuels as a renewable energy, then in 2005 some companies that produce both bioethanol and biodiesel was established.

In order to make the support becomes more effective, the companies agreed and formed the Association of Indonesian Biofuel Producers / APROBI in late 2006.

Since then, for 10 years APROBI continue to cooperate with the government and all stakeholders to pursue the development of biofuels in Indonesia as well as fight in the International Forum.

Ecosphere+ is a new venture founded by the award winning Althelia Climate Fund with the founding mission of building markets that value carbon and incentivise sustainable business models.

Ecosphere+ seeks to partner with businesses, consumers and investors who want to deliver concrete actions towards a climate resilient economy by connecting them with assets from projects and programmes that are critical to delivery of the <2oC carbon budget through preserving the valuable carbon stored in tropical forests and other critical landscapes.

The Ecosphere+ portfolio includes projects that deliver a range of environmental and societal benefits as well as valuable physical commodities including deforestation-free agricultural produce such as coffee and cocoa created through sustainable agroforestry systems.

Blixt is the first and only company to develop miniature, solid state circuit breaker and multidirectional power inverters; critical components that will accelerate the transformation to sustainable, all-electric technologies world wide, on all levels of society, like energy, mobility and industry 4.0.

A 150-year-old technology is about to change forever. Circuit breakers are omnipresent where electricity is being used, but are still today mechanical devices. Turning them into digital smart devices completely changes the game. For the greater good. And it’s time. Faster, better, safer, smarter – our solid state miniature circuit breakers create the spark for an entirely new shift in energy.

Additionally, the new BL!XT X-verter, is a new generation bi-directional AC/DC conversion inverter that combines functions of several devices into one single, smaller device. Blixt is a Swedish Innovation Factory to Empower the Electric Evolution. Our advanced designs are soon to be integrated in millions of electrical devices, fuse boxes, connected cars, industry applications, energy generation, storage and charging solutions around the world. Moreover, they are efficient, affordable and secure.

Blixt has been recognized by The Economist and was recently selected to EU Horizon 2020, planned A-round in 2019 (€10-15M) for ASIC design and scaling up.

dCentra is a privately held German company, which focuses on bringing Blockchain Technology to use & work for various Industry Domains and the General Public. We do this by engaging in Customer projects as a service provider and also by building our own products within a startup context.

We believe in the decentralization phenomenon (from which our slogan “Decentralize The World” arise) in the very broad perspective of cultural, political, economic and technological decentralization, which is for the common good, the next evolutionary step in our technosociety.

We are a true Tech company, having our carefully selected workforce with exceptional technical background with the principle of only hiring the best talent. At the same time we are a dynamic & flexible organization working together with freelancers, part time resources, interns and partners to carry out our projects. Despite our technology focus we understand the business dynamics & specialties of the various Industry Domains and have a vast experience in many of them.

We are always open for new partnerships & sharing our venture in applying distributed technologies to help organizations become more efficient and ultimately make the world a better place.

Halo Coffee are the creators of the world’s first home compostable, Nespresso compatible coffee capsule. Made from an innovative blend of sugar cane and paper pulp, Halo capsules degrade in as little as four weeks. This commitment to the environment is also mirrored by their commitment to excellent coffee. Each capsule is filled with specialty grade Arabica in order to craft the world’s best coffees in a way that’s best for the world.

Inspired by nature, powered by technology, empowered by You!

At iNERGY AGTECH, we are bringing the intelligent energy of smart technology into the day to day, enabling farmers, growers, urban agricultors, buildings, organisations and even communities to grow more with less. We’re calling it THE ECOSYSTEMIC BUSINESS MODEL, based on open innovation and design thinking, powered by technology, inspired by nature, and empowered by customers:

The root and body of the solution is SMART growing INFRASTRUCTURE. We’ve designed and implemented growing tech that’s easier to use & adaptable, cheaper to build, operate & maintain; ultimately more productive. Hybrid hydroponic technology that makes it not only easier to grow greens sustainably, but also do it everywhere and better, with less.

We amplify those benefits through the smartest tools and methods that help anyone grow greener, anywhere. SENSORS, AUTOMATISATION, CONTROL SOFTWARE AND DECISION-MAKING ALGORITHMS at your fingertips. For predictive growing and efficient management that help achieve efficiency and the highest standards in production, sustainability, operations and consumer satisfaction.

Be it greenhouses, buildings, cities or communities, our approach allows for an efficient and holistic consultancy and knowledge transfer process. We provide the necessary EXPERT ASSISTANCE AND TECHNICAL APPRAISAL, supplying the ecosystem with the green fuel for a green growth and no CO2 footprint.

Together with our open partner ecosystem, we transfer the latest results in Research & Innovation into added value added solutions. From academic to cleantech & sustainable innovation; from Romania to Italy, Israel, the Netherlands and US, our strategic ecosystem supports both our team, and you in identifying innovative solutions, methods and development opportunities.

Jiro-Ve is a social enterprise that was incorporated in 2014 and operates in Madagascar. Like in many developing countries, most rural families in Madagascar use expensive and dangerous kerosene lamps or candles for lighting and cannot afford to buy solar products. As Jiro-Ve we offer them a solar-light they can rent for less than they pay for a candle. We currently rent out 9000 solar-lights through a carefully selected and trained network of franchisees that we recruited. They take care of the charging and rental of our products to the people in their village.

For our 40 franchisees we recruited till date we continuously add solar capacity to their solar charging stations. Through this method of gradually increasing the size of their solar-systems on basis of a gradual increase in demand, we have turned several of our solar systems into mini-grids or increased the capacity to the extent that we can provide neighbouring schools with electricity.

We have recently expanded our product offering and want to scale our model to other countries for helping to solve this problem on a global scale. Jiro-Ve is part of the top 100 Startup energy transition and was finalist for the African Utility Award.

The Digitalized Workplace

REEP Technologies is the world’s first company to combine breakthrough imaging, photonics, and material science for the Digitalized Workplace, becoming more productive, secure and sustainable.

REEP’s Digital-Paper platform connects and transforms the many manual and disconnected paper and digital processes into a single automated cycle, replacing existing workplace practices such as archiving, storage, mailing, scanning, shredding, recycling, and paper procurement.

Economic and Environmental impact

The Digital-Paper platform transforms the expensive, insecure, and inefficient paper document life-cycle to become digitalized and circular providing over 50% direct cost savings, and dramatic security and productivity gains. A single Digital-Paper system can save an estimated 136 trees, 544,000 liters of water, 62,000 kwh of energy, and over 72 tons of CO2 emissions over its 5 year service life.

REEP was established in 2014 with a mission to merge the best of digital and paper for businesses, society, and the planet.

Samad Power is a technology company in the fields of power and energy industry, established in 2010 and based in Milton Keynes, United Kingdom. The company’s core areas of expertise are development of innovative small-scale micro gas turbine, motor/generator, and drive/inverter systems for high-value applications, such as CHP (Combined Heat and Power) and HVAC (Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning).

Our goal is to provide cost effective, reliable, efficient and environmentally friendly products that can transform the target markets through significant reduction of carbon emissions compared to existing technologies. Our dream is to offer a meaningful contribution in improving the environment we live in and the quality of people’s lives. Our vision is to become a role model of success in energy industry by serving the communities at large.

Teraloop Oy is a Finnish start-up company creating efficient and sustainable kinetic energy storage for industrial and utility scale customers. Our mission is to develop scalable storage, beyond batteries and consistent with the cradle to cradle principles of the circular economy.

Our patented technology, already proven as an industrial prototype, is in early stages of commercial piloting for industrial energy storage and can offer significant benefits over batteries for cost, service life and footprint.

From its founding in 2014, Teraloop has grown to include experienced management and engineering staff and collaborators and has been supported by European private and public funds, as well as Yaskawa Electric Corporation of Japan.

Every year, 8 billion kg of plastic end up in our oceans and causes severe damage to marine and human life. 64% of this plastic is transported via rivers. We have developed a way to stop this plastic from ever reaching the oceans, without blocking ship traffic or hindering fish migration. Our curtain of bubbles brings waste to the surface of a river, where the diagonal placement directs waste to the river banks to collect and remove it. Our 200m Bubble Barrier in the river IJssel successfully collected 86% of the test material over the full width and depth of the river. At the moment The Great Bubble Barrier is working on a permanent installation in the Netherlands. We are ready for implementation in Europe and we aim to implement outside of Europe in 2022. Worldwide the plastic pollution problem is getting more and more attention, on both local and a national levels. With our Bubble Barrier we are ready to help governments and businesses stop plastic pollution in rivers and canals worldwide.

Winnow develops digital tools to help chefs run more profitable, sustainable kitchens by cutting food waste in half. We provide data to drive improvements in kitchen production processes and to help cut food waste, saving money and reducing environmental footprint at the same time.

Winnow has been adopted by 1,000 sites globally, operates in over 35 countries with offices in London, Cluj-Napoca, Dubai, Singapore, Shanghai and Iowa City. We work with contract catering firms, restaurant groups, hotel chains and cruise lines; clients include the Compass Group, Elior, IKEA, Pizza Hut, Accor Hotels, IHG and Carnival Cruises.

Kitchens that use Winnow tend to see a 40-70% reduction in food waste within 6-12 months, driving food cost savings in the range of 3%-8%, improving margins whilst doing the right thing.