ecopreneurs4climate.org

Objectives:

1. Promote, connect and empower climate-champion ecopreneurs

2. Strengthen local green economy ecosystems

3. Boost sustainable business networks

4. Implement the Paris Agreement via an SME-centered green & equitable economy

The Global Week of Green Business and the Climate Movement:

• Half-day events: climate innovation labs + Climate Champion Awards

• #ECO4CLIM16: October 24-30 2016, around the world

Half a day, morning or afternoon, any day of the October 24-30 week:

• Round of introductions (10 min)

• Presentation of partners (20 min)

• Climate innovation lab (1h45)

• Break (15m)

• Climate Champion Awards (1h45)

Open co-creation session with key local green economy stakeholders:

• Goals: identify climate challenges and outline green business opportunities to tackle them

• Multi-stakeholder approach: civil society organizations, ecopreneurs & SMEs, large

companies, public admin. & entities, investors & financial institutions, media, universities

& business schools ...

• Open format: workshop, roundtable, debate ... to be decided by each climate organizer

• Duration: 1h30 - 1h45

Ecopreneurs & green SMEs pitch their ideas/projects to the audience & jury:

• Goals: promote, connect, and empower ecopreneurs & green SMEs

• 2 categories: ecopreneurs (idea) & SMEs (company)

• Mixed jury: experts (partners, stakeholders) + audience → Weights: 50% - 50%

• Presentation format: Pecha-Kucha (20 visual slides, 20 seconds/slide)

• Criteria: team, innovation, financial sust., impact (mitigation & adaptation)

• Prizes: interviews, mentoring ... 1 global winner will present at the COP22!!

• Duration: 1h30 - 1h45 (up to 4 participants per category)

Cities, towns & communities already confirmed or about to, include:

Barcelona (Spain)

Paris (France)

Athens (Greece)Marrakech (Morocco)

Mahdia (Tunisia)

Panama City (Panama) Santiago (Chile)

Berlin (Germany)Bologna (Italy)

Entrepreneurs that solve environmental challenges and create social value via cooperative and viable business models:

• Climate & environmental solutions

• Eco-awareness

• Green & quality local jobs

• Fair trade

• Economic equality & opportunity

• Community empowerment

• Social cohesion, democracy & peace

Spanish Green Business Association

European Sustainable Business Federation

Global platform supporting SMEs in the transition to a green economy

Organizations or professionals that lead and manage an ECO4CLIM16 event in their city,

town or community: green economy/climate change experts, international development

consultants

World-class companies/organizations leading the transition towards sustainability by

example. By participating in ECO4CLIM they:

• Absorb climate innovation, fresh ideas, and best practices

• Make contacts & partners within the green economy ecosystem

• Present their projects, and engage in open co-creation to tackle their climate challenges

• Mentor the Climate Champion ecopreneurs

Regional, national or sector-specific sustainable business networks play a key role:

• Contribute with valuable connections, spread the word across their networks and media

partners, and bring in new cities and the sustainable business community

• Offer free membership and peer-to-peer mentoring to the Climate Champions

• In return, they provide their members with quality contents and contacts, gain visibility,

grow their community, and exchange best practices with peers internationally

Generic or specialized media amplify and mainstream the message of the green economy &

the climate movement, showcasing its key stakeholders, ecopreneurs & SMEs in particular

• Reach out to sustainability professionals and advocates, and promote partners

• Maximize the impact of the events, and tell stories of world-changing ecopreneurs

Event partners contribute to making their city/community's ECO4CLIM16 event possible, getting in return visibility & promotion, contacts & partners, and knowledge & contents: • Green economy stakeholders participate in the climate innovation lab & jury• The space partner provides the venue, helps with logistics, and engages its community.

It can be a co-working space, entrepreneur./innovation center, incubator/accelerator, city/municipality hall, university or business school ...

• Media partners (don't have to be actual media) spread the news, promote the event and its partners, reach out to ecopreneurs & green SMEs, and interview the winners

• Sponsors donate prizes to the Climate Champions: cash, mentoring, services ...• Volunteers give a hand on the D-day: hosting, logistics, tweeting, taking pictures ...

• 7 cities , 4 countries• 60+ organizations• 500+ participants• 28 SMEs, 16 awarded• Web: 12,000+ visits, 61 countries• TW: 2,8 M impres., 250 users, 3 TTs• FB: 155 K pp. reached, 20K engaged

• Ciclogreen: sust. mobility solut.• GEN Europe: energy efficiency• ClimaLoop: GHG emiss.

reduction• Green Living: LEED projects• Encicle: bike delivering

• Nostoc: eco-fertilizers agriculture• SATT: eco-social architecture• La Ruche: local eco-markets• Vanapedal: bike delivering• APA Water: eco-disinfection water• Navlandis: eco-logistics consult.

• BioCE: bio-architect. & urbanism• Ecuorum: eco-agricult. consult.• Ecovidasolar: eco-marketplace• 3dImpact: eco 3D printing• Cubo Verde: energy & eco consult.

"Opportunities and challenges for SMEs in realising the COP21 vision"

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COP21: Paris Agreement

COP22: Innovation + cooperation

to implement it

ECO4CLIM is evolving. In 2017, we want to tap into the unbound potential of this emerging global ecosystem of climate organizers, ecopreneurs & SMEs, civil society organizations, stakeholders and partners, to move from a global week of action to a dynamic “glocal” community of climate practice, maximizing impact in the communities along the way.

For so doing, we are going to set up a global non-profit organization, hire staff, develop a potent online crowdsourcing platform, and implement a business model that generates revenue for climate organizers.

The idea is simple: a global network of well-interconnected, permanent climate innovation labs, managed by climate organizers; where activists meet ecopreneurs to design climate-champion business solutions for cities and communities, as well as companies and organizations; and partner with incubators/accelerators to scale them up. Successful models will be imported and exported from/to the network and replicated by local ecopreneurs.

To achieve the ECO4CLIM 2.0 vision presented, our management team we will travel around the world to visit the climate organizers' cities and communities, and build and kickstart the climate innovations labs with them: working on the business model, meeting with key stakeholders, raising funds from donors and philanthropists, and transferring our eco-entrepreneurship methodology (SwitchMed) to local partnering incubators. We will beging this exciting “Ecopreneurs for the Climate - Round-The-World Trip” right after the COP22, in Morocco in November.

To get there, we need to do a lot of fundraising, which we will channel through a global crowdfunding campaign, to be launched in early september. It will combine crowdfunding with sponsorship, and will establish an advisory board. On top of it all, it will also add prizes for the winners of the 2016 Climate Champion Awards.

So, climate organizers, partners and eco-changemakers, join us in this incredible journey into the future of climate innovation and action ;-)

• Ecopreneurs & SMEs: take part in the lab, present at the Awards

• Climate organizer: organize an event in your city, town, or community

• Global partner: sponsor the initiative and help scale up its impact

• Sustainable business network: support & promote events in your region, offer free membership & mentoring to winners ...

• Media partner: publish press releases & news, promote events, and interview winners

• Event partner: help make your local event possible by participating in the lab & jury, providing resources such as the venue (space partner), outreach, prizes ...

• Everybody: contribute to the crowdfungin campaign (soon!) for prizes and scale-up

• Date & time: ...

• Venue & adress: ...

• Climate organizer/s: ...

• Space partner: ...

• Media partners: ...

• Other partners: ...

• Contact details (climate organizer): ....

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