ecopreneurs4climate.org

1. The event: ECO4CLIM16

2. Role of climate organizer

3. Action plan to organize

4. Future perspectives: ECO4CLIM 2.0!

5. Q & A

Total duration: 1h

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 2016 Global Week of Green Business and the Climate Movement:

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

• October 24-30 2016, around the world

25+ cities, towns & communities already confirmed or in the process of, including:

Barcelona (Spain)

Paris (France)

Athens (Greece)Marrakech (Morocco)

Mahdia (Tunisia)

Panama City (Panama) Santiago (Chile)

Bologna (Italy)Cape Town (S. Africa)

Ramallah (Palestine)

Berlin (Germany)

Manaus (Brasil)

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)

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

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COP21: Paris Agreement

COP22: Innovation + cooperation

to implement it

• 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

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

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 ...

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

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

• Date & time: ...

• Venue & address: ...

• Climate organizer/s: ...

• Space partner: ...

• Media partners: ...

• Other partners: ...

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

Picture:

city/community, space ....

Organizations (private or public) or professionals that lead & manage an ECO4CLIM16 event

Specializing in: green economy, climate change, sustainability, business innovation,

entrepreneurship, international development ...

• Organizing the event: lead, coordinate and execute all major tasks involved: logistics,

partnerships, invitations, selection of participants (Awards), facilitation, and local

communication campaign (local media & outreach partners)

• Reporting: coordinate with and report progress & impact to ECO4CLIM team

• Prizes: optionally, look for additional prizes for the Awards

• Communication: lead the global communic. campaign and maximize reach of local ones

• Coordination: synchronize & harmonize contributions from the whole ecosystem

• Assistance: ongoing support to climate organizers via webinars, Skype, email ...

• Knowledge creation & sharing: facilitate exchange of best practices and innovation

• Prizes: interview and promote winners, mentoring by global partners, trip to COP22!!

• Part of an expanding global movement

• Positioning at the heart of your local green economy ecosystem

• Visibility & recognition via all the channels from ECO4CLIM and its network of partners

• Connection with professionals and organizations across the world, and exchange of best

practices with peers

• Business and partnership opportunities both in your country and internationally

• Contribute to sustainable development in your community

• And much more .... ECO4CLIM 2.0!!

1. Find a venue and fix the date

2. Build partnerships: STKs & outreach

3. Draft a press release

4. Distribute the PR: media & outreach p.

5. Keep promoting the event

6. Select participants for awards (4-4),

and collect their presentations (Pe-Kuc)

7. Send reminders when event approaches

8. Arrange the venue (on the eve)

9. Send a new press release on D-day (opt.)

10. Backup on D-day: hosting, TW, pics ...

11. Take notes & harvest findings/conclusions

12. Draft a synthetic report (blog post)

13. Keep it up and join ECO4CLIM 2.0!

• ECO4CLIM evolves from a global week of action into a “glocal” community of climate practice

• A global network of interconnected climate innovation labs, managed by climate organizers

• Labs where ecopreneurs meet activists to co-create climate-champion business solutions for cities and communities, as well as companies and organizations (hackathons)

• Partner with incubators/accelerators to shape, test & scale up solutions

• Successful models will be imported/exported from/to the network and replicated by local ecopreneurs

• Set-up a global non-profit organization, a network of non-profits, with an advisory board

• Hire staff, develop an online crowdsourcing platform, and implement a business model that generates revenue for climate organizers and host venues

• “Ecopreneurs for the Climate - Round-The-World Trip” right after the COP22 (Morocco, Nov.)

• Visit the climate organizers interested, and build and kickstart the climate innovations labs with you: business model, meetings with key STKs, raising funds (donors, philanthropists...), and transferring SwitchMed's eco-entrepreneurship methodology to local incubators

• Fundraising for EC04CLIM 2.0: a multi-site global crowdfunding campaign, with local chapters managed ONLY by those organizers who want to build their lab

• Co-funding: combine crowdfunding with sponsorship from municipality and/or companies

• Ir will also add prizes for the winners of the 2016 Climate Champion Awards

• To be launched on september 6-7, and last for a 1 month

• Specific webinar on the crowdfunding campaign & ECO4CLIM 2.0: middle of next week

What we need from you ASAP:

• Confirmation

• Bio, photo, logo

• Event's details

• Interested in ECO4CLIM 2.0?

• Video clip: “we are the...”

Next steps:

• ECO4CLIM16: follow action plan

• ECO4CLIM 2.0: event as 1st stone

• Specific webinar: crowdfunding & 2.0

Climate organizers:

Join us in this journey into the future of climate innovation and action ;-)

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