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Sustainable shipping fuels: HAMR Energy

HAMR is a Melbourne-based, low carbon fuels and chemicals company focused on renewable methanol developments. 

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What happens to your clothing After?

After is pioneering a circular economy by recovering, recycling and recirculating unwearable textiles back into the industry. 

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The only Australian made compostable stretch wrap, not just good, it's Great Wrap

Driven by impact, fuelled by demand Great Wrap has a 10-year vision for a world where plastic doesn’t exist. Co-founders Julia and Jordy Kay are on a mission to remove 150,000 tonnes of plastic wrap going to landfill each year. Born out of their love of the ocean, Great Wrap is a plastic wrap alternative made with compostable biopolymers and plant-based oils it’s home compostable, manufactured locally, used in homes and commercial businesses. Great Wrap is also developing technology to convert CO2 into marine degradable biopolymers.   

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Plant based, luxury leather Alt.

Alt. Leather produces 100% plant-based leather alternatives. Turning agricultural biomass, natural fibres and regenerative plant-based ingredients into a world-class material for application across fashion, footwear, furniture and automotive interiors. 

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Revolutionising how solar can be shared: Allume Energy

Allume is a Melbourne born, now global company committed to unlocking rooftop solar access for those who have historically been missing out. They have developed a globally unique technology, called SolShare, which for the first time allows a single rooftop solar system to be shared by multiple apartments, breaking down the structural and financial barriers that have left this market out of the renewable energy transition. SolShare is manufactured in Melbourne and has now been installed across Australia, NZ, the US and the UK.  

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Changing how we plan offshore renewables: Change Beetle

Change Beetle is a Melbourne-based software development company specialising in streamlined solutions for ocean-based logistics. The organisation’s flagship product, Seafloor Planner (developed in conjunction with another local company, Engenius Software) is used by major organisations globally to plan ocean bottom seismic surveys.  

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Understanding and adapting to our changing climate: Climasens

ClimaSens is a climate intelligence startup, specialising in real-time decision support tools for urban heat adaptation and climate resilience. We help organisations plan, prepare and respond to climate change’s increasing risk and impacts through our data analytics platform and user interface. 

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Decentralising air conditioning for better climate indoors and out: Conry Tech

Conry Tech is reinventing air-conditioning to improve our comfort whilst making it far more sustainable. Current systems often leave people too hot or cold, despite consuming almost two thirds of a buildings power. Air-conditioning is a rapidly growing industry with adoption rates accelerating around the world, and it is already one of the largest sources of energy consumption and emissions globally.   

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Predictive climate control for commercial buildings: Hal Systems

Born out of a love for architecture, being comfortable, and their mid-century home, Vicky and Julian Featherstone created HAL Systems, a predictive climate control solution for commercial buildings. The technology uses weather forecast data to generate predictions about how a building will react to changing conditions. It then takes control of the heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) in real time to minimise energy use while keeping occupants comfortable.    

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Where energy and transport collide for customers and climate: JET Charge

JET Charge is Australia’s largest EV charging infrastructure company. We deploy, operate and manage EV chargers, whether one in a garage or 100 at a bus depot. We believe that the EV transition is a once in several generation collision of 2 entrenched industries - energy and transport, and provides Australia with a once in several generation opportunity to create a new normal where both transport and energy costs can be minimised for consumers and businesses. 

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our acknowledgement

The City of Melbourne respectfully acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the land we govern, the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung and Bunurong / Boon Wurrung peoples of the Kulin and pays respect to their Elders past and present.

We acknowledge and honor the unbroken spiritual, cultural and political connection they have maintained to this unique place for more than 2000 generations.

We accept the invitation in the Uluru Statement from the Heart and are committed to walking together to build a better future.