India, March 19 -- A report from the World Economic Forum's UpLink initiative has detailed the environmental and economic impacts of early-stage innovators working on sustainability solutions. The Annual Impact Report 2025 stated that UpLink-supported ventures prevented 142,400 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions over the past two years, an amount comparable to the annual emissions of more than 30,000 cars.

In addition to reducing emissions, these start-ups protected 140 million hectares of terrestrial and aquatic areas, an area nearly one-fifth the size of the Amazon rainforest. Other reported impacts included the treatment of 2.5 billion litres of hazardous wastewater and the tracking of 28 million tonnes of waste.

More than 30,000 new...