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ValuCred Report on the Plastic Credit Market

Study on Entrepreneurship in the Amazon Region

Circularity Gap Report 2021

Extended Producer Responsibility Toolkit

Polyproblem Report – Wertsachen

Academia Report on Social Business 2020

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💡 "Great things in business are never done by a

💡 "Great things in business are never done by a single person, they are done by a team of people." This is the motto of @sehubgh1 who @yunusenvironmenthub has partnered up with to launch a new cohort of our StartNow program. We are open for applications from now on and awaiting your social business ideas!

🚀 Our StartNow online platform helps aspiring entrepreneurs to build their business plans within 8 weeks. The program blends online-offline experiences as the entrepreneurs will be accompanied by weekly mentoring sessions. With the current cohort, we will support 30 entrepreneurs on their journey to build up their social business.

🇬🇭 SE-HuB Ghana is a not-for-profit organization that is founded on the idea of empowering youth, start-ups, and businesses in the formal and informal sector to compete at all levels in the market and introduce them into Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

👉 Apply as an entrepreneur or mentor until 7th January 2022 by signing up via the link in the bio. Find further information on www.yystartnow.com or write us via info@yystartnow.com.

#StartNow #socialbusiness #socbiz #3zeros #zerounemployment

🥾 Some people go through incredible lengths to

🥾 Some people go through incredible lengths to protect the environment. Social business entrepreneur @julioandresrozo walked 400km through the Amazon rainforest within 22 days training local youth to fight deforestation. In 2014, he founded @amazoniaemprende, a social business that is part of @yunusenvironmenthub's Amazonas Verde program.

🌱 Located in the heart of the Amazon rainforest, Amazonía Emprende connects environmental with social impact strengthening local communities to preserve biodiversity.

What Amazonía Emprende has accomplished:
• securing jobs for young people in vulnerable situations and supporting social business entrepreneurs
• aiming to plant 50,000 native trees in the Amazon region in 2021 and 2022 with half of the goal achieved
• trained 550 students in social business entrepreneurship in 2021, funding scholarships for students of the Caquetá region
• introducing tourists to the prosperity and importance of the Amazon rainforest and connecting them with local communities and entrepreneurs

👉 Check the latest video of Amazonía Emprende in the bio. Find out more: https://yunusenvironmenthub.com/amazonas-verde/ or on: https://amazoniaemprende.com/.

#AmazonasVerde #3zeros #socbiz #deforestation

💰 An essential part of our StartNow program is

💰 An essential part of our StartNow program is preparing social business entrepreneurs to finance their business ideas. Last Wednesday, @yunusenvironmenthub organized for a Mentors and Mentees Café to introduce the recent cohort to funding opportunities.

💡 Our 30 mentees reached their 6th week of the StartNow program – the perfect time to profit from real-life insights by Barbara Mutabazi, Co-Founder of @hivecolab , and Shiella Karungi, Operations Manager at @einsteinrising who were sharing personal advice and possibilities for financing social businesses.

👉 With StartNow, so far we supported over 130 participants from East Africa to develop social business plans to address challenges related to the environmental crisis. If you believe StartNow can be part of one of your programs and you are interested in learning more about the course and running a cohort with us, reach out to our team via info@yystartnow.com or visit www.yystartnow.com.

#StartNow #socialbusiness #socbiz #3zeros #zerounemployment #zeronetcarbonemissions

🇪🇺 Let's clean up Europe! From 20th to 28th

🇪🇺 Let's clean up Europe! From 20th to 28th November, the European Week for Waste Reduction (EWWR) encourages all Europeans to carry out awareness-raising actions about sustainable resource and waste management.

✊ With over 10,000 actions implemented in 2020, we hope to raise the bar even higher this year! You can:
• Take action: carry out an awareness-raising action on waste reduction, reuse, recycling, or a clean-up
• Be involved: participate in one of the multiple actions in several cities around you
• Get inspired: by a broad range of multimedia material on topics revolving around waste reduction

⭕️ We are helping to transform our linear into a circular economy not only this week but all year: @yunusenvironmenthub's social business solutions are based on the 7 R's: #rethink, #reduce, #reuse, #repair, #refurbish, #recover and #recycle.

#cleanup #wastemanagement #recycling #socialbusiness #socbiz #3zeros

🏃‍♀️ We are catching our breath from the

🏃‍♀️ We are catching our breath from the event marathon of the past weeks to look back on one of the highlights for us: last week's Plastic Waste Free World Conference & Expo in Cologne, Germany.

⭕️ As we were speaking about the plastic credit market, we used this live opportunity to connect with various stakeholders along the waste value chain. From regulators to certifiers to technical solution providers we exchanged interesting new insights in the global application to strengthen circularity and enjoyed the get-together with fellow PREVENT Waste Alliance members face to face.

@generation.n_ @blackforest.solutions @bmz_bund
#ValuCred #PREVENTWasteAlliance #WuppertalInstitut #BVrio #RöchlingStiftung #3zeros #socialbusiness #socbiz #zeroplasticwaste #circulareconomy

Photo credits: PREVENT Waste Alliance

📌 We have been looking forward to this day: on

📌 We have been looking forward to this day: on 18th November at 10:00 AM ICT, our Senior Project Manager Ina Ballik will contribute to session 6 "Sustainable financing for a waste-free future" of @unep 's Sea of Solutions, where she will be talking about @yunusenvironmenthub 's work with ValuCred.

🇺🇳 We are taking this opportunity to provide new impulses for the evaluation of financing mechanisms for sustainable management of plastics and influence the discourse held among policymakers at UN-level alongside high-ranking organizations like @asean_centre_for_biodiversity , @adb_hq , and the @plastic_collective .

👉 Don't miss out and register for free!

@generation.n_ @blackforest.solutions @bmz_bund #PREVENTWasteAlliance #RöchlingStiftung
#ValuCred #3zeros #zeropoverty #livingwages #circulareconomy

💰 How can we ensure that #waste workers around

💰 How can we ensure that #waste workers around the world are paid according to their services? In our recent position paper, we have examined and evaluated global standards for living wage measurement such as the @worldbank ’s International Poverty Line (IPL).

👷🏾‍♀️ As part of the standardized process model (SPM) that ValuCred is developing, we strive to establish a basis for adequate remuneration of all workers that take part in waste collection and treatment services. For this purpose, @yunusenvironmenthub has assessed a variety of existing measures and concepts, aiming to identify a basis for devising adequate remuneration that assures sustainable income levels.

👉 In your opinion, what would be an apt basis to derive wages from? Download the paper here to find out more on our website.

@generation.n_ @blackforest.solutions @bmz_bund #PREVENTWasteAlliance #RöchlingStiftung
# ValuCred #3zeros #zeropoverty #livingwages #circulareconomy

📢 A good reminder for all of us that it is our

📢 A good reminder for all of us that it is our responsibility to mitigate the climate crisis #FollowupCOP26. Every day is #COP and all hands must be on deck to collectively solve it without leaving any stone unturned.

🌱 At @yunusenvironmenthub, our goal is directed towards creating solutions with a positive impact on the environment and improving livelihoods through the concept of social business. Lately, we have set a focus on East Africa with programs such as StartNow to support social business plan creation and our GrowUp Incubator for early-stage social business entrepreneurs.

👉 Do you have a #socialbusiness solution that is addressing environmental issues? We welcome you to join our community!

#3zeros #zeroplastic #zeronetemissions #zerounemployment #zeropoverty #socbiz #StartNow #GrowUp

⏲️ Only nine days left to apply! @yunusenviron

⏲️ Only nine days left to apply! @yunusenvironmenthub 's incubation program GrowUp is still open for applications and awaiting your solution for sustainable food systems in East Africa.

Check if we are a match! To apply for the 2022 cohort, your social business should:
✔️ Be able to demonstrate substantial environmental and social impact on food systems in EA
✔️ Be in pre-seed investment but post-revenue stage
✔️ Have their product/service on the market for 6 months to 3 years
✔️ Have accumulated sales to date of approx. 10,000 – 25,000 USD (not necessarily profitable yet)
✔️ Have 2-3 people from the team who will participate in the program

💡 Get inspired by last month's Demo Day where social business entrepreneurs from our previous cohort shared their business pitches and what they have gained from our program. Check "Demo Day" on our YouTube channel.

👉 Are you a social business entrepreneur and want to grow your skills? Are you an expert in the field of business development or the food systems industry and want to become a mentor? Apply until November 21st on our website!

@postcodeloterij I #YYFoundation
#callformentors #callforproposals #socialbusiness #socbiz #3zeros #zerohunger #zeropoverty #foodsystems #foodwaste #consumption #agriculture

📌 Aspiring entrepreneurs and startup owners lis

📌 Aspiring entrepreneurs and startup owners listen up! On 11th November from 3:00 - 4:00 PM EAT, our Program Manager @carrillokate will be sharing valuable insights at #BeyondProfits webinar on unleashing the power of social business as part of @digitalopptrust 's commitment to connecting young social innovators to opportunities for growth.

🚀 Take the chance to expand your knowledge as we will be talking about pioneering change through #socialinnovation, covering topics such as:
• The basics of building a social business and financing opportunities
• Social innovation in Africa with focus on Kenya
• @professormuhammadyunus social business theory of change
• Designing for Impact – Bringing the Idea to Human Experience
• @yunusenvironmenthub ‘s GrowUp Incubator

👉 Save your spot for this Zoom event!

#GrowUp #StartNow #3zeros #socialbusiness #socbiz

🌍 'Paris promised, Glasgow must deliver'. While

🌍 'Paris promised, Glasgow must deliver'. While we are presenting concrete solutions for climate action at @global_social_business_summit , we are demanding that the world community participating #COP26 picks them up, scales, and replicates them around the globe.

📌 Today at 12:30 pm CET, @yunusenvironmenthub 's Co-founder and Chairman @professormuhammadyunus comes together with the younger generation to address the issue of combatting climate change and injustice through #socialinnovation. Professor Yunus will be joined by students, leading professors and experts on sustainable fashion from @glasgow_caledonian_university ’s Centre for Climate Justice and @yunuscentre who are investigating the role of #microfinance and #climatechange adaptation in Rwanda.

👉 Join us at #COP26 at the Green Zone event series.

#COP26 #climateaction #togetherforourplanet #sdgs #3zeros #socialbusiness

🕐 We are counting down the hours: we can not wa

🕐 We are counting down the hours: we can not wait for this year's Global Social Business Summit to start tomorrow.

📌 Stop by on Monday and join Yunus Environment Hub's plenary session on “Accelerating Climate Action through Social Business” at 9:15 PM CET or take part in a workshop about the emerging plastic credit market at 4 PM. You can already get to know our speakers!

👉 The best comes last: GSBS 2021 is online accessible to all for free. Safe your ticket!

@fao @grameen_shakti Grameen Shakti @amazoniaemprende @yowasteapp @grameencreativelab @professormuhammadyunus
@yunuscentre @yy.ventures @yunussportshub @yunussocialbusiness I #YYFoundation I #GermanFederalMinistryoftheEnvironmentNature
#savethedate #3zeros #socialbusiness #socbiz

📌 Tune in today at 3 pm CET or 5 pm EAT on an i

📌 Tune in today at 3 pm CET or 5 pm EAT on an interesting webinar hosted by our partners #StepchangeAfrica and @
bfe.global discussing HR and Corporate Governance for early-stage African startups and social enterprises.

🙋 People are the foundation of any business, and finding the right team to drive a startup can come with its challenges. During the session, you will learn how to structure a startup, how to avoid relationship fallouts, gain HR tips, and create strategies to better benefit your company’s goals.

👉 Register before it is too late!

#corporategovernance #africanstartups #africantech #3zeros #socialbusiness

📢 Do you want to support a social business entr

📢 Do you want to support a social business entrepreneur to #GrowUp? We have a great opportunity for you: our incubation program is calling for mentors for the 2022 cohort focused on sustainable food systems.

👩🏿‍🏫 @yunusenvironmenthub is looking for experienced business experts (entrepreneur experience preferred) with backgrounds in sustainable agriculture and food systems in the East Africa context, as well as early-stage business development expertise. For further information please refer to the ToRs.

👉 Are you interested in becoming a #mentor? Please see the ToRs on our website and apply until the 21st of November 2021.

@postcodeloterij I #YYFoundation
#callformentors #callforproposals #socialbusiness #socbiz #3zeros #zerohunger #zeropoverty #foodsystems #foodwaste #consumption #agriculture

📌 We will be at Plastic Free World Conference &

📌 We will be at Plastic Free World Conference & Expo on 10th and 11th of November in Cologne, Germany, where our Senior Project Manager Ina will be speaking about financing schemes for a circular economy and the plastic credit market. Let us know, if you will be around to meet up!

📢 While presenting our work with ValuCred, Ina will focus on 5 recommendations from the plastic credit report that we published last month. Furthermore, she will be participating in a panel discussion "Innovative financing mechanism for waste management" moderated by PREVENT Waste Alliance.

👉 Register for free and attend this in-person event.

@generation.n_ I @blackforest.solutions I @bmz_bund
#ValuCred #PREVENTWasteAlliance #WuppertalInstitut #BVrio #RöchlingStiftung #3zeros #socialbusiness #socbiz #zeroplasticwaste #circulareconomy

📢 Meet Mercedes who is a Policy Advisory Lead a

📢 Meet Mercedes who is a Policy Advisory Lead at @yunusenvironmenthub.

🎓 Before joining the Yunus Environment Hub, she worked as an Economic Policy Officer at the German Embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In her previous experience, working as an academic Project Coordinator at the @onlinekas in Buenos Aires, she managed political education projects focused mainly on empowering women and youth in politics. Born and raised in Buenos Aires, she has worked and studied in multicultural environments in Argentina, Germany and the US. Mercedes holds a Degree in Political Science and a Masters in Public Policy.

💃 She is passionate about #socialinnovation, the #environment and #sustainabledevelopment and enjoys learning languages. In her leisure time, she loves exploring new challenges, whether it is hiking or skiing in the mountains, as well as submerging herself into books. She also has fun experimenting in the kitchen and improving her tango skills.

👀 If you are interested in working with people like Mercedes, check out our vacancies and join us in our journey towards the world of three zeros!

#meettheteam #socialbusiness #sustainableimpact #3zeros

📌 We are very excited about the opportunity to

📌 We are very excited about the opportunity to speak at the upcoming virtual #UNEP conference #SEAofSolutions hosted in Bangkok from 16th - 18th of November. Our Senior Project Manager Ina will provide new impulses for the evaluation of financing mechanisms for sustainable management of plastics and influence the discourse held among policy makers at UN level.

👉 Don't miss out and register for free!

@generation.n_ I @blackforest.solutions I @bmz_bund I #PREVENT I #RöchlingStiftung
#speakeropp #valucred #3zeros #socialbusiness #socbiz #marinelitter #plasticpollution #circulareconomy

✍️ We sealed the deal! @yunusenvironmenthub is

✍️ We sealed the deal! @yunusenvironmenthub is joining forces with @rotaryvijanapoa empowering more than 40 youth social business entrepreneurs in Uganda in our StartNow program.

⚙️ Rotary Vijana Poa is an initiative that mobilizes, inspires and empowers youth to engage them into work and realize their potential, thereby curbing the increasing unemployment levels in Uganda and Tanzania.

#StartNow #socialbusiness #socbiz #3zeros #environment #youthunemployment

📢 Join our international team @yunusenvironment

📢 Join our international team @yunusenvironmenthub as a remote working student (m/f/d) to support our communications team bringing the communications of our organization and international programs to a next level.

👀 Do you want to:
• Follow your passion for social media and put your story telling skills to good use?
• Author, review and edit blog articles?
• Use your knowledge of WordPress and SEO?
• Expand your graphic design skills with Adobe CC?
• Learn more about topics such as social business, environmental and social sustainability?
• Gain relevant working experience in a global organization?

👉 If this sounds like you, please check the full job description and send us your application via "contact" on our website.

#hiring #jointheteam #socialbusiness #socbiz #3zeros #communications

📌 Global Social Business Summit is back! From 6

📌 Global Social Business Summit is back! From 6th to 10th of November 2021, the global social business community will come together in a new hybrid format streamed from Nairobi and online accessible to all for free. Yunus Environment Hub will host a plenary session on “Accelerating Climate Action through Social Business” as well as a workshop about the emerging plastic credit market presenting our work with #ValuCred.

💡 Organized by @yunuscentre and @grameencreativelab, every year social business leaders, practitioners, corporates, social activists, policymakers and academics gather from around the world to foster sparking discussions, cooperations, sharing and developing best practices on how we can accelerate positive impact on todays most pressing challenges through collective action.

👉 Save the date and join us for planting seeds of a new economy at #GSBS21: https://lnkd.in/d5s4AF5M

#SaveTheDate #3zeros #socialbusiness #socbiz

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