By Peter Hirsch, Head of Sustainability The average person on earth lives in a city. Currently 4.2 billion people live in urban areas, representing roughly 55 per cent of the global population. By 2050, this number will increase by almost 2.5 billion people and represent 68 per cent of the…

Sharing our insights into the biggest sustainability challenges facing our built environment. Our previous issues of the UNSUSTAINABLE series have focused on the often overlooked, but massive issues within cooling and windows. With today’s post, we explore the very foundations of the built environment: concrete and cement. The Problem After…

2150 hosts its annual investor meeting bringing together our ecosystem of mission-aligned investors, founders and thought leaders, all seeking to tackle sustainability challenges of the built world. Copenhagen, Denmark June 1st, 2022 Today, dozens of folks took a boat in the Copenhagen harbour headed towards a 300 year old fort…

2150 leads NatureMetrics $15m Series A to accelerate growth of DNA-based biodiversity mapping to advance our global mapping and action By: Margarita Skarkou and Christian Jølck At 2150, we believe that understanding how humans are affecting nature is a key driver to solving the climate crisis. Our planet has experienced…

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…