End-to-end platform development for climate solutions

If you’re a developer and wondering how your work can help tackle climate change, here’s something that should be on your radar: GitHub’s Climate Action Plan for Developers (https://lnkd.in/df2wKqau / Paull Young). It’s not just another open source initiative—it’s a call to action, a structured launchpad designed to help developers like us take tangible steps toward a greener, more sustainable future. The plan brings together over 60,000 climate-focused and green software repositories, connecting us to real tools and real projects that matter in the race to net-zero emissions. The idea is simple: as developers, our code consumes energy. From cloud functions to machine learning training pipelines, our digital footprint has a real-world carbon cost. And that means we’re in a unique position—not only to reduce the impact of our own work, but to contribute meaningfully to tools and platforms that help the world decarbonize. GitHub has curated an entire ecosystem of open-source climate solutions so we don’t have to start from scratch. It includes everything from emissions trackers and energy-efficient algorithms to real-time grid monitoring tools and climate data visualizers. One standout tool is CodeCarbon (Dr. Sasha Luccioni), an open-source Python package that integrates directly into your code and tracks its carbon emissions based on real-time electricity grid data. It considers your hardware usage, estimates energy consumption, and converts that into CO2 equivalents. Combine that with the API from Electricity Maps, and you can actually align your compute tasks with cleaner energy on the grid, thanks to its flow-tracing technology and ML-based forecasting. Together, they make emissions visibility a default feature of your development workflow. If you’re looking to contribute to climate tech projects but aren’t sure where to begin, ClimateTriage (https://climatetriage.com/ / Richard Littauer) is another brilliant resource. It lists active open source climate projects from OpenSustain.tech that are looking for contributors, especially those labeled with help wanted and good first issue. It’s perfect for getting involved, whether you’re a beginner, a scientist, or just someone who wants to apply their skills to the climate crisis. This is about more than making your code efficient. It’s about joining a growing movement of people who are using tech to solve the planet’s biggest problems. It’s time we start treating green software not as an afterthought, but as the new standard. Explore the plan, pick a project, and measure your impact. This is where real change starts.

Opportunity: Value Chain Decarbonization through B2B Commerce As global pressures mount on businesses to reduce their carbon emissions across Scope 1 (direct emissions), Scope 2 (indirect emissions from purchased energy), and Scope 3 (all other indirect emissions in the value chain), there is a growing demand not only for carbon footprint visibility but for actionable steps toward decarbonization. This challenge presents a significant opportunity for B2B commerce platforms to play a pivotal role. Consider a large multinational corporation in the manufacturing industry. This company is facing intense scrutiny from its investors, regulatory bodies, and environmentally-conscious customers to reduce its carbon footprint. The corporation is aware of its emissions but struggles with the practical steps needed to achieve significant reductions, particularly in its supply chain (Scope 3 emissions). The company could benefit immensely from a B2B digital platform designed to support decarbonization across its value chain. Such a platform could offer the following: Green Energy Procurement: The platform allows the corporation to source renewable energy directly from suppliers. For example, they could purchase solar energy credits or enter into agreements with wind farms, ensuring that a significant portion of their energy consumption is derived from sustainable sources. Sustainable Material Sourcing: The platform provides access to suppliers offering sustainable materials such as recycled steel, biodegradable plastics, or sustainably sourced wood. This feature enables the corporation to reduce the carbon footprint associated with the raw materials they use. Real-time Monitoring and Reporting: Integrated tools within the platform allow the corporation to monitor the carbon emissions associated with its production processes in real-time. For instance, sensors and IoT devices track energy consumption and emissions, feeding data back to the platform, where it is analyzed and presented in an actionable format. Waste and Water Management Solutions: The platform connects the corporation with vendors specializing in waste reduction, recycling, and efficient water management. For example, a vendor offering industrial water recycling technology could help the corporation reduce its water usage and lower associated emissions. Compliance and Certification: As the corporation engages with various sustainable practices through the platform, it can automatically generate compliance reports and obtain certifications from recognized bodies, simplifying the audit process and ensuring transparency with stakeholders. #GreenEnergy #EnvironmentTech #ClimateTech #SolarTech #B2BCommerce #Decarbonization #VentureCapital #KalaariCapital Image Source Credit : Net0

❤️ Stories like this one are why we started Earthmover. Read our latest case study with Eoliann (link in comments), an Italian startup providing physical climate risk forecasts to Europe's largest infrastructure operators. Our platform gave Eoliann the foundation they needed to store, manage, and query high-resolution hazard projections over multiple climate scenarios. By moving from a file-based solution to Analysis-Ready, Cloud-Optimized (ARCO) data cubes, they simplified their infrastructure and massively sped up their time to market. Key features of the Earthmover platform for this use case include: ⭐ High-performance tensor-based data model for representing data as N-dimensional arrays, perfect for climate risk modeling. ⭐ ACID transactions and data versioning, critical for operating in a regulated, audit-trail-required environment. ⭐ Integrated APIs like OGC EDR and OGC tiles, making it simple to built interactive dashboards on top of your data. ⭐ White-glove support from a team with deep domain expertise in weather, climate, and Earth Observation. Collaborating with other mission-driven startups like Eoliann to help solve real-world climate adaptation challenges is literally why we started this company. Reach out if you want to learn more about the ARCO approach for your climate risk data....

I'm incredibly excited to finally share publicly the output of months of hard work from our entire team at Patch. We’ve been thinking deeply about what it will really take to unlock the potential of the voluntary carbon market. We know that there are billions of dollars on the sidelines, and when we talk to carbon credit buyers, we’re hearing the same three challenges: 1. Fragmentation in the market is making it way too difficult to find the right credits at a fair price. Fundamentally, this is fragmentation of data: how many credits are available for a project? What are the overall pricing trends among all suppliers of that credit or type? 2. And then there’s the fragmentation of MRV data, project data, integrity data, ratings data, etc. This makes it incredibly expensive to diligence any single project — let alone a portfolio — in a reasonable period of time. The stakes are high. Funding the wrong project can damage your sustainability program. Taking too long means you can miss out on fast-moving inventory. 3. Lastly, the entire buyer journey is profoundly inefficient. Sourcing, diligence, procurement — these are resource-intensive workflows, heavily reliant on expertise and collaboration among internal and external parties. They don’t just incrementally increase the costs of a carbon program — they can fundamentally break it. This is what our customers are telling us — Workday, Autodesk, Bain & Company, Capgemini, Deutsche Telekom, and many more. That’s why I’m so proud to launch our all-new end-to-end carbon credit platform — we’re helping them solve these big challenges. From strategy to sourcing to diligence to purchase to management, Patch brings in comprehensive data, human expertise, and AI-powered software at every key decision point and workflow of your carbon program. I wrote a blog taking you behind the new platform and explaining our choices. Link is in the comments below.

"I like the format of what we're doing here. I really like the structure of how your system ingests the data and then how it produces it, makes it pretty simple. Taking something that normally takes $150,000 of consulting time to a fraction of that." A customer said that quote verbatim at the end of our kickoff call last week. This quote captures exactly why we built Beehive. $150,000 for climate risk consulting. Three months of waiting. Dozens of meetings. Hundreds of pages nobody reads. We just replaced that with a one-hour call and instant results in a visual, interactive app. The old way: Upload your data to consultants. Wait while they build custom models. Pay six figures. Get a PDF. The Beehive way: Upload your data to our platform. See your climate risks mapped instantly. Get AI-drafted reports in minutes. Spend your time deciding what to do about the risks and sharing them with executives, not waiting to discover them. This customer saw their wildfire, cyclone, heat wave, and flood exposure across over 3,000 locations before the kickoff call ended. The same analysis would have taken a big 4 consultant 4 months. The best part? They're not paying us $150,000. Not even close. Because software should make expertise accessible, not expensive. Climate intelligence should be instant, not every third year. When customers tell us we're saving them six figures and months of time, we know we're building the right thing. The consulting firms charging $150,000 for what software does in an hour? Their business model has an expiration date. And it's coming fast.