‘They get the big picture’: the Swedish tech startup helping cities go green

Cities account for more than 70% of global carbon dioxide emissions. Photograph: Cavan Images/Getty/Cavan

In early 2018, Tomer Shalit looked at the overwhelming mass of data and the tens of thousands of pages of scientific studies and parliamentary reports that had gone into the making of Sweden’s bold new Climate Act, and thought: this is hopeless.

“There was this avalanche of material, but none of it was operational,” he said. “There were solid, ambitious targets, but no roadmaps for reaching them. There was a ton of evidence, but no concrete action plans. And nothing was connected.”