Participant location: Australia

Even the smallest flooding and drought events can affect smallholder farmers who account for over 80% of the world’s food supply. These farmers are often left uncatered for due to poor infrastructure and financial limitations. FarmAid provides AI solutions and advice to help farmers stay one step ahead of extreme weather events that threaten their livelihood, including access to weather reports, photo-based crop analysis, production cycle recommendations and more.

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Participant location: Australia

Preparing food drives can often take weeks or months and can include uncertainty about the number of volunteers and the volume of food needed for a given target area. FoodSpot provides charity organizations with strategic recommendations for how much food is needed and suggestions for where to create food drives in order to reach the maximum number of people based on historical data and predictive analysis, thus achieving the most community impact.

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Participant location: Indonesia

Many companies manufacture products with inefficient materials to cut costs, negatively affecting the environment due to subsequent pollution. Consumers not only consider a company that pollutes and harms the environment to be unethical, but they also expect a proactive and preventative response. In comes Gaia. Gaia is a chrome extension (enhanced by natural language processing) which curates environment news updates of a brand, empowering consumers to make better purchase decisions.

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Participant location: Australia

There is no simple and reliable means to display how businesses operate from an ethical, sustainable, and transparent standpoint. Thus, consumers are unable to easily identify and avoid practices that they may disagree with. Honestly is an online browser extension aimed at passing supply chain transparency to consumers. It acts as an assistant throughout the shopping process, alerting users to any bad press on the brand, displaying relevant ratings compiled from external bodies, and benchmarking supply chain data on the selected product against industry standards.

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Participant location: Australia

Reducing food waste plays a critical component in tackling climate change as the processing and disposal of food consumes resources such as water, land, and energy, and increases carbon dioxide emissions. Plenti is a mobile application that aims to make the inventory tracking and waste measurement process user-friendly and easy to do at home, allowing consumers to keep track of their groceries, reduce their food waste, and reduce their costs.

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Participant location: Malaysia

Malaysian farmers are slow to adopt technology to carry out plantation activities. But digitalization is becoming more crucial to ensure these activities are conducted safely and efficiently. Tex Crop aims to increase crop yield of farmers in Malaysia. By digitizing the maps of plantations, the application allows farmers to recycle their plantation waste, ask for farming services, and view reports of their plantation, thus increasing their income over time.

IBM Watson Assistant IBM Watson Studio

Participant location: Thailand

Finding the right location for a water well to gain access to clean water can be a grueling and very expensive process due to the current lack of available tools and information in the market. Using machine learning and historical data, Well Well predicts good potential locations to drill a well anywhere on Earth. For those with no access to internet or mobile devices, Well Well also offers a cheap portable device that guides users to the nearest ideal place to drill based on GPS data.

IBM Watson Studio

Participant location: Spain

In our tech-driven, app-centric world, new application development means increased greenhouse gas emissions. The Digital Sustainability Audits solution enables cleaner modernization and transformation through automatic sustainability testing, resulting in detailed carbon footprint reports for given code. The solution even allows for sustainability testing of code as it's in development. The result is an eco-conscious application release running on more sustainable infrastructure.

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IBM App ID IBM Cloud Functions IBM Cloudant IBM Code Engine IBM Continuous Delivery

Participant location: Hong Kong, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom

Only the most privileged students globally are able to enjoy the benefits of study abroad and foreign language-acquisition experiences. That's the idea behind Secrets of Venice, an adventure-based language learning game that helps students learn Italian via an immersive, 3D recreation of Venice. The game combines AI with science-based teaching methodology to engage learners and bring the benefits of international study to devices everywhere — while shrinking the carbon footprint and localized damage caused by international travel.

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Participant location: Kenya, Mauritius, United Kingdom

Sustainable global commerce is a challenge that affects producers and consumers everywhere — in both the Global North and Global South. The Bridge is helping combat climate change and improve quality of life for vendors. Sellers can submit a prototype of their product and buyers can view product offerings online, by geography, before making a purchase decision. The Bridge team creates and ships a 3D print of the product to the buyer, eliminating the need to ship directly from the seller's country, thus shrinking the carbon footprint.

IBM Cloud Foundry IBM Watson Assistant

Participant location: France

Almost 10 million tons of waste are dumped into oceans and natural environments every year. Trashtag has designed a decentralized employment model that creates an economic interest in positive ecological action. They incentivize 'Trashtag Warriors' to target polluted areas for cleanup, and incorporate AI validation of 'before' and 'after' photographs of the area to ensure the work was done. Trashtag Warriors earn Jobcoin, a purpose-built cryptocurrency, for each validated ecological action. This interconnected ecosystem combines the growing crypto-financial landscape with employment to help protect natural environments.

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Participant location: China

Farmers in Ninglang County, in China's Yunnan Province, are confronted by the dual issues of Ninglang's remote location and struggling economy. Connecting LUGU, a cloud platform that provides sustainable agricultural solutions to stakeholders, is designed to eliminate the informational asymmetry in the local agricultural economy. The platform features eight key functionalities, including harvest management, crop distribution, and loan and finance, democratizing access to information for farmers, purchasers, and governmental and financial institutions alike. The platform's AI engine helps predict crop selling prices and recommends commercial partners.

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Participant location: China

In China, some 600 million crops are affected every year by extreme weather, and vulnerable farmers bear the brunt of the damages. Demeter facilitates insurance and bank claims for farmers to help address losses. The application provides three main features: 1) the Consulting Service powered by IoT sensors generates recommendations based on real-time environmental conditions; 2) the Automated Assessment Tool powered by sensors, cameras, and meteorological satellites monitors the health of crops and livestock; and 3) the Agricultural Yield Forecast tool helps farmers understand when to plant and what to buy.

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IBM Blockchain Platform IBM Db2 on Cloud IBM IoT Platform IBM Watson Machine Learning IBM Watson Studio

Participant location: China

Community-supported agriculture continues to grow, but consumers face uncertainty around quality, and farmers struggle to reach new markets. Green Farm makes agriculture more sustainable while connecting local producers and consumers. The solution’s VR functionality allows users to view plots of arable land and contract farmers to grow crops. It features a seed marketplace and provides instructions for the entire growing cycle. Once crops have matured, the farmer can ship to the consumer or sell via the app, and the solution ensures traceability and trust throughout via IBM Blockchain.

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Participant location: China

Globally, some 1.3 billion people live in poverty. Poverty Conqueror promotes sustainable economic development by generating actionable plans for developing communities. The solution compiles hyper-local data on characteristics of specific regions, including climate, altitude, topography, soil quality, and precipitation, and generates matches to similar use-cases in China. It provides tailored recommendations for agriculture, livestock breeding, and other basic industries, along with practical development plans for the community. The solution also recommends local financial services institutions, non-profits, and technical support organizations.

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Participant location: China

2.2 billion people worldwide do not have reliable access to safe drinking water. Water Assistant provides real-time information on water quality and availability to users in areas affected by water scarcity. The solution incorporates weather and environmental data to predict availability, and provides recommendations to users on water conservation strategies. It also features an interactive water source map based on data from IoT sensors. The chatbot feature helps provide further details on water availability, quality, depth, and more, in real time.

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Participant location: India

Climate change has revealed how critical water really is as usable water becomes exceedingly harder to find. An alarming 4.2 billion people are left without safely managed sanitation services around the globe, leaving a massive population in need of this foundational resource. An intuitive mobile app powered by an intelligent bot via IBM Watson, BlueSafe gives users quick insights to where they can find clean water, learn about the water quality in their respective location, and request extra supply from local authorities, amongst other capabilities.

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Participant location: India

With an estimated 811 million people going hungry today, it's clear that there is an immense need for action on the topic of zero hunger. DHAAN is an AI based solution that educates farmers on the most advantageous time and place to grow specific crops — and presents this information in the native language of the respective user via IBM Language Translator. In addition, the DHAAN solution traces the transportation of produce through blockchain to prevent waste, inform the buyer, and ensure quality assurance.

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Participant location: India

With climate change disrupting weather patterns, rainfall becomes less predictable — and this is problematic for the millions who rely on water availability. Insights and solutions are needed to drive sustainable water use practices. Leveraging IBM DB2, Ecotopia is an IoT solution on IBM IoT Platform that allows users to compete against one another via a leaderboard with the mission of reducing water consumption and achieving more sustainable water usage.

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Participant location: India

The new normal of remote work has been a significant adjustment for everyone. Many fail to consider the environmental impact that remote work has revealed. The dramatic increase of at-home offices being propped up has meant increased demand to produce devices needed for the workday, which in turn puts stress on the environment that is absorbing increased waste from manufacturers. Project Scavenger is an app that leverages IBM Watson to enable individuals to responsibly dispose of their devices, limiting the amount of waste harming the environment.

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Participant location: India

The increased demand for electronic devices due to the surging number of remote workers has led to an alarming level of e-waste that impacts the environment and therefore contributes to the acceleration of climate change. ReUtilyz leverages IBM Cloud to allow users to evaluate their old electronic equipment, earn reward points for submitting their electronic equipment for recycling, and also use the earned reward points for buying new electronic equipment.

IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service

Participant location: India

Healthy, usable water is becoming harder to come by as much of it is found to be contaminated. It’s paramount that communities are aware of the water quality around them, to ensure it is safe and healthy to consume. Saaf Water is a hardware-software solution that monitors various water quality parameters, allowing for a diverse user base to have the information they need when considering the use of the water that surrounds them.

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Participant location: India

As climate change continues to reveal itself through unpredictable weather events and volatility, it takes a toll on the farmers who rely on any semblance of consistency to efficiently grow crops. To enhance production, SMART-AGRI is a hardware-software solution that uses IBM IoT Platform to inform farmers on their mobile device of the most optimal fertilizer and most advantageous crop to grow for their specific location.

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Participant location: India

Hygienic water is key to the health of people, plants, and animals around the world. Unfortunately, clean water is becoming harder to come by, and more difficult to identify. Leveraging IBM Watson Studio, the WaterMon team has developed an automated method to detect and classify harmful contaminants. Their hardware-software solution identifies for users the contaminant type, volume and growth rate.

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Participant location: India

Farming is impacted by climate change, but agricultural production can also cause environmental harm. In Brazil, where 35 million people don't have access to safe drinking water and agriculture is the largest consumer of water, farmers need to optimize water usage. Taking advantage of The Weather Company APIs, Agrofate is a mobile app built to help small farmers access recommendations and real data on weather and soil conditions for better resource planning and management.

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Participant location: India

With millions hungry in Brazil, the Central Food team sought to address food waste, which can impact the environment and the economy as well as hunger. They found that 30% of food waste in Brazil occurs during the marketing and supply stage. To address this, their app connects food supply center merchants, who can publish available surplus products, with registered NGOs, who can get notifications of newly published foods and arrange for fast delivery or pickup.

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Participant location: Panama, Venezuela

Raw natural materials are being consumed at an unsustainable rate, and the transformation of these resources into non-environmentally friendly products can contribute to pollution as well. Many small businesses don't have easy access to use recycled materials instead. Ecobridge is designed to unite collectors of recyclable material with manufacturers looking for sustainable alternatives to raw materials when creating products. The platform uses AI to classify and rate materials based on their sustainability, giving consumers relevant information to make more informed decisions.

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Participant location: Argentina, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela

Approximately one third of food produced each year is lost. Much of the world's food is grown by small-scale, independent farms, where crop failure caused by irrigation inefficiencies, lack of knowledge, or climate change can have a devastating impact. eGreens is a system designed to produce fast-growing food through the use of hydroponics, IoT technology, and automation. The solution enables individuals to produce their own food, on their own land, with less guesswork.

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Participant location: Chile

Consumers can't easily make informed decisions based on the environmental impacts of the food products they purchase. Pudu offers a new option in the popular diet and nutrition app market, giving users access to data on the environmental impacts of the foods they eat alongside nutritional information. Using IBM Watson, the app allows users to scan a barcode and get fast access to data that can help them make more planet-friendly food choices.

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Participant location: Ecuador

More efficient recycling programs can reduce the waste materials overflowing landfills and harming our planet. Recyminer brings together those who have waste, such as plastic, paper, clothes, or electronics, with those who can make use of those materials. The solution uses several IBM technologies to create a platform and marketplace where waste materials can be shared, mined, purchased, and repurposed to have a second life as raw materials or refurbished products.

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Participant location: Brazil

According to the World Health Organization, 2.2 billion people around the world do not have safely managed drinking water. Analyzing water quality in remote communities can be costly and time consuming, as samples usually have to be taken onsite and transported for testing. Using artificial intelligence to analyze the spectrum of light within a water sample collected by an IoT device, SpecWater aims to make drinking water analysis and alerts more efficient for communities most at risk.

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Participant location: Argentina, Costa Rica

The agriculture industry has a key part to play in global water sustainability. But how can farmers truly understand the impact their practices have on water supplies? The team from YVY has built a cloud solution that allows farmers to measure crop evapotranspiration, calculate their water footprint based on location, crop type, and agroclimatic data, and share that footprint information with consumers through a mobile app to encourage sustainable practices.

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Participant location: Botswana

Dirty water is one of the world's biggest health risks posing problems to communities around the world. The quality of water in dams and rivers varies over time and can be affected by a number of environmental factors including the temperature on a given day. This project, aimed at the waterways in Botswana, includes a real-time dashboard providing insights on the safety of drinking water and toxins that can affect human populations and wildlife.

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Participant location: Turkey

For small farmers, knowing soil details is a crucial part of production. This hardware and software solution for farmers includes an IoT device that can measure soil moisture as well as the composition of minerals and vitamins. This information is fed via 5G to a cloud platform that uses AI to turn this data into real language-based insights that can help farmers make more intelligent decisions. Alerts can also be set to provide notifications when the system detects specific issues.

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Participant location: Tunisia

As the climate changes, meeting future goals around water availability, water quality, and sanitation requires an understanding of the current situation to make the right decisions on the best path forward. This solution continuously provides information about water and sewer networks and even allows workers in remote regions to register issues such as broken pipes so that future projects can be more effectively planned.

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Participant location: Kenya

A big problem in achieving zero hunger is the amount of food that is lost after harvest. In some instances, 100% of food produced goes to waste, especially during bumper harvest seasons. This app addresses that issue by connecting farmers, distributors like drivers, and buyers or consumers. Beyond providing a digital marketplace, the app also lets the final consumer provide feedback on the quality of the produce, which farmers can use to ensure they are meeting user needs.

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Participant location: Canada, United States

What we cook and the food we prepare in our kitchens has a big impact on our collective ecological footprint. This solution, in partnership with La Tablée des Chefs, helps us make better decisions in the kitchen by providing information about the ingredients that go into a recipe, including C02 emissions, water usage, and packaging. Recommendations are provided for substitutions. The app tracks the progress of each chef and gamifies the process of becoming a more sustainable cook.

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Participant location: Canada

A major factor relating to climate change and the economy is the investment that flows to sustainable companies. This app develops an environmental score and ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) performance rating for stocks. With this information, the app helps investors understand how they can build an investment portfolio that maintains their current risk and performance profile yet favors environmentally friendly businesses. The information also helps businesses understand how they can improve their own environmental efforts and attract more green investors.

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Participant location: United States, UAE, India

Many small farmers and food producers struggle to create a sustainable business model to support themselves and their families. This becomes increasingly difficult as climate changes and more risk is introduced into the system. This application uses artificial intelligence to help food producers form cooperatives, forge links with distributors and consumers and receive advice on how to enhance profits by providing tools like price recommendations for produce.

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IBM Cloud Foundry IBM Watson Studio

Participant location: Canada

When we start producing food for our own consumption, an issue we run into is producing more than we can consume which leads to wastage. This is a particular problem for rural communities where access to grocery stores and supermarkets may be limited. This SMS-based application uses computer vision to classify images uploaded by producers and provides a marketplace for excess to crops that can be distributed to neighbors, food banks, shelters, and co-ops.

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Participant location: India, Malawi, United States

As climate change leads to more extreme weather events like floods, this has a greater impact on the property of those at the lower end of the economic income spectrum. This application uses augmented reality (AR) and GIS mapping to help home owners and city planners easily understand important information like flood hazards and risks and the surrounding levels of grey or green infrastructure. All these factors can help determine the resilience and adaptability of the property.

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