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Inspiring environmental inventions

Patents against climate change 

Every year, the impact of climate change on our planet is more tangible, making any mitigating or adaptive action increasingly urgent. Innovation is essential to finding solutions that safeguard our planet for future generations. Meet the inventors behind some groundbreaking technologies for mitigating the effects of climate change. 

Pia Bergström, Annika Malm, Jukka Myllyoja, Jukka-Pekka Pasanen and Blanka Toukoniitty

Pia Bergström and team

Converting waste and residues into high-quality renewable solutions​  

Learn how this team of inventors from the Finnish company Neste helped develop a unique technology that enables a wide variety of wastes and residues to be transformed into premium-quality renewable products, such as fuel. 

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Albin Chaise and team

A safe and sustainable way to store hydrogen​

Find out how this team of scientists combined their expertise and interests to develop a method to store hydrogen more safely and sustainably with less energy. 

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Patricia de Rango, Daniel Fruchart, Albin Chaise, Michel Jehan and Nataliya Skryabina

 

Richard Turere

Richard Turere

Affordable light system to save both livestock and predators 

Richard Turere has developed Lion Lights, an automated system to deter lions from attacking livestock in enclosures. Discover how his invention prevents human-wildlife conflict and is helping to boost the lion population in Kenya. 

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Claude Grison

Decontaminating polluted soils with metal-eating plants 

Not only has researcher Claude Grison developed a method of using plants to extract metal elements from polluted soil. These elements can then be used as "ecocatalysts" to make new molecules for the chemical, pharmaceutical and cosmetics industries. 

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Claude Grison

 

Victor Dewulf (left) and Peter Hedley

Victor Dewulf and Peter Hedley

AI-driven waste management

Victor Dewulf and Peter Hedley have developed an AI-driven waste recognition and sorting system that can be used to quickly and accurately sort waste, ensuring that more of it is recycled. 

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Donald Sadoway

Liquid metal batteries for storing renewable energy 

Chemist Donald Sadoway has developed a liquid metal battery for storing solar and wind energy. Comprised of locally sourced raw materials, his battery provides a cost-effective long-term storage solution. 

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Donald Sadoway

 

Fionn Ferreira

Fionn Ferreira

Removing microplastics from water

Environmentalist Fionn Ferreira is tackling microplastics pollution with his magnet-based method, which extracts microplastics from water quickly, safely and without harm. 

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Jaan Leis, Mati Arulepp and Anti Perkson

Superior carbon-based materials for ultracapacitors

This Estonian team of scientists has optimised a material called curved graphene that can be used as an electrode to deliver quick-charging, longer lasting and more powerful ultracapacitors for industry. 

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Jaan Leis, Anti Perkson and Mati Arulepp (from left to right)

 

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Johan Martens, Tom Bosserez and Jan Rongé

Green hydrogen from sunlight and air

Johan Martens, Tom Bosserez and Jan Rongé have invented a solar panel that produces clean hydrogen gas from sunlight and ambient moisture, potentially providing an alternative source of green energy for buildings around the world. 

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Rafaella de Bona Gonçalves

Biodegradable pads and tampons to combat period poverty

To tackle widespread period poverty, Rafaella de Bona Gonçalves has developed biodegradable sanitary products for disadvantaged groups in her country using readily available harvest waste. 

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Rafaella de Bona Gonçalves