Innovation Spotlight

Charles Clowes, research director and co-founder of Precision Plants, explains how the Innovate UK-backed firm is unlocking both environmental benefits and rural revenue streams using climate resilient hemp

Dr Gediminas Mikutis explains how real-world supply chain controversies shaped Haelixa's approach to enabling brands to verify material claims - and how opportunities can lie in sectors where trust is broken

Julian Ellis-Brown, co-founder and CEO of Ponda, explains how climate innovation sits at the intersection of science, policy, and commercial reality, and why progress depends on aligning those forces

Zac Dutzcyn, co-founder of Underheat, explains how the company's technology is striving to deliver home heat pump retrofits without internal disruption

Brian Monaghan, sales director at IndiNature, discusses the firm’s efforts to roll out carbon-negative insulation at scale, and the potential impact of a national retrofit policy

Raft Energy’s Mia Shaw reflects on biogas' underperformance to date and how scale comes from establishing 'patterns'

Sun King founder Anish Thakkar reflects on how a failed biogas project in India fuelled the launch of a solar business that is now serving more than 50 million people in Africa

Jonathan Carrier, CEO and co-founder at Allye Energy, explains why the biggest opportunities for green start ups lie in 'unsexy', infrastructure-heavy sectors

Balena Science founder David Roubach explains why circularity isn’t just about recycling, and the challenges that come with introducing new materials into existing systems

Greyparrot CEO Mikela Druckman reflects on how existing infrastructure isn't keeping up with the amount of waste created