Dark Matter Laboratories Limited

Cities are increasingly at risk of heatwave events, with over 30% of the world's population exposed to life-threatening heat extremes for more than 20 days per year. A study in Seoul found an 8.4% increase in total mortality during heat waves. Green infrastructure and Nature-based Solutions (NBS) are crucial in mitigating the urban heat island effect. By ...

As climate disruptions become more frequent and intense, the resilience of Europe's infrastructure is crucial as it supports economic flows, human well-being, and social stability throughout the continent. However, this challenge provides a historic opportunity to revolutionise infrastructure by integrating it with nature. Hence, NATURE-DEMO creates, vali...

West Midlands Combined Authority's Project CAMPOS (Creating A Market for Place-based OutcomeS) aims to tackle one of the biggest non-technical barriers to delivering net zero: the lack of appropriate financial mechanisms to attract scalable funding into place-based net zero solutions. Creating a market for these place-based outcomes, will increase certain...

Designing an Irresistible Circular Society (DESIRE) aims to create an alternative way forward for the built environment supporting the EU mission of ‘100 climate-neutral and smart cities’. Against seemingly insurmountable challenges of climate change, biodiversity loss, and resource depletion we need to rethink our approach to finding solutions. Departing...

We are developing an outcomes-based financial instrument to channel capital (from public and private sources) in urban Nature-based Solutions (uNbS), establishing natural assets as a critical part of urban infrastructure, alongside bridges, roads and rail. Our aim is to fund portfolios of urban Nature-based Solutions that are aggregated and analysed via t...