Welsh business making a World-wide impact through innovation
Phytoponics, a company created and grown in Wales have been selected as one of three Climate Trailblazers in the run-up to the Global Climate Action Summit, 12-14 September, in San Francisco, California, America.
The Climate Trailblazers will be tasked with amplifying climate activism by showcasing their initiatives to tackle climate change and exemplifying how everyday actions can help people achieve extraordinary results.
Adam Dixon, Eritai Kateibwi and Liliana Jaramillo, representing Europe, Australia and Oceania, and Central and South America respectively, have been chosen as emerging voices with a passion for addressing climate issues.
The UN Environment Young Champions of the Earth, powered by Covestro, will join 22 Climate Trailblazers from North and South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia and Oceania to spread awareness of the goals of the Summit.
The three Young Champions are already working on the front lines of climate action.
Adam Dixon, co-founder of Phytoponics, said:
“I started Phytoponics to make agriculture fully sustainable through innovation and technology. I am tired of the waste, inefficiency and hunger in our current food chain. By sharing common issues multilaterally through the Sustainable Development Goals, governments, communities and companies can implement positive changes bit by bit and we’ll get there.
Agricultural innovations typically emerge in response to difficult growing conditions and constraints. Wales has faced big challenges in horticultural productivity due to the geography, with less than 10% of its land arable. As a result, Wales has imported a lot of its fresh produce from the rest of the UK or abroad. Now with cutting-edge 21st-century technology Phytoponics aim to recapture lost ground and pave the way to self-reliance alongside agricultural sustainability.”
Adam joins the Climate Trailblazers’ team whose backgrounds encompass everything from sustainable farming to creating coral reefs and more.
“This unique mix of people and programmes mirrors the diversity of issues and outcomes that the Summit is showcasing and demonstrates how everyone needs to be on board to address multiple challenges and to truly take ambition to the next level when it comes to tackling climate change.”
“A vibrant future in a changing climate is possible,” said Kate Greenberg, Climate Trailblazer and Western Programme Director of the National Young Farmers Coalition.
“In order to achieve it, we must act swiftly, creatively and collaboratively to protect our working lands and waters and invest in the working people who steward them.”
The 2018 Global Climate Action Summit #StepUp2018 will bring together state and local governments, business and citizens from around the world to showcase climate action. Their goal is to demonstrate how the tide has turned in the race against climate change and inspire deeper national commitments in support of the Paris Agreement.