Global Week of Green Business and the Climate Movement

Every year, the Global Week of Green Business and the Climate Movement takes place cities and communities around the world; seeking to empower ecopreneurs and scale up green business solutions that tackle climate change. Concretely, its goals are:

• Promote, connect and empower climate ecopreneurs
• Strengthen local green economy ecosystems
• Boost sustainable business networks
• Implement the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Agreement

ECO4CLIM17: dates & agenda

The 2017 Edition -ECO4CLIM17- will be held on October 16-22, 2017, with the global winner participating in the COP23 Climate Summit in Bonn (Germany) on November 6-17. All of the Week’s events follow this structure:

• Expert panel on “climate challenges and green business opportunities” (1h30): roundtable with key green economy stakeholders (businesses, civil society, academia, public agencies, financial institutions, media…), followed by an open debate; to identify concrete challenges posed by climate change locally, and then outline opportunities for ecopreneurs to build green business solutions to tackle them.
• Break (15 min.)
• Climate Champion Awards (1h45): pre-selected local green businesses and ecopreneurs pitch their climate impacts to a diverse audience, focusing on the mitigation and adaptation/resilience solutions they provide; and a mixed jury (experts + audience) decides the winners.

Climate Champions Awards

As a fitting close, the 2017 Climate Champion Awards will be granted to the best & brightest ecopreneurs at each venue. If your project can reduce carbon emissions (mitigation) and help adapt to the effects of climate change (adaptation/resilience), then you can already pre-register below.

Categories:

Ecopreneur: entrepeneurs at the idea or project stage

SMEs: established companies

Evaluation criteria:

Strength and complementarity of the team.

Innovative approach to any and all aspects of the project: business model, implementation, communication, impact measurement, etc.

Financial sustainability: revenue streams vs cost structure balance.

Impact, or potential of impact, on climate change mitigation -reduction of carbon emissions-, and adaptation/resilience of local communities to its effects.

Prizes:
Will vary for each event, and may include:

Membership to green business networks

Promotion by media: personal interviews by media partners at loca, national and international level, and special mention in ECO4CLIM17 impact report

Mentoring sessions by global partners and expert collaborators

One global winner will take part, all expenses covered, in the COP23 Climate Summit to be held in Bonn (Germany) on November 6-17

Host cities

Algeria Algers	Argentina Mar del Plata	Armenia Yerevan	Brazil Manaus
Cambodia Phnom Penh	Cameroon Douala Yaoundé	Colombia Medellín	England Liverpool
France Paris	Germany Berlin	Kenya Nairobi	Morocco Rabat
Nigeria Nsukka	Palestine Birzeit	Poland Warsaw	Portugal Évora
Romania Cluj Napoca	South Africa Cape Town Winterveld	Spain Badajoz Barcelona Donosti Madrid Malaga Oviedo Palma de Mallorca Sevilla Valencia Vigo Tarifa	Togo Lomé
Tunisia Mahdia	United States San Francisco

Pre-registration

You can already pre-register to participate in expert panels, present your project/business at the Climate Champion Awards, or express your interest in having an event in your community. Come to ECO4CLIM17 and be part of this growing movement for climate solutions: