The Subak Newsletter: 2022 in reflect & Cohort 1 comes to a close
The latest at Subak and in climate, tech and data
Hello and welcome to the December edition of the Subak Newsletter 👋
Coming up in this edition (6 mins):
Subak updates: 2022 in reflect & Cohort 1 comes to a close
Community updates & events: Climate Policy Radar’s user testing & Sustainability Innovation Challenge
In the news: Climate TRACE dataset release & Ember’s latest findings on solar generation
Subak Recommends: State of Climate Action in 2022 & thread of threads from COP27, plus good news from COP27
Get involved & community jobs board
Subak Updates
2022 in reflect 💚
In our last newsletter of 2022, we wanted to highlight just a handful of the key achievements, milestones and exciting bits of news from the past year at Subak.
Completed two accelerator startup cohorts across our two nodes in UK & Australia 🇬🇧 🇦🇺
Grew to a team of 10 in the UK and 4 in Australia 💚
Ran the inaugural 2-day Subak Climate Summit in London 🚀
Launched our global climate Data Catalogue and grew to 25k datasets by end of December 📊
Launched a £20m fundraise to help us establish a global network of climate data centres-of-excellence 🌍
Supported 20 individuals around the world working on climate data through our Fellowship programme 🤝
Accelerator Cohort 1 wrap up the nine month programme 🚀
In November, we wrapped-up both our European and APAC Cohort 1 of the Subak Accelerator programme. Our Europe Cohort met in-person at our London office for a 2 day bootcamp to close the programme, culminating in a graduation showcase.
Since March, these teams have attended workshops, benefited from top-tier mentor support, engaged with experts in business, tech, data and impact and enjoyed 1-to-1 sessions with the Subak team. They’ve also conducted skills-sharing sessions for other members of the community, and received technical advisory support from our partners at Snyk. We’re so proud of the progress the climate not-for-profit organisations have made during the programme.
Our next round of applications for the programme will be opening in January. Register interest here to be notified when they open and be kept up to date with application information.
Community Updates & Events
Join Climate Policy Radar’s user research sessions 📝
Subak Member Climate Policy Radar is looking for people to join short user research sessions on their climate policy search tool, which helps you quickly and easily find information on thousands of climate laws and policies worldwide. They'd love to chat with anyone who is involved in making, influencing or researching climate policy. You don't need to prep anything - in fact if you come in without having used the tool, even better! You can sign up here, and learn more about what Climate Policy Radar does here.
We have partnered with Kantar for iLab’s Sustainability Innovation Challenge - get involved! 💭
We are inviting the brightest minds to help develop data and tech-led solutions that can be used to empower people to act more sustainably on climate and environmental issues. Participate and stand to win great prizes up to the value of $140k USD, while changing the world at the same time.
You can reach out with questions directly to Challenges.iLab@Kantar.com. There are also Q&A sessions you can join to learn more about how to get involved - register to join the Q&A sessions here.
Click here to take part in the challenge!
Work on climate justice & digital rights as a Green Web Fellow ✅
Subak Member, Green Web Foundation, calls for applications for the Green Web Fellowship 2023, open until Dec 8!
Paid part-time fellowship for 10 months
Contribute to the digital rights and climate justice movements
Get mentorship about how the internet is fueled and what we can do about it
More information and apply here.
In the news
Climate TRACE releases detailed publicly available global inventory of greenhouse gas emissions 📊
In November, Climate TRACE published its latest data release at COP27. Congratulations to Subak Member and founding member at Climate TRACE, TransitionZero, for playing a central role in the data release.
The release shares highly granular global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions data at the facility-level, as well as country and sector-level data for 2021. Explore the new data, including information on 70K+ highly-emitting individual sources worldwide here.
Climate Policy Radar partners with The Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law 🤝
The Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics, the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University, and Climate Policy Radar are delighted to announce a new partnership to offer upgraded open data resources on global climate laws, policies and legal cases.
The collaboration will bring together the partners’ world-leading databases on global climate law and enhance them with artificial intelligence-powered features developed by Climate Policy Radar. Read more about the partnership here.
Solar generation helped avoid at least US$34 billion in seven Asian countries in the first half of 2022 🌏
New research by Subak member Ember finds that while gas and coal prices soared in 2022, the growth of solar power across China, India, Japan, South Korea, Viet Nam, the Philippines and Thailand helped avoid using costly fossil fuels.
The contribution of solar generation in seven key Asian countries – China, India, Japan, South Korea, Viet Nam, the Philippines and Thailand – avoided potential fossil fuel costs of approximately US$34 billion from January to June 2022. This is equal to 9% of total fossil fuel costs these countries incurred over the same period in 2022. Read more in the Straits Times.
Subak recommends
💻 State of Climate Action in 2022 from Climate Action Tracker highlights action towards mitigating climate change split out by sector.
🎧 Killian Daly from Cohort 1 Member EnergyTag speaks on the 2Tokens podcast about how hourly energy tagging can change what it means to be green.
🧵 This thread of threads from COP27 reviews the good, the bad & the ugly in relation to key aspects of COP27, by some of the most astute observers of the process.
🔎 Data Catalogue Spotlight: Subak Member AimHi Earth recently published their first dataset on climate misinformation and misconceptions. The data serves as a barometer of the state of understanding of the climate and nature crises, both in organisations and more broadly, in the public. The IPCC noted in their April 2022 report that undoing climate misconceptions is essential to disrupt business-as-usual and bring about systemic change, and AimHi Earth’s dataset can be a first step for anyone doing so.
☀️ At COP27, world leaders launched the Forests and Climate Leaders’ Partnership, committing to halt and reverse forest loss and land degradation by 2030. 26 countries and the European Union – which together account for over 33% of the world’s forests and nearly 60% of the world’s GDP – make up the partnership.
Get Involved
If you want to be a part of cutting edge projects and a great working environment at the intersection of climate, tech, and data, keep an eye on the Subak careers page. We are currently hiring for:
You can find out about other ways to get involved with Subak here.
If you are interested in a position at one of our member organisations, you can find out more about current vacancies below:
Analyst, Southeast Asia, TransitionZero
That concludes this month's newsletter, so we’ll see you next year - we hope you have a great festive season 🎄
