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Desolenator. Desolenator’s solar-powered water purification systems help remote communities produce clean drinking water, without the need for filters, chemicals or external energy sources. This helps them build water resilience in the face of climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic. Trillion Trees Challenge.
For more details, review our privacy policy. The top 10 emerging technologies include self-fertilizing crops, on-demand drug manufacturing, breath-sensing diagnostics and 3D-printed houses. Check the full list of emerging tech.
The world is still figuring out the right technology base for long-duration ESSs, but there are multiple options: flow batteries, non-lithium-ion non-flow batteries, gravity-based ESSs, heat-based ESSs and hydrogen–and a winner, or winners are sure to emerge. In short, the future for how we build cities is charged with potential.
The World Economic Forum's UpLink platform has announced its first cohort of COVID innovators, 15 solutions addressing the immediate and long-term challenges of the COVID crisis. Innovations from 5 continents tackle a range of challenges, from making healthcare and emergency services more accessible, to increasing the inclusivity of the labour ...
The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) asked 1,600 global innovation professionals to rank the 50 most innovative companies in 2021. The top 10 were tech giants, including Apple, Microsoft and Alphabet. The companies were ranked by Global “Mindshare”, Industry Peer Review, Industry Disruption and Value Creation. Tech companies are monopolising ...
The need for renewable energy innovation has never been greater. In its 2023 report, Fostering Effective Energy Transition, the World Economic Forum says that 95% of countries have improved their total Energy Transition Index score over the past decade, but there has been only "marginal growth" in the past three years. Discover.
Innovations that are fighting plastic pollution. Learn more about the eight innovators that are making an impact on the ground to fight plastic pollution: Siklus is reinventing the future of retail in Indonesia by delivering refills of everyday needs to people's doors - without plastic waste. They offer an alternative by replacing low value ...
Cubex Global – This digital marketplace for sea freight can maximize empty shipping container space while simultaneously protecting the planet with a more sustainable approach to ocean transport. Accept our marketing cookies to access this content. – This innovative biotech start-up is developing products like biopackaging from sustainably ...
Nine young climate innovators were chosen to receive support to scale their impact. Around the world, youth prepare to gather at Stockholm+50, focusing on nature and resilience, in the lead up to COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. In preparation for these global summits, it is critical that young people have a shared language and mission, and for ...
Amazon, Microsoft and Tesla make up the top five. The pharmaceutical company Pfizer is ranked as the 10th most innovative company in the world. In 2020, in partnership with the German company BioNTech, it revolutionized vaccine development and production when faced with the challenge of helping to control the worst pandemic in living memory ...