All projects and challenges as of 23.05.2022 17:40
11green together
How can the individual reduction of greenhouse gases for a defined track be measured and reported and how can citizens be motivated to adapt their behaviour due to that collected information? The idea is to track and report the reduction of...
12smartmoto
• Lack of ways of tracking and reporting individual greenhouse emissions and lack of motivation of people to change their behavior to reduce their individual emissions. • CO2 and other greenhouse gases are a major cause of global warming...
13energynow
Zurichange
Team 13 – Energy Now
More than 40% of CO2 comes from buildings, to which space heating is the biggest contributor. To tackle the problem, the city of Zurich provides homeowners with several incentives which they can benefit from...
4challenge_accepted
Our daily mobility and eating habits have a huge negative impact on our global and local environment. Even though most citizens are aware of this problem, they have no incentive to change and sometimes even lack information on alternative...
51kg
In swiss media topics like meat consumption, factory farming and alternative lifestyles such as vegatarism or veganism receive a high attention and media coverage. This leads to a very controverse and emotional discussion on e.g. news...
8zurishade
The number of extremely hot days and heat waves have dramatically increased over the last 20 years; climate science tells us this trend will continue. Like much of central Europe, Zurich’s public planning is intended to provide warmth in winter...
9oneteam
- What challenge(s) apply to your project?
Inspire people (mix of challenges)
- Describe the problem and why we should care in 3-5 sentences.
More and more people nowadays face problems related to climate change, environmental pollution...
EnCom
Problems
- Many old heating systems do exist in the swiss markets in private households today.
- Existing technology would allow more efficient consumption of heating energy and thus also lower CO2-Emissions and environmental impact. -...
happyfarmer
- What challenge(s) apply to your project?
Reduce Agricultural Foodwaste in Switzerland.
- Describe the problem and why we should care in 3-5 sentences.
Imperfect vegetables and fruits can not be sold in the typical supermarkets. Most of...
productionlocations
By summing the reported emissions of all companies operating in a single country and comparing that value to the reported emissions of that country, one can see that companies seriously underreport their emissions. To be able to spend in a more...
sodabot
Open source conversational platform for Climathon projects
team1 y7k
Our food choices are responsible for 31% of man-made greenhouse gas emissions. Making better choices about what we eat have the potential to cut these emissions by half. We have access to data and knowledge (zB. eaternity) on how to eat climate...
themosscapeteam5
- What challenge(s) apply to your project?
Tackling urban heat islands and air pollution
- Describe the problem and why we should care in 3-5 sentences.
Climate change, along with increasing urbanization, is the cause of so called urban...
weliketurtles
Almost half of the food waste here in Switzerland is caused by private households. This is around 500kg of food which could have been eaten instead. The impact on our environment needs to be reduced and that’s where our solution comes into...
woctm
Swiss households are responsible for around half of the food waste. People buy too much food and are afraid of food which has passed it’s expiration date, but a lot of this food is still edible.
An app that brings back the lost knowledge of...