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A Short Guide to Developing Green Business Models: For entrepreneurs, researchers and organisations that support entrepreneurs

This paper is intended for those who work with, research, and support green entrepreneurs, as well as for entrepreneurs who are starting a green business. It provides guidance in the process of elaborating a business plan and presenting it to potential partners and investors, based on the understanding of investors’ expectations.
8 March 2020

Female Entrepreneur in Green Industrialization: “Never stop learning”

Patricia Valdez

To celebrate International Women's Day on the 8th of March, the Economic Empowerment of Women in Green Industry (EEWiGI) held an interview with Patricia Valdez, who has contributed to the formalization of the glass-recycling sector in Peru.

7 April 2020
Other News

UNIDO works with Tunisia's entrepreneurs to respond to COVID-19

In Tunisia, entrepreneurs assisted by UNIDO's Mashrou3i project are producing face masks, disinfectant gel, and automatic disinfectant gel dispensers to help stop the spread of COVID19.
December 2018

Enabling Access to Finance for Green Entrepreneurs in Southern Mediterranean Countries

SwitchMed
This report explores how to develop the required infrastructure at the regional level to enable green entrepreneurs to flourish. It focuses on critical issues such as the role of finance in supporting green entrepreneurship in the Mediterranean and the need for specific mechanisms that can help new ideas grow and become successful green start­ups.
May 2017

Climate Technology Program Brief: Connecting Green Technology Entrepreneurs - Implications for Public Program Design

infoDev, World Bank Group
What is the role that connections can play in helping green technology entrepreneurs innovate and scale up in developing countries, so as to inform the design of new public sector programs? The Climate Technology Program Brief: Connecting Green Technology Entrepreneurs - Implications for Public Program Design tries to answer this question.
May 2017

Climate Technology Program Brief: Bringing Climate Opportunities to Entrepreneurs - Lessons Learned from the Caribbean Climate Innovation Center

infoDev, World Bank Group
The Climate Technology Program Brief: Bringing Climate Opportunities to Entrepreneurs - Lessons Learned from the Caribbean Climate Innovation Center draws lessons from the center’s operation, focusing on how the idea generation sessions were essential to seed local companies with climate related business opportunities and introduce new ideas to local climate markets.
September 2020

COVID-19 Action Agenda Leaders on the Front Line: Why Social Entrepreneurs Are Needed Now More than Ever

World Economic Forum (WEF)
The COVID-19 Action Agenda, outlined by the COVID Response Alliance for Social Entrepreneurs, recognises the vital role of social entrepreneurs as operating on the frontline of the crisis and building a green, inclusive society, and economic system.
May 2017

Climate Technology Program Brief: Crowdfunding for Green Businesses - Lessons from East African Startups

infoDev, World Bank Group
The Climate Technology Program Brief: Crowdfunding for Green Businesses - Lessons from East African Startups tries to better understand crowdfunding’s potential and limitation by interviewing a number of East African entrepreneurs who were early adopters of this new fundraising mechanism.
January 2016

Green Business Booklet

Start and Improve Your Business, The Green Initiative, International Labour Organization (ILO)
The Green Business Booklet (GBB) has been developed by the International Labour Organization (ILO) to support the creation of green businesses and the greening of existing businesses. The manual is designed to be used in conjunction with the ILO’s flagship Start and Improve Your Business (SIYB) programme.
20 March 2019
Partner Event

Succeeding in the Green Economy: West Coast Edition

On 20 March 2019 (5:30 - 7:00 PM PDT), Smart Prosperity Institute (SPI) and UBC Sauder School of Business’s Centre for Social Innovation & Impact Investing are hosting Succeeding in the Green Economy: West Coast Edition in Vancouver, Canada.

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