A social enterprise that provides affordable and sustainable household cooking solutions. The main products offered by the enterprise are briquettes and improved cookstoves tested and validated for excellent fuel efficiency, reducing cooking costs and minimizing aggregate demand for wood fuel.

Asili Kwanza’s major success came from winning the ACIC and securing a $10,000 grant. This enabled them to scale operations, expand production, hire more staff, and relocate to a larger site. Acquiring land and constructing facilities like a solar dryer and production shed marked a significant milestone for increasing briquette production.

Despite challenges like inflation and electricity delays, the team adapted using cost-effective materials, leveraging savings for website upgrades, and sourcing briquettes on credit from partners, showcasing their resilience and innovative problem-solving.

Direct air capture (DAC) technology which captures CO₂ directly from the air, storing it in the ground thereby reducing CO₂ concentration. The system also generates clean energy from wind power.

The project has used bagasse, a sugarcane byproduct, to create activated carbon for CO₂ capture, addressing local waste disposal issues and benefiting sugarcane vendors. The switch from Alnico magnets to neodymium N52/N54 magnets has boosted the wind turbine’s energy output nearly tenfold, enhancing clean energy efficiency.

Securing a $8,000 grant, Low Altitude MAGLEV is changing its narrative. The team secured a workshop in Accra to ensure continuous project development. Strategic partnerships, including with a Chinese magnet manufacturer, and proactive fundraising efforts have helped cover costs and protect intellectual property, keeping the project on track.

A researched-based cultivation of seaweed for human consumption known as Ulva Reticulata to the fight against food insecurity and poverty. This project aims to promote female entrepreneurship and improve the income of fishermen or households vulnerable to climate change.

The project has gained strong support from the Lembeitake village community, with 85% of the population backing the implementation of seaweed farming. This is crucial for ensuring local cooperation and the long-term success of the initiative.

A key win is the focus on empowering women by offering economic diversification through seaweed farming. With 81% of women reporting that their income from fishing is insufficient, seaweed farming provides a practical solution for improving their financial independence. Receiving $5,000 as the 3rd Place Winner, the team successfully identified optimal sites for seaweed farming through community engagement and surveys.

Theseus Development is designing and developing geopolymer precast components for construction. The Geopolymer technology creates sustainable and low-energy consumption buildings as buildings account for 40% of global energy usage.

The thermal conductivity of this material is very low, so buildings built with it are naturally thermally efficient. This material is very durable and resilient, proving that geopolymers are a more environmentally friendly solution than cement-based concrete, increasing the availability of building materials and contributing to a circular economy approach.

An IT and digital infrastructure to monitor carbon footprints and their offsets, predict carbon emissions, manage carbon credits, and analyze potential carbon credit investments for nature-based projects mitigating climate change.

Through ACIC, Tyndall Credits is upgrading its hardware from IoT to AIoT and enhancing the monitoring and evaluation of hardware and APIs to ensure efficiency. The team is also now able to expand its team, hiring youth and underprivileged persons in the communities they operate.