#12 Technology to fight & cope with Climate Change with Manuella Cunha Brito

Last Week on Earth with GARI

With guest is Manuella Cunha Brito, co-founder of Good Tech Lab and now Climatescape, joining us from France to chat about using technology to fight climate change, how to incentivize businesses and startups to be sustainable as well as challenges in turning research into real impact.

Topics: Technology, Climate change, Impact investment, Sustainable startups, Decarbonisation, Carbon removal, Biochar - pyrolysis of biomass, Climate adaptation

• What are the technologies that are actually relevant for a low carbon future?
• Probability of climate action failure versus what the impact of that failure would be
• How to incentivise startups to be sustainable?: Actually, you have more chances at succeeding because they have a better chance at being relevant, it’s not so compromising and actually not more costly. You don’t need to compromise on financial returns to get a positive impact.
• Where is the balance between negative challenges around using technology and promoting that use and the positive opportunities of using and promoting technology? - in light of the deepening and many times misleading or misinformed narrative and conversation around technology
• Who is usually the most uncooperative actor in tech global governance?

Insight:

Limit of 2 degrees celsius in temperature is still very warm - it already means a lot of suffering for many people, extreme weather and other changes. We emit today about 51 giga tons of greenhouse gas emissions every year and we need to get to 0 by 2050. At the same time, improving the standard of living for millions of people around the globe will not be a small challenge.

Helping investors to better understand how to use their economic resources to support innovation that matters and has a positive impact on the planet.

Climatescape - creating a data powered market intelligence platform that will support people in making better decision in how they support startups in the climate tech space

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