Picking trash instead of people...Fostering 33 Climate Tech Start-ups

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A technology that helps reduce greenhouse gas emissions or adapt to climate change is called 'climate technology'.

Gyeonggi Province is pushing for a project to foster "climate tech startups" to cope with the climate crisis, and it has supported more than 30 places this year alone.

This is reporter Choi Ki-sung.

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It is an artificial intelligence and AI robot that automatically selects garbage.

By learning household waste data from actual screening sites, more than 40 types of waste can be distinguished.

[Ryu Jae-ho / 'A' Start-up CEO: What we're ultimately looking at is that we're planning to build several factories in Gyeonggi-do, which is a recycling screening center operated only with robots.]

Artificial intelligence agricultural robots, which replace humans with pollinating pollen, are busy.

You can pollinate multiple flowers at once using wind and vibration.

[Lee Kyu-hwa / 'B' Start-up CEO: Right now, bees are decreasing a lot due to climate change. We participated in this project with innovative technology that can pollinate on behalf of these bees we have.]

All of these companies have been selected as "climate tech start-ups" this year and are receiving support from Gyeonggi Province.

The province recruited 33 places and provides "customized support programs" according to the start-up cycle.

It is a method of inviting experts from each area to diagnose corporate improvements and present business strategies to help.Some businesses that also received support from

also received innovation awards at CES, an international electronics fair.

[Nam Hyun-sung / Gyeonggi-do Environmental Industry Cooperation Team: Since the global (global) stance is to invest in climate technology, our Gyeonggi-do Province has also provided some support in line with the global stance]

The province said it aims to foster 100 climate tech startups by 2026.

This is YTN Choi Ki Sung.