Introducing the independent Advisory Group for Klarna’s AI for Climate Resilience Program — six practitioners and researchers who will help us identify the most impactful projects in this round of funding. 👇 ◾Anna Lerner Nesbitt, CEO at Climate Collective ◾Victor Galaz, Associate Professor in Political Science at Stockholm Resilience Centre & Stockholm University. Program Director at Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics. ◾Rachel Adams, Founder & CEO at Global Center on AI Governance ◾Beth Tellman, PhD, Chief Science Officer & Co-founder at Floodbase ◾Meena Palaniappan, Founder & CEO at Atma Connect ◾Ameer A. Eweida, Chief Scientist at MENA Oceans Initiative & Adjunct Professor at University of Miami Their expertise spans AI governance, flood risk, marine conservation, community resilience, and climate tech, across every continent where this work matters most. 📅 Applications are open until April 30. Learn more and apply: https://lnkd.in/eF4rzt-Y #ClimateResilience #AI #Sustainability #ClimateTech
Milkywire
Environmental Services
Stockholm, Sweden 9,874 followers
Enabling companies to achieve their climate and nature commitments
About us
Milkywire is an impact firm, delivering market leading solutions within permanent carbon removal, nature restoration, and nature protection. With over seven years of experience in environmental action, we support our clients every step of the way to achieving their climate and nature commitments - from strategy, project sourcing and financing, to reporting and stakeholder communication. Using an evidence-based, high-integrity approach, we allow leading brands such as Spotify, Salesforce, Accenture, Klarna, and Bolt to invest in the most impactful projects available, relevant to their value chain and beyond. We are currently supporting 150+ vetted initiatives across more than 40 countries. Through our position within the carbon removal (CDR) field, we aim to accelerate innovation, access, and affordability in CDR, enabling companies to meet their net zero targets. With a strong focus on quality, efficiency and transparency, we ensure that our clients’ investments create meaningful and measurable value for the planet, maximizing impact while driving business success. Get in touch: milkywire.com/contact
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Is your organisation engaging with AI to help communities adapt to climate change? Klarna's AI for Climate Resilience Program is now open for its second round of proposals, and we're looking for pioneering organisations that are offering practical solutions that empower people at the front lines of climate change. The program supports work at the intersection of artificial intelligence and climate resilience, with a focus on communities that are most vulnerable to climate impacts. It is designed and managed by Milkywire on behalf of Klarna. Grants of up to $300,000 are available. The application deadline is April 30, 2026. Apply here 👉 https://lnkd.in/eF4rzt-Y Know someone who should apply? Tag them below. You can read about the organizations funded in the first cohort in the link below https://lnkd.in/d3tFWFHJ
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Do you know a company or organization that achieved significant climate impact? We're a partner for the new Klarna Climate Heroes Award, $100k in grants for real results. A lot of what we fund is promising ideas for big impact, but this award is designed to celebrate those that already made it happen. Please nominate someone you think should get the award, or apply yourself! 🏆 Winner announced 24 June at London Climate Action Week 📅 Apply or nominate by 20 April: https://lnkd.in/eg5VvWip
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There is a big change happening in how companies report and reach net zero targets. First, reporting is being split into two categories: A) Emissions inventories tied to a company's activities (scope 1,2,3) B) Corporate interventions, what a company does about emissions beyond its own value chain (carbon credits, PPAs, EACs, contributions etc). Second, what should count towards net zero targets? There are a lot of different opinions, from permissive, to strict, to not at all. But at the same time, most companies' net zero targets are conditional on external change regardless of rules of what counts. And much of what's most effective, policy advocacy, R&D, system change, won't count towards targets under any paradigm. This shows that net zero target fulfillment is not the only measure of corporate climate ambition. We should allow those that want to make a net zero claim to do so if they use high quality interventions. But companies should be incentivized to do whatever is most effective at mitigating climate change regardless if it counts towards their targets or not. Ambition should be measured by what a company does to solve the problem, not by whether its accounting adds up to zero. In a new article in Trellis Group Milkywire’s Robert Höglund lays out the details of where the debate is today, and where the focus should be going forward. Link: https://lnkd.in/e4ugnDYv
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The carbon removal market is maturing, and carbon removal buyers are increasingly shaping what gets built. Tomorrow, our Senior Impact Manager Aidan Preston joins a panel of leading buyers and advisors at the OpenAir Carbon Removal Challenge webinar, together with voices from Carbon Direct, Shopify, and Wren, and moderated by Terraset. They'll discuss what credible carbon removal procurement looks like in practice. Register here: https://lnkd.in/e7h_Ym3T
This just in: Luke Hawbaker from Carbon Direct will be taking Michael Berger's spot on Tuesday's webinar panel. Don't miss this blockbuster webinar! Terraset's Taylor Insley will talk with leading carbon removal buyers/advisors: Carbon Direct's Luke Hawbaker, Shopify's Mitchel Selby (in Frontier), Milkywire's Aidan Preston, and Wren's Sophie Westover. Be ready with your questions, as Beatriz Beccari Barreto will run audience Q&A. Register here: https://luma.com/7kr031xe Thanks to our financial sponsors Terraset and Carbon Business Council, venue sponsor Carbon Unbound, and in-kind sponsors Possible Studio, and Carbon Manager LLC. Thanks also to our partners for helping to get the word out about our program: Activate, AirMiners, C2V (Urban Future Lab and NYU Tandon School of Engineering), Carbon Removal Canada, CDR.fyi, Climate Cardinals, Climate Draft, College to Climate, Direct Air Capture Coalition, Frontier (Frauke Kracke and Joanna Klitzke), Global CDR Action Network (CDRANet), Global CO2 Initiative, Green Portfolio, Institute for Responsible Carbon Removal, Mission Innovation, Open Source Hardware Association, POP Movement, TerraFixing, United States Energy Association, With and About Projects (Natalie Brasington), and XPRIZE. The OpenAir Collective #cdr #carbonremoval
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“The gap between what science understands and what communities can access is still very wide.” A short reflection from Dr.Suryanarayanan Balasubramanian, PhD, having participated in India’s AI Summit last month, points to something quite critical for Milkywire’s impact work as part of Klarna’s AI for Climate Resilience Program. AI’s potential value for public good, lies largely in closing this information gap and making climate and environmental data accessible so communities can act on it. This work depends on aligning technical capabilities with real community needs: Technical: AI translates raw, real-time climate/environmental media data and combines community insight to support better decision making and reduce climate associated risks. Trust and Empowerment: technical solutions do not succeed in a vacuum. We entrust and work with individuals at grassroots level to ensure that the tools are practically useful and culturally appropriate for the communities they are built to serve! Find out more about our work in the link below! https://lnkd.in/erceNexR
Climate poetry at India Habitat Centre. Himalayan lab prototypes at Taj Palace. A room of founders and VCs talking about failure in IIT Delhi. A resilience roundtable with policymakers and funders at Sheraton Hotel. All in the last two days in Delhi. The first evening was Climate Narratives at Habitat Centre, where poets and practitioners took turns telling stories about a world quietly unraveling. When it was my turn, I shared something I rarely talk about publicly. In Baltistan, there is a ritual more than 200 years old. A piece of a male glacier and a piece of a female glacier are brought together in a ceremony. Through this union, a baby glacier is born. It is a practice rooted in ecological intuition so deep it reads like myth. I first encountered it as a PhD student studying ice reservoirs. That image, of glaciers as families, of ice as something that can be nurtured and born, planted itself in me and never left. It is part of what has driven ten years of my life, first as a glaciologist, now as a founder of Acres of Ice. The next evening I was at IIT Delhi, in a room full of climate-tech founders and VCs who spoke with unusual honesty about failure. Not the polished pivot narrative you hear at most events, but the actual weight of building something in a space where stakes are real and runway is always shorter than you hoped. I came away reminded that this path asks for something beyond technical competence. It asks for a certain stubbornness about why you are here. At Him-CONNECT, organised alongside the World Sustainable Development Summit, I saw prototypes from research labs across India, devices built to measure, mitigate and adapt against glacial lake outburst floods and other Himalayan hazards. Years of careful science now looking for a path to the hands that need it most. There is so much sitting in labs that communities have not yet been able to access. And at the Innovation for Resilience Summit, co-hosted by Climate Collective, I shared our own fundraising and innovation learnings from building one of the few mountain water management startups in India. The room was full of people trying to move ideas from pilot to scale, a problem I know intimately. And woven through all of this were the happy accidents. Old friends and long-time supporters I hadn't seen in months, some of whom had quietly made sure I was in these rooms in the first place. Thanks for opening doors Vedita Agarwal, Shweta Dalmmia, Vilina Engheepi, Sanjeev Rohilla, Sholto West, Klarna, Milkywire and Pratibha B.. Delhi reminded me that the Himalayas are not a peripheral climate story. They sit at the centre of water security for hundreds of millions of people. The gap between what science understands and what communities can access is still very wide. We are trying to close it, one village at a time.
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I hail from Gujarat, one of India’s biggest cotton-producing states. And yet this was my first time truly going inside the supply chain. In sustainability, we rarely go to factories. We are in the field and in ecosystems. So I got quite the masterclass when I visited farmers, a ginning factory, and a spinning mill across Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu as part of a field visit for our regenerative cotton project with Toteme. The project is run by Materra, piloting agroforestry alongside regenerative agriculture practices. Here’s what stayed with me: 🌱 At the farm level, the economics are brutal. A farmer working 10 acres for 6-7 months walks away with roughly 20-30K rupees in profit. That’s about $350. Regenerative premiums exist, but in the first 2-3 years of transition, yields can drop significantly. Farmers are being asked to take on real financial risk for a future benefit. Our project is helping women hedge this by building vermiculture enterprises on the side, with agroforestry offering diversified income in the long run. Also: I had no idea cotton flowers turn from yellow to pink after pollination. Or that pink bollworm hides inside the boll and you only find the damage after it bursts open. 🏭 At the ginning factory, I was completely unprepared for the dust. I’m allergic to dust. Nobody warned me. The workers are there all day breathing it. What struck me most was that this gin had zero waste. Cotton lint pressed into bales. Seeds crushed into oil, which is widely used to cook Indian snacks that I still eat but never connected the dots. The byproduct from the seed oil process is then pressed into cotton cake, sold as animal feed. Fully circular since decades, not for sustainability reasons, but because it’s just good business. 🧵 At the spinning mill in Coimbatore, I got the true masterclass. From opening bales to carding to combing to ring spinning, I finally understood what it actually takes to turn raw cotton into yarn. The machinery is extraordinary. The quality controls are more complex than most people buying a cotton T-shirt could ever imagine. The connecting theme across all three stops was contamination or rather the lack of it. Brands care about it. Ginners obsess over it. Spinners test for it. And it starts at the farm, with how a farmer stores cotton at home, whether pets get near it, how carefully it’s picked. When you sit on the impact side of things, you don’t fully comprehend that it isn’t just about soil health. There is so much that goes into making a t-shirt. And this was still just the first three steps. More to come when I finally land on the best way to share these insights! Thanks for showing us around Kuldeep Khatri, Yashaswini Mohanty, and Raghav Agarwal! And Linda Gustafsson for the great company! #RegenerativeAgriculture #Cotton #Sustainability #SupplyChain #Textiles Milkywire
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Take a look at this episode of CDR Policy Scoop, where our climate expert Robert Höglund discusses his idea for conditional net-zero targets!
We are done pretending there's a one Net Zero target fitting all companies. You can't have fully objective and science based rules for everyone. Pretending otherwise just means most companies will fail net zero. Companies have different levels of control over their emissions. They have different ability to pay. They have different political realities. That is where my idea on conditional net zero targets come from. Sebastian and Eve push me hard in this new episode of CDR Policy Scoop on what should the rules be, how do we determine what is conditional, enough etc. But it's grayscale all the way down. When companies are forced to spell out what part of their emissions they think are within their control, and what wider change is needed to reach net zero for the emissions they DON'T control, then we can start having a conversation about what the most important things to do next are. And they are not necessarily the things you can account for in your emissions inventory.
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Announcing the Milkywire Climate Transformation Fund 2026 Open Call for Proposals! We’re inviting organisations to apply under two pillars, supporting high-impact projects that remove barriers to implementation, unlock innovation, and accelerate systemic climate transformation at the speed and scale climate science demands. Applications are open across four funding categories: 🌿 Nature Protection & Restoration: Preventing deforestation across forest biomes 🌱 Nature Protection & Restoration: Innovating for ecosystem restoration ⚙️ Decarbonization: Unblocking climate solutions 💡 Decarbonization: Unlocking innovations We’re also inviting Expressions of Interest (separate form) from organisations developing high-quality nature-based carbon credit projects, including those already certified or with a clear pathway to certification under recognised voluntary carbon market standards. 📅 Timeline: Opens Feb 20, 2026 and closes March 17, 2026. For more questions, please reach out to climate@milkywire.com. Link to the call for proposals: https://lnkd.in/g_ETPjnd
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Take a look at the new article written by our Senior Impact Manager, Aidan Preston, on why the winter sports industry should invest in carbon removal to safeguard their future!
All winter sports stakeholders (and Winter Olympics fans) should be enthusiastically supporting the build out of the carbon removal industry! ⛷️ 53% of ski resorts across 28 European countries are at very high risk for inadequate snow supply, even if global warming is limited to 2°C. 📝 In a new article, I argue that the outdoor winter sports industry has the financial obligation to ensure that we (as a society) are equipped to bring temperatures back down, after we reduce emissions enough to reach net zero. 🎿 I'm watching the Milano-Cortina Winter Olympics from the future host site of the 2034 Games, Salt Lake City, where ski resorts are experiencing their least snowy and warmest winter on record. If 2034 conditions in Salt Lake City resemble 2026, then the traffic up Little and Big Cottonwood Canyons will be the least of the worries. Article in the comments! #WinterOlympics #Ski #Snow #ClimateChange
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