Zero 49 - Our Story

 Climate change has become a reality much faster than all predicted scenarios and is unequivocally recognized as an all-encompassing threat to the global economy and humanity. 

The science is clear: to ensure a sufficiently high probability of global warming remaining below 1.5° Celsius, global CO2 emissions must be reduced to net zero by the middle of this century at the latest. This is why unprecedented and drastic actions are required to win this race, and a major component of winning this race  is the rapid implementation of innovative climate technologies. 

Systematic observations of the climate system over many years show that Switzerland is severely affected by climate change, in fact, according to MeteoSwiss,  the atmosphere close to the ground has warmed by around 2.1°C since measurements began in 1864. That is about twice the rise in the average global temperature.

Israel is known as a leading hub for innovation and technology. In the past decade, its CleanTech ecosystem experienced accelerated growth reaching a surge in 2014 when the number of newly established Climate-Tech-related startups share of all newly founded Israeli startups increased each year, reaching 9% in 2020. This is why it came with no surprise when Startup Genome ranked Israel 2# in its Cleantech Edition of the 2022 Global Startup Ecosystem Report. 

Zero49 was founded in the beginning of 2022 when a group of seasoned Israeli entrepreneurs, who made Switzerland their home, set together to discuss the Global Climate challenge from the technology angle and soon realized that, while Israel is the home to some of the most advanced climate-related technologies in a variety of fields, ranging from Smart Agriculture, Green Construction and building, Clean Energy Systems, and Sustainable Mobility & Transport, almost none of those are utilized in Switzerland to face the climate change. 

From there, it was not long before the group decided on it's mission to make cleantech technologies a vailable for any Swiss corporate wishes to boost its race towards becoming a net zero organization.