Lessons learned – What green startups need to unfold their transformative potential: Last Article of the Transition 1 | 2022 (by Romina Große, Rüdiger Klatt, Elisabeth Meyer & Silke Steinberg)

Lessons learned – What green startups need to unfold their transformative potential (Romina Große, Rüdiger Klatt, Elisabeth Meyer & Silke Steinberg)

Potential of green startups to foster a green transition of economies and societies 

The GreenTecLab project was initiated out of the conviction that green startups can contribute significantly to accelerating the necessary ecological, social, economic and cultural transition. In recent years, various disruptive catastrophes have shown that only a fundamental, holistic transformation of economic, financial and social systems will allow our societies to continue to exist. In view of the climate goals (e.g. of the Paris Agreement or the European Green Deal) and the prevention of an ecological collapse, we need an enormous speed in the decarbonisation of our societies. Furthermore, we need rapid changes in all aspects of society to guarantee that it will be a fair and socially just transition. 

Here you can get access to the last of the thirteen articles of the Transition 1 | 2022.