The Swedish Exhibition & Congress Centre is awarding a grant to the start-up Carbon Cloud for their innovation, Carbon Ate, which enables restaurants to calculate the climate impact of their food. The grant is SEK 100,000, and a part of the Swedish Exhibition & Congress Centre’s 100 year anniversary celebration. The aim of the grant is to foster the meetings industry.

The Swedish Exhibition & Congress Centre looked for a candidate who is developing an idea or innovation which, for example, increases competitiveness or improves the revenue or cost side. Carbon Cloud is being awarded the grant in recognition for the fact that their service has a positive impact on climate and profitability, while making things easier for chefs and cooks within the food sector, and through that the revenue of the meetings industry.

Carbon Cloud started as an idea developed from a research project at Chalmers University of Technology, which has now taken off. Their climate-labelling service, Carbon Ate, is helping restaurants to calculate the climate impact of every ingredient used in their food preparation, and also gives the consumer a clear climate calculation for every dish presented on the menu.

In March, Carbon Ate began collaborating with the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), which has launched the One Planet Plate concept. One part of this collaboration consists of the development and design of the Food Calculator, which makes it possible for private individuals to calculate the climate impact of various types of ingredients.

The Swedish Exhibition & Congress Centre has been committed to sustainability for many years. The restaurants are no exception, and their own restaurant, West Coast with its chef Johan Lilja, is now the first to test Carbon Ate.