By Rahul Parekh Cities cover roughly 1% of the earth’s landmass but are home to over 50% of the world’s population and are responsible for 70% of global emissions. As a result, cities are acutely exposed to the impacts and risks of climate change from increasing mean temperatures, to changes…

Announcing new team members across research, operations and investment and our first Venture Partner. Over the past months the 2150 team has continued to grow and we wanted to pause and celebrate the addition of some brilliant mission-aligned minds to the team. …

Sharing our insights into the biggest sustainability challenges facing our built environment. We continue the series by looking at the impact of a seemingly benign topic: windows. In our last issue of the UNSUSTAINABLE series, we talked about the environmental cost of cooling and the urgent need to find sustainable…

How we assess the impact and sustainability performance of companies In venture capital, we invest to bend the curve towards a future we want to see. For 2150, our vision for the future is one where companies, solutions and technologies promote sustainable and prosperous cities while reversing their negative impacts…

Sharing our insights into the biggest sustainability challenges facing our built environment. We begin the series by looking at cooling, the massive problem no one is talking about. The Problem TL;DR fixing the issue of energy efficiency and refrigerants in the hardware that keeps us cool could avoid 460 GtCO2e…

Leko Labs raises $21m led by 2150 to bring their robotic manufacturing approach to sustainable building with wood. By Christian Hernandez and Nayreen Akhtar At 2150 we are constantly searching for solutions to the world’s biggest sustainability problems. Two of the biggest are our global addiction to building our world…

Formally welcoming three new passionate minds to the 2150 mission. When we unveiled 2150 almost one year ago, we had already started assembling an outstanding and diverse team of 7 team members with experience across technology, venture capital, company building and the built environment.

We spend the vast amount of time thinking about the future of our urban environment and the technologies that can help make our cities sustainable to benefit current and future citizens. Over the holiday, the 2150 team picked up a copy of Ben Wilson’s Metropolis to stop and dive back…

By: Christian Jølck and Mikkel Bülow-Lehnsby Thirty-thousand people including heads of state, NGOs, entrepreneurs, the Pope and a Swedish teenager who doesn’t mince her words are all heading to Glasgow this weekend for the long anticipated COP26. 2150 will also be in attendance represented by Christian Jolck and Mikkel Bülow-Lehnsby…