Proposed financial loan and operational development scheme to enable farms to replace unsustainable, intensive monocultural systems of farming with an alley cropping system.

Alley cropping means trees and crops are planted in rows to preserve habitats, prevent soil degradation, and increase crop yield over longer periods of time. 

BeeBank & Brokerage wants to create climate and social impact by ensuring beekeepers have the working capital, contracts, and resources needed for sustainable pollination. Where pollination increases crop yield by up to 200%, the benefits go beyond the promising ‘beeconomics’ for both beekeepers and investors.

Hydronos looks to lower the barriers to entry of hydro power projects, circumvent the lack of capital and investable projects in Sub-Saharan Africa. They proposed a bespoke decentralised financial tool, leveraging blockchain technologies and cryptocurrency.  The Hydronos team are already implementing their vision, and have recently been awarded the rights to tokenise a $2.6 million project in Rwanda and have more lined up. 

REIT-RO have utilised a REIT in order to fund the retrofitting of commercial buildings across London, leading to the reduction of building emissions, which account for 30% of total GHG emissions. In the UK alone, commercial buildings are responsible for 5% of the country’s GHG emissions. 

The Solar REIT proposes a two-pronged approach to solar PV energy in proposing not only a REIT to fund the construction and equitable maintenance of such projects, but the use of the solar field to act as agricultural land in a bid to re-green the Kubuqi Desert in northwestern China.