Meet the innovators under 35 shaping climate tech

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🗞️ Driving the news: MIT Technology Review's annual Innovators Under 35 list spotlights nine young researchers and founders reshaping climate tech
• Their work spans critical-mineral extraction, environmental monitoring and industrial decarbonisation

🔭 The context: The list highlights AI as the dominant technology story this year, for both its climate potential and its energy costs
• Several profiled innovators are tackling heavy industry, one of the hardest sectors to decarbonise

🌍 Why it matters for the planet: Heavy industry accounts for roughly 7% of global greenhouse gas emissions, and new approaches like solid refrigerants could cut energy use by a fifth
• That makes youth-led innovation in hard-to-abate sectors especially consequential

⏭️ What's next: These early-stage technologies now face the harder task of scaling from lab demonstrations to commercial deployment

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