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📅 It's #PlasticFreeJuly…. but there is still

📅 It's #PlasticFreeJuly…. but there is still plenty of plastic waste out there!

Did you know that informal waste workers play a key role in recovering end-of-life plastic products, recycling, and preventing plastic leakage into the ocean? These workers are essential to the plastics value chain, but too often overlooked and undervalued. Most work in harmful health conditions and earn below the living wage standards.

💡 New financial schemes such as plastic credits are emerging to help bridge financing gaps in municipal solid waste management, however, the potential impact these well-intended instruments may have on the informal system is yet unknown.

🪙 We are conducting a qualitative study for @UNEP on the risks and opportunities that plastic credits might bring to the informal waste management sector, with a focus on the three dimensions of sustainability; social, ecological, and economic aspects.

☝️ Have you worked with plastic credits or do you have insights you want to share? Our team is currently interviewing experts and stakeholders in the waste management value chain with a focus on Southeast Asia to gain insights and feedback for the report. Leave a note in the comments or tag an expert you know who might want to get involved!

🚀 Meet the social business entrepreneurs bringi

📅 This month is @PlasticFreeJuly! Join Yunus En

📅 This month is @PlasticFreeJuly! Join Yunus Environment Hub and our employees to take part and reduce your use of plastic this month and develop positive buying habits for the future.

Here are some simple steps you can follow to join the movement:
✅ Sign up for the Plastic Free July Challenge
🗑️ Prepare a bag or container to add all plastic from the products you've purchased over the month.
📸 Take a before picture, mid-way and at the end of the month.
⁉️ Reflect on the experience - What was easy to avoid/substitute? What was hard to avoid? What was surprising?
🗣️ Share your experience, tips and tricks on social media. Tag @YunusEnvironmentHub and @PlasticFreeJuly so we can follow and celebrate your progress together!

#plasticfreejuly #saynotoplastics #banthebag #plasticpollution #circulareconomy #wastereduction

🎉 The first episode of our SINA podcast 🎧 is

🎉 The first episode of our SINA podcast 🎧 is now live and available for your listening under: https://si-na.org/podcast-1-finanzierung-foerderung/ (German only). LINK IN BIO

📢 As part of the SINA program that we are implementing on behalf of the German @umweltministerium , the first podcast episode discusses the challenges and opportunities that social innovations in the environment sector encounter when looking for financing and funding. For this discussion, we have brought together Kirsten Hillebrand, Co-founder of Klimakarl (@karlundfreunde), and Harald Keuchel, Head of Department at Zukunft - Umwelt - Gesellschaft (ZUG) gGmbH with our moderator Katrin Rönicke (@hauseinspodcasts).

👉You want to talk about challenges and opportunities for social innovations from the environment sector in Germany? Then don't hesitate to reach out to us under www.si-na.org or via soziale.innovation@yunuseh.com

#SINA #socialinnovation #parisagreement #circulareconomy #socbiz #3zeros #climate #biodiversity

🍀 Happy Birthday @ProfessorMuhammadYunus Thank

📢 Meet Ambrose who is a Social Business Consult

📢 Meet Ambrose who is a Social Business Consultant at Yunus Environment Hub. He is responsible for advising individualised circular economy solutions based on current global environmental and economic challenges for the Build Back Better program in Kenya.

👏 Prior to joining Yunus Environment Hub, Ambrose worked at DOT Kenya as a Social Enterprise & Learning Officer. He was responsible for the effective development and implementation of DOT Kenya’s social enterprise track programs and actively contributed to the efficient delivery and advancement of the social enterprise track. This was done through research, building partnerships, program development and advocacy initiatives.

🌱 Ambrose is a 2018 Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Program fellow and a YouthConnekt Africa – Economic Development (Prosperity Innovation Award) 2019 winner. As an advocate for the creation of impact-led enterprises, his interests lie in nurturing enterprises that have a direct impact on their local communities.

👉 If you are interested in working with people like Ambrose, check out our vacancies here and join us in our journey towards a world of three zeros: https://yunusenvironmenthub.com/contact/#hiring.

#meettheteam #hiring #socialbusiness #socbiz #sustainbleimpact #3zeros #HR

Shifting toward a new civilization within the Plan

Shifting toward a new civilization within the Planetary Limits

🔥 The current civilization, which is based on profit maximization, has set the world out on a timer. Our daily actions and activities are leading us to the tipping point of the #PlanetaryLimits, resulting in an environmental crisis that endangers the existence of our own civilization.

📢 This year, at the 12th Social Business Day event, Yunus Environment Hub is curating a panel that will present the latest figures on the current environmental crisis and discuss how we can decouple economic growth without environmental degradation under the lens of a circular economy. We will also present social business solutions that are working on the circular economy by addressing plastic pollution and biodiversity loss in the Amazon.

- Circular economy as a way to address sustainability challenges by Professor Chertow, @Yale University

- Finance mechanism solutions to achieve circularity in the plastic sector by Prince Agbata (Coliba) and Iyyappan Janakiraman (YEH)

- Incubating green social businesses to protect our biodiversity in the Amazon by Maria Antonia Santos (Fundacion Compaz) and Manuela Rodriguez (YEH).

- Closing remarks by Sohel Ahmed (Grameen Shakti)

Join us in this global event organized by @yunuscentrebd and foster dialogues on how we can leverage social businesses to reach a circular economy within the planetary limits.

Get registered at: http://ow.ly/25KQ50JEWeu

#SBD2022#SocialBusinessDay#BuildingNewCivilization#NewEconomy#WorldofThreeZeros#YunusEnvironmentHub#YEH#PlanetaryLimits#CircularEconomy

📢 Last week, the public launch event of the pr

📢 Last week, the public launch event of the project "SINA - Soziale Innovationen für Nachhaltigkeit" took place at the German German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection (@Bundesumweltministerium) in Berlin. 🚀

🌱More than 100 stakeholders from the #sustainability and #socialinnovation sector in Germany came together to join an inspiring conversation. We would like to express our gratitude to our hosts, our guests and speakers: Steffi Lemke, Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection (BMUV), @ProfessorMuhammadYunus, Christian Kroll (@Ecosia), @Eckart_von_Hirschhausen, Prof. Dr. Eva Alexandra Jakob (@uni.bayreuth), Prof. Dr. Michael Otto, Sina Trinkwalder (@manomama) and State Secretary Stefan Tidow (BMUV).

💡 If you missed the event take a look at the Environment Ministry's official press release here: https://www.bmuv.de/pressemitteilung/lemke-soziale-innovationen-sind-wichtiger-baustein-fuer-gelingen-der-oekologischen-transformation.

Make sure you follow @YunusEnviornmentHub and check out the SINA webpage (si-na.org) for more information on the project or reach out directly to the SINA team.

#SINA #socialinnovation #parisagreement #circulareconomy #socbiz #3zeros #climate #biodiversity

📢 Social Innovations for a Sustainable Transfor

📢 Social Innovations for a Sustainable Transformation to reach the Paris Agreement Goals!
We are more than happy that the public launch event of our project “SINA - Soziale Innovationen für Nachhaltigkeit” is now running at the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection (@umweltministerium) in Berlin.

🌱 Discussing the way forward:
After opening words by Minister Steffi Lemke, Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection, @ProfessorMuhammadYunus , Christian Kroll (@Ecosia) and our Managing Director, Christina Jäger, we are currently following the panel discussion. Herein, @eckart_von_hirschhausen, Prof. Dr. Eva Alexandra Jakob (@uni.bayreuth), Prof. Dr. Michael Otto, Sina Trinkwalder (@manomama), and State Secretary Stefan Tidow (BMUV) are discussing the role of social innovations for the environmental transformation in Germany with our moderator Leonhard Nima (@StudioNima).

💡 Let’s exchange ideas!
We are thrilled about discussing our ideas with the German social innovation and sustainability sector and are looking forward to exchanging experiences at the event today and beyond!
If you are interested, but could not make it to the event, let’s align in the future and visit www.si-na.org.

#SINA #socialinnovation #parisagreement #circulareconomy #socbiz #3zeros #climate #biodiversity

📣 Meet Director, Pensoft Systems Limited, Ms. L

📣 Meet Director, Pensoft Systems Limited, Ms. Linet Wanjiku Kinyua, a beneficiary of the Absa SHE (See Her Empowered) Stars program. Pensoft Systems Limited is a family business and offers innovative information technology (IT) solutions.

‼️@absakenya in collaboration with the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and implemented by #GIZ Employment and Skills for Development in Africa (E4D) Programme supported by @yunusenvironmenthub launched the project dubbed “SHE Stars- See Her Empowered” program to support women-owned micro, small and medium businesses impacted by the Covid-19 economic situation and increased climate risks.

You can apply for the program via https://she.yunusenvironmenthub.com/.

#womeninbusiness #kenya

🌊 The ocean covers more than 70% of Earth’s s

🌊 The ocean covers more than 70% of Earth’s surface, making it the largest ecosystem on our planet! Without the ocean, humans could not survive - about half of the oxygen we breathe is produced in the world's oceans and absorbs 50 times more carbon dioxide than our atmosphere.

🌦 Oceans influence both climate and temperature: currents act as conveyer belts of warm and cold water, sending heat toward the polar regions and helping tropical areas cool off. The ocean is also an enormous storehouse for carbon, containing 50 times more than the atmosphere.

🗓 Every year on June 8th, people and organizations around the globe embrace #WorldOceanDay to celebrate our world’s ocean and raise awareness on the essential role it plays in our lives and the overall health of the environment.

🤝 This year’s theme: Collective Action for the Ocean.

So, how can we work together?

- Join one of our startup or venture building programs to support your social business to scale impact
- Participate as an expert in one of our research projects
- Build off our learning platform to enable your community to implement circular economy methods

👉 Visit our website for more information www.yunusenvironmenthub.com

#WorldOceanDay #OceanClimateAction #3zeros #circulareconomy #zerowaste #socialbusiness

👋 Meet CEO of @sasiredesigns, Ms. Samira Abbas,

👋 Meet CEO of @sasiredesigns, Ms. Samira Abbas, and a beneficiary of the Absa SHE (See Her Empowered) Stars program. Sasire Designs is an interior design company providing their clients with the highest level of design by bringing their vision to reality.

‼️ @absakenya in collaboration with the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and implemented by @Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) Employment and Skills for Development in Africa (E4D) Programme supported by @yunusenvironmenthub EnvironmentHub launched the project dubbed “SHE Stars- See Her Empowered” Program to support women-owned micro, small and medium businesses impacted by climate change and the Covid-19 economic situation.

🎯 You can apply for the program via https://she.yunusenvironmenthub.com/. Deadline extended till 12th June 2022.

#womeninbusiness #kenya #socialbusiness #climatechange #circulareconomy #SHEacademy

📢 We proudly announce that on Wednesday, 15th J

📢 We proudly announce that on Wednesday, 15th June 2022 we will host the launch event of our project "SINA - Soziale Innovationen für Nachhaltigkeit" at the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection (@bundesumweltministerium). With high-level speakers, we will discuss the role of social innovations in the sustainability transformation in Germany and present first project insights to the audience.

❓ Date: Wednesday, 15.06.2022 14:00 - 17:00
Location: Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection, Stresemannstraße 128-130, 10117 Berlin

Register here: https://guestmanagement.artribute.de/yunus/sina/

Agenda:
1:30 p.m. – 1:45 p.m.: Admission
2:00 p.m. – 2:15 p.m.: Welcome by Steffi Lemke (@lemke.steffi), Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection (BMUV)
2:15 – 2:20 p.m.: Video message by Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Prof. Muhammad Yunus (@professormuhammadyunus)
2:20 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.: Presentation of the SINA project by Christina Jäger, co-founder and managing director of Yunus Environment Hub
2:30 p.m. – 2:40 p.m.: Practical perspective on social innovations: Presentation of Ecosia by Christian Kroll, founder and managing director (@ecosia)
2:40 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.: Panel discussion “Environmental goals and transformation in Germany – which role do social innovations play?” Participants:
- Dr. Eckart von Hirschhausen (@eckart_von_hirschhausen, @gesunde.erde.gesunde.menschen)
- Prof. Dr. Eva Alexandra Jakob (@uni.bayreuth)
- Prof. Dr. Michael Otto (Umweltstiftung Michael Otto)
- Stefan Tidow (State Secretary Bundesumweltministerium)
- Sina Trinkwalder, (@manomama)
- Moderation: Leonhard Nima (@_studio_nima)
3:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.: Open reception and presentation of the SINA project

#SINA #socialinnovation #BMUV

🚲 The climate crisis is a massive global proble

🚲 The climate crisis is a massive global problem, but there's one sustainable action you can take every day: cycling. On #WorldBicycleDay, we wanted to celebrate this simple yet effective solution for sustainable mobility.

🫀 Rates of cycling are different around the world, with countries like Denmark and the Netherlands known internationally for the way they travel on two wheels. Not only is cycling good for the environment as it is a carbon neutral form of travel, it is also great for your health – studies suggest that those who cycle regularly tend to live longer. Pollution from exhaust pipes has also been linked to around 360,000 premature deaths per year.

🚧 Even in countries with high rates of cycling, car use is often unchanged. In the Netherlands, for example, car ownership is just below the EU average and distance travelled by car is higher. This suggests that moving away from cars is about more than just having bike-friendly infrastructure.

👉 At @yunusenvironmenthub, we actively promote the use of sustainable forms of transport and encourage all of our employees to commute by bike where possible. Today, we encourage you to cycle more regularly too! How often do you cycle and what is the infrastructure like in your city?

#cycling #sustainablemobility #bike #health #cyclinginfrastructure #sustainability

📢 The Global Social Business Day is back for it

📢 The Global Social Business Day is back for its 12th edition from June 27 to June 30 2022! Like last year, the event will be a hybrid event mainly online and with some offline sessions in East Africa.

❓ This year's event has the theme 'Building A New Civilisation – Before The Current Civilisation Destroys Us' and @yunusenvironmenthub's panel will look into how social businesses can move us towards a circular economy which puts people and planet over profit. Other topics for the main event include: Social Businesses in Microcredit, Education, Healthcare, Arts and Creativity, Technology, Youth, Sports, 3ZERO Clubs, and all aspects of building a New Civilisation. Social Business Day 2022 will feature plenary sessions, workshops, and country forums in which participants can exchange ideas and information.

👉 Want to take part in discussing how we can best use social businesses to achieve a circular economy? Sign up here for the event: https://events.zoom.us/ev/DLbL39HCEw3diQLy6wAAFgAAADRzrx60_e5FLsP7Ac29roOczSCAov6LxpCOEoIhQIlJJlj6RXjo~ABHki8bjd9XbV6KxLJDEScoy11taCDmgPClv2LSjD0mAP4PJ5fI__QYkaBA5gPZkD-LtNLg?fbclid=IwAR0NH27bfOaQQHxtdpJT9_ZP7GFSbVwDzuo95j5DnLA2kVnQEfYfA6vPeP8.

#socialbusiness #circulareconomy #socialbusinessday

👀 A new issue of the electronic magazine Inters

👀 A new issue of the electronic magazine Intersecting from Global Solutions has been published, and it features an article written by our Co-founder & Managing Director Christina Jäger.

📖 The theme of the issue is 'Circular Economy and Global Value Chains' and features over 30 articles from 50 authors from across the globe. In her article, Christina talks about our ValuCred program and integrating values of circularity into global supply chains from a social business perspective. She talks about the different aspects of the value chain and how we can make it socially and sustainably better.

👉 The magazine can be found here: https://www.global-solutions-initiative.org/3d-flip-book/intersecting-8/. For Christina's article, go directly to page 122. Otherwise, if you are interested in finding out more about ValuCred, you can check out our website: https://yunusenvironmenthub.com/valucred/.

#circulareconomy #socialbusiness #socbiz #zeroplasticwaste #plasticrecycling

📌 IFAT, the world's leading trade fair for wate

📌 IFAT, the world's leading trade fair for water, sewage, waste and raw materials management, returns to Munich in 2022! @yunusenvironmenthub will be speaking on financing the circular plastics economy and you can come meet us in person at the PREVENT Waste Alliance booth 153/352 on May 31.

♻️ The event will look into different financing mechanisms before examining extended producer responsibility (EPR) schemes and plastic credits in more depth. There will be speakers from countries who are currently introducing or implementing EPR schemes to offer their perspectives on why they do or don't support the use of plastic credits for their national approach to combating plastic packaging waste.

👉 Interested in taking part? You can catch our Country Manager Vietnam speaking about plastic credits and more on June 2nd at 11.20 – 12.05pm CET. You can find more info here: https://prevent-waste.net/en/ifat-munich-2022/.

#circulareconomy #plasticcredits #zeroplasticwaste #plasticrecycling #socialbusiness

📢 Do you have a social business and are you loo

📢 Do you have a social business and are you looking to offer your products or services to companies? @send_netzwerk is looking to connect social businesses in Germany with potential B2B customers and they need your help!

📖 To better understand which products and services are already available, as well as the needs of different organisations, SEND have produced a short survey. Filling it out will help them to create an image of the social business ecosystem in Germany, allowing them to potentially find new opportunities for you.

👉 The deadline for filling out the survey is the 25th of May and you can find it here (in German): https://forms.office.com/r/AyPj67qWM8. If you are interested in reading more about our connection to SEND, you can read our recent blog post on our partnership here: https://yunusenvironmenthub.com/yeh-joins-forces-with-send-e-v/.

#socbiz #socialbusiness #buysocialdeutschland #gemeinsamwirken

📢 Exciting times for our SINA program – last

📢 Exciting times for our SINA program – last Friday, we held a physical workshop at the @umweltministerium in Berlin for which we invited multiple people from the social innovation ecosystem to talk about impact measurement for solutions focused on sustainability.

💡 Together with our SINA advisory board and selected experts, we analysed the potential and relevance of impact measurement, as well as the challenges involved, for which we developed a series of policy recommendations to address them. It was a great learning experience, not only for those involved, but for us too. We received insights from social business practitioners, stakeholders from public policy institutions, foundations, ecosystem enablers and researchers.

👉 If you want to learn more about SINA, you can read more about it here (German only): https://si-na.org/. Or, alternatively, you can also check out our website: https://yunusenvironmenthub.com/sina/.

👏 Big thanks to our participants for such a productive workshop: Fraunhofer Zentrum für Internationales Management und Wissensökonomie (IMW), Institut für kommunale Planung und Entwicklung, @social.impact, @deutsche_stiftungen, @send_netzwerk, Centre for Social Investment at @uniheidelberg, Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, @_studio_nima_, @toogoodtogo.de, @acker.community, @loomimpact_official, Siemens Stiftung, Institut für Sozialinnovation (ISINOVA), Deutsches Institut für Urbanistik, Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, Finanzierungsagentur für Social Entrepreneurship (FASE) and Paritätischer Wohlfahrtsverband.

#socbiz #socialbusiness #socialinnovation #circulareconomy #sustainability

🐝 With the warmer weather the familiar buzzing

🐝 With the warmer weather the familiar buzzing of bees has returned, and today, #WorldBeeDay, is a celebration of our small friends.

🌱 Bees are a vital part of ecosystems around the world. Without pollinators like them, our ability to produce food decreases dramatically which will lead to even more injustice in the world. Aside from not being able to feed more vulnerable people, bees and other pollinators bring in around £120 billion in economic value across the globe every year. Many people therefore rely on bees for their economic security.

❓ There are multiple reasons why bee populations are declining rapidly, such as pesticide use, habitat destruction and urbanisation. To save insects, we need to act and make cities more biodiverse, reduce pesticide use, as well as move away from foods with a high land footprint like meat. Take action by adopting sustainable behaviours yourself or demanding change from your government.

👉 At @yunusenvironmenthub, we are also supporting social businesses in the Amazon to help save native bee populations. You can watch the full video on our YouTube channel by following the link in the bio!

#bees #socbiz #circulareconomy #biodiversity #sustainability

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We proudly announce that on Wednesday, 15th June 2022 we will host the public launch event of our project “SINA – Soziale Innovationen für Nachhaltigkeit” at the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection. With high-level speakers, we will discuss the role of social innovations in the sustainability transformation in Germany and present first project insights to the audience. (The event is conducted in German only)