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IFIA Magazine - Mar ch 2021 |

• A spot in TXG Sustainability Business Accelerator Program •
• and more to be unveiled •
Introduction challenge:
The themes for 2020 are Urban Food Production, Circular Packaging, and Decarburization.
Urban Food Production
Urban farming represents an opportunity to improve food security in cities and minimize
agriculture-related emissions—but still consumes a large number of resources today. We’re
looking for technological solutions that will deliver a breakthrough in sustainable urban food
production.
Circular Packaging
We’re looking for innovative packaging solutions to replace or reduce packaging waste made
from plastic, glass, virgin/hard-to-recycle paper, or aluminum. These solutions should be useful
in the retail, fashion, beauty, logistics, and food & beverage industries.
Decarburization
We’re looking for solutions that will enable cities to capture and use carbon in a productive,
sustainable way. Key considerations include how long CO2 captured can be sequestered
and kept out of the air. We’re also searching for game-changing, disruptive new solutions
to decarbonize traditional sectors and processes in industries such as logistics, mobility, and
more.
Submitted solutions should:
• Enable the large-scale capture of atmospheric CO2
• Effectively capture, store or convert CO2 using little energy and space
• Turn captured CO2 into a viable product stream
• Be carbon negative in the overall life cycle
• Take a systems approach to carbon capture and storage/utilization
• Demonstrate demand for outputs produced
• Drastically reduce the carbon emissions produced by industries or sectors
• Be commercially viable and scalable
Submitted solutions should:
• Drastically reduce the resources that go into packaging
• Enable manufacturers/producers to do away with packaging altogether
• Equal the performance of conventional, unsustainable packaging and be cost competitive
• Be closed-loop: Either compostable, recyclable or bio-degradable
• Make use of renewable feedstock. The solution should consider the availability and
sustainability of feedstock
Submitted solutions should:
• Produce novel food or alternative proteins
• Considerably improve nutritional quality of food over current methods of production
• Enable certain species of crops/livestock to be farmed in cities for the first time
• Reduce resource and input requirements (e.g. energy, water land use) for production
• Significantly increase productivity for food/nutrition production
• Result in minimal waste output and/or demonstrate circular use of waste materials
• Be scalable
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