Deadline: 15-Dec-21
One Young World and Credit Suisse are seeking applications for the Investing for Life on Land Challenge to surface and support impactful enterprises that look to further narrow the gap in achieving SDG 15.
Credit Suisse welcomes entrepreneurs with for-profit enterprises that help improve Life on Land, in any form, to submit their business plan for consideration.
Challenges
The challenge invites participants from the examples, however not restricted to, solutions that could protect and/or restore existing ecological resources. For example:
- Reducing deforestation
- Alternative agriculture
- Strategies aimed at species preservation
- Nature-based solutions e.g. mangroves providing costal resilience and providing blue carbon credits for climate adaptation and mitigation
- Supporting the elimination of poaching and illegal wildlife trafficking
- Conservation and sustainable use of ecological assets
Benefits
The winning solution will receive:
- Sponsorship to participate in the One Young World Summit 2022 in Tokyo from 16 to 19 May
- A US$50,000 grant from Credit Suisse
- 12 months of mentorship from a team of Credit Suisse professionals. The mentorship team will work to accelerate your solution based on the needs of your initiative or organisation, such as:
- Business strategy
- Best practices for data collection
- Monitoring and evaluation
- Product design
Criteria
- Aligned: Evidently aligned with the challenge.
- For-profit: Credit Suisses’ Lead2030 Challenge is specifically intended to support a for-profit business.
- Youth-led: Founded by a person aged 18 – 30.
- Focused: Well-structured time horizon, identified key stakeholders and beneficiaries, and proposed outcomes that are reasonable and well thought out.
- Market ready: Product/service already in market or ready to go to market.
- Impactful: Solutions must have a positive social impact, for example generating employment, or developing skills.
- Measurable: Impacts of solutions must have been adequately measured and/or be measurable.
- Financially viable: Must be able to achieve efficiency and to survive independently through the resources they generate and/or the investments and donations they attract.
- Scalable: Potential to perform as well or better after expanding in scope or size and/or being transported to other regions.
For more information, visit https://www.oneyoungworld.com/lead2030/21-22/challenge-sdg15-credit-suisse