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Climate Expeditions

Some things you can only understand by standing in front of them

Curated, small-group immersion journeys into real-world climate and agrifood innovation sites across Southeast Asia.

We take you out of conference rooms and into farms, facilities, labs, and communities where climate solutions are being built, tested and scaled. These expeditions are designed for people shaping climate decisions who want grounded insight, beyond reports, pitch decks and finance spreadsheets.

Why Better Earth's Climate Expeditions Exist

Working on climate from an office tells only half the story. The other half lives on the ground: in farms, processing facilities, coastal communities, labs and remote regions, where the forces that decide a solution's fate are easiest to see.

Climate Expeditions are immersive learning journeys that give founders, investors, policymakers and ecosystem builders a sharper intuition for how climate technology meets real-world constraints, and what it truly takes to scale a solution responsibly.

Watching technology, behaviour, economics and environment interact first-hand builds something reports rarely can: the judgement to back, design and support solutions that hold up at scale.

Where We've Been

Our Climate Expeditions have already taken us across Southeast Asia, visiting climate solutions at different stages of maturity and scale.

  • Malaysia

    A Little Wild

    At A Little Wild in Kota Tinggi, we saw how a degraded palm plantation can be brought back to life through syntropic agroforestry, and learnt how to work with the grain of nature.

  • Borneo

    SEADLING

    In Kota Kinabalu and Semporna, we visited SEADLING, a seaweed biotech company developing functional ingredients that naturally enhance the well-being of animals, plants, and humans.

  • The Philippines

    Polar Cold

    We visited Polar Cold in Manila, where the team is rethinking cold storage for food and pharma SMEs through modular, hyperlocal cold rooms that businesses can rent on demand.

Who Climate Expeditions Are For

Climate decisions get clearer when you see the system up close. Whether you invest, build, regulate, or operate, these trips give you the context that slides, models, and boardrooms can't. Each group walks away with sharper judgement, fewer assumptions, and a more grounded sense of what scaling climate solutions in Asia actually demands.

  • Investors Seeking Sharper Conviction

    See how climate solutions behave beyond pitch decks. Understand operational risk, adoption friction, and scale potential by observing how founders, farmers, and operators make decisions under real constraints in context.

  • Corporates Driving Sustainability and Supply Chain Transformation

    Meet the suppliers, operators and innovators your sustainability commitments depend on, and see where technology genuinely changes the economics of a supply chain.

  • Government and Public Sector Leaders

    Understand how policy lands on the ground: what accelerates adoption, what stalls it, and where public support makes the decisive difference.

  • Innovators and Builders in Adjacent Climate Fields

    Pressure-test your assumptions against neighbouring parts of the system, and find the collaborations that only become obvious in person.

  • Ecosystem Leaders Who Need Grounded Insight

    Programme designers, accelerator teams and researchers who need first-hand context to build things that actually serve founders in this region.

  • Anyone Who Wants to Understand Climate Systems at Their Roots

    No prior sector experience required: only genuine curiosity about how climate solutions succeed or fail in the real world.

What You'll Experience

These journeys go far deeper than a site tour.

You'll sit down with the founders and the people running these systems day to day.

You'll hear what keeps them up at night, what's working, and what still feels unsolved.

You'll speak directly with the farmers who live with climate decisions first-hand.

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The next Climate Expedition is coming

We're curating our April 2026 Climate Expedition now, and we would love you to be part of it.

If you want to learn directly from the ground, and from the communities and operators shaping climate resilience, this one is for you.

Expedition participants travelling by boat