Nominees List
Below you can see the logos of the companies that have accepted the nomination to participate SDG Tech Awards Denmark 2019.
Solution Description
ARYZE creates Digital Cash – making payments virtually costless, faster and smarter on a platform that allows businesses and developers to build the solutions of tomorrow. We seek to be inclusive, transparent and community based.
ARYZE has been awarded Best New Danish Startup at Copenhagen Fintech Week 2018 and won ‘Best FinTech Startup’ at Venture Cup 2018 – Denmark’s Largest National Startup Competition.
ARYZE is making actual cash digital, while keeping underlying funds safe in the central banks that initially issued them, in the form of bonds and bills. Digital Cash is fully backed, globally transferable, programmable, and suitable for both businesses and consumers.
With programmable, digital money, our platform enables businesses developers to build global, smart-contract solutions and modules that can interact with each other, while providing a service that lowers transaction fees to near zero.
ARYZE has a target of solving the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal No. 10 by reducing the inequality within and among countries. The target set by the UN is to lower the global average cost of sending money from 7.2 percent to 3% by 2030. ARYZE can reduce it to 1% by 2020. This will help the people sending money back to their families immensely.
Solution Description
eCODA is circularizing and minimizing the entire footprint of carbonated soft drinks(CSD) by accelerating on demand carbonation as the preferred method to consume soda. Our solution not only eliminates single use plastic and metal used for packaging and transportation but also circularizes the system invariably increasing material and resource utilization to the highest levels.
Nordic Power Converters
SDG 12 – Responsible Consumption and Production
http://nordicpowerconverters.com
Solution Description
The LED driver market will reach €17Bn by 2021. Current power supplies (LED drivers) are bulky and limit the design opportunities for LED lighting. Especially for high end design lighting, the size is a major issue and luminaire manufactures are forced to compromise the quality to reach desired designs.
Nordic Power Converters cut the size of power supplies to a fifth using a patented technology that combined RF circuits and power electronics. At the same time the technology also enable higher quality of light (less flicker and smoother dimming) and longer lifetime. With drivers from NPC, luminaire manufactures (our customers) are hence able to improve the design of their luminaries, improve the light from them and extend the lifetime of the overall product.
The reduced product size also means use of less materials, e.g. copper and magnetic core materials which is a rare-earth ressource. The improved quality of light provides a better environment for people working and living under these lights, with several proven positive effects. The extended lifetime of the driver solves the main lifetime issue for LED lighting and hence reduce the amount of waste.
The first product has been launched for street lighting, and the next product will be launched in May.
Nordic Power Converters cut the size of power supplies to a fifth using a patented technology that combined RF circuits and power electronics. At the same time the technology also enable higher quality of light (less flicker and smoother dimming) and longer lifetime. With drivers from NPC, luminaire manufactures (our customers) are hence able to improve the design of their luminaries, improve the light from them and extend the lifetime of the overall product.
The reduced product size also means use of less materials, e.g. copper and magnetic core materials which is a rare-earth ressource. The improved quality of light provides a better environment for people working and living under these lights, with several proven positive effects. The extended lifetime of the driver solves the main lifetime issue for LED lighting and hence reduce the amount of waste.
The first product has been launched for street lighting, and the next product will be launched in May.
Solution Description
We have developed the worlds first digital eco-system that is facilitating the use of circular economy in the maritime sector. There have over the last decade been a focus on emissions from propulsion engine on the large oceangoing ships. There has been very little focus on the maintenance of the ships which is one of the most polluting areas in ocean transportation. The platform makes it easy for suppliers and ship-operators to choose components that have been re-certified based on the value the platform delivers such as traceability, digital documentation, data collaboration, and sustainability tracking. Each component will be assessed on the platform using algorithms to show the mitigated CO2 amount when used more than once – thus making it easy for suppliers and shipowners to document the environmental benefit of re-used components while promoting responsible consumption and production.
Solution Description
We are making desalination sustainable by converting the industries’ toxic brine discharge into a commodity product (salt), and creating jobs for the local community at the same time.
LastSwab
SDG 12- Responsible Consumption and Production
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/193289139/lastswab-the-reusable-cotton-swab
Solution Description
LastSwab is a ”Reusable Cotton Swab”
A sustainable alternative to the cotton swabs, cotton buds and Q-tips.
557 billion cotton swabs are produced every year and the average American uses 415 cotton swabs every year.
Even cotton swabs with wood or paper rods impact the environment. As they are single use, the average person uses hundreds of these each year. These cotton swabs need to be produced, warehoused, shipped, used and discarded. Raw materials are used and CO2 is created. This process becomes unnecessary with LastSwab. LastSwab can be used thousands of times.
The Swab is made up of a stiff, compact nylon core with soft medical silicone on each end, and is both aesthetically pleasant and functional.
A sustainable alternative to the cotton swabs, cotton buds and Q-tips.
557 billion cotton swabs are produced every year and the average American uses 415 cotton swabs every year.
Even cotton swabs with wood or paper rods impact the environment. As they are single use, the average person uses hundreds of these each year. These cotton swabs need to be produced, warehoused, shipped, used and discarded. Raw materials are used and CO2 is created. This process becomes unnecessary with LastSwab. LastSwab can be used thousands of times.
The Swab is made up of a stiff, compact nylon core with soft medical silicone on each end, and is both aesthetically pleasant and functional.
Solution Description
We produce biodegradable and sustainable bamboo toothbrushes, developed and designed by a dentist, delivering a toothbrushing experience, that is both good for the environment and your teeth.
Solution Description
Cellugy has developed ecoFLEXY, a biopolymer from fruit waste. ecoFLEXY ready-to-use packaging films can be produced at a comparable cost to fossil plastics, due to an innovative white biotechnology production process. ecoFLEXY is: produced from fruit waste (second-generation feedstocks); simple and cheap to produce through a near carbon-neutral production process; avoids microplastics pollution in the ocean; is home compostable and is recyclable in the existing system.
Solution Description
Trebo is a cleantech startup developing a scalable and cost-effective technology for plastic sorting.
Trebo helps the plastic industry reduce its carbon footprint by enabling access to sorted high quality recyclable materials!
Trebo helps the plastic industry reduce its carbon footprint by enabling access to sorted high quality recyclable materials!
Solution Description
SOMEFANCYNAME is a community for sustainable upcoming designers, a place to share, grow and develop their vision for sustainable fashion industry. At the same time, customers can support women-entrepreneurs, discover and buy unique and sustainably designed clothes.
Solution Description
Frame was started by two entrepreneurs, with two different backgrounds, and one shared vision:
Accelerating the green transition by supplying the building industry with an open standard, easy-to-use tool and process. Making sustainable building accessible and good business to everyone.
Accelerating the green transition by supplying the building industry with an open standard, easy-to-use tool and process. Making sustainable building accessible and good business to everyone.
Frame is the only digital platform effectively integrating project management and building design with certification systems widely used to certify sustainable buildings.
Solution Description
WasteHero is a Danish technology-driven company on a mission to bring a sustainable waste collection to every corner of the world. We believe the future of handling waste should be managed in a sustainable way, which benefits both organizations and cities. We do that by monitoring the fill-level of the bins, ensuring timely dynamic pickups putting fewer trucks on the streets leading to cost savings and reduction in CO2 emissions. The waste insights over time help us deliver services that improve recycling and reduces waste generation.
Solution Description
ØsterGRO started in 2014 and is the first rooftop farm in Denmark, established on top of the old car-auction house, Nellemannhuset, in the heart of Copenhagen’s Climate Neighbourhood. ØsterGRO covers 600 m2 with fields of organic vegetables, herbs and eatable flowers, a greenhouse, henhouse and three bee-hives. ØsterGRO is organized as a community-supported agriculture (CSA) and sells its produce, in cooperation with the urban agriculture Seerupgaard in Dragør, to 40 members who pays for one year at a time for a share of the harvest. But ØsterGRO is not only for the members and volunteers who participate in the project. It is a green breathing space for the whole city! With Gro Spiseri we want to invite even more people up in our green surroundings creating unique dining experiences for our guests. During the year, you can enjoy seasonal dinners around the long table in the greenhouse, as well as the many food-workshops and open-air special events we run.
Solution Description
FairFishing comes from the idea to transform pirates into fishermen by creating jobs and income opportunities in the fishery sector, in the long-term contributing to economic development and regional stability.
The solution is a simple concept – setting up step by step a basic fishing industry in a place where the sea is full of fish.
It started with in-kind donations only: five reefer containers, one ice machine, one cooling room for wash and storage and 200 nets – providing the necessary physical infrastructure.
Followed by training the locals in fishing and organization, and last facilitating workshops where locals learn about the benefits of fish as a healthy food option and how to prepare it.
FairFishing has now grown into five coastal stations and three inland markets and 40 local employees.
A simple concept – local engagement and global impact.
Solution Description
eGro Reverses Climate Change with Sustainable Agroforestry.
We contract farmers to plant forests and crop. The forests protects the crops and makes them resilient to climate change.
We trade the crops internationally and the forest and soil life in the rootzone capture carbon to stabilize earth climate.
Solution Description
Enjoying cheese without generating enormous amounts of CO2 and without affecting animal welfare is possible. Moreover, you can do it while reducing your own food waste. CheeseItYourself provides you with a plant-based ingredient mix in powder format for turning your aquafaba (chickpea water) into plant-based cheese. You will revaluate plant proteins while making your own plant-based cheese at home. As a do-it-yourself product, it allows you to create your own recipes and personalize them with your favorite herbs and spices. Furthermore, its nutritional value presents 8 times more protein and an excellent lipidic profile in comparison to plant-based cheeses in the market. With Cheeseityourself you can be sustainable while enjoying delicious homemade plant-based cheese.
Solution Description
Nordetect is an AgriTech startup working to ensure sustainable crop production systems that increase agricultural productivity. We’ve developed a sensor that measures Nitrogen, Phosphorus and Potassium in soil, water, and plant tissue samples. We work with farmers and agronomists to improve fertilizer usage with data. This has an impact not only on their business economy but also prevents groundwater and environmental contamination.
Solution Description
At HPNow, our goal is to make water treatment simple. Our HPGen devices produce high-purity hydrogen peroxide directly at the point of use, using only water, air and electricity. Hydrogen Peroxide is a powerful water treatment agent that can substitute the heavily used and hazardous chlorine based chemicals.
By doing so, we enable substantial savings in transportation and handling costs; improved occupational safety; and increased supply reliability. The safe, low-concentrate hydrogen peroxide produced by our systems breaks down after use to pure water and oxygen, leaving no unwanted residuals behind.
Our unique products can provide much needed water treatment solutions for markets as diverse as agriculture, food and beverage and industrial cooling towers.
By doing so, we enable substantial savings in transportation and handling costs; improved occupational safety; and increased supply reliability. The safe, low-concentrate hydrogen peroxide produced by our systems breaks down after use to pure water and oxygen, leaving no unwanted residuals behind.
Our unique products can provide much needed water treatment solutions for markets as diverse as agriculture, food and beverage and industrial cooling towers.
Solution Description
Lulu Lab has been on an empowering mission since our idea was born at Hack4Girls in Copenhagen, a hackathon organised by UNFPA, Save the Children, Microsoft and others. Lulu Lab is an impact startup developing educational games on taboo topics to empower and educate children from Scandinavia to Eastern Africa by making it easy and fun to speak out loud about even the difficult things. We focus on sensitive topics; Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) as well as Mental Health, to increase awareness and positively impact the health and education of adolescents and their communities. We have been a part of accelerators such as Copenhagen School of Entrepreneurship, BeChangeMaker accelerator by HP Foundation and WorldSkills International and the +Impact accelerator at SingularityU sponsored by Danske Bank and Katapult
We work with human-centered and co-creative design methods to ensure, that our games meet the educational needs and also that our visuals, language and game mechanics are a fit with the local cultural context. To ensure that we meet the users needs, we co-create and implement with local and global partners such as WISER International, and we are furthermore starting new exciting projects with Save the Children International and BRAC. Currently, our games on SRHR are being implemented in various Sub-Saharan African countries, whilst we are also working on adapting them to other countries and cultures, such as India and Denmark. Furthermore, we are working on a new educational game on mental health for adolescents in Denmark, co-created through a 4-week workshop with 40 high school students in Copenhagen.
Our visual, simple and fun games are a more engaging way to educate and interact with the end-users on sensitive topics. Furthermore, our tests and co-creation sessions with rural, slum and urban NGOs in Kenya, UN Women in Ethiopia and high school students in Denmark, have showed how our games function as a dialogue tool – an online-offline learning platform to help facilitate a dialogue amongst students, teachers, friends and family on these difficult topics.
We strongly advocate for the UN SDG goals and in October 2018 Lulu Lab was selected as the SDG Ambassador for UN SDG 5 Gender Equality, at the opening of Global Entrepreneurship Week 2018 at the Danish Chamber of Commerce. Furthermore, we were interviewed in the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ magazine 360 Degrees for an article on using offline edtech games to educate African children on SRHR, invited to speak on the Danish Radio P1, and featured as one of the Danish impact startups that you should keep an eye on in 2019 on bootstrapping.com!
Solution Description
Cerebriu is a medical imaging AI company improving workflow efficiency and quality in radiology. Our approach is to automate less specialized tasks removing time spent on patients and images with no clinically relevant findings.
Our first product, Cerebriu Apollo for Brain MRI, improves acute and non-acute workflow efficiency and quality during protocol selection, image acquisition and image analysis across the most critical pathologies including tumors, hemorrhages and infarcts.
Solution Description
Shorter recovery for everyone, everywhere
Today, muscle and joint pain accounts for 15% of the total health care budget, and is the leading cause of years lived with disability.
We know that difficulty with accessing and sticking to recommended interventions leads to an over-reliance of symptomatic treatment, such as excessive rest, or over-use of opioids. We also know that there is a lack of understanding among health professionals and researchers about how to motivate both larger groups and individuals to complete exercise therapy.
Our mission is to promote awareness of how to take care of muscle and joint pain, and to create the world’s most effective exercise rehabilitation instructions
Injurymap is a self-help app for exercise-therapeutic care of muscles or joints. All content and features are evidence-based and builds on best practice in treatment. Based on personal targets, symptoms, and ongoing feedback, our users get a personalized and dynamic home-exercise program.
Solution Description
SolarSack is the world cheapest water purification device, utilizing sunlight to kill bacteria and viruses in water, making it safe to drink. The unique polymer foil and construction allows the sun’s UV-A and UV-B rays to kill the contaminants in the water in just one hour.
SolarSack purifies 4 liters of water is reusable 600 times creating a total of 2400 liters of purified water, enough for a family of four for one year. With a end-user cost of $1-2, the solution is exponentially cheaper than the existing water purification methods.
SolarSack purifies 4 liters of water is reusable 600 times creating a total of 2400 liters of purified water, enough for a family of four for one year. With a end-user cost of $1-2, the solution is exponentially cheaper than the existing water purification methods.
Implementing the SolarSack worldwide would have an enormous impact on global health, as well as the environment. Globally, there are 2.1 billion people living without access to clean water; as highlighted by the UN’s sixth Sustainable Development Goal (Water and Sanitation), this is an acute need for solutions for clean water. Waterborne illnesses are claim the lives of 800 children every day, and 5 million people a year. Additionally, around the world up to 443 million school days are lost every year because of water-related illnesses. Of the 2.1 billion without access to water, the World Health Organization estimates that half of them clean their water by boiling it, using bioenergy – such as firewood and charcoal. The consumption of bioenergy for water sanitation purposes has an incredibly negative impact on the environment, taking 1.35 billion trees and emitting 319 million tons of c02 a year. The SolarSack is the perfect solution to limiting dependence on firewood, and providing clean drinking water that is widely available to consumers living on less than $2 a day would essentially eliminate their exposure to waterborne illnesses.
Solution Description
OrganiCup is one of the most popular and fastest growing brands in an entirely new category within feminine hygiene.
Half the population on earth have periods for the majority of their lives. Yet no period innovations have happened in over 50 years.
Now consider the amount of waste created each month by disposable period products. Consider the chemicals they contain, and that we put inside our bodies. Consider the young girls who stay away from school because they are ashamed of their periods.
We’re on a journey to change the way periods affect our lives, our bodies and our environment.
Since our launch in 2012, we’ve changed the way people think about that time of the month. Today, more than 700.000 OrganiCups has been sold – and with thousands of 5-star reviews across our social platforms, and the fact that 9 out of 10 who try the OrganiCup for 90 days will continue to use it – we’re convinced that this is the future of menstruation. Switching to OrganiCup is one small step for women all over the world to make a huge contribution to the environment.
The OrganiCup can last for up to 10 years, meaning that one OrganiCup user can potentially save the landfill for 2640 pads and tampons within those 10 years. Furthermore, OrganiCup can contain 3 times more than pads and tampons, which means most people just need to empty it morning and evening = no interruptions during the day or night. ¼ of the fluids absorbed by a tampon are natural and necessary vaginal secretions. OrganiCup only collects, thus eliminating irritation and dryness while ensuring the natural pH-balance is kept intact.
Solution Description
Polisensio is offering an air pollution monitoring system for (smart) cities.
Using the latest developments in sensing technologies and IoT, Polisensio is creating a hyper-localized map of air pollution in cities, by installing its sensors on public transportation and other suitable vehicles.
Combining this data with other data sources, Polisensio is creating heat maps, reports, and recommendations on how to tackle air pollution in urban settlements.
Using the latest developments in sensing technologies and IoT, Polisensio is creating a hyper-localized map of air pollution in cities, by installing its sensors on public transportation and other suitable vehicles.
Combining this data with other data sources, Polisensio is creating heat maps, reports, and recommendations on how to tackle air pollution in urban settlements.
Solution Description
2030 Builders is an innovation tool for Sustainable Strategy delivered through gamification, that untaps the business potential in the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Our process gives participants the possibility to identify sustainable strategies for companies to generate growth while creating a positive social and environmental impact.
We help companies drive sustainable impact by enabling co-creation, innovation and sustainable thinking processes in a team building set up.
Our process gives participants the possibility to identify sustainable strategies for companies to generate growth while creating a positive social and environmental impact.
We help companies drive sustainable impact by enabling co-creation, innovation and sustainable thinking processes in a team building set up.
Solution Description
SDG Invest is a mutual fund offering private and institutional investors the possibility to obtain attractive returns. We invest in globally listed companies that work for the fulfillment of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, and we have created a strong portfolio that delivers attractive returns. Our mission is to keep companies on a sustainable path. We believe that the most sustainable companies are also the most profitable in the long run. We work to ensure that all companies in our portfolio work actively with sustainability and the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
We select the companies for the SDG Invest portfolio through a thorough 3 step analysis.
1. Financial analysis (The financial selection process is based on a unique, empirically-derived and disciplined investment process which looks to minimize human error in stock selection. This cutting-edge formulation was developed based on extensive analyses of fundamental data from companies, stretching back more than 25 years).
2. Sectorial screening (We do a negative screening of companies in the following sectors: fossil fuels (oil and coal), weapons, gambling, pornography, banking, mining, cement, tobacco, and alcohol as they do not deliver on the SDGs).
3. Sustainability Scoring in our Sustainability Scorecard. We have developed the scorecard ourselves. Our Scorecard consists of 42 parameters with a total of 136 scoring options. We score within three areas: Sustainability, Governance, and Leadership. Leadership makes up 50 % of the total score, since we consider this an area where companies can make the biggest impact within their sector. In Leadership, we analyse for conversion to circular economy, responsible tax policy, diversity, and more.
Only the best and most ambitious companies are included in our portfolio. From a global total of 65,000 listed companies, just 57 meet our demands. We are thorough when we screen for potential investments , and we have a deep knowledge of the companies within the SDG Invest portfolio. We use this knowledge to engage in dialogue with all companies in the portfolio to ensure we reach the SDGs no later than 2030. Our sustainability analysts proactively select and score the companies, and our financial analysts continuously screen all companies on the StockR8 model. This means that our investors can always get an adequate answer as to why we are invested in any given company.
Solution Description
MakeImpact is a new Danish Fintech startup that launched an app on April 25, 2019. MakeImpact makes it easier for people to invest in the companies that comply with the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – with a special focus on the Millennial generation.
MakeImpact is an app that matches the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to globally listed companies that share the same values as you. Our goal is to enable our users to make informed decisions about investments that align with their values represented in the 17 SDGs. We help our users make the investment via their own bank – allowing them to put their money where their heart is.
Solution Description
Danish AM Hub is the focal point for Additive Manufacturing in Denmark. Our goal is to strengthen Danish business competitiveness by promoting the use of Additive Manufacturing and 3D printing. Our focus is on small and medium-sized businesses and developing new business models that induce growth, innovation and sustainable solutions.
Danish AM Hub is initiated by The Danish Industry Foundation.
To improve our international competitiveness we believe that increased knowledge of new technologies and business models is crucial for change and that additive manufacturing can be a source of innovation, sustainable production and value creation for the individual company.
Sustainable production and circular economy are concepts that support new technologies.
Several of the UN Global Compact’s sustainable Development goals (SDG’er) are tailored to a partnership with digital and additive manufacturing.
The World Economic Forum describes in a report from 2017 that creativity is one of the three most important competencies. Danish AM Hub sees creativity, innovation and design methods as strategic tools and a necessary mindset for businesses, employees and management.
Solution Description
Second Sun is a small engineering company that has developed an innovative solution for sports stadiums to bring more natural sunlight to the pitch to improve grass growth in a sustainable way.
The solution itself is an automated reflector module with an automated and motorized curtain-like system that can roll out a reflective foil from underneath the roof of the stadiums.
The Second Sun solution substitutes the existing solutions in the market and can reduce the CO2 emissions of an international sports stadium by up to 300 tons per year while significantly reducing the costs associated with pitch maintenance.
Solution Description
Flow Loops retrofit recycling shower panel saves app. 70% of water and energy consumption during a shower while increasing the water flow. Flow Loop recycle the water from the floor, before it is recycled sensors are monitoring the water quality, if recycled the water is micro filtered and then UV-purified and mixed with fresh hot water to maintain the desired temperature.
Solution Description
True Energy is an electrical supplier. Our vision is to accelerate the transition to sustainable energy by helping our customers to automatically consume electricity when it’s climate-friendly and cheaper. Therefore we have developed an app that integrates to electrical vehicles (EV) – and later it will integrate to heat pumps, freezers and other appliances. The app automatically charges the EV during the hours of the day or night where the carbon emission of the electricity production is lowest or when the electricity prices are cheapest. EVs connected to the app also act as a Big Battery that peak shaves the Danish electricity grid and thereby replaces traditional fossil methods of balancing the grid.
Solution Description
Aguardio is a brilliantly simple solution that helps people live more sustainably by reducing the amount of water they use in the shower. Aguardio is a physical device designed to guide people in a more sustainable direction. Installed in the bathroom, Aguardio facilitates changes in shower behavior with the aim to reduce water and energy consumption.
Aguardio is a plug and play solution and consist of two devices: a sensor placed at the ceiling in the shower cabinet, and a display placed on the wall in the shower cabinet.
The Aguardio sensor collects data on shower behavior via two individual sensors registering movement and sound. Also, data on humidity and temperature are collected and uploaded to a cloud via Wi-Fi.
The data on movement and sound are automatically transmitted to the Aguardio display as soon as the shower begins showing bath length. This means, that the display timer stops if water is turned off e.g. while shampooing, and the total bath length is shown when the user leaves the shower cabinet. Pilot test shows, that Aguardio can reduce the shower time by 20 percent per shower.
Though, it is not a prerequisite for use of Aguardio, all data can be accessed via web access or app. Here it is possible to identify specific shower patterns, e.g. to what extent the user let water run before entering the shower, or if the user over time reduces shower time. Data on humidity and temperature are also accessible via the app. All data can be used both for individual tracking, for operational optimization and for gamification-benchmark – all depending on who the user is: individuals or organizations.
Solution Description
Mati2ilt ApS is an environmental testing and monitoring company, dedicated to working within areas that require engaging in sustainability. We design water treatment units from circular economy and these units can be used for Oil and Gas produced water, industrial water treatment and most importantly they can used in disaster relief for clean drinking water. We provide full water testing analysis to go with the units to make sure water complies to health and safety standards or drinking water guidelines.
Solution Description
Our solution is to clarify and make our supply chain transparent, optimizing it in the most sustainable way possible. Through our obtained certifications we are able to make organic, recycled and nature-products in the best possible way for our customers and we are able to help them with connecting the certified products to the SDG’s that they focus on, so that the cooperation is tangible for the whole organization.
Solution Description
IPM – Intelligent Pollutant Monitoring develops a radically new sensor system that measures concentrations of chemicals in water resources. The technical principle was developed by the founder of the company at DTU, from where IPM was spun off in 2014. Today, IPM has five employees, including Research and Development engineers and a business developer. The sensor system can detect up to ten types of pesticides as well as nitrate -chemicals that are highly critical in waterworks around the globe. The waterwork can use the sensor system in its water source, wells or surface water and within the plant. The sensors measure concentrations of chemicals on a microgram scale, below the regulation limit of 0,1 µg per L. The technical basis is a solid-state sensor that selectively respond to a predefined set of chemicals. The system is being tested at the moment and will soon be launched in the market.
Solution Description
Tomorrow is an app that automatically calculates the climate impact of every choice you make. Imagine walking out of the grocery store and immediately having the emission pop in an app. Imagine the same when buying plane tickets, stepping out of a cab and ordering at a restaurant. All you do is connect apps and services you already use. Tomorrow then automatically collects your activities and calculates their climate impact, giving you insights about possible alternatives along the way. It turns your digital footprint into a carbon footprint.
Solution Description
APX10 is a Danish corporate startup.
For utilities we gather relevant data related to infrastructure and networks and put it through our analysing and data-crunching algorithm and visualize it for our clients. This results in data and fact-driven decisions, with vital efficiency improvements in utility network economy in the range of 10-15%. This allows for utilities to resilience plan for the future.
For utilities we gather relevant data related to infrastructure and networks and put it through our analysing and data-crunching algorithm and visualize it for our clients. This results in data and fact-driven decisions, with vital efficiency improvements in utility network economy in the range of 10-15%. This allows for utilities to resilience plan for the future.
The solution, data|APEX, is a cloud based SaaS big data platform build on domain expertise from water utilities. We integrate AI, machine learning and utility network effect for predictive analyses and risk overview. We use data in a previously unseen way, and through this rely on best practice from Denmark, since Danish utilities have been considered best in class on a global level.
Currently we are expanding to utilities in multiple sectors – water, waste water, district heating and energy.
Solution Description
We utilize an enormous potential in the form of hiring people with physical disabilities to maintain live chat on companies’ websites. Here they provide a good service and harvest hot leads for the companies. That leads to higher conversion rates as we are creating more leads from the same traffic. We work closely together with the municipality of Copenhagen to hire skilled and capable people who are currently outside of the labour force. Some of our chat ambassadors from this group has been unemployed and in and out of internships for six years. Most have long academic careers that are not being utilized when they are shunned from the workforce. We offer them a job they can manage from home with flexible hours. Some only work a couple of hours a week. By utilizing these people’s overlooked skills and competencies we’re able to create great value for our clients. Our chat service is 24-7 which is only possible because some of our chat ambassadors live abroad in countries like USA, Australia and Singapore.
BLOC (Blockchain Labs for Open Collaboration)
SDG 9 – Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
http://www.un-bloc.com
Solution Description
Blockchain Labs for Open Collaboration (BLOC) designs and develops reliable, sustainable, and resilient digital infrastructure to support social and economic development, with a focus on equitable and secure access. We deliver traceability products across sectors and provide our global clients with consulting and feasibility studies, multi-stakeholder collaboration labs, research and development and venture building solutions. Our primary area of focus, Maritime Blockchain Labs (MBL), develops blockchain pilot projects together with industry consortia to solve industry-wide problems. Currently sponsored by Lloyd’s Register Foundation, MBL is the first industry-led initiative of its kind where we collaboratively source, experiment, prototype and test new value propositions of blockchain and digitisation in the shipping sector. Together with an industry consortium, BLOC has developed a working and scalable prototype based on Hyperledger Fabric blockchain for tracking quality data of marine fuels, called BunkerTrace. This prototype assists in alleviating the problems associated with the highly opaque global marine fuel supply chain by providing an end-to-end chain of custody from fuel supplier to vessel operator. By recording these various quality data points, BunkerTrace provides a provably verifiable end-to-end audit trail that enables vessel operators to safeguard against liability issues, and to prove that the fuel supplied conforms with the new international, regional, and local environmental regulations.
Besides BunkerTrace, we are working on a sustainable energy project, SolarVille, together with Space10. Here we are focusing on bringing sustainable, affordable and reliable energy to societies.
Solution Description
We turn Textile Waste from Industrial Service Laundries, Fashion and Textile production into new engineered materials. Solid Textile Boards and Acoustic Textile Felts are designed for interior applications such as table tops and shelving systems, as well as pin-boards and acoustic regulation.
Solution Description
think.dk is a Center for Acceleration of Change. We are a non-profit knowledge platform, event and project space and a co-creative community for people who want to support the acceleration of change towards a sustainable way of living. By applying a holistic approach to sustainability and promoting alternative solutions, we spread awareness and promote human connection. Our co-creative community is an intersection point for Changers of all kind and empowers people to act, using our joint forces.
Solution Description
CanopyLAB is a danish educational technology company with a mission to change the way we learn.The Canopy is where we design software solutions for corporate learning and communication. The LAB offers free online learning in collaboration with pioneering NGOs on focusing on the UN 17 Sustainable Development Goals and humanities. Some of our partners are: HER Foundation in New York, Maternity Foundation, Intact, Globalt Fokus and many more.
Solution Description
Blue Lobster is changing the way you buy seafood by allowing fishermen to sell directly to consumers via a digital direct-to-consumer app. We empower small-scale fishermen to reach a larger consumer-base and earn more for their catch, while enabling consumers to access fresh, locally caught seafood.
Solution Description
VenomAid Diagnostics ApS presents a solution for rapid diagnosis of victims bitten by medically relevant snakes. Faster and more reliable diagnosis allows for early and correct treatment saving the limbs and lives of many. VenomAid was founded recently – October 2018 – and consists of a young, dedicated team with technical expertise within snakebite, backed by world-class advisors and our partners.
Solution Description
Goodtalks is a social digital networking platform connecting professional women, where members make themselves available to fuel each other.
We facilitate networking events where around 200 women meet to hear honest and unglossy stories from inspiring speakers, including, top executives, entrepreneurs, authors, athletes and more. We believe that in order to create more well-being and balance in organizations, we need to share both the success as well the failures.
Our mission is to create balance in organization by encouraging more women in top management, board rooms and as entrepreneurs.
We facilitate networking events where around 200 women meet to hear honest and unglossy stories from inspiring speakers, including, top executives, entrepreneurs, authors, athletes and more. We believe that in order to create more well-being and balance in organizations, we need to share both the success as well the failures.
Our mission is to create balance in organization by encouraging more women in top management, board rooms and as entrepreneurs.
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There is a 91% risk of your child sitting in a poor indoor climate in school – the future of all of us.
SUND FORLUFT has developed a nudging device: SKYEN which visualizes the quality of the indoor climate and tells you when to air out, through new developed mathematics and technology. The nudging device is designed for children, by children and lights red when the indoor climate is bad and blue when it is good.
SUND FORLUFT has developed a nudging device: SKYEN which visualizes the quality of the indoor climate and tells you when to air out, through new developed mathematics and technology. The nudging device is designed for children, by children and lights red when the indoor climate is bad and blue when it is good.
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NorthQ provides highly complex and sustainable data driven energy management solutions for a broad section of B2B customers that build, own or manage buildings.
Our Connected Building Hub is a cloud platform which enables remote monitoring and control of all connected devices in public, commercial and industrial buildings. By using the platform, our clients can visualise and optimise consumption of electricity, gas, heat and water. In order to automate building operations and processes, the devices can be individually customised to fit customer systems and need to ensure optimal utility-energy saving and increased indoor comfort.
Our patented Q-reader is a Swiss Army Knife for metering and enables us to read data from any utility meter regardless of type, brand and age. It is a unique part of our value chain that we have created for clients in property management, energy distribution and construction industry.
Our mission is to deliver valuable business insights for energy, indoor climate and predictive maintenance using IoT, Big Data and AI, assisting our customers to improve operational efficiency. In this way, we aim to help our customers use their resources more responsibly, towards their business, communities and the environment.
Our Connected Building Hub is a cloud platform which enables remote monitoring and control of all connected devices in public, commercial and industrial buildings. By using the platform, our clients can visualise and optimise consumption of electricity, gas, heat and water. In order to automate building operations and processes, the devices can be individually customised to fit customer systems and need to ensure optimal utility-energy saving and increased indoor comfort.
Our patented Q-reader is a Swiss Army Knife for metering and enables us to read data from any utility meter regardless of type, brand and age. It is a unique part of our value chain that we have created for clients in property management, energy distribution and construction industry.
Our mission is to deliver valuable business insights for energy, indoor climate and predictive maintenance using IoT, Big Data and AI, assisting our customers to improve operational efficiency. In this way, we aim to help our customers use their resources more responsibly, towards their business, communities and the environment.
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Today consumers want to be sustainable but fashion is among the top 5 polluting industries.However, the amount of information is overwhelming and not always reliable. This is where aest-ethics comes in. As the world’s first circular fashion detective, we create content based on scientific evidence and professional experiences. We initiate the conversation between scientists and designers to help consumers understand the world from both sides. In order to incentivize the end-consumer to invest into sustainable brands, the idea is to implement a reward program. Points are collected through purchases and product reviews. Rewards are converted into monetary and non-monetary rewards, linked to the World Food Programme. At aest-ethics you will find only products that are 100% circular, with all fashion apparel to be 100% compostable in your backyard.
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Sustain Daily is a platform for sustainable lifestyle inspiration. We inspire people to live and act more sustainably through:
A webmagazine, Social Media, Print magazine, Podcast and in person talks and events. We gather mainly women in an inclusive community where everyone feels welcome to take the next steps toward a more sustainable lifestyle.
A webmagazine, Social Media, Print magazine, Podcast and in person talks and events. We gather mainly women in an inclusive community where everyone feels welcome to take the next steps toward a more sustainable lifestyle.
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Too Good To Go’s mission and vision is clear; to inspire and empower everyone to take action against food waste. Too Good To Go has developed an app that contributes creative solutions to this complex and societal challenge. Too Good To Go supports the SDGs (12.3) by putting food waste on the agenda with an app that aims to reduce food waste globally. Collaboration is the key if a difference is to be made and Too Good To Go’s app ensures that businesses avoid food waste while consumers can buy delicious surplus food at a reduced price. It’s a win-win-win for consumers, businesses and not to mention the environment.
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Our vision is to accelerate the transition to regenerative agroforestry. Regenerative agroforestry holds great promise in regenerating the earth as it builds healthy soil, increases biodiversity, restores waterways and stores carbon in trees and soil which can effectively help reverse global warming. Our goal is to transition 5 million hectares of agricultural land to regenerative agroforestry by 2025. We aim to achieve this transition by providing services and tools for farmers to help them with the transition. Furthermore we help farmers and organisations consolidate regenerative agroforestry by providing them with a management solution to support continued management of regenerative agroforestry practices.
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Eachthing helps consumers choose products that match their needs and values.
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BLUETOWN is a global internet and digital content service provider with a mission of making modern connectivity solutions accessible and affordable for everyone. To do so, we develop connectivity solutions that are designed for rural and remote areas and create new business models through innovative multi-stakeholder partnerships with governments, NGOs and other private companies. Our solutions have already connected people in rural communities in India, Ghana, Tanzania and Rwanda – many for the very first time. The core of the BLUETOWN solution is a base station powered by solar energy. The base station is located centrally in a rural town, from where numerous Wi-Fi hotspots can be established in institutions, such as schools, health clinics, and local government offices as well as in public spaces like bus terminals and marketplaces. The base station is connected to the internet by existing infrastructure, such as fiber optics and microwave links, or by satellite, balloons or drones. This means that we can bring connectivity to even the most secluded areas of the world. With access to a BLUETOWN Wi-Fi hotspot, people can get online using a smartphone or any Wi-Fi enabled device. We also offer end-users data-free access to our local content server, the LOCAL CLOUD. This allows them to watch videos, read e-books, listen to podcasts, etc., within eLearning, eHealth, eGovernance, agriculture, weather, entertainment, and more – without spending data credit packages. BLUETOWN’s activities have direct and catalytic positive impact on the Sustainable Development Goals. Our core business activity of offering connectivity solutions contributes directly to the achievement of SDG target 9.C on providing universal and affordable access to the internet. Furthermore, as the internet is an enabler for global and local socio-economic development within a variety of fields, our activities are catalyzers for achieving at least 12 of the 17 SDGs.
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Jespers Torvekøkken is a national catering company delivering lunch solutions to small and medium company, canteen operations and private and company catering. Every day we experience a large food waste in all business areas due to over production and lack of information and customer understanding. Using hardware and software, we are developing a solution that automatically gathers data about our customers eating patterns, including what they eat, how much they eat, and when they eat it. Manually data gathering has shown proof of concept and that we can reduce food waste significantly when we know more about our customers and their eating patterns.
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ABOUT THE CLIMATE TILE: Climate change is pushing the boundaries in our cities. The Climate Tile is a scalable climate adaptation tool that rethinks sidewalks as water management systems. The main component is essentially a hybrid between a concrete tile, an intelligent water pipe system and a permeable surface. The tile’s purpose is to positively answer the climate change challenges, whilst creating new adventures and green, urban spaces in our cities.
WATER MANAGEMENT: Technically the Climate Tile can catch and redirect 30% of the projected extra rainwater coming due to climate change, and thereby prevent overloads within the existing drainage infrastructure. By being a positive addition to cities’ drainage system the damages caused by heavy rain are highly reduced, while the need for rainwater filtering decreases. The Climate Tile is 795 x 620 mm and is organized with a modular system where you can replace one tile instead of digging up an entire sidewalk. The scaling potential of the product is comprehensive. Only in Copenhagen we have more than 700 kilometers and New York has 20.000 kilometers of sidewalks. The climate tile allows the water to run down into an integrated and underground water handling system. The tiles are peppered with a system of holes, tunnels and ridges that collect and manage rainwater, funnelling it away from sidewalks – where it can cause damage – to a preferred use like irrigating nearby plantings. The system thereby reintroduces the natural water circuit and urban microclimate comfort by using trees and plants directly as hydraulic recipients.
ADDED VALUE TO OUR CITIES: The Climate Tile develops and couples traditionally separate functions. With the development of The Climate Tile, future sidewalks will collect and manage water, whilst contributing to the growth of an urban nature and improved micro-climate. Thereby the tile generates added value for the citizens and raises the level of life quality and general health within the city. The project is seen largely as an inclusive solution in synergy with both roads, bike paths, signage, urban furniture, town squares, urban nature and more.
PILOT SIDEWALK AT NØRREBRO: A pilot sidewalk for the Climate Tile was inaugurated in September 2018 in front of the café Heimdalsdgade22 in Copenhagen, to the delight of guests and residents in the street. The sidewalk not only contributes to the street’s climate adaptation, but it also adds further qualities to the street in terms of trees and planting, spaces for stay and a more beautiful surface.
ABOUT THIRD NATURE: THIRD NATURE is a Copenhagen based office, consisting of 25 qualified and ambitious architects, landscape architects and constructing architects specialized in the fields of hybrid buildings, climate adapted landscapes and urban planning. With a unique hybrid look at the city, we explore new sustainable paradigms for the interaction between city, landscape, houses, types of settlement, climate and general community development.
WATER MANAGEMENT: Technically the Climate Tile can catch and redirect 30% of the projected extra rainwater coming due to climate change, and thereby prevent overloads within the existing drainage infrastructure. By being a positive addition to cities’ drainage system the damages caused by heavy rain are highly reduced, while the need for rainwater filtering decreases. The Climate Tile is 795 x 620 mm and is organized with a modular system where you can replace one tile instead of digging up an entire sidewalk. The scaling potential of the product is comprehensive. Only in Copenhagen we have more than 700 kilometers and New York has 20.000 kilometers of sidewalks. The climate tile allows the water to run down into an integrated and underground water handling system. The tiles are peppered with a system of holes, tunnels and ridges that collect and manage rainwater, funnelling it away from sidewalks – where it can cause damage – to a preferred use like irrigating nearby plantings. The system thereby reintroduces the natural water circuit and urban microclimate comfort by using trees and plants directly as hydraulic recipients.
ADDED VALUE TO OUR CITIES: The Climate Tile develops and couples traditionally separate functions. With the development of The Climate Tile, future sidewalks will collect and manage water, whilst contributing to the growth of an urban nature and improved micro-climate. Thereby the tile generates added value for the citizens and raises the level of life quality and general health within the city. The project is seen largely as an inclusive solution in synergy with both roads, bike paths, signage, urban furniture, town squares, urban nature and more.
PILOT SIDEWALK AT NØRREBRO: A pilot sidewalk for the Climate Tile was inaugurated in September 2018 in front of the café Heimdalsdgade22 in Copenhagen, to the delight of guests and residents in the street. The sidewalk not only contributes to the street’s climate adaptation, but it also adds further qualities to the street in terms of trees and planting, spaces for stay and a more beautiful surface.
ABOUT THIRD NATURE: THIRD NATURE is a Copenhagen based office, consisting of 25 qualified and ambitious architects, landscape architects and constructing architects specialized in the fields of hybrid buildings, climate adapted landscapes and urban planning. With a unique hybrid look at the city, we explore new sustainable paradigms for the interaction between city, landscape, houses, types of settlement, climate and general community development.
Within the name, THIRD NATURE, lies a strong belief and agenda to merge buildings and biology into a new city-nature typology. By eliminating the border between city and landscape, we create a symbiosis centred on making a sensuous and meaningful everyday life in the city.
THIRD NATURE aims to make a real difference, where we design with the climate, with nature and with a design that goes beyond aesthetics – high quality of life in cities is not achieved by solely looking at buildings, sustainability, aesthetics, solutions, cities or biology alone.
THIRD NATURE tries in every project to show and encourage the world with new positivistic approaches and ideas to deal with future urban challenges.
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Ingemann is a Danish family owned and run producer of organic honey and fine cocoa established in Nicaragua in 2007. We currently serve as the access to market for more than 1.500 small producers and have invested significantly to develop our supply chain over the years. After a couple of bad years where climate variability caused financial loses, we decided to start developing tools to strengthen our supply chain and make it and ourselves more climate resilient. This process led us to develop a unique and innovative methodology that through the understanding of the correlations between the behavior of the climate and the behavior of the crops inspired to us give life to Agroclimatica. Agroclimatica is a platform that offers financial institutions a science-based credit scoring for agricultural credits. It does so by combining dynamic climate models with local soil maps and detailed descriptions of the local crops and livestock, allowing for a dynamic and locally adapted result. Or in other words, on a scale from 1-10, what is the risk of a credit given on a specific farm, for a specific crop, for a specific period of time to a specific type of producer. The transparency in the risk profile allows for both the lender and the farmer to understand the risk of the exact loan and thereby make better decisions. For the farmer the decision is if and when to move forward with his or her current crop and alternatively consider to diversify into crops that offers better climate resilience. For the financial institution the transparency provides the required information to increase their loan portfolio through more competitive interest rates as well as to develop new financial products, adapted to the future local conditions, and thereby increase their institutional resilience to climate change through a reduced, overall risk of portfolio. A sister solution to Agroclimatica is called Bioclimatica. Bioclimatica works based on the same science-based infrastructure but the outcome is different. Bioclimatica can serve as an inexpensive tool for technical assistance for farmers who need information to make better decisions for their crops – allowing for higher yielding production with less risk – more food and less poverty! It does so by providing the farmers with periodical news bulletins through SMS or app with specific recommendation to action to be taken on the farm to mitigate weather phenomena and increase productivity and profitability on the farm. The team behind is multifunctional and includes agronomists, statisticians, map experts as well as agroclimatologists and bankers. About 250 years of accrued experience and all with an entrepreneurial spirit. In other words, Agroclimatica and Bioclimatica were born as spin-offs from the work we did to strengthen our own value chains of honey and cocoa. We are not just data nerds with another good idea – we are do’ers with exceptional technical skills and operational understanding from 3rd world countries and now it is about scaling up to reach further. The platformed was privileged to form part of the UNDP Accelerator program 2018, an initiative that supported the strategical concepts and technical foundations for ideas with the potential to help achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. This coaching process added enormous value as it helped us to understand the potential of what we had developed in areas we hadn’t even considered.
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Plant Jammer empowers household to stop foodwaste and cook more plant-based via smart algorithms and Artificial Intelligence for home cooking.
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Plastix is a solution provider for the New Plastics Economy, a Manufacturer of Green Plastics for the Circular Economy
Plastix is a Danish cleantech recycling company specialized in converting fibres, primarily used fishnets, trawls and ropes that would previously have ended up in the ocean or on landfill, into high-grade and virgin-like Green Plastic raw materials.
Plastix’ market solution is unique as we focus on fibre feedstock, particularly the toughest fibre segment, which is fishing nets, trawls and ropes from the maritime industry. Plastix’ production output, our products, is branded OceanIX rHDPE and OceanIX rPPC, NordIX rHDPE and NordIX rPPC. Their virgin-like quality makes them applicable to most plastic products. At Plastix, our mission is to transform used fishing nets, ropes and post-use rigid plastic into high quality raw plastics materials, Green Plastics. At Plastix, our vision is to provide sustainable solutions for preventative action, to combat plastic pollution and ensure cleaner environments and oceans. Our innovative technology and processes present a solution to a substantial waste problem, contribute to a more circular economy, reduce the amount of waste to landfill, ocean plastic waste, and CO2 emissions, as well as prevent a valuable resource from being lost.
Plastix is a Danish cleantech recycling company specialized in converting fibres, primarily used fishnets, trawls and ropes that would previously have ended up in the ocean or on landfill, into high-grade and virgin-like Green Plastic raw materials.
Plastix’ market solution is unique as we focus on fibre feedstock, particularly the toughest fibre segment, which is fishing nets, trawls and ropes from the maritime industry. Plastix’ production output, our products, is branded OceanIX rHDPE and OceanIX rPPC, NordIX rHDPE and NordIX rPPC. Their virgin-like quality makes them applicable to most plastic products. At Plastix, our mission is to transform used fishing nets, ropes and post-use rigid plastic into high quality raw plastics materials, Green Plastics. At Plastix, our vision is to provide sustainable solutions for preventative action, to combat plastic pollution and ensure cleaner environments and oceans. Our innovative technology and processes present a solution to a substantial waste problem, contribute to a more circular economy, reduce the amount of waste to landfill, ocean plastic waste, and CO2 emissions, as well as prevent a valuable resource from being lost.
Science Brew
SDG 12 – Responsible Consumption and Production
http://www.sciencebrew.dk/index-uk.html
Solution Description
Science Brew is a brand new brewery and brew and food tech laboratory, founded as a spinout from DTU (Denmark’s Technical University) by a team of passionate beer lovers who think circular, with a focus on sustainability, efficient resource use and recycling of all elements in all stages of production. We believe strongly in the potential for circular economics in food production and in society in general. We work with a unique internationally patented technology in close coorporation with DTU Foods and we aim for Science Brew to be a showcase for well-flavoured, climate friendly new technologies and news in the field of food and fermentation.
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Wholi envisions a world where all people are able to make healthy and sustainable food choices in order to cut down on CO2-emissions and secure a better future for the generations to come. We are working towards this goal by developing delicious and nutritious food based on insects. Apart from introducing consumers to insects with our various snack products, we are developing a climate-friendly type of meat that we call manna. Manna is a completely new kind of sustainable food that has a nutritional profile comparable to meat but a climate-impact similar to plants. Manna is made using an innovative technique and is based on peas and European-reared insects. It looks like meat and has no visible insects, but contains all the nutritional benefits: high protein (all essential amino acids) omega-3, iron, fiber, and vitamin B12. Manna has a meaty scent of umami and a consistency similar to minced beef. As Wholi is becoming an economically sustainable business with sales in several Western countries, we are also supporting cricket farmers in Cambodia to scale their production and become competitive on the global market. This will secure a sustainable income to low-income farmers and help fight malnutrition in a country where 40% of the children are undernourished.
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Lyras is a green tech company that has invented new revolutionary technology to pasteurization non-see-through liquids by using UV-light. The technology has been named cold pasteurization, as it uses no heat in the pasteurization process. The heart of Lyras is our patented cold pasteurization technology, which is built on years of evidence-based research and collaboration with engineers, public health experts, and stakeholders in the dairy and juice industry. Already from the companies establishment in 2017, Lyras received a series of nominations from prestigious organizations and won 1st prize in the following competitions: ClimateLaunchpad, Green Tech Challenge, Løvens Grønne Hule, and Venture Cup’s Greentech category.
At Lyras we see great potential for sustainable development in the liquid food processing industry. We aim to drive the change in sustainable food processing by providing innovative solutions that are energy efficient and achieve excellent product quality.
Today, approximately 25% of the total energy consumption within dairies originate from the pasteurization and centrifugation processes. Lyras’ cold pasteurization removes all the drawbacks of conventional methods while eradicating bacteria and reducing energy consumption by more than 95%. By eliminating the heating- and cooling processes, and relying only on electricity, cold pasteurisation can remove the use of water, steam, and natural gas from the pasteurisation process and run solely on electricity from sustainable energy sources.
At Lyras, we value the environment and work towards a sustainable future. Through our state-of-the-art technology, we aim to have a significant impact on the global carbon footprint, securing a green future for the next generations.
At Lyras we see great potential for sustainable development in the liquid food processing industry. We aim to drive the change in sustainable food processing by providing innovative solutions that are energy efficient and achieve excellent product quality.
Today, approximately 25% of the total energy consumption within dairies originate from the pasteurization and centrifugation processes. Lyras’ cold pasteurization removes all the drawbacks of conventional methods while eradicating bacteria and reducing energy consumption by more than 95%. By eliminating the heating- and cooling processes, and relying only on electricity, cold pasteurisation can remove the use of water, steam, and natural gas from the pasteurisation process and run solely on electricity from sustainable energy sources.
At Lyras, we value the environment and work towards a sustainable future. Through our state-of-the-art technology, we aim to have a significant impact on the global carbon footprint, securing a green future for the next generations.
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EKF is stateowned and finances e.g. wind farms for example by providing a bank guarantee. The funding requires that the project meets certain environmental and social standards. EKF can set specific requirements to the project, which for windprojects often include monitoring of birds and bats, because there is a collision risk. If there is no or very Little knowledge of birds and bats in an area, EKF typically requires about two years of monitoring including monitoring reports, which must be reviewed and approved by EKF.
Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy
SDG 7 – Affordable and Clean Energy
https://www.siemensgamesa.com/en-int
Solution Description
At Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy, our mission is to: Make real what matters – clean energy for generations to come.
We focus on:
– Making renewable energy sources cost-attractive
– Our main focus is on onshore and offshore wind turbines
– We have installed more than 60% of the Worlds offshore wind turbines
– We are also developing energy storage technologies to complement renewable energy production
– We have a target of becoming Carbon Neutral
– We have signed the Pledge for Paris, have committed to the Science Based Targets and have continously been nominated by the Dow Jones Sustainability Index and other sustainbility indexes for our performance.
– Through our SGREImpact programme, we support NGO projects targeting the SDGs in the areas, where we do business.
We focus on:
– Making renewable energy sources cost-attractive
– Our main focus is on onshore and offshore wind turbines
– We have installed more than 60% of the Worlds offshore wind turbines
– We are also developing energy storage technologies to complement renewable energy production
– We have a target of becoming Carbon Neutral
– We have signed the Pledge for Paris, have committed to the Science Based Targets and have continously been nominated by the Dow Jones Sustainability Index and other sustainbility indexes for our performance.
– Through our SGREImpact programme, we support NGO projects targeting the SDGs in the areas, where we do business.
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Hello Science is an SDG-focused innovation platform that aims to address many of the world’s key challenges as outlined in the 2030 Agenda (especially the SDGs and Climate Agendas). The initiative was started in 2017-2018 by Novozymes, a global leader in Industrial Biotechnology and one of the first companies in the world to adopt the SDGs as part of its long-term purpose and strategy. It is currently in a second phase of development and growth.
HelloScience aims to create a powerful ecosystem of innovators which enables development and deployment of solutions addressing the SDGs. This is achieved by connecting complementary partners and working towards continually strengthening our ecosystem. The stronger the ecosystem, the higher the positive impact we can create. It is an SDG platform.
HelloScience is founded in SDG #17 (Partnerships), notably Target #17.16 (Enhance the global partnership for sustainable development, complemented by multi-stakeholder partnerships that mobilize and share knowledge, expertise, technology and financial resources, to support the achievement of the sustainable development goals in all countries, in particular developing countries).
To date, Hello Science has focused on supporting innovative approaches to Addressing SDG#6 (Water), but plans to extend its scope through the course of the year into other SDGs, including SDG#3 (Health and Well-Being).
HelloScience aims to create a powerful ecosystem of innovators which enables development and deployment of solutions addressing the SDGs. This is achieved by connecting complementary partners and working towards continually strengthening our ecosystem. The stronger the ecosystem, the higher the positive impact we can create. It is an SDG platform.
HelloScience is founded in SDG #17 (Partnerships), notably Target #17.16 (Enhance the global partnership for sustainable development, complemented by multi-stakeholder partnerships that mobilize and share knowledge, expertise, technology and financial resources, to support the achievement of the sustainable development goals in all countries, in particular developing countries).
To date, Hello Science has focused on supporting innovative approaches to Addressing SDG#6 (Water), but plans to extend its scope through the course of the year into other SDGs, including SDG#3 (Health and Well-Being).
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At WindowMaster, we are the heroes of fresh air. We work to improve the indoor climate for people while lowering energy consumption in buildings, reducing the overall impact on the environment. We do this through intelligent window automation and indoor control systems.
Our core competencies focus on 3 of the SDGs.
SDG #7: We work to improve the rate of energy efficiency globally by specializing in sustainable ventilation solutions.
SDG #9: Through industry-focused member organizations and working groups, we encourage the global building industry to explore sustainable alternatives to ventilation. We also invest up to 10% of our revenues to the R and D of our cleantech developments.
SDG #12: Since 2016, we have decreased the plastic consumption of our product packaging by 69%.
Our core competencies focus on 3 of the SDGs.
SDG #7: We work to improve the rate of energy efficiency globally by specializing in sustainable ventilation solutions.
SDG #9: Through industry-focused member organizations and working groups, we encourage the global building industry to explore sustainable alternatives to ventilation. We also invest up to 10% of our revenues to the R and D of our cleantech developments.
SDG #12: Since 2016, we have decreased the plastic consumption of our product packaging by 69%.
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Across the full range of our products and operations, ROCKWOOL is dedicated to enriching modern living. We strive to increase our positive impact on people and society by maximising our positive product impact and minimising our operational footprint. We recognise that operating with integrity and as a responsible business is equally important and underpins everything we do.
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) steer our ambitions. We committed to 10 out of the 17 SDGs – pursuing the goals where we can have the greatest impact and that are the most aligned with our business competencies.
For more than 80 years, we have been providing safe, sustainable products that help people thrive. Today, we are insulating and cladding the walls of great buildings and everyday homes to create safe spaces and lower emissions.
ROCKWOOL are committed in creating measurable progress on the SDGs by developing innovative new options to tackle climate change, support the move to a circular economy and enhance the wellbeing of people around the world.
We make the most significant positive impact on sustainable development through the use of our products. The products that we create not only improve the health and wellbeing of citizens, but they also equip them with solutions to combat climate change.
Our insulation saves about 100 times the carbon emitted in its production over the lifetime of its use.
In collaboration with different partners and organisations, we develop methodologies to measure and quantify our impact, so that we can measure our progress against the Sustainable Development Goals
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) steer our ambitions. We committed to 10 out of the 17 SDGs – pursuing the goals where we can have the greatest impact and that are the most aligned with our business competencies.
For more than 80 years, we have been providing safe, sustainable products that help people thrive. Today, we are insulating and cladding the walls of great buildings and everyday homes to create safe spaces and lower emissions.
ROCKWOOL are committed in creating measurable progress on the SDGs by developing innovative new options to tackle climate change, support the move to a circular economy and enhance the wellbeing of people around the world.
We make the most significant positive impact on sustainable development through the use of our products. The products that we create not only improve the health and wellbeing of citizens, but they also equip them with solutions to combat climate change.
Our insulation saves about 100 times the carbon emitted in its production over the lifetime of its use.
In collaboration with different partners and organisations, we develop methodologies to measure and quantify our impact, so that we can measure our progress against the Sustainable Development Goals
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PensionDanmark has decided to let our activities be guided by the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Responsibility and sustainability are part of PensionDanmark’s DNA. The SDGs have provided us with a framework for our CSR efforts, and with new opportunities. We rely on the SDGs in working to provide our members with better health, better education and training and attractive pensions. As a provider of supplementary welfare benefits within the areas of pension, social security and lifelong learning and as a major investor, most of the 17 SDGs are relevant to our work. The goals are an integral part of our investment policy, which has won us the position as a leading investor in sustainable real estate and renewable energy infrastructure. Our results over the past few years are testimony to the fact that commitment to sustainable investments generates attractive returns — exceeding those provided by listed markets — while at the same time helping to make the world a better place. We will continue to do good and do well at the same time.
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The Sustainable Development Goals take a broad perspective and are relevant worldwide. We focus on how we can contribute to the Global Goals – globally and locally, commercially and politically. They fit well into our business context and, because we have a broad range of products within climate and energy, we have chosen to focus on four of the Global Goals. The UN Agenda recognizes the joint efforts of all stakeholders in the pursuit of common goals. With sustainable development as a key priority for the United Nations, the creation of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals was no surprise. The SDGs shape the direction and serve as a universal communication tool to be used globally across nations and stakeholders.
The private sector is called for action in addressing social, economic and environmental dimensions of sustainable development. Sustainability is part of our DNA and ensures our license to operate. Our work on sustainability and the Global Goals creates value directly or indirectly through our activities. Many of our products contribute to achieving the 2030 targets, but our passion for energy efficiency is most directly linked to four of the seventeen goals. That´s why SDG 6, SDG 7, SDG 11 and SDG 12 are at the center of our efforts. Plus, society benefits from us taking responsibility for vulnerable people in the labor market, for training employees or contributing to increasing the share of green energy. Today, we have innovation and technologies to help meet our climate targets and future-proof our planet. But with partnerships, we can add speed and scale. That´s why, looking forward, we aim at continuously strengthening Danfoss’ engagement in Sustainable Development Goals, increasing ownership and committing to the Sustainable Development Goals in Danfoss’ global organization. We are proud to be one of the few industrial companies involved in UN activities and a member of Sustainable Energy for All and UN Environment District Energy in Cities initiative.
The private sector is called for action in addressing social, economic and environmental dimensions of sustainable development. Sustainability is part of our DNA and ensures our license to operate. Our work on sustainability and the Global Goals creates value directly or indirectly through our activities. Many of our products contribute to achieving the 2030 targets, but our passion for energy efficiency is most directly linked to four of the seventeen goals. That´s why SDG 6, SDG 7, SDG 11 and SDG 12 are at the center of our efforts. Plus, society benefits from us taking responsibility for vulnerable people in the labor market, for training employees or contributing to increasing the share of green energy. Today, we have innovation and technologies to help meet our climate targets and future-proof our planet. But with partnerships, we can add speed and scale. That´s why, looking forward, we aim at continuously strengthening Danfoss’ engagement in Sustainable Development Goals, increasing ownership and committing to the Sustainable Development Goals in Danfoss’ global organization. We are proud to be one of the few industrial companies involved in UN activities and a member of Sustainable Energy for All and UN Environment District Energy in Cities initiative.
Solution Description
As global food demand increases, the agricultural sector is faced with the double challenge of increasing productivity while reducing the sector’s environmental impact. By expanding into this field of natural plant health solutions, we capitalize on Chr. Hansen’s indisputable leadership in microbial solutions and fermentation technology. In a collaboration with FMC, we aim to create a broad portfolio of biological solutions for farmers worldwide. And we seek solutions to produce more with less.
Consumers all over the world are driving the natural and healthy trend. Growing food and beverage consumption is driven by the rise in the global middle-income population and their overall interest in healthy living and clean product labels. The world population continues to grow. So, does the farmers’ demand for higher yields on less land, as the availability of new agricultural land is very limited. Crop yields are already at high levels and climate change adds additional stress to productivity. The crop protection industry is continuously challenged to develop novel solutions to combat increased pest resistance to chemicals. However, chemicals development timelines and costs are extremely high whereas biologic solutions represent a lower development cost. Governments increasingly ban older crop protection technologies, like chemicals and increase entry barriers, while encouraging the development of new safer technologies to protect human health and the environment.
According to a sugarcane farmer in Brazil that is using Chr. Hansen’s natural plant health microbial solutions feels that these products provide the farmer with an improvement in yield, saving money from discarded crops. They also have a positive effect in protecting the farmers crops from diseases and reducing nematode damage.
Consumers all over the world are driving the natural and healthy trend. Growing food and beverage consumption is driven by the rise in the global middle-income population and their overall interest in healthy living and clean product labels. The world population continues to grow. So, does the farmers’ demand for higher yields on less land, as the availability of new agricultural land is very limited. Crop yields are already at high levels and climate change adds additional stress to productivity. The crop protection industry is continuously challenged to develop novel solutions to combat increased pest resistance to chemicals. However, chemicals development timelines and costs are extremely high whereas biologic solutions represent a lower development cost. Governments increasingly ban older crop protection technologies, like chemicals and increase entry barriers, while encouraging the development of new safer technologies to protect human health and the environment.
According to a sugarcane farmer in Brazil that is using Chr. Hansen’s natural plant health microbial solutions feels that these products provide the farmer with an improvement in yield, saving money from discarded crops. They also have a positive effect in protecting the farmers crops from diseases and reducing nematode damage.
Chr. Hansen Holding (Plant Health Team)
SDG 12 – Responsible Consumption and Production
https://www.chr-hansen.com/en
Solution Description
Fermentation by food cultures has been known from ancient time as a natural way of preserving food. The news is that Chr. Hansen has used the superior knowledge of food microbiology to identify and select the best of the good bacteria to be used for bioprotection. Bioprotection is the art of using natural microbial food cultures to delay the outgrowth of unwanted contaminants – preventing food spoilage or enhancing food safety. Food cultures with bioprotective properties for dairy are lactic acid bacteria species that are normally used in dairy products. When consumers look for yogurt, they often find labels stating: Milk, Culture, Fruit. Thus, unless made aware of the use of bioprotection, the consumers would not know it is there.
An independent consumer study was carried out in Germany with a research organization in order to explore how extending shelf life affects consumer acceptance. Blind sensory tests documented that there was no difference in consumers’ liking a yogurt with standard shelf life and one with seven days’ additional shelf life. The study also showed that the consumer purchase intention was influenced positively and even favored the yogurt with longer shelf life if consumers were presented with information about the food waste reduction potential. The results reinforce the ambition of Chr. Hansen to continue to reduce food waste in yogurt, and to activate this opportunity even further at customer level.
An independent consumer study was carried out in Germany with a research organization in order to explore how extending shelf life affects consumer acceptance. Blind sensory tests documented that there was no difference in consumers’ liking a yogurt with standard shelf life and one with seven days’ additional shelf life. The study also showed that the consumer purchase intention was influenced positively and even favored the yogurt with longer shelf life if consumers were presented with information about the food waste reduction potential. The results reinforce the ambition of Chr. Hansen to continue to reduce food waste in yogurt, and to activate this opportunity even further at customer level.
Solution Description
Carlsberg Group is the worlds 3d biggest brewer, and focuses primarily on the production and distribution of beer and other adjacent categories. Our four sustainability ambitions are: ZERO carbon footprint, ZERO water waste, ZERO irresponsible drinking and a ZERO accidents culture. Each ambition is underpinned by clear, measurable targets for 2022 and 2030. Being interconnected, all the SDGs are important, and within each goal there are a number of targets and topics. We focus our efforts on the goals and targets that are material to our business and where we can create the greatest impact, and review these every year. To us these are SDGs 3, 6, 7, 8, 12, 13 and 17. We contribute to specific targets under each goal – See which ones and some examples of actions we are taking in our sustainability report 2018, available on our website.
Solution Description
FEE as an umbrella organisation aims at reaching objectives as indicated in the SDGs:
Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages (SDG 3).
Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote life-long learning opportunities for all (SDG 4).
Ensure availability and sustainable management of water.. (SDG 6), Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all (SDG 7),
Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development (14), as well as to Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems.. (SDG 15).
Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth.. (SDG 8), particularly to ..implement policies to promote sustainable tourism which creates jobs, promotes local culture and products (SDG 8.9).
Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable (SDG 11).
Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns (SDG 12).
Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts (SDG 13).
Promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems.. (SDG 15).
Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development.. (SDG16), particularly to build transparent institutions and promote nondiscriminatory policies for sustainable development (SDGs 16.6, 16.b) with a positive, proactive, democratic modus operandi and a strong synergic support to civil society and third sector.
Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development (SDG 17) through a geographically spread, multistakeholder approach.
Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages (SDG 3).
Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote life-long learning opportunities for all (SDG 4).
Ensure availability and sustainable management of water.. (SDG 6), Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all (SDG 7),
Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development (14), as well as to Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems.. (SDG 15).
Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth.. (SDG 8), particularly to ..implement policies to promote sustainable tourism which creates jobs, promotes local culture and products (SDG 8.9).
Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable (SDG 11).
Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns (SDG 12).
Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts (SDG 13).
Promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems.. (SDG 15).
Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development.. (SDG16), particularly to build transparent institutions and promote nondiscriminatory policies for sustainable development (SDGs 16.6, 16.b) with a positive, proactive, democratic modus operandi and a strong synergic support to civil society and third sector.
Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development (SDG 17) through a geographically spread, multistakeholder approach.
Green Key – Foundation for Environmental Education
SDG 12 – Responsible Consumption and Production
http://www.greenkey.global/www.fee.global
Solution Description
Green Key is a voluntary ecolabel for hotels, hostels, campsites, holiday parks, small accommodations as well as conference centres, attractions and restaurants. The Green Key award is based on compliance with strict criteria in the areas of environmental management (water, energy, waste, cleaning, etc.) and sustainability education (staff, guests, suppliers, etc.). Compliance with the criteria is confirmed through a rigorous application process and verified at on-site audits. The award is valid for one year at a time. Currently, more than 3,000 establishments in 57 countries are Green Key awarded. The programme is managed by the international charity, the Foundation for Environmental Education.
Solution Description
HTHC is a physical and virtual community built to accelerate actionable innovation in healthcare. It operates around 5 accelerating forces:
– Startup launchpad – support for the going through largest bottlenecks in health innovation: implementation and international scale-up
– Ecosystem building – breaking through silos and encouraging co-creation
– Ground for organisational innovation – building innovation teams that are functional to the society needs as well as with the system and organisational structures
– Landing pad for global startups – encouraging and rewarding mobility of global solutions, maximising their impact
– Funding and investment – building an open pipeline of funding that will allow the best and most important startups to spend time primarily on their offering as opposed to fund raising and investment scouting (current situation)
Ultimately, our goal is to fast-track and disseminate solutions that positively affect the health and wellbeing of 1 billion people.
– Startup launchpad – support for the going through largest bottlenecks in health innovation: implementation and international scale-up
– Ecosystem building – breaking through silos and encouraging co-creation
– Ground for organisational innovation – building innovation teams that are functional to the society needs as well as with the system and organisational structures
– Landing pad for global startups – encouraging and rewarding mobility of global solutions, maximising their impact
– Funding and investment – building an open pipeline of funding that will allow the best and most important startups to spend time primarily on their offering as opposed to fund raising and investment scouting (current situation)
Ultimately, our goal is to fast-track and disseminate solutions that positively affect the health and wellbeing of 1 billion people.
Young Reporters for the Environment – Foundation for Environmental Education
SDG 13 – Climate Action
https://www.yre.global/
Solution Description
HTHC is a physical and virtual community built to accelerate actionable innovation in healthcare. It operates around 5 accelerating forces:
– Startup launchpad – support for the going through largest bottlenecks in health innovation: implementation and international scale-up
– Ecosystem building – breaking through silos and encouraging co-creation
– Ground for organisational innovation – building innovation teams that are functional to the society needs as well as with the system and organisational structures
– Landing pad for global startups – encouraging and rewarding mobility of global solutions, maximising their impact
– Funding and investment – building an open pipeline of funding that will allow the best and most important startups to spend time primarily on their offering as opposed to fund raising and investment scouting (current situation)
Ultimately, our goal is to fast-track and disseminate solutions that positively affect the health and wellbeing of 1 billion people.
– Startup launchpad – support for the going through largest bottlenecks in health innovation: implementation and international scale-up
– Ecosystem building – breaking through silos and encouraging co-creation
– Ground for organisational innovation – building innovation teams that are functional to the society needs as well as with the system and organisational structures
– Landing pad for global startups – encouraging and rewarding mobility of global solutions, maximising their impact
– Funding and investment – building an open pipeline of funding that will allow the best and most important startups to spend time primarily on their offering as opposed to fund raising and investment scouting (current situation)
Ultimately, our goal is to fast-track and disseminate solutions that positively affect the health and wellbeing of 1 billion people.
SDG Student Ambassadors Denmark
SDG 17 – Partnerships for the Goals
https://www.facebook.com/NotWithoutAgenda/
Solution Description
SDG Student Ambassadors want above all that students know about the Sustainable Development Goals, so they can use the SDGs on their projects and while finding a job. We work for mobilize, engage and empower people to work towards the SDGs, and we connect students to the university and companies, because we believe that we all need to work together to achieve the Global Goals.
Solution Description
Female Invest aims to combat financial inequality and close the investment gender gap by helping women engage in the world of finance, breaking down barriers, and teaching women how to become independent investors. This is important because 1) women need a bigger pension as they tend to live longer, 2) women need to compensate for gaps in their earning life to ie. have children, 3) more women work part-time than men, and 4) the gender pay gap means that women earn less over a lifetime than men and as such are going to be making lower pension contributions and likely have less to save and invest. Female Invest has a digital platform for which the purpose is to empower women financially by raising awareness through national media, events, talks, and workshops in collaboration with professionals and financial institutions. As such members will get an introduction to financial markets and learn how to become confident investors. We offer a higher degree of inclusion, and serve as a unique platform for knowledge sharing, thus allowing participants to exchange experiences and be inspired by each other.
Currently, we are in the process of evolving our digital platform. When the development is complete in the fall the social network will entail the following: a) Educational video content, podcasts, articles, blogs and news feed with daily market updates b) a unique forum for women to share and follow each other’s portfolios in real time c) access to job openings within the field of finance as well as a CV-database for companies.
Solution Description
Hands-on educational workshops around S.T.E.A.M based learning outside of an educational setting. Allowing education to be reached and given to all rather than the few who can have the privilege of attending university. Our main SGD-4 means that education should be for all, and with this in mind we teach people with no education or background within subjects such as science, tech, engineering and much more to create a better future that’s not just sustainable but attainable.
Solution Description
State of Green is a not-for-profit, public-private partnership from Denmark. We foster relations with international stakeholders interested in discussing their challenges and bring into play relevant Danish competencies and technologies that enable the green transition. State of Green connects international decision makers with all leading Danish players working to drive the global transition to a sustainable, low-carbon, resource-efficient society. Whether it be within renewable energy, energy efficiency, water management, waste management, climate adaption or integrated urban solutions, we can match international stakeholders with the relevant partners and solutions. Rather than advocating a one-size-fits-all model for the green transition, State of Green wishes to actively help solve global challenges and support the SDG’s. We seek to stimulate debate, spur partnerships and inspire others through leading by example. Collaboration and dialogue are central elements of the Danish mind-set. For decades, we have facilitated partnerships and relations across sectors and government levels to achieve sustainable growth.
Solution Description
We empower youth to become agents of change! Youth are the future leaders and caretakers, and thus we must ensure that they get the skills and capacity to deal with local and global challenges such as climate change, human rights, the decline of democracy, citizenship, as well as economic and social inequality. Every year the youngsters at Ung Aktion create a campaign focusing on marginalized youth in the Global South. We visit, exchange and collaborate with youth in their local community – this year it was a refugee camp in Palestine – and through workshops we address hope, fears and challenges in the community. Thereafter we develop small-scale and long-term projects, that can empower the youth to create a brighter future for themselves and their communities. As we work with sustainability in the field of social, economic and environmental matters we more or less deal with all the SDGs – on various levels at different times. It depends on our global and local partners and what challenges they face in terms of making positive change. Often challenges are interlinked and with a holistic approach and perspective on how to make a change, we look into different fields – thus different SDGs. However to emphasize a few that we particularly work with I will mention #1, #4, #10, #11, #16 and #17.
Solution Description
UNLEASH is a non-for-profit initiative aiming to build the world’s leading global platform of action for the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Each year leading up to 2030, we will bring together 1,000 global top talents to share ideas, build networks, and create viable solutions within designated areas in the SDG framework, such as health, climate change, and education & ICT. In just two years, UNLEASH has gathered 2,000 talents from 143 countries, developed 370 tangible SDG solutions, partnered with +300 organizations across sectors, and been recognized as one of the world’s most influential sustainability brands ahead of known brands such as USAID, Greenpeace, and Oxfam International. UNLEASH holds innovation and equality at its core: We believe equal opportunity is key for delivering out-of-the-box thinking and real, impactful solutions to some of the world’s toughest challenges. We reach out to and provide scholarships for young people outside of the regular power networks by engaging a wide range of partners across sectors and regions to create awareness about the UNLEASH program in new circles. By providing our participants from all around the world with new skills, capacity, and networks to bring back home to their local communities, we help ensure that real change happens where it is most needed.
Solution Description
We support and scale social and sustainable entrepreneurs and their business solutions by creating and providing a co-working community, tools, action-based knowledge and network across Denmark. We create a sustainable future by unleashing the potential of sustainable entrepreneurship throughout Denmark. We exist for those who convert their business ideas into new innovative solutions. Those who create local and global businesses that contribute to the achievement of the UN 17 Sustainable Development Goals.
ARCAB – Arctic Research Centre Autonomous Boat – Simon Sejer Pedersen et al.
SDG 13 – Climate Action
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ohx.2019.e00059
Solution Description
ARCAB is an autonomes boat with GPS navigation and obstacle avoidance. ARCAB is used in arctic regions to take water depth and current measurements. These data are used to update international climate models with regard to melting rates. Research based on the results from ARCAB will be used to solve international climate related problems threatening humanity.
NorthROV – Robert Søndergaard et al.
SDG 14 – Life below Water
https://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW-Student-Design/NorthROV-Design-Build-and-Test-of-a-Robot-for-3D-Mapping-of/ta-p/3766885?profile.language=en
Solution Description
As our bachelor thesis to become Mechanical Engineers, we teamed up with the Department of Bioscience at Aarhus University, helping them in their quest to get more knowledge on Icebergs, how fast they melt, and where they are traveling. The challenge was to 3D Scan an iceberg and collect data about the eco-climate around it. So that was what we as engineers had to find a solution for. The result was after 3 Months of hard work, programming, designing and building, for three engineering students, an underwater robot. The robot is controllable from a boat in a safe distance and can collect data about the water around the iceberg and 3D scan it.
ISeDD – Mathias Edslev Jacobsen, Jonathan Pasma
SDG 13 – Climate Action
https://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW-Student-Design/ISeDD-Iceberg-Sediment-Drilling-Drone/ta-p/3897971?profile.language=en
Solution Description
ISeDD is a research device which has the objective of collecting data from icebergs in the fjords of Greenland. ISeDD 1.0 is primarily an ice drilling drone, which means that it is capable of extracting an ice sample from an iceberg. Furthermore, ISeDD also has the ability to deliver a GPS beacon onto the iceberg, which enables researchers to track the icebergs that the samples come from. This data is needed for determining where, how much and what kind of sediment the icebergs releases into the fjords, which all have a large impact on the local environments in the fjords and the northern part of the Atlantic Ocean.
Solution Description
JØP is Danish pension fund that offers targeted coverage to all those eligible for membership in DJØF (trade union representing members within the areas of law, economics, administration, management among others).
We pursue giving our 65,000 members the highest possible pensions when they retire. This is done through an active investment policy and an efficiently run organization. The pension fund manages a total of 80 billion DKK and is 100 per cent owned by its member. This means, that we do not have a shareholders group that has to have a share of the profits.
JØP focuses on making investments, that supports the SDGs and at the same time create returns to our members.
The SDGs are part of our policy for responsible investment.
The main initiatives are:
Since 2017 we have systematically assessed new external managers that invest on behalf of us, with regards to their ability to invest in line with our policy on responsible investment. The purpose of this is that we want to change the way the industry works, by asking the external managers to integrate ESG in their decision making process prior to making an investment, and choose to invest in companies that provide decent working conditions (SDG 8), and do have systems in place to prevent and mitigate negative impact on people and environment. Since 2017 we have done this across the asset classes that we invest in.
Additionally, we have invested in 3 funds where the SDGs are at the core of the funds investments. The funds are
– Actis Infrastructure Fund, which primarily invest in renewable energy in markets like Chile and India.
– Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners Funds, which invest in renewable energy in markets like Europe and Taiwan
– IFU SDG fund, which invest in infrastructure and companies supporting the SDGs
Solution Description
As my master’s Thesis I have developed a SDG Assessment Tool for SMEs in collaboration with UNDP and Monitor Deloitte in relation to the program the SDG Accelerator. A tool that helps the SMEs to understand their own impact and implement SDGs in to their business strategy. By setting the SDGs into context of the value chain and help prioritise the SDGs based on contribution to the SDGs and relevance for the firm, this tool can make a complex framework tangible for everyone.
A tool like this will have a huge impact since SMEs accounts for 95 % of all companies, and 70 % of the global pollution, yet existing tools and support systems is designed for large entreprises, we have a large amount of small firms with a huge impact, and a call for more action towards them.
A tool like this will have a huge impact since SMEs accounts for 95 % of all companies, and 70 % of the global pollution, yet existing tools and support systems is designed for large entreprises, we have a large amount of small firms with a huge impact, and a call for more action towards them.
Solution Description
The world’s biggest voluntary eco-label for beaches, marinas and eco-tourism boats works towards sustainable development through compliance
with criteria dealing with environmental education and information, environmental management, water quality, safety and other services.
with criteria dealing with environmental education and information, environmental management, water quality, safety and other services.
Solution Description
We are democratizing investment access into energy efficiency through community driven crowdlending on the blockchain. We empower everyday citizens, businesses, and locally focused investors to invest in climate retrofitting of their communities. By providing a meaningful and direct impact investment product we can make your community or city a livable place to be.
Troldtekt
SDG 11 – Sustainable Cities and Communities
https://www.troldtekt.com/Product-properties/Healthy-indoor-climate
Solution Description
Cradle to Cradle® certification for the ‘Troldtekt Nature’ range. The wood used for the production of Troldtekt is PEFCcertified Norway spruce from local forestry operations. The PEFC-certification guarantees that the wood can be traced back to sustainable forestry. By using wood from a healthy and well-developed forest area, Troldtekt is helping to ensure continued biodiversity and the positive effect of the trees on the climate.
Solution Description
Topdanmark makes its own investments. Topdanmark has its own asset management which invests actively. That means that we select for ourselves which shares, bonds and properties, etc. to invest in and for how long. Our asset management also invests, taking into account the policy for socially re-sponsible investments. The framework of this policy is the UN Global Compact which Topdanmark has consented to.
UN Global Compact consists of 10 principles within human rights, labour rights, envi-ronment and anti-corruption. In practice this means that respecting the 10 principles is an integral part of the investment policy. Generally, we do not invest in companies that contravene these 10 principles.
UN Global Compact consists of 10 principles within human rights, labour rights, envi-ronment and anti-corruption. In practice this means that respecting the 10 principles is an integral part of the investment policy. Generally, we do not invest in companies that contravene these 10 principles.
Matter Pension
SDG 8 – Decent work and economic growth
https://www.matterpension.com/sustainability/
Solution Description
Your money should be invested in a world you want to retire in. Matter exists to give you a sustainable alternative to a normal pension plan. With a sustainable pension with Matter and Skandia, you avoid investments in fossil fuels, weapons and tobacco, while more money is invested in companies working towards a sustainable future. We all want to live in a more sustainable world. Investing your pension sustainably, in the end, is a no brainer.
Solution Description
GRIM is a market place for ugly fruit and veg that do not fit retail beauty standards. GRIM is Danish for “ugly” and Denmark’s first fruit and veg box that is exclusively filled with imperfect-looking and surplus produce. Why? If an apple or carrot is not big, red or straight enough, it cannot be sold in a supermarket. Stupid, right? We make juicy food boxes since July 2018 and our operations is entirely volunteer-based. Can you see? We’ve set the foundation for a movement that will change the world.
Join the ugly revolution now and become part of GRIM. 👊
Join the ugly revolution now and become part of GRIM. 👊
Salling Group (Netto)
SDG 12 – Responsible Consumption and Production
https://en.sallinggroup.com/responsibility/sustainability/food-waste/
Solution Description
In a large concern such as Salling Group, food waste, however much we strive, cannot totally be avoided. However, when we can reduce our food waste every year by several tonnes, it is because we have taken on the challenge on multiple levels.
We are part of a number of strategic partnerships, in dialogue with suppliers and organisations that fight against food waste, and our employees are committed to the food waste agenda. With new ideas, new processes, new technology and a lot of good will, we can tackle the problem together.
We are part of a number of strategic partnerships, in dialogue with suppliers and organisations that fight against food waste, and our employees are committed to the food waste agenda. With new ideas, new processes, new technology and a lot of good will, we can tackle the problem together.
Solution Description
Commited to the UN Global Compact, including maintaining gender equality in senior management positions.
Read the full report here: https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ungc-production/attachments/cop_2018/466253/original/01_2018_Tryg_annual_report_2017_12.pdf?1533813516
Solution Description
Our mission is to inspire more women to start their own business or pursue a career within the tech industry. We want to enhance our startup community to become even more dynamic, where we can openly engage with each other, exchange experiences and connect with the startup community in Copenhagen. We aim to be a forum where we among other things address gender-related issues, with the purpose of creating a more balanced tech startup scene.
Experienced entrepreneurs, startup employees, “wantrepreneurs” considering to start their own business and general tech enthusiasts are all equally welcome to join.
Partnering up with #CPHFTW and other organisations, we want to inform about and share activities of other initiatives related to our mission in order to foster a stronger tech ecosystem in Copenhagen.
We believe that in our community, everybody can learn from each other. This is why we organise events and workshops to facilitate networking among the community and sharing practical knowledge about relevant startup and entrepreneurship topics.
Experienced entrepreneurs, startup employees, “wantrepreneurs” considering to start their own business and general tech enthusiasts are all equally welcome to join.
Partnering up with #CPHFTW and other organisations, we want to inform about and share activities of other initiatives related to our mission in order to foster a stronger tech ecosystem in Copenhagen.
We believe that in our community, everybody can learn from each other. This is why we organise events and workshops to facilitate networking among the community and sharing practical knowledge about relevant startup and entrepreneurship topics.
Solution Description
The Monsenso mHealth solution for mental health can help in the prevention, early intervention and treatment of mental or behavioural disorders. Our aim is to help individuals struggling with their mental health to feel better, faster. The Monsenso mHealth solution for mental health consists of three components:
A smartphone app for individuals
A smartphone app for carers
A web portal for all users
A smartphone app for individuals
A smartphone app for carers
A web portal for all users
Solution Description
AP Services delivers pre-hospital emergency equipment, advice, training and complete solutions. Since 2004 AP Services has been focusing on saving lives and preventing permanent physical disability, in areas such as offshore industries, in disaster areas and war zones. As a trusted advisor and partner AP Services has, for instance, developed solutions for Siemens, the Red Cross, the UN, NATO, and the armed forces in Scandinavia. Our practical experience, highly-trained specialists, and network of experts form the foundation for AP Services. In cooperation with suppliers and customers, we source solutions that can be used in precisely those environments for which they are designed. Our experience ranges from the training of soldiers stationed in dangerous areas of the world, the miners of East Greenland, to wind turbine engineers working at heights on offshore wind turbines.
Solution Description
Targeted treatment of bacteria can lead to reduced use of antibiotics and combat the increasing resistance! Decades of overuse and misuse of antibiotics have led to antibiotic resistance being one of the major threads to humanity and to the world’s sustainable development. In my high-tech startup PreDiagnose, we recognize antibiotics as precious resources that need to be managed sustainably. This can be done through targeted treatment as early as possible in an infection. I am the founder PreDiagnose, where we specialize in developing microsensors for the detection of cellular molecules and microorganisms for point-of-care use.
IDA Sustainability Caravan
SDG 17 – Partnerships for the Goals
https://ida.dk/om-ida/temaer/baeredygtighedskaravanen
Solution Description
Greencubator is an entrepreneurial house and office community for creative entrepreneurs and NGOs who work with sustainable solutions. Our vision is to support the sustainable restructuring by acting as a catalyst and accelerator for enthusiasts and future companies.We are an informal and collaborative workspace that offers events, sparring, and networking to our residents and members.
Solution Description
Green Network is a CSR knowledge and training center that works to promote sustainable development and growth at our partner companies. For more than 24 years, we have inspired and developed the way in which companies operate. We have heped them to pave the way for new business opportunities through work on business-focused social responsibility (CSR).Today, Green Network is one of Denmark’s leading providers of knowledge, development and training in CSR and sustainability processes at Danish companies.
Solution Description
BLOXHUB is the Nordic hub for sustainable urbanization. Founded on the belief, that the challenges of global urbanization and climate change require new ways of collaboration. Between architecture, engineering, design thinking, construction & tech. Between research and practice.Between startups and corporates.
Solution Description
We develop communities in collaboration with civil society enthusiasts, organizations and associations, because we believe that open and engaging communities create value for the individual, business and society as a whole.
We want more young people to engage in communities, in organizations, associations, local areas and in the labor market, to give the individual meaning and opportunity to contribute to society and to ensure that young people contribute to the future.
We want more young people to engage in communities, in organizations, associations, local areas and in the labor market, to give the individual meaning and opportunity to contribute to society and to ensure that young people contribute to the future.
Research Project: Robotic Sampling of Anthropod Samples by Thomas Lyhne and Kristoffer Løwenstein
SDG 15 – Life on Land
https://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW-Student-Design/Automation-of-Sorting-amp-Identification-of-Arthropod-Samples/ta-p/3898589?profile.language=en
Solution Description
Using NI products a LabView controlled Universal Robot UR5 is implemented in a setup to automate species classification of insects to help researchers monitor and investigate insect populations. The project has a huge impact on the future of climate research and the aim for creating a better planet. Through realization of the project experts will be able to gain a deeper knowledge and the areas that are investigated will be expanded. Research can be conducted in much larger quantities, hopefully leading to game changing discoveries on how to save our planet.
Thanks to the ease of use of NI products more time was available for learning and discoveries regarding how to improve the system for further development. Insights on how to handle fragile insects involving separation of insects, computer vision for detection and classification of the insects and custom design of tools were gained.
The project was significant and was well received by scientists working in the field characterizing the project as ground breaking. The scientists showing great excitement and willingness to implement the system into research.
Thanks to the ease of use of NI products more time was available for learning and discoveries regarding how to improve the system for further development. Insights on how to handle fragile insects involving separation of insects, computer vision for detection and classification of the insects and custom design of tools were gained.
The project was significant and was well received by scientists working in the field characterizing the project as ground breaking. The scientists showing great excitement and willingness to implement the system into research.
Solution Description
FluidTech was born with the vision to provide sustainable power generation from waste energy sources. During the past year, we have developed this vision and transform it into reality. Despite all the research during the past years, only a few solutions implemented in real scenarios; which they have proved the feasibility and reliability of such solutions. FluidTech aims to change the current scenario of low-grade waste heat, to provide also products for low power output for certain industries and households connected to a local district heating network.
Eco School (Foundation for Environmental Education)
SDG 4 – Quality Education
https://www.ecoschools.global/
Solution Description
Eco-Schools is the largest global sustainable schools programme – it starts in the classroom and expands to the community by engaging the next generation in action-based learning. The programme’s greatest achievement is arguably the fact that it produces generation after generation of sustainably minded, environmentally conscious people. These individuals will carry the behavioural patterns they uptake under the auspices of Eco-Schools with them through life, in turn teaching the next generation the habits to make a difference.
Solution Description
LØS market is Denmark’s first packaging-free grocery store. LØS market gives you the opportunity to choose a green purchasing model. Come around the store and shop in a whole new way – that benefits you, your kitchen and the environment! In principle, the concept is the same as selling loose sweets, but instead we sell lovely organic dry produce, fruits, vegetables, wine, olive oil, honey, soap bars etc.