The Climate Solutions Accelerator is aimed at local authorities - agglomerations of municipalities, wishing to implement solutions led by innovative startups and SMEs to meet the challenges of climate change.
It operates as a community by working together with large companies, government agencies, competitiveness clusters with expertise and with other supporting structures that are both generalists and specialized in GreenTech.
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 and meetings with inhabitants, through social media platforms, and through local press media.
We facilitate the implementation of innovative solutions for local authorities to meet the challenges they face already with climate change.
As members of the Climate Solutions Accelerator, large companies contribute to the detection of innovations that they can integrte into their own offers, particularly for local authorities. The French Agency for Ecological Transition is also involved.
Competitiveness clusters and acceleration hubs get involved in identifying climate and environmental protection solutions.
Thanks to their ready-to-use technologies, startups 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.
