Ecodorp Boekel should win the SDG Award because it has the broadest and highest ambition. Every aspect of the ecovillage is designed to have a positive impact on multiple SDGs and for all SDGs is one or more solution realised. The ecovillage solves all mayor world problems on a local scale and wants to share that knowledge and experience Open Source with the rest of the world. Ecodorp Boekel is part of a Dutch law for sustainable innovative projects and got exemption from the Dutch Building Code to experiment. All four exemptions are now integrated in the latest update of the Dutch Building Code. Ecodorp Boekel has changed a law! The EU, Dutch government and their province invested a total of 4 million euros in the project. When asked, the representative of the province explained why they invested 2,5 million euros: ‘We want all of our citizens in 2050 living in the same way the ecovillagers live as of 2020. We therefor consider Ecodorp Boekel to be our living lab and showroom’. When Ecodorp Boekel applied for a EU grant, the expert commission of the EU put all 24 project that applied that year in order of potential impact and Ecodorp Boekel was number 1! This was mostly because of the innovative heating system that does not produce CO2, is not connected to the grid and with which the heating of the houses does not cost any money, as they save the summer energy in a heat storage system to use it for the rest of the year. The central heat storage system can be used all over the world and is easy to explain as it is very lowtech. The houses and surrounding area are designed to be resilient to all weather extremes. Because of that Ecodorp Boekel was asked to become part of a worldwide research project about making ecovillages resilient to a global climate increase of 2,5°C and more. The houses are even climate positive as they store 808 tons of CO2 in their biobased building materials.

The Value Proposition for our product is the following: 1. Help our customers to decrease their consumption and electricity bills. 2. Help our customers to increase the generation from the solar system. 3. Reduce the maintenance and operation costs for power plants and facilities. 4. Reduce the operation cost for grid operators. 5. Reduce environmental impact.

Employing MDF, Particleboards and similar engineered wood products within the construction and furniture industry does not come without consequences. Firstly, about a third of the wood extracted from natural forests worldwide is used for timber products. Today, timber harvesting is a major driver for deforestation across Europe which has led to adverse impacts on climate change and the environment. Secondly, the type of adhesives used to bind the wood particles and fibers create another challenge when it comes to environmental impacts from use of such products. Particleboards and Medium Density Fiber (MDF) boards are widely used within construction and furniture sectors and are produced using mainly urea formaldehyde (UF) based adhesives. However, UF adhesives are known to produce formaldehyde emissions which is harmful to human health and their production rely primarily on non-renewable resources, thus they are not environmentally friendly, nor biodegradable and can increase the waste production at the end of their usage. Therefore, we need to think more radically with regards to development of more sustainable, material-efficient, and circular products for construction industry which replace products such as particleboards, MDF boards and even plastics. With this fact in mind, Biowerkz addresses the above-mentioned challenges to establish new materials and production techniques that can address the demand for sustainable, high-performance, and affordable materials by utilizing the million tons of organic waste in the form of wood and agricultural waste available as by-products of timber, food and agricultural industries and transform them with the power of fungi mycelium following a circular economy model into biobased and sustainable products with similar or better properties as alternative to MDF and particleboards. Biowerkz will bring many environmental, social and economic benefits throught its core technology and it environmentally friendly products.

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We believe that we share the same values, our startup is eco-friendly that conserves the environment. The pandemic has resulted in increased e-commerce customers’ need for businesses to execute deliveries. Hence, creating new challenges in the delivery business. Due to social distancing, the preference for a delivery system has increased. We noticed that there are logistics challenges of the last-mile delivery issue, knowing that the last mile problem is, while customers want deliveries to be free and fast, it is also the most expensive and time-consuming part of the supply chain process amounting up to 53% of the total cost of shipping. Hence, the deliveries activities become extremely costly which hardly impacts the profitability of any company, startup, or organization aiming to deliver its goods. We are also working on the UN’ SDGs and will contribute to the mitigation of pollution issues. Bako Motors will provide eco-friendly mobility solutions using solar energy, minimizing the footprint on the local environment and hence we are contributing in the building of sustainable cities.

With Carbon Bounty® we are helping decision makers to evaluate the benefits of using IoT solutions in their projects from the economical, environmental and social dimensions to establish the ROI timeframe. The IoT solutions suggested are provided from a catalogue of solutions with an eco-score based on life cycle analysis performed. We have a specific focus on the construction and industrial segments for which the IoT solutions are permitting the largest GHG reductions. In terms of impact, we’ve started working with different actors interested in deploying SmartCity projects and wanting to have a quantitative measurement of the benefits those IoT solutions could bring. At the same time, they also wanted to be in a position where they could communicate on the environmental benefits of such solutions. By analyzing their processes with us, we could compare the scenario with and without IoT and identify the rentability threshold both financially and environmentally.

Libelium should be considered due to its 360 degrees approach to the SDGs. Covering from the employees (SDG08) enabling a stock options programme, sustainability with our products, which cover water, agrifood, and air quality (SDG03, SDG06, SDG13), empowering over 100 cities with Open Source solutions in cooperation with RedHat and FIWARE Foundation (SDG11) – https://red.ht/FIWARE, and the most important reducing barriers to guarantee that any industry or city can access to these technologies, not only as Software which FIWARE covers, but also with hardware/IoT, enabling an end-to-end approach which covers from education (training online, training in developing countries in cooperation with the United Nations as Morocco), and finally with the launching of Libelium One, an eco-designed product with zero impact, compensated emissions and highly reusable. Based on this last product, a special edition of Libelium One, called Libelium Zero, promotes the creation of projects with a high impact in the SDG, where Libelium offers Libelium One at Zero cost. Thereby guaranteeing zero barriers, zero emissions and zero negative impact. At the same time, Libelium as a sustainable company is invested by sustainable funds such as DECELERA (https://decelera.ventures/), AXON Partners (https://www.axonpartnersgroup.com/) and EIT Urban Mobility / European Commission promoting sustainable mobility (https://www.eiturbanmobility.eu/). Finally, Libelium has several certifications in sustainability as RSA+ from Aragon, ISO 14001, Sustainalitycs, Gartner vendor for sustainability in 3 hypercycles, and also other recognitions as the most sustainable solution for Smart Cities and the compensation of all the emissions.

Cities are where two thirds of the global population lives, and where the impact SDG’s will be felt – with clean air, green parks and smart transportation. But coordinating city operations is not easy. Climate strategists have an almost insurmountable job. Every day they do the work the world urgently needs, in the face of dwindling resources. They’re brave. Gutsy. But they don’t need to do it alone. We have made governmental actors succeed by using tech: // SDG17: Climate strategists build the cross-sector partnerships critical for the SDGs (esp targets 17.14 and 17.16), gathering all by – literally – sharing the same visualisation in ClimateOS. Cities (like Helsingborg) now work for mutual goals and publish the plans online with unprecedented transparency, published openly for all citizens to see (and critique!). // SDG13: As a tool for managing the transition, ClimateOS helps cities reduce emissions (esp targets 13.2 and 13.5). By providing costs and co-benefits, cities (like Cincinnati) now not only make decisions about the most impactful resource allocation – but make climate action an attractive business case. // SDG11: With impacts on air quality, health outcomes, and urban sustainability front and centre, (esp target 11.2 and 11.6) ClimateOS creates evidence-based plans to attract the funding needed for the SDG:s. City strategists (like in Heidelberg) have their job under control. Digital climate planning will accelerate the pace needed to reach the SDG’s by 2030 – only 7 years away. The 50 actors on our platform – including the Government of Sweden, Shizuoka (Japan), Cincinnati (U.S) and cities across the UK and Europe – make us optimistic. In our Series A we raised $15m. Awards include: Wired Hottest Startups (2022), Norrsken Foundation – world’s 100 impact startups (2022), Fast Company – World’s most innovative companies (2021). If cities are powered by tech, cities win. And when cities win, we all win.

We believe, that in relevant and truthful real-time data lies the future in environmentally and socially significant planning. We are applying for the SDG awards to push for global consideration and change towards multi-purpose Edge data collection technologies. We have launched projects in various market segments (from smart cities to healthcare and social care and physical therapy) where we base our added value on utilizing Edge sensory data to collect information about moving or static objects. Such data is presented in real-time for alerting purposes (road accidents, wrong way traffic movement, personal falls, incorrect physical therapy movements etc.) or as aggregated data for better planning purposes (trends in green transportation in urban areas, deterioration of roads in developing areas, corelating the effect of vehicles on local pollution etc.) The largest advancement is that we enable data gathering from our own or existing sensory equipment, without generating any significant additional CO2 footprint. There are over 1Billion CCTV cameras in the world that consume huge amounts of energy not only by being powered 24/7 but by the amount of data they create by recording, sending, storing, and later analyzing – reaching into thousands of Petabytes annually. Datacenters today account to up to 3% of global carbon emissions. We have developed the algorithms and sensory equipment that process all the necessary visual data at the Edge and stop transferring huge amounts of video data while providing real-time information from the video source. Our certification proved that our solution is in its lifetime 51-times less CO2 dependent than any regular CCTV cameras out there. By utilizing existing video streams and providing additional data from them it will help to make better, environmentally safer decisions while beginning to use Edge sensors for many different use cases, in multi-purpose fashion, we can begin saving precious CO2 resources in the process as well.