COP26, Future Planet and Terra Carta

Future Planet's Climate Change Showcase #COP26 🌍🚨 We are delighted that at the COP26 - UN Climate Change Conference, we were able to showcase some of the most impactful climate change linked companies, where we introduced them to His Royal Highness, The Prince of Wales.

While our companies were showcased at Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum, the #terracartaseal, a new sustainability award spearheaded by Prince Charles’ The Sustainable Markets Initiative, was unveiled among many industry leaders.

We would like to thank all the companies who joined us, and to everyone who played a part in bringing together such a fantastic reception, showcasing potential solutions, starting interesting discussions and leveraging private market resources to tackle #climatechange. 🌍

We were honoured to showcase 7 fantastic companies at The Sustainable Markets Initiative reception, and have the privilege to present these to HRH Prince Charles.

Vector Photonics - CSEL-based, semiconductor laser technology promises a major uplift in efficiency that would reduce the power consumption of data centres by 20-30%. They currently consume close to 10% of the world’s total power, meaning their applications could be key addressing global power usage and climate change.

PragmatIC - Ultra-low-cost flexible semiconductors thinner than a human hair, enabling IoT in trillions of low cost objects. Making these chips uses 100x less water, 100x less energy and have 1000x lower CO2 equivalent global warming impact. Enables more efficient supply chains in healthcare, a key source of waste and CO2, and enabling smart recycling for major tyre manufacturers and the 1.5Bn daily plastic bottles purchased each day.

Tokamak Energy Ltd - Pioneering commercial fusion energy: clean, economic and globally deployable. Global Energy demand will increase by 50% in 2030 and existing technologies have significant issues in cost, reliability and emissions. Fusion powers the sun, and if harnessed will provide a limitless source of clean, stable energy for the world, without waste products.

Nutri-San - A bio-technology company specialising in safe, sustainable, solutions for the animal feed and livestock farming industries. Methane emissions from cattle farming has 80x the global warming effect of CO2 over 20 years, and causes around 6% of global warming. Introducing just 1-2% seaweed to cattle feed can reduce these emissions by up to 90%.

Fera Science Ltd. - A socially responsible, responsive and market-led scientific expert services organisation with over 100 years’ of experience and leading research and development capabilities across agri-food science, with its “Forward Thinking for the Whole Food System” science strategy. Applies Original Thinking to support sustainable global food production, land management and the environment, and address the most key UNSDGs.

Solar Water Plc - Solving one of the world’s most pressing problems, sustainable and affordable access to fresh water, using technology to provide limitless supplies of fresh solar water in a carbon neutral, planet-friendly and cost effective manner. Its Concentrated Solar Power Desalination systems sustainably and affordably create freshwater from seawater on an industrial scale, with a carbon-neutral, zero greenhouse gas, planet-friendly and cost-effective solution.

Roslin Technologies - A biotech company pioneering sustainable solutions to support the food and agriculture sectors. Its mission is to advance disruptive innovations to improve how we produce proteins to feed the world’s increasing population. Its primary focus is on animal stem cells – and their huge potential as ingredients for supporting the global cultivated meat market.