ESG Editorial #50: Sustainability and Tourism Webinar, S3E Charge Acceleration Open Day, and the Earthshot Prize.

Hello from sunny Abu Dhabi after a nice R&R break for Greek Easter holidays - I hope that those who have been celebrating had a lovely break. I certainly enjoyed mine, doing a little bit of reflection as April had been a whirlwind of projects, and events and end of May will be fully packed! Looking forward to reconnecting with many of you in Athens and Lisbon next week!

New Sustainability and Tourism Webinar by Verimpact

?? ?? Excited to announce our upcoming webinar by the Verimpact Academy Alumni Club focusing on sustainable tourism with a prominent guest speaker Alexandros Angelopoulos, Managing Director Aldemar Resorts!

?? Tuesday, May 14th, 2024?? 12:00 PM Greek Time /1:00 PM Omani Time

?? Registration: https://lnkd.in/dQyiYFGd

Looking forward to seeing you there! ? ??

Missed the recent webinars by Verimpact ? Here are the recordings so that you can hone your sustainability and ESG skills and expertise! Many thanks to our exceptional speakers and our alumni from Ominvest Growthfund, the National Fund of Greece Omran Group OM Oman Arab Bank Oman Sail and many other companies that joined us!

Recording of the first webinar of the Verimpact Academy Alumni Club of a discussion on current developments in ESG and Sustainability with Viktoria Kalfaki from Google Cloud!

Recording of the second webinar of the Verimpact Academy Alumni Club of a discussion on COP28 and what happens next with Arab Hoballah from SWITCH-Asia Official / adelphi!

The Earthshot Prize Event in Athens and its Impact Report

As Official Earthshot Prize Nominators via Institute for Sustainable Development - EPLO , we participated in the event hosted by the British Embassy Athens along with other The Earthshot Prize Nominators and Nominees, at the #BankOfGreece to celebrate our common achievements and initiatives to achieve the five #EarthShots!

The Institute for Sustainable Development at EPLO nominated six initiatives this year that promote #Sustainability and have amazing #environmental and #social impact! Kelp Blue | SamudraOceans | Polygreen eco | hashtag#climpact | SilviPar | Astarte Capital Partners LLP | Seabound | National Observatory of Athens | Hellenic Centre for Marine Research

Thank you to HE Ambassador Matthew Lodge for his support and for graciously hosting nominators and nominees! Many thanks to all our stakeholders who made it to the event and contributed to the discussion!?Looking forward to the next round of nominations! Kika Kyriakakou Thodoris Georgakopoulos Caroline Slootweg Manolis Plionis Arete Ketekidou Anastasia Andritsou Joyeeta Das Alisha Fredriksson Teresa Farmaki Nikiforos Plytas Athanasios Polychronopoulos Sofia Falida Aris Karageorgis Christina Zeri Chrysa Efstratiou

I am also happy to share the Impact Report of the Prize published last week - the diversity of the nominations and the impact of the finalists and winners are mind-boggling!

South3E - S3E Charge Program Closes with its Open Day

Congratulations are also in order to all the start-ups who pitched at the S3E Charge Open Day end of April! What a fantastic way to wrap up our 14 weeks working together in the acceleration program led by Institute for Sustainable Development - EPLO and by Spyros Kouvelis and myself!

We are really proud of what the 17 start-ups that joined this year's cohort have achieved since joining our accelerator program in January - we can definitely tell the hours of mentoring and dedicated support have paid off! (Congratulations to ivoluntry for winning the first place in the Crazy Business Idea Competition 2024!)

Thank you to our two wonderful guest speakers, Sonia Marzo Arnaez and Dimitris Kalavros-Gousiou along with the team from European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency (EISMEA) for their invaluable support?? The South3E partners from AUSTRALO, International Development Ireland and HiSeedTech?? And, of course, the amazing participating start-ups: Baukunst, Arquitectura y Patrimonio Virtual | BEDEV | Bomensoft | CRIAM | Archimed IoT | Ecobubble | ELNAV.AI | EntoProtein | eXRciser | Innervoices | Intellectra Technologies | ivoluntry | MOVEN | Nanomik Biotechnology | Orbiba Robotics | QX | Rosey's Mark

If you missed our Open Day, make sure to download a copy of our S3E Charge Start-ups portfolio to meet the teams ? here!

Climate Change Adaptation Article

Proud to share a short article on #ClimateChangeAdaptation and Cities as part of the EU Environment and Climate #EUClimatePact series spearheaded by INZEB and Alice Corovessi and hosted by mediahub and Laskoudis Athanasios that connects to our work at Verimpact and TRUENIQUE , especially through the NeuroClima Horizon project we are partners of.

Green Transition in the GCC Region

And just a short note on the EU-GCC Green Transition project led by Spyros Kouvelis who concluded an excellent visit to Kuwait was concluded with lots of potential for cooperation between the EU-GCC Green Transition and national Institutions.

See you next week!