One of the most significant societal issues of our day is the climate problem. If we take action right away, we can achieve lower emissions, less pollution, and better ecosystems. It is imperative that, in the process of recovering from the pandemic, we don’t just go back to our previous practices; instead, we must keep up our climate action in order to prevent the worst consequences of climate change. We must all take use of this opportunity to come up with creative, cooperative solutions if we are to meet the objectives of the Paris Agreement. To create a better, more sustainable future, we must cooperate.
At Deloitte we are committed to addressing climate change both within our organization and beyond through our strategic initiative, WorldClimate, which aims to deliver on this global ambition. We recognize that change starts within, and we must set and meet higher standards for ourselves, empower our professionals and connect with our broader ecosystem to create solutions that facilitate the transition to a low carbon economy. We must work collectively to accomplish change.
In line with Deloitte’s ambition to address climate change through ecosystem engagement, the challenge seeks to support scalable youth-led solutions that:
- Reduce the impacts of climate change, and/or empower others to act on climate change
- Address root causes of the issue
- Demonstrate ability to drive impact and potential to scale
- Collaborate with others to accelerate or broaden impact
- Utilize innovative approaches
The challenge is open to young people from social enterprises, non-profits, or community organizations.
Benefits:
The winning solution will receive:
- Sponsorship to participate in the One Young World Summit 2024
- A US$50,000 grant from Deloitte
- Twelve months of mentorship from a team of Deloitte professionals and partners. 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
Eligibility:
- Aligned: Evidently aligned with the SDG13 challenge. See ‘About’
- 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.
- Proven:Solution is readily available, being piloted, implemented, or scaled
- Impactful: Solutions must have a positive social impact, for example, generating educational outcomes, employment opportunities, or developing skills.
- Measurable: Solution’s impact in society must be 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 grow impact after expanding in scope or size and/or into other regions.
- Technologically feasible: Must rely on proven or readily available technology (if technology is relevant to the solution).
Application:
For those interested in the One Young World/Deloitte Lead2030 Challenge for SDG 13.
