Terra Praxis
Clean Energy Innovation
TerraPraxis is a nonprofit that innovates and incubates scalable solutions for a livable planet and global prosperity. It focuses on the difficult-to-decarbonise sectors of coal, industrial heat, and heavy transport.
What problem is TerraPraxis working on?
TerraPraxis is a nonprofit founded to design and implement strategies that leverage science, technology, and energy innovation. Its focus is on accelerating action for climate and prosperity by enabling high-impact rapid transitions for the toughest parts of the decarbonisation challenge.
What does TerraPraxis do?
TerraPraxis defines innovation pathways to achieve results at the cost, speed, and scale necessary for widespread decarbonisation. It does this by:
- Mobilising customers, governments, industry, investors, NGOs, and regulators around recommendations on policy and market incentives.
- Supporting technical, supply chain, siting and licensing requirements.
- Ensuring access to finance.
Through a combination of rigorous analysis, relationships of trust, and an alignment of values with key influencers, TerraPraxis maps transformative solutions onto the uncharted territories of decarbonisation that are presently absent from the discourse.
What information does Giving What We Can have about the cost-effectiveness of TerraPraxis?
Founders Pledge’s research team highlighted that TerraPraxis is among the most cost-effective organisations working on climate change.
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