This past summer (2022), the train tracks in Battersea, London caught on fire in a season of record breaking heat for the the U.K. Around the same time, Pakistan experienced devastating flooding that impacted 1 in 7 citizens, while the beds of the Yangtze River were exposed due to drought…

As the last few days of 2022 bring this year to a close, we wanted to pause to look back upon the year and reminisce on some of our milestones as well as some of our plans for the year ahead. Team Throughout the year our full-time team increased to 16…

Sharing our insights into the biggest sustainability challenges facing our built environment. Our previous issues of the UNSUSTAINABLE series have explored cooling, windows, concrete & cement, and the paradox of cities. …

Urban tech passes 100 unicorn milestone, but funding momentum has eased By: Amy Li As the UN’s climate conference COP27 takes place in Sharm El Sheikh, we have released a new report with Dealroom exploring the state of Urban Tech innovation and entrepreneurship. Download the report here. We are on…

As COP27 begins in Egypt, a lot of the discussion will be focused on the current and future impact of climate change on the Global South. The United Nations predicts that by 2050, 68% of the global population will live in cities, adding 2.5 billion inhabitants to urban environments. We…

Earlier this year the World Economic Forum launched a challenge to identify investment funds seeking to impact at least one the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

Blue Frontier raises a $20 million round to address our global cooling problem that is only heating up. By: Christian Hernandez, Alexandra Perez, Margarita Skarkou We sit here writing this coming off of the hottest day on record in the United Kingdom where temperatures hit 40.3C (nearly 105F), wildfires raged…

2150 leads $48M funding round for Nabr in a bid to bring sustainable and affordable home ownership to urban communities at scale. By Jacob Bro and Nicole LeBlanc The golden age of prefabricated construction is already in the past. For all the recent buzz about tech startups finally bringing construction…

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…