Introducing this year’s 15 Climate Tech Companies to Watch

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The urgency of addressing climate change has never been clearer. Emissions of planet-warming gases are at record highs, as are global temperatures. All that extra heat is endangering people around the world, supercharging threats like heatwaves and wildfires and jeopardizing established food and energy systems. We need to find new ways to generate electricity, move people and goods, produce food, and weather the challenging conditions made worse in a warming world.

The good news is that we already have many of the tools we need to take those actions, and companies are constantly bringing new innovations to the market.?

For the second year in a row, MIT Technology Review reporters and editors chose 15 companies that we think have the best shot at making a difference on climate change. Explore the list in this special edition of What’s Next in Tech.

Meet five of the 15 Climate Tech Companies to Watch

1. LanzaJet: This company wants to cut aviation’s climate impact by rethinking where jet fuel comes from. LanzaJet is making next-generation aviation fuel without fossil fuels. It recently opened the world’s first commercial-scale production facility that turns alcohol into jet fuel and plans to produce up to 9 million gallons each year.
2. Solugen: Many chemicals are made using fossil fuels, so they’re associated with damaging emissions. Solugen wants to overhaul that process. By making chemicals with biological ingredients instead of fossil fuels, the company could slash emissions from the chemical industry. It’s now building a second, larger factory to expand its offerings.
3. Rumin8: Cow burps are one of the greatest sources of greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture. Rumin8 is designing treatments to dramatically reduce the amount of methane cows produce—and to make the animals more productive, too.
4. Gogoro: Electric vehicles can take a long time to charge up, and places to do so can be hard to find. Gogoro’s innovative technology offers a quick and easy way to swap drained batteries for charged ones at a growing number of stations worldwide.?
5. Ceibo: This company seeks to eliminate a major potential speed bump for the clean-energy transition: the looming global copper shortage. The firm’s low-impact extraction technology targets ores that aren’t economical to mine today but could help meet the copper demands of an electrified world.

This year’s list of 15 Climate Tech Companies to Watch also includes businesses working on wildfire detection, energy storage, low-emission cement, green hydrogen, and various renewable energy sources. Read the full list to meet the rest of the companies and learn about their potential for impact.

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