The Climate Solutions Accelerator is aimed at local authorities wishing to put in place solutions led by innovative start-ups and SMEs to meet the challenges of climate change.
It operated in community mode with major companies, government agencies, Greentech solution label holders and both generalist and specialist support structures.
of expressions of needs from local authorities looking for solutions.
of solutions initiated by startups and SMEs that address the environmental challenges we are facing.
through networking days and ultra-targeted meetings, organized with startups and SMEs for local authorities and large companies, in the presence of innovation facilitators.
from offers from startups, SMEs and NGOs to local authorities and large companies in order to meet the needs expressed.
with smart integration of launched solutions into inspiring communications aimed at the the general public through the organization of conferences, screenings and meetings with inhabitants, through social media platforms, and through local press media.
We help local authorities implement innovative solutions to meet the challenges of climate change.
Major corporations contributes to identify innovative solutions and create local value to meet climate and environmental challenges. They help to promote Open Innovation both locally and within organizations.
ADEME is one of the operators of the France 2030 investment plan, responsible for appraising and financing innovations and industrialization. It is thus in a position to help local authorities identify solutions to meet the challenges of their ecological transition.
The “Solar Impulse Efficient Solution” label enables decision-makers to find effective, cost-effective solutions to meet their environmental commitments. Greentech Innovation, for its part, drives the ecosystem of French companies (startups and SMEs) that are innovating in a sustainable way for the ecological transition. The competitiveness cluster Capenergies facilitates the emergence of innovative projects and supports their financing and development to accelerate the Energy Transition in the regions
Supporting partners are involved in the ecological transition as part of their activities, encouraging local authorities in their efforts and benefiting in return from solutions identified during the program.
Creative Minds supports the stakeholders in the Climate Solutions Accelerator throughout the various stages of the program, with a highly pragmatic approach that includes collective intelligence.
Thanks to their ready-to-use technologies, start-ups and SMEs with climate solutions aim to go to scale as quickly as possible.
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According to experts on the field, individual behavioral changes for the average French person would result in a maximum 20% decrease in personal carbon footprint. This would represent a quarter of the global effort needed to achieve the goal of limiting the average global temperature increase to below 2°C above pre-industrial levels.
In total, commitment of individuals and households to decarbonize their lifestyles, which is certainly unavoidable, is nonetheless insufficient to achieve the reduction targets and aim for carbon neutrality in France by 2050.
In order to win the battle and the race against time in which we are engaged at the planetary level, it is necessary to transcend individual action and reach a collective level of action, while involving the citizens too.
While the major orientations for the climate (plans, strategies, etc.) are defined at the national level, it is at at the regional and intermunicipal levels that these policies are implemented in order to ensure the coherence of the measures and their implementation in all sectors.
Local authorities are directly responsible for a certain number of local public services that are related to the environment and allow them to contribute to its protection. To meet the challenges of climate change, they are looking for innovative solutions, particularly from start-ups and SMEs, which in turn need to develop rapidly and "scale up".
These solutions, whether they are high-tech, mid-tech or low-tech, are also in the field of social innovation and sobriety of uses while allowing the development of new local jobs and the emergence of local activities.
Initially inspired by TED's OUNTDOWN . program to detect and promote inspiring ideas ("We can change Climate Change"), the Climate Solutions Accelerator works operationally with local authorities and start-ups to enhance the implementation of innovative solutions.
