More than $2 million awarded to Israeli Climate-Tech researchers and startups at the Climate Solutions Festival

TEL AVIV, Israel, Oct. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — The Local weather Options Prize, a joint initiative by JNF Canada, Begin-Up Nation Central, and KKL-JNF, is an annual initiative to incentivize local weather innovation, granting over $2 million in prizes to researchers and startups that supply options to the worldwide local weather disaster. The initiative culminated in final week’s Local weather Options Prize Competition, a gathering of presidency, enterprise, and non-profit organizations devoted to driving innovation within the climate-tech ecosystem.

Tons of of company arrived on the pageant, held within the Hulda Forest in central Israel, and took half within the large-scale world summit and startup expo.

The Local weather Options Prize, based earlier this 12 months, is probably the most complete initiative established to assist analysis and innovation addressing the local weather change disaster. The initiative operates in two distinct tracks. One is the Breakthrough Analysis Prize, which gives a grant for Israeli scientists and researchers. The opposite is the Startup Observe, which includes a sequence of challenges that supply funding, money prizes, and publicity to Israeli tech firms. Every Startup Problem is led by totally different trade leaders and philanthropic companions, reminiscent of Capital Nature, The Temasek Basis, ESIL, Kornit Digital, SolarEdge, and Merck.

The winners within the Analysis Observe are:

• Prof. Avner Rothschild of the Technion

  Matter – Decoupled water electrolysis for inexperienced hydrogen manufacturing at scale

  Undertaking description – Inexperienced hydrogen (as power supply) produced by water decomposition utilizing electrolysis. Transformative water electrolysis course of with excessive effectivity and no membranes.

• Prof. Itzhak Mizrahi of Ben Gurion College

  Matter – Decreasing greenhouse gasoline emissions and local weather change by rational design of ruminants’ microbiome.

  Undertaking description – Scale back methane emissions and enhance feed effectivity of ruminates by figuring out microbial elements that, in live performance, allow and assist the lifetime of the host and scale back animal methane emissions to the ambiance.

• Prof. Malachi Noked of Bar Ilan Bar Ilan

  Matter – Improvement of Sodium Ion batteries

  Undertaking description – Growing lively supplies for Sodium ion batteries for creating gas cells as a extra environmentally pleasant power storage system -.

The winner within the Startup observe and challenges are:

• The winner within the Capital Nature Funding observe (on the lookout for early-stage startups in sustainable power, sustainable mobility, inexperienced construction-tech and circularity) is Copprint, which replaces the extremely polluting chemical processes for manufacturing digital circuit boards and antennas with easy printing of copper inks.
• The winner of the Temasek Basis Livability Improvements Problem (selling sustainable dwelling in southeast Asia) is Marine Edge, which reduces gas consumption for ships, improves propulsive effectivity, and minimizes carbon emissions for marine transportation.
• The winner of the Kornit Sustainable Style Tech Revolutionary Problem (selling sustainability within the textile trade) is  Styletech.ai, which revolutionizes visible advertising via AI, decreasing the carbon footprint of the style trade. Its know-how eliminates taking pictures days, decreases return charges and encourages manufacturers to provide by demand.
• The winner within the Merck Greener Supplies Problem (on the lookout for inexperienced chemistry, sustainable supplies, power & wastewater and provide chain effectivity options) is  Smart Resilin which produces resilin, a bio-based different  to pollutant supplies.
• The winner within the SolarEdge EnergyTech Problem (on the lookout for renewable power techniques, house and EV power administration, and subsequent technology storage options) is Red Solar Flower, which promotes carbon footprint discount and improved meals safety by fast gigawatt-scale photo voltaic panels deployment over agricultural areas.
• The winner within the SustainIL Problem for Early-Stage Rising Stars Problem (on the lookout for an early-stage answer) is SolOr, which creates a photo voltaic paint for buildings pores and skin, that enables the likelihood to mix electrical energy technology with different features of the constructing supplies.
• The winner within the SustainIL Grand Pivot Problem (on the lookout for a mature startup that’s adapting its current know-how to fulfill new climate-related functions) is Seevix Material Sciences, which produces artificial spider silk fibers which might be equivalent of their traits to those present in nature and are extra sustainable and biodegradable.

“I couldn’t be extra excited to see this dream come to fruition of supercharging the ingenuity of Israel, the Begin-up Nation, to assist remedy the local weather disaster”. mentioned Jeff Hart, Government Chair of the Local weather Options Prize.” I’m so grateful to everybody concerned for serving to with this vital initiative for our future generations”.

Amnon Ben Ami, CEO of KKL – JNF: “KKL – JNF sees the event of information and know-how as an vital and vital foundation for the combat towards the local weather disaster. The award is given after skilled pondering and subsequently for distinctive cooperation for an vital trigger. The grants distributed to the winners will permit Israeli start-ups to develop important applied sciences for all of us and there’s no doubt that Israel will proceed to guide within the discipline. KKL-JNF, as the most important inexperienced group in Israel, places the therapy of the local weather disaster as a flag and we function in Israel and assist organizations and nations world wide to change into greener.”

“Israel is presently house to greater than 700 know-how firms which might be already creating options for addressing local weather challenges, together with sustainable meals techniques, round financial system, clear power, effectivity and storage, sustainable mobility, sustainable manufacturing, nature safety, and plenty of extra” mentioned Begin-Up Nation Central CEO,
 Avi Hasson. “As a acknowledged chief in creating superior options to world challenges, Israel is extraordinarily well-positioned to take a central function in battling local weather change and convey options to the most important shared problem of our instances.”

SOURCE Begin-Up Nation Central (SNC)