LowCarbon.Earth Accelerator Investor’s Forum

Date: 25-26 April 2024

Background

The UN Environment Programme (UNEP), through Global Opportunities for Sustainable Development Goals (GO4SDGs) and the EmPower for Climate-Resilient Societies Programme (EmPower) jointly implemented with UN Women, launched the LowCarbon.Earth Accelerator on World Environment Day (5 June) in 2023 together with the Massive Earth Foundation.

The Accelerator aims to support green start-up founders (including women-led green startups) in Asia and the Pacific that are operating in the sectors of i) plastics, ii) agri-food, iii) textiles, iv) cooling and v) renewable energy to build their capacities through online bootcamp and to facilitate their access to financing through an investor’s forum.

The online bootcamp ran from September 2023 to January 2024, with two sessions taking place every week: ‘Networking Tuesday', where industry leaders shared their insights and advice to the founders and ‘Skills up Thursday', where technical capacity building sessions were conducted, covering various topics including ‘hiring to scale’, ‘what investors look for in start-ups’, ‘growth strategies and scaling up’ and ‘ESG standards and compliance’.

Following this online bootcamp, the Accelerator is hosting the LowCarbon.Earth Accelerator Investor’s Forum in Bangkok, Thailand, inviting the selected young green start-up founders, including women start-ups to meet with the investors in person and pitch their businesses to access financing.

Objective

The purpose of this Investor’s Forum is to:

• Provide opportunities to match green start-ups with potential investors.
• Provide training and workshops related to business management, clean technology and ESG to start-ups.
• Provide networking opportunities with relevant stakeholders for green start-up founders.

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• Agenda (PDF, 143KB)