How Start-Up Accelerators Can Drive Climate Action
Channel: eesionline
Date: 2022-07-12

More information at: https://www.eesi.org/071222tech

The Environmental and Energy Study Institute (EESI) invites you to view a briefing on how startup accelerators can transform innovative ideas into deployable, scalable climate change solutions. Ramping up green hydrogen, direct air capture, electric vehicle charging infrastructure, and offshore wind energy can help mitigate climate change, as explored during EESI’s briefing series, Scaling Up Innovation to Drive Down Emissions. But how do we quickly and efficiently scale up these and other innovative climate solutions? 

During this briefing, panelists discussed how accelerators help commercialize early-stage technologies that have the potential to transform the fight against climate change, and steps Congress can take to bolster U.S. private sector momentum to deploy cutting-edge climate solutions in the United States.

This briefing is a bonus session to EESI’s briefing series, Scaling Up Innovation to Drive Down Emissions, that ran through June and focused on the role of innovative technologies and emerging energy sources in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The four-part briefing series covered green hydrogen, direct air capture, electric vehicle charging infrastructure build-out, and offshore wind energy. 

This series ran in parallel with another briefing series, Living with Climate Change, covering polar vortices, sea level rise, wildfires, and extreme heat.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

00:00 - Start
04:13 - Andrew Chang, Managing Director, Activate New York
22:15 - Garrett Boudinot, Activate Fellow; Co-Founder, N3GATIVE CO.
36:19 - Q&A

Topics and Speakers:

Andrew Chang
Managing Director, Activate New York
Download Slides: https://www.eesi.org/files/Andrew_Chang_071222_Slides.pdf
Skip to presentation: https://youtu.be/JQb3eT1N7ws?t=04m13s

Garrett Boudinot
Activate Fellow; Co-Founder, N3GATIVE CO.
Download Slides: https://www.eesi.org/files/Garrett_Boudinot_071222_Slides_.pdf
Skip to presentation: https://youtu.be/JQb3eT1N7ws?t=22m15s