Climate Tech Challenges

We are meeting at 42 Lisbon, the coolest coding camp in the world, where nerds collaborate on projects to train themselves to be world class coders. This is THE PERFECT location to explore climate challenges confronting Portugal.

Join us at 42 Lisbon, where we invite you to be a part of an inspiring gathering focused on addressing the unique climate-related challenges faced by Portugal and exploring innovative startup solutions.

Portugal is the fourth most deforested nation on earth, with more than 60% of its land area bare of trees. It faces drought, desertification, wildfires, and intense heat. While 60% of its energy today comes from renewable sources, land regeneration, water conservation, and energy efficiency remain crtitical challenges.

Across the nation, Alentejo faces desertification, cork trees are in decline due to soil degredation, and reduced rainfall across the Iberian peninsula are draining rivers, reservoirs, and acquifers. Portugal is trying to develop carbon credit markets but its regulatory environment restricts land regeneration to protect pine and ecualyptus trees used in the paper industry, severly restricting opportunities to improve the land and CO2 sequestration.

Event Agenda:

1. The Challenges Facing Portugal - Steven Adler, Event Host

2. Some Solutions:
- Water Conservation - Thiago Marques, greenmetrics.io
- EcoVillages - Alexandre Ferreira da Silva, Ananda Valley EcoVillage
- Land Regeneration - Mathias Ali Davesne, Regen Waves

The goal of this event is to explore challenges and solutions that may not be well known in an interactive dialog where everyone is welcome to ask questions and participate.

Speaker Bios:

Tiago Marques is the CEO of greenmetrics.io a successful startup using low cost IoT sensors to measure and conserve ground water and biodiversity.

Alexandre Ferreira da Silva is the co-founder of Ananda Valley, an eco-village spanning 30 hectares in Fundao that was created in 2010 as an example of regenerative land and agriculture practices.

Mathias Ali Dasvene is CEO of Regen Waves, a land regeneration startup pioneering online education programs and hands-on seminars to rebuild depleted soils and regenerate Portugal's forests and lands.

Steven Adler is the Leader of Climate Tech Lisbon and is working to create a global Carbon Removal Tech Lab and Incubator program in Portugal. He was previously CEO of the Ocean Data Alliance, Chief Data Strategist at IBM. He has 5 patents, 2 US President Volunteer Service Awards, served on the US Commerce Department Data Advisory Council, did a TEDx Talk on Africa Open Data, and invented Internet Insurance, Enerprise Privacy Architecture, and Data Governance.