Website: www.theliveabilitychallenge.org
Application Period: 14 January - 30 April 2020, 11:59PM (GMT+8)
By 2050, 2.5 billion more people will live in cities, demanding more food, products, and services than ever before, even while we face growing challenges related to resource scarcity and climate change. This is why The Liveability Challenge is back in 2020. In this third edition, we're looking for groundbreaking, deep tech solutions in three key areas—Urban Food Production, Circular Packaging, and Decarbonisation.
If your solution is at Technology Readiness Level 6 and suitable for tropical urban cities, submit your idea and you could win the opportunity to pitch to Asia's top investors at The Liveability Challenge Grand Finale on July 8th at Marina Bay Sands. The best solutions could win up to S$1 million in funding and other exclusive opportunities at the finale, which will be held during Ecosperity Week in Singapore.
Presenter: Temasek Foundation
Organiser: Eco-Business
Convenor: Closed Loop Partners
In partnership with: Ecosperity Week Singapore
WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR SOLUTIONS IN:
URBAN FOOD PRODUCTION
Urban farming represents an opportunity to improve food security in cities and minimise agriculture-related emissions —but still consumes a large number of resources today. We're looking for technological solutions that will deliver a breakthrough in sustainable urban food production.
Submitted solutions should:
• Produce novel food or alternative proteins
• Considerably improve the nutritional quality of food over current methods of production
• Enable certain species of crops/livestock to be farmed in cities for the first time
• Reduce resource and input requirements (eg energy, water land use) for production
• Significantly increase productivity for food/nutrition production
• Result in minimal waste output and/or demonstrate circular use of waste materials
• Be scaleable
CIRCULAR PACKAGING
We're looking for innovative packaging solutions to replace or reduce packaging waste made from plastic, glass, virgin/hard-to-recycle paper, or aluminum. These solutions should be useful in the retail, fashion, beauty, logistics, and food & beverage industries.
Submitted solutions should:
• Drastically reduce the resources that go into packaging
• Enable manufacturers/producers to do away with packaging altogether
• Equal the performance of conventional, unsustainable packaging and be cost-competitive
• Be closed-loop: Either compostable, recyclable or biodegradable
• Make use of renewable feedstock. The solution should consider the availability and sustainability of feedstock
DECARBONISATION
We’re looking for solutions that will enable cities to capture and use carbon in a productive, sustainable way. Key considerations include how long CO2 captured can be sequestered and kept out of the air. We’re also searching for game-changing, disruptive new solutions to decarbonise traditional sectors and processes in industries such as logistics, mobility and more.
Submitted solutions should:
• Enable the large-scale capture of atmospheric CO2
• Effectively capture, store or convert CO2 using little energy and space
• Turn captured CO2 into a viable product stream
• Be carbon negative in the overall life cycle
• Take a systems approach to carbon capture and storage/utilisation
• Demonstrate demand for outputs produced
• Drastically reduce the carbon emissions produced by industries or sectors
•Be commercially viable and scaleable