Springwise Intelligence

13/10/2025

🏗️NEW REPORT: How can we build a net-zero world?

Our latest Springwise Trend Report dives into the technologies and strategies reshaping the infrastructure that keeps our world moving.

From smarter EV charging and AI-driven supply chains to self-healing concrete and decarbonised shipping, innovators are tackling the climate challenge across every layer of our built environment. 🌍

Featuring:

- an overview of the key policy and technology trends shaping our path to net zero
- exclusive insights from Antony Froggatt (Senior Director of T&E)
- 14 curated innovation case studies across transport, buildings, and supply chains

With global transport and construction activity set to soar in the coming decades, understanding these trends is essential for anyone involved in building, operating, or investing in infrastructure.

Get a taster of what's inside this member-exclusive report:

https://springwise.com/sustainable-infrastructure/discover-the-solutions-cleaning-up-key-infrastructure/

The latest Springwise Trend Report explores how innovators across the world are reimagining infrastructure to meet the demands of a rapidly expanding world, while keeping emissions in check.

10/10/2025

🌍 Free Webinar: The Climate–Health Nexus 🧠💚

How innovators are developing solutions at the intersection of human and planetary health

🗓️ Date & Time: 22 October 2025 | 16:00–17:00 BST

Climate change is no longer just an environmental issue – it’s a health issue. Rising temperatures, extreme weather and ecosystem disruption are increasing risks such as heat stress, air pollution, and the spread of infectious diseases. Meanwhile, healthcare systems face the dual challenge of decarbonising and adapting to new realities.

In our next webinar, we'll explore how innovators are tackling these interconnected challenges, driving resilience and wellbeing in a warming world.

Key discussion points:

✅ What are the health risks of climate change?
✅ How can businesses protect workers from extreme heat?
✅ How can we forecast climate-sensitive diseases?

👉 https://springwise.com/healthy-society/the-climate-health-nexus-how-innovators-are-developing-solutions-at-the-intersection-of-human-and-planetary-health/

What tools can help us tackle the health implications of climate change?

24/09/2025

🌿 Discover the solutions helping businesses boost nature 🌿

As nature reporting rises up the corporate agenda, businesses are under pressure to understand and act on their impact.

Our latest member-exclusive Springwise Trend Report explores how innovators are using AI, data, and ecosystem restoration tools to make biodiversity insights scalable, actionable, and impactful.

Inside, you'll find:

✅ A strategic overview of nature-tech innovation
✅ 12 vetted innovation snapshots across biodiversity, urban greening, and restoration
✅ Expert perspectives from Sara King (Rewilding Britain), Eva Zabey (Business for Nature), and Lucy Almond (Nature4Climate)

Business awareness of nature’s role in sustainability is growing, and this shift is reflected in the latest Springwise trend report, which explores innovations that position nature as both a compliance challenge and a climate solution.

23/09/2025

🚗✨ How UNCAGED Innovations, JLR, and InMotion Ventures are reimagining sustainable luxury

Leather has long been a staple of car interiors, but its environmental footprint is far from sustainable. Now, a pioneering partnership between Uncaged, JLR, and InMotion Ventures is proving how next-gen biomaterials can help redefine luxury for a circular future.

In our latest member-exclusive implementation case study, we go behind the scenes of this collaboration. Take a look at our conversation with:

🔹 Stephanie Downs (CEO and co-founder of Uncaged Innovations)

🔹 Mike Smeed (Managing Director at InMotion Ventures)

🔹 Carol Hopkins (Director of Materiality at JLR)

👉 Available now for Springwise Members:

What can we learn from this startup-corporate partnership that's redefining luxury car interiors?

23/09/2025

🎙️The Springwise podcast has LANDED!🌍

Introducing Future Now, our brand-new podcast that takes you inside the dynamic world of climate innovation. Hosted by Springwise editors Matilda Cox and Matthew Hempstead, every month we'll be exploring the ideas, people, and organisations transforming shaping a better future for people and our planet.

At this pivotal halfway point to 2050, episode 1 brings together voices from three pillars of sustainable innovation:

✨ Amy Tsang (The Mills Fabrica) – on backing breakthrough climate tech

✨ Solveiga Pakštaitė (Mimica) – on tackling food waste with smart packaging

✨ Becky Gordon (Interface) – on scaling corporate sustainability with carbon-negative solutions

🎧 Listen now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, or Soundcloud – and subscribe so you never miss an episode!

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What do carbon-negative carpet tiles, temperature-activated food labels and a repurposed Victorian warehouse all have in common? The inaugural episode of Future Now sees Springwise’s editorial duo Matilda and Matt joined by three special guests – all on a mission to accelerate climate innovation...

11/09/2025

🔔FREE WEBINAR🔔

🌆 Can our cities become climate solutions?

Urban infrastructure is no longer just concrete and steel – it’s becoming a driver of decarbonisation, resilience, and biodiversity. From low-carbon building materials to energy-positive systems, and green spaces, innovators are reimagining the built environment.

Join our free webinar to explore how infrastructure can actively contribute to climate goals, with insights from pioneering startups and experts.

🗓️ 24 Sept 2025 | 16:00–17:00 BST
👉 Register now to secure your place!

How can urban infrastructure be leverages as a climate solution?

16/08/2025

🐝 🌿 Free Webinar: How can businesses talk about nature without greenwashing?

Business reporting on nature is no longer optional. Since the TNFD released its final framework in Sept 2023, transparency is accelerating – with the EU’s CSRD set to push it even further.

But with scrutiny of environmental claims on the rise, companies face a new balancing act: avoiding both ‘nature-washing’ and ‘nature-hushing’. The answer? Robust, credible data.

📅 Date: 20 August 2025

🕓 Time: 16:00–17:00 BST

💻 Location: Online – Free to attend

Join us for an hour of insights from three nature tech pioneers transforming how biodiversity data is collected and used by businesses. Expect practical examples, honest discussion of challenges, and a Q&A where you can put your questions directly to the experts.

We’ll cover:

🌱 How innovators are enabling better nature reporting
⚠️ The biggest hurdles for corporates and data providers
🌍 Where nature-based tech can deliver real-world impact

🔗 Reserve your free place now → https://springwise.com/diverse-nature/nature-hushing-v-nature-washing-how-can-innovators-deliver-robust-nature-related-transparency/

14/08/2025

🚀 New Member-Exclusive Report: Responsible Connectivity

AI is dominating headlines – but some of the most important innovations are happening behind the scenes. Our latest Springwise trend report goes beyond the hype to uncover the solutions making AI more explainable, sustainable, secure, and privacy-compatible.

From university spin-outs like digiLab and Literal Labs to European startups building sustainable cloud infrastructure, we explore the technologies and policies shaping AI’s responsible future. You’ll also get exclusive insights from digiLab's James Price and AI4ALL's Tess Gilman Posner on how to bridge innovation with ethics.

Why read this report?

✅ See how innovators are embedding sustainability, explainability, and inclusiveness into AI
✅ Understand the geopolitical push for AI sovereignty – and what it means for your organisation
✅ Identify partners, technologies, and trends you can act on today
✅ Gain a strategic overview of policy, funding, and tech shifts

Inside you’ll find:

🔹 10 vetted innovation snapshots
🔹 The key trends influencing responsible AI deployment
🔹 Real-world applications improving efficiency, security, and inclusiveness

Springwise members can dive into the full report today ➜ https://springwise.com/responsible-connectivity/discover-the-solutions-helping-businesses-implement-ai-responsibly/

From next-generation chips to 'machine unlearning' our latest Springwise Trend Report explores 10 innovations tackling some of the challenges of AI — with insights for strategy and innovation leaders, as well as anyone intersted in the AI explosion

13/08/2025

🔔 New report! 🔔
The “cooling paradox” is heating up – and the answer might be billions of years old.🔥

Air conditioning already generates three per cent of global emissions – and demand is set to triple by 2050. We’re stuck in a loop: the hotter it gets, the more cooling we need – and the more emissions we produce. But what if the solution has been hiding in plain sight… for billions of years?

Enter radiative cooling – a breakthrough material technology that can cool surfaces without using any energy. Inspired by a natural process that’s been at work since Earth formed, it has the potential to disrupt construction, transport, agriculture, textiles, and energy.

💡 Take a look at our latest Technology Briefing for a deep dive into this breakthrough solution – featuring insights from:

- Sandra Go, CEO and co-founder of Emissiv
- Andreas Kafizas, Associate Professor at Imperial College London
- Oliver Higbee, Head of Application Engineering at AssetCool

🔗 Members can read the full briefing here: https://springwise.com/springwise-reports/how-can-we-adapt-to-and-mitigate-climate-change-with-radiative-cooling/

This year is shaping up to be one of the hottest years on record, following the extreme heat of 2024. Heatwaves are intensifying globally, with serious health impacts. And as temperatures rise, so does our reliance on energy-intensive air conditioning, which already contributes around 3% of global g...