Software Cut-off date: April 30th 2018

The seek for Momentum for Trade’s 2018 Lighthouse Actions is on! Programs are being approved from 22 February to 30 April. Spearheaded by means of the United Countries Local weather Trade Secretariat, Momentum for Trade shines a gentle at the maximum cutting edge, scalable and replicable examples of what folks world wide are doing to take on local weather alternate.

For those who’re main a results-driven challenge this is effectively addressing local weather alternate, we wish to listen from you!

Necessities:

Your task should meet the eligibility standards for its respective house of focal point. Please observe that each and every of the 4 spaces of focal point has its personal standards. So as to meet the fundamental eligibility standards, the task should:
1. Cope with local weather alternate mitigation or adaptation;
2. Be already applied, or at some point of implementation;
three. Be scaleable and/or replicable with attainable for long-term affect;
four. Be cutting edge and/or reveal attainable for long-term transformational alternate;
five. Ship verifiable social and environmental advantages;
6. No longer be registered or have intentions to sign up as a blank building mechanism (CDM) or joint implementation (JI) initiative within the subsequent two years.
In case your establishment has effectively applied a challenge, initiative, program or different task that addresses local weather alternate mitigation or adaptation whilst that specialize in one of the crucial 5 spaces defined under, we want to listen about it.

The 2018 name for programs comprises the next 4 spaces of focal point:

 Girls for Effects, spotting the crucial management and participation of ladies in addressing local weather alternate;

Financing for Local weather Pleasant Funding, spotting a hit monetary inventions for local weather alternate adaption and mitigation;

Planetary Well being, spotting novel answers that steadiness the desire for each human well being and a wholesome planet;

Local weather Impartial Now, spotting efforts by means of people, firms and governments which might be attaining actual ends up in transitioning to local weather neutrality;

Advantages:

In case your challenge is chosen as a profitable task, you’re going to obtain a variety of advantages, together with :

• totally coated attendance to the 2018 UN Local weather Trade Convention in Katowice, Poland; get admission to to coverage makers and attainable funders all through the convention; public reputation by means of the UN Local weather Trade secretariat; public members of the family make stronger and media coaching; advertising and marketing fabrics, together with promotional movies, a devoted web page about your challenge on our web page images.

Momentum for Trade Lighthouse Actions obtain the next advantages bundle:

I.            Engagement with coverage makers
               • Popularity by means of the UNFCCC secretariat;
• Attendance to UN Local weather Trade Meetings;
• Alternatives to provide paintings to coverage makers all through the UN Local weather Trade Meetings.
II.          Public members of the family make stronger
• Concentrated media engagement effort previous to and all through the UN Local weather Trade Meetings, together with  placement of opinion items and earned media;
• On-going virtual marketing campaign, together with social media, e-mail advertising and marketing and promotion on UNFCCC web page.
III.         Advertising make stronger
• Promotional movies;
• Devoted webpage at the UNFCCC web page;
• Interactive annual reviews;
• Skilled images.

The choice procedure:

Lighthouse Actions shall be introduced in October 2018 and formally known and celebrated all through an award rite and a sequence of particular occasions in December 2018 on the UN Local weather Trade Convention in Katowice, Poland.

The right way to observe:

• To begin a brand new software, sign up in our on-line software portal. It’s going to take a minimum of an hour to finish an software however you’ll save your growth at any time and paintings on it at your comfort. Finished programs should be submitted by means of nighttime GMT on 30 April 2018.

For Extra Data:

Discuss with the Professional Webpage of the 2018 Momentum for Trade Awards