Climate-KIC

Climate-KIC: a brief introduction

Richard Templer

Climate-KIC

Providing the people, products and leadership to address the challenge of global climate change

A pipeline for climate change innovations

Ideas, know how and capacities

Innovative, entrepreneurial

people

Networked community

Climate-KIC

20 Core partners•5 business•2 ‘RTO’•1 Not-for-profit charity•12 Academic

130 Affiliate partners• > 50% business • local and regional government• academic• NGOs

Our geography

Co-location Centre

Regional Innovation and Implementation Community

Climate-KIC

Our Platforms

Sustainable City Systems

Industrial Symbiosis

The Built Environment

Adaptation Engineering

The Bioeconomy

Adaptation Services

GHG Monitoring and

Verification

Making Transitions Happen

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Some achievements

Adaptation markets

OASIS - open source catastrophe software for insurance companies, driven by Lloyd’s of London and Imperial College London.

• Hazard and vulnerability to climate events

• Open source core with plug & play modules

• Create commercial markets for adaptation technologies

Hazard Model

Vulnerability Model

ExposuresGround-up

Loss Module

Results Viewing Module

Hazard Frequency/ Intensity

Damage Functions

Exposure Data

Policy/Line Data

Ground-up Loss Data

Policies/Lines

Policy/Line Loss Data

Financial Module

Reference Data

core

modules

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Some achievements

Sheltering business growth

Clean technologies have difficulty in finding venture support. We put together the right buyers and sellers to create markets.

• Hybrid solar panel providing electricity and hot water

• Keeping PV at optimal temperature improves electric energy efficiency 40%

• Piloting technology with committed corporate partner

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Some achievements

Creating climate innovators

We have created educational programmes that take postgraduate students and turn them into entrepreneurs.

• theJourney• The creation of student companies• Strongly engaged alumni