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🌍 Financing Climate Action for the Global South!
As the planet grapples with the adversities of climate change, rising threats to health, food security, livelihoods and quality of overall life become evident. Entrepreneurs have stepped up to the challenge, offering solutions rooted in innovation, aligning with the Paris Agreement's call for sustainable practices.
As we celebrate 15 years, the Sankalp Awards has partnered with Artha Impact to present the Sankalp x Artha Impact Global Awards to recognize entrepreneurs' intersection of climate change and SDGs'. Let’s Dive In!
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Introducing New Award Categories | |
Breaking away from the traditional, we introduce categories that recognize unique business characteristics: | |
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Climate Mitigation Award:
Highlighting organizations and initiatives that have made substantial strides in combatting climate change and promoting sustainable economic practices. This recognition celebrates those effectively curbing greenhouse gas emissions, conserving natural resources, advancing renewable energy, innovating with new technologies, enhancing energy efficiency in existing equipment, and bolstering resilience against climate change repercussions.
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Circular Economy Award:
Applauding enterprises for pioneering solutions that minimize waste, enhance resource efficiency, and embrace circular economy ideals. This category welcomes innovations in circular apparel, packaging, distribution, business design, manufacturing, and resource recovery.
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Climate Adaptation and
Resilience Award:
This category honors entities that have significantly advanced in crafting and enacting measures to combat risks, safeguard communities and ecosystems, and ensure enduring sustainability amid climate shifts. Open to diverse sectors such as Health, Agriculture, Livelihoods, Wash, and Gender.
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Ecosystem Award for the Most Sustainable Business:
This award celebrates businesses exemplary in aligning with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It spotlights entities that, through their operations, products, services, or business models, champion one or more SDGs. Such organizations underscore sustainability, social responsibility, and meaningful impact in their domains. Recipients are chosen through a voting process within our online community of impact practitioners, further elevating the Summit's engagement.
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Embarking on our awards journey is both exhilarating and transformative. Dive in and chart your course. | |
We are looking for high impact businesses that operate in these 6 tracks: | | |
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NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT | | |
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CLIMATE SMART AGRICULTURE | |
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DECARBONIZATION
TO NET ZERO
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Here are 6 top reasons you should get recognized on a global stage by one of the world's largest inclusive development platforms. | |
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Cash Prize of up to $20,000 for each category.
**Inclusive of all applicable taxes**
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Improve your pitch and refine your investment ask through one-on-one investment readiness support | |
Get feedback directly from investors through Sankalp’s opportunities to pitch to the eminent Sankalp Grand Jury and audience of investors | |
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Connect one-on-one through curated meetings with
global investors
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Collaborate with a global network of investors,
donors, and entrepreneur support organizations
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Participate at the Sankalp Global Summit 2023 | |
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Our application process is both inclusive and exhaustive, ensuring that we choose the best of the best. The overarching criteria focus on factors like entrepreneurship, innovation, scalability, local leadership, impact, team composition, partnerships, and more.
Apply for the Sankalp x Artha Impact Global Awards if you:
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- Enterprises in the revenue-generation stage
- Enterprises with at least 3 years of operations in any sector
- Enterprises that directly/indirectly addresses climate change
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Our awards seek to identify and honor enterprises that not only excel in their respective fields but also exhibit a broader vision for societal advancement and innovation. As we delve into the specifics of what we're looking for, you'll find that our criteria capture a blend of business acumen, societal impact, and market insight. Below are the detailed criteria: | | |
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- Should have a dedicated promoter team, with industry and technical experience.
- Must have a clear for-profit business model.
- Traction of the company and showing high potential scale.
- Ability to demonstrate an understanding of the market landscape and differentiation from other players.
- Should have a clear potential to create impact for people living at the bottom of the pyramid.
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Application Deadline: Monday, September 11th, 2023 | 11:59pm IST | |
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Be a part of this great transition
by applying to the awards
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Sankalp Forum was initiated in India in 2009 by Intellecap, part of the Aavishkaar Group, to create a thriving ecosystem for business-led inclusive development. Over the past 15 years, Sankalp has built one of the world's largest impact enterprise focused platforms that has showcased and discovered 2350+ entrepreneurs, through 32 editions and has connected them to 1000+ investors. Sankalp has enabled enterprises and entrepreneurs and has helped raise over USD 800 million in funding and disbursed over USD 1.2 Million in cash grants. Sankalp Forum engages with Governments, Corporations, influential platforms like WEF, GIIN, G8 and G20, media and civil society to drive a paradigm shift in inclusive development approaches. For more details please visit,
www.sankalpforum.com
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