1000+ Solutions for a Qualitative Economy
To address sustainability challenges, Bertrand Piccard and the Solar Impulse Foundation have identified 1000+ clean and profitable solutions.
Explorer for sustainability
Bertrand dedicates his life to demonstrate the opportunities lying in sustainable development and to raise interest in profitable solutions to protect the environment.
Pioneering vision
As a pioneer, he understood that fighting climate change with clean and efficient technologies is opening-up new industrial markets and offering a unique and profitable opportunity for economic growth.
Educations cornerfor children, students and families
Solar Impulse was not built to carry passengers, but to carry a message. It provides a powerful educational platform for schools and universities students.
Exposition `City of Tomorrow`
Through a fun and interactive tour, visitors discover concrete and efficient solutions to global warming, in the main areas of impact.
Collaborators
The Solar Impulse Foundation has entered in close and impactful collaboration with several international institutions, corporations, states and cities around the world to facilitate the identification, assessment, funding and implementation of efficient solutions.
Supporters
The Solar Impulse Foundation is working with like-minded incubators, accelerators and organizations, creating a qualitative worldwide network to boost the adoption of efficient solutions.
A shared vision for a clean future
The Solar Impulse Foundation and its Partners share a strong long-term vision: we want to promote clean and profitable solutions that tackle climate change and future-proof our societies.
A team is most of all a spirit
The Solar Impulse Foundation spirit is the cement that brings the team together. Professionals from all backgrounds, they know that the future can be written in renewable energy and clean processes.
Support Us
The foundation is a Swiss non profit organization that receives donations from our partners, public entities and individuals. With those donations, we support solutions that create jobs and generate profit while also reducing pollution and preserving natural resources.
Press
In this section, you can find all nine industries portraying each, 4-5 ready to download cleantech solutions. Content includes founder’s quote and journey, HD video, HD pictures, case studies, and more details which can be reviewed in the Solution Explorers website.
The search-engine for climate action
The Explorer is a one-of-a-kind search engine that showcases profitable climate solutions from all over the world which are part of an ever-growing, curated, and publicly-accessible database.
A label focused on both environment and profitability
Assessed by independent experts, the Solar Impulse Efficient Solution label, serves as a credible marker of quality to decision-makers in business and governments.
Submit your Efficient Solution
For the first time a label assesses the economic profitability of solutions that protect the environment.Sign up to become a Member of the World Alliance for Efficient Solutions and submit it now!
What is the Experts’ role in evaluating the Solutions?
The Experts are key in the labelling process, using their technical and professional expertise to assess and critique Solutions seeking the Solar Impulse Efficient Solution Label.
How to become an Expert?
If you have more than five years technical experience in one of our target SDGS (6, 7, 9, 11, 12), the Expert role may be for you! You will be assigned Solutions fitting your expertise to review and assess.
Guiding users to implement efficient solutions in cities
This guide looks at the challenges that cities face to become more sustainable, suggesting solutions that help decision makers to harness the economic opportunities of the ecological transition.
The Solutions for Cities Initiative
Proposing solutions to help decision makers harness the economic opportunities of the ecological transition whilst reducing their environmental footprint.
Paving the Way to Cleantech Investments
RUNWAY directs capital towards clean and efficient ventures to create an economy evolving within planetary boundaries.
The topics we focus on
Advocating for global action
The Foundation engages with the stakeholders of the ecological transition using the 1000+ Solutions Explorer as a mean to support this effort.
Engaging at international fora
Pushing for the adoption of effective modern regulations with businesses and governments.
Bringing solutions to cities and regions
Cities and regions have a crucial role to play in the race to decarbonise our economies.
COP28 - UNFCCC COP28 in Dubai
At COP28, it’s time to change the narrative on climate action.
COP28 - The New Climate Narrative
The Solar Impulse Foundation is bringing a strategic communication toolkit to policy and economic leaders to help them muster ambition and overcome resistance to climate action.
COP28 - Eu Manifesto
A new manifesto calling for an efficient EU and providing pathways to harness the multiple benefits of climate action.
‘Prêt à Voter’ Switzerland25+ ‘Prêt à Voter’ proposals
Discover the initiative, which takes clean technologies as a starting point to guide the modernisation of the Swiss legal and regulatory framework.
‘Prêt à Voter’ France50 ‘Prêt à Voter’ legislative proposals
Discover the initiative, which takes clean technologies as a starting point to guide the modernisation of the French legal and regulatory framework.
The world alliance, an ever-expanding network
The World Alliance for Efficient Solutions brings together the main actors in the field of clean technologies to create synergies, facilitate matchmaking between solution providers and investors.
Innovators
Providing clean and profitable solutions that have the potential to address today’s environmental challenges.
Investors
Looking for clean and profitable investments opportunities.
Adopters
Identify and adopt Solutions to solve your environmental challenges.
Promoters
Boost the adoption of cleantech together with us.
Are you an innovator developing an efficient solution?
Get a neutral and rigorous evaluation of your solution by leading experts in your field and gain visibility as part of the Solutions Explorer.
A credible marker of quality to decision-makers in business and governments
The Solar Impulse Foundation will assess and label the solutions submitted by the World Alliance Members and bring support to members in the labelling process in order to help them being part of the Solutions Explorer.
Do you invest in clean and profitable technologies?
Get access to sustainable innovations and identify cutting-edge clean solutions for profitable investments.
An ever-expanding network
Search through our members database to find innovators, investors, adopters or solution promoters that you can interact with and find opportunities for collaboration.
Are you looking to promote solutions?
Get a credible tool to facilitate the solutions sourcing to reach environmental commitments.
The Efficient Solutions portfolio
A «pool» of solutions, ready to be promoted among decision-makers by bringing to decision-makers 1000+ clean and profitable solutions.
Are you looking to implement solutions?
Identify and implement clean, economically viable solutions from our portfolio of 1500+ entities to achieve your environmental objectives.
Search through our members database to find innovators, investors or solution promoters that you can interact with and find opportunities for collaboration.
The World Alliance Charter
This Charter lays out the principles and values which guide the World Alliance and all of its Members.
Upcoming events and opportunities
Read about the events and activities which will be part of the Solar Impulse Foundation - or Bertrand Piccard - schedule.
CircularPlace
The SaaS platform facilitating the management and monetisation of underexploited assets
SUNROVER
Herds of industrial solar robots replacing Glyphosate for maintenance of vegetation (agriculture, industry)
Enertime ORC Modules
An innovative waste heat recovery solution, enhancing decarbonization and energy efficiency
News
Matchmaking adopters and innovators in the ile de France
March 22, 2023
Interviews
Expert of the Year 2022: Dr. Henry Hunt-Grubbe!
January 10, 2023
1000+ Solutions for Cities - Exhibition in Grenoble
January 18, 2022
Net-Zero Goals, Skilled Hands: Meeting Europe's Labour Challenge
August 07, 2024
Answers and Insights from our Efficiency Week on Energy Systems
July 03, 2024
CONFIRM The Green Deal as a priority in the next EU mandate
June 17, 2024
News - September 3, 2020
Written by Thomas Weeks 5 min read
Business to consumer platform aiming to fight food waste
Closed-loop rare earths recycling process for hybrid and electric vehicles
Giving new life to waste products for construction and infrastructure
An ozone-friendly alternative to methyl bromide
Production of disposable single-use products from agri-food waste
A compact, portable and robust solar solution providing electricity for off-grid communities
A solution to oxidize and disinfect industrial wastewater and reduce treatment costs
Robotic mass-production of solar concentrator solutions
A novel lubricant oil additive to reduce friction and lowers fuel consumption
Tyre recycling by transforming the end-of-life tyres into a valuable and sustainable resource.
A bio-based technology for the production of single-use wheat bran tableware and other products
Using the circular economy to create sustainable and low-cost offices
Providing chemical-free protection from pests
Conversion of agricultural wastes to new material as a wood alternative
Providing solutions for vehicle sharing and fleet management
Easy-to-install toilet structure with on-site faecal waste treatment using a bio-digester tank
An eco-friendly and connected mosquito control solution
Connecting small scale cocoa and coffee producers with large corporate brands
A biomass cookstove giving electricity access to rural communities
Recycled insulation for the energy efficiency and circular economy of buildings
Smart and easy financing and management solutions for accelerating the global shift to solar power
An Ai and location intelligence web platform for a people-centric rating of urban contexts
A sustainable water saving aerator used in hand washes & sinks
A sustainable and performant refrigerated transport system
A co2 and humidity filter which enables the full recirculation of air in closed spaces
A sensor enabling online measurement of cip station
Co2 waste mineralization as a new standard for sustainable concrete production
A digital tool to support building operators in making smart decisions
Pioneering fuel-independent electric dayboats
An energy-efficient alternative to traditional air conditioning
Web-based residential building energy efficiency compliance software
Democratization of tree ownership for sustainable development and profit
An inorganic oxygen buffer component for the advanced gasoline catalytic converters
A smart-grid pontoon delivering renewable energy for electric boat charging
A new high-energy and power density ultracapacitors for energy storage
A new paradigm for efficient data center design
A car with an electric propulsion, safe, reliable and sustainable
A self-sufficient urban car using solar cells, fuel cell, and batteries
Waste-free method for converting plastic waste into first-grade raw materials
Renting a mobile solar generator to light a village for marginalised farmers
Reducing the amount of virgin wood used in the construction industry
An automated solution to ease natural aeration of homes & buildings for a better health
A solution for optimizing energy consumption and air quality in aquatic centres
A platform to monitor and control authorized intrusions in a marine area
Cloud-based software for the design and engineering of utility-scale solar photovoltaic plants
Circular led solutions reusing existing lighting features
Eliminating the impact of brake wear dust on motor vehicles
A software service for checks, tracking and traceability along the value chain
A high-efficiency gas microchp heat pump enabling trigeneration for the residential sector
A carbon-free electric generator matching diesel
Building a zero emission, energy consumption, energy efficient and sustainable house
A new solution to reshape fast charging business to make it smart and profitable
Capturing large scale quantities of co2 from industrial emissions with a negative carbon footprint
Investment capacity of small farmers to reverse the vicious cycle of migratory agriculture
A data-inspired, open platform for the management of construction products and materials
A quantum leap in robust propulsion development with hydrogen as a sustainable fuel
Predictive maintenance and precision mapping of buried pipelines against safety and environmental threats
Written by Thomas Weeks on September 3, 2020
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News - February 8, 2022
Written by Jamie Wylie - 5 min read
Solar Impulse Experts recognised in Expert of the Year Awards
Interviews - April 1, 2022
Written by Sofia Iorio - 4 min read
April's Expert of the Month: Rainer Notter!