{"id":2457614,"date":"2020-04-24T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/2020-keeling-curve-prize-finalists-announced\/"},"modified":"2020-04-24T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T08:00:00","slug":"2020-keeling-curve-prize-finalists-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/2020-keeling-curve-prize-finalists-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"2020 Keeling Curve Prize finalists announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/04\/prizefinalists-atd-042420-1024x814.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"[No paragraph style]\"> Capture &amp; Utilization<\/p>\n<p class=\"[No paragraph style]\"> -Borneo Nature Foundation protects the peat-swamp forests of southern Borneo, some of the largest terrestrial carbon stores on the planet. (Indonesia)<\/p>\n<p class=\"[No paragraph style]\"> -CarbFix captures CO2 and turns it into stone underground in less than two years through proprietary technology. (Iceland)<\/p>\n<p class=\"[No paragraph style]\"> -GHGSat\u2019s technology and satellite platform enable GHG and air-quality gas measurements that are more accurate and cheaper than comparable alternatives. (Canada)<\/p>\n<p class=\"[No paragraph style]\"> -New Leaf Dynamic\u2019s GreenCHILL technology offers rural farmers an off-the-grid refrigeration system powered by farm waste. (India)<\/p>\n<p class=\"[No paragraph style]\"> Energy<\/p>\n<p class=\"[No paragraph style]\"> -CLIMATENZA aims to cut carbon emissions from the industrial sector in emerging economies by implementing next-generation solar thermal technology. (India)<\/p>\n<p class=\"[No paragraph style]\"> -Jaza Energy replaces fossil fuels with clean energy in remote African communities. (Canada and Tanzania)<\/p>\n<p class=\"[No paragraph style]\"> -Oorja Development Solutions deploys community solar irrigation pumps for farmers in rural India. (India)<\/p>\n<p class=\"[No paragraph style]\"> -SkyCool Systems\u2019 radiative sky cooling panel improves the efficiency of air conditioning and refrigeration systems. (Mountain View, Calif.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"[No paragraph style]\"> Finance<\/p>\n<p class=\"[No paragraph style]\"> -Aligned Climate Capital accelerates private capital flows into sustainable real assets including clean energy, efficient transportation, green real estate, and sustainable natural resources. (New York)<\/p>\n<p class=\"[No paragraph style]\"> -Nori\u2019s carbon-removal marketplace makes it easier for people to get paid for pulling excess carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere (Seattle, Wash.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"[No paragraph style]\"> -Odyssey Energy Solutions facilitates financing and development of off-grid distributed energy projects that address rural energy poverty in developing countries. (Boulder, Colo.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"[No paragraph style]\"> -The Generation Forest cooperative enables finance and climate action to work together through impact investment for retail investors. (Germany)<\/p>\n<p class=\"[No paragraph style]\"> Transport &amp; Mobility<\/p>\n<p class=\"[No paragraph style]\"> -Auto-Truck E.A. Ltd. has developed an electric-powered three-wheeler minicab for use in African cities and large towns. (Kenya)<\/p>\n<p class=\"[No paragraph style]\"> -Bridges to Prosperity provides economic mobility to rural communities in developing countries while reducing the need for vehicle infrastructure by building pedestrian footbridges for \u2018last mile\u2019 connections. (Denver, Colo.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"[No paragraph style]\"> -EH Group Engineering has developed a new kind of low-temperature fuel cell that enables compact, lightweight, cheap, and highly efficient energy generators with minimal emissions. (Switzerland)<\/p>\n<p class=\"[No paragraph style]\"> -EVmatch aims to revolutionize electric vehicle (EV) charging through a peer-to-peer charging network. (Santa Barbara, Calif.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"[No paragraph style]\"> Social &amp; Cultural Pathways<\/p>\n<p class=\"[No paragraph style]\"> -Citizens\u2019 Climate is focused on the advancement of bipartisan climate change mitigation policies, such as national dividend and carbon fee policies. (Coronado, Calif.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"[No paragraph style]\"> -The Climate Museum inspires climate action with programming across the arts and sciences that deepens understanding, builds connections, and advances just solutions. (New York)<\/p>\n<p class=\"[No paragraph style]\"> -Dear Tomorrow is a global climate storytelling project where people write messages to people they love living in the future. (Tysons, Va.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"[No paragraph style]\"> -Feedback is an evidence-based environmental campaign charity working to regenerate nature by transforming the food system. (United Kingdom)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/local\/2020-keeling-curve-prize-finalists-announced\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Capture &amp; Utilization -Borneo Nature Foundation protects the peat-swamp forests of southern Borneo, some of the largest terrestrial carbon stores on the planet. (Indonesia) -CarbFix captures CO2 and turns it into stone underground in less than two years through proprietary technology. (Iceland) -GHGSat\u2019s technology and satellite platform enable GHG and air-quality gas measurements that are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2457614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-17 23:48:31","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2457614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2457614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2457614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2457614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2457614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2457614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}