ClimateView: We decarbonize city economies

“We enable cities to understand and monitor their emissions, choose
the best path to net zero and collaborate at scale to implement a
comprehensive transition plan.” Tomer Shalit, Founder and CEO of
the Swedish Company, ClimateView, named by Fast Company as one the
most innovative companies of 2021. What Tomer is describing is
ClimateOs - an extraordinary technology that his company has
created and rolled out in less than 3 years. It is the world’s
first platform to support climate decision-making across the entire
economic matrix of cities. In short: a technology that operates as
a climate action tracker for local governments. Where cities once
took up to 12 months to understand and focus on energy usage and
emission targets, they now take days, if not hours. Why is this
important? Currently, more than half of the global population is
urban - rising to two thirds by 2050. Cities consume 78% of the
world’s primary energy and generate more than 70% of global carbon
emissions, according to the World Economic Forum. There is little
doubt that cities are the frontline in creating and tackling
climate change; representing both the biggest challenge as well as
the greatest opportunity to keep warming well below 2°C. "That’s
why 170 cities are now using it, 51 of them in Germany“, says
Michael Bergöö, the company's Community Director for German
speaking Europe. Sweden has decided to roll it out for the entire
country. Hopefully, ClimateView can persuade Germany to follow
Sweden’s example.