Ecopreneurs for the Climate 2016 - Webinar: "become a climate organizer in your community" #ECO4CLIM16

1. ecopreneurs4climate.org

2. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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)

7. 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)

8. 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

9. 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)

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

12. 12

13. COP21:
Paris Agreement
COP22:
Innovation + cooperation
to implement it

14. • 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

15. 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

16. 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 ...

17. • Date & time: ...
• Venue & address: ...
• Climate organizer/s: ...
• Space partner: ...
• Media partners: ...
• Other partners: ...
• Contact details (climate organizer): ....
Picture:
city/community,
space ....

19. Organizations (private or public) or professionals that lead & manage an ECO4CLIM16 event
Specializing in: green economy, climate change, sustainability, business innovation,
entrepreneurship, international development ...

20. • 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

21. • 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!!

22. • 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!!

24. 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!

26. • 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

27. • “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

28. 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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