By: Jacob Bro
Nobody likes a draft. Not in the living room nor at the office. But it isn’t just people. As we have learned during our ongoing deep dive into building energy efficiency, our planet is the biggest sufferer of air leakages.
To understand why, consider the simple math:
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By: Jacob Bro and Rahul Parekh
In management, the old saying goes that “you can’t manage what you can’t measure.”
This remains true for your organisation, your local government, and it holds true for all the companies in the world that together generate over two thirds of global carbon emissions.
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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…
2150 and Dealroom publish the first annual report looking at Urban Tech, investment trends and opportunity for innovation.
The battle for climate change will be won or lost depending on how well we innovate within our cities and urban environments. Today, cities consume 2/3 of the world’s energy and produce…
Announcing the oversubscribed final close of 2150’s first fund and five initial investments with the potential to mitigate 1.6 gigatonnes of CO2.
It feels like it was just yesterday that we unveiled 2150 and announced our first close of €130 million. Over the subsequent six months, we were fortunate to…
By: Christian Hernandez and Alexandra Perez
Next time you walk past a building site and see a crane in operation… envision hundreds of cars worth of air pollution and hundreds of tons of CO2 emissions. …
By: Christian Hernandez, Rahul Parekh & Alexandra Perez
The world needs to build — bridges, roads, railways, energy infrastructure- and we need to build more efficiently and sustainably. McKinsey estimates that we need to invest $3.5 trillion into infrastructure per year through 2035 to keep up with expected GDP growth…
Our ambition with 2150 is to identify the big problems of our built world and to identify technologies that can help address them. No problem is bigger for our cities -or our planet - than our global addiction to cement and concrete.
By: Jacob Bro
Why investing across the Urban Stack is the biggest lever for creating a sustainable future as well as one of the largest economic opportunities in the world today.
