Climate-KIC
Description
Climate-KIC is one of three Knowledge and Innovation Communities (KICs) created in 2010 by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT). The EIT is an EU body whose mission is to create sustainable growth. We support this mission by addressing climate change mitigation and adaptation.Our mission is to bring together, inspire and empower a dynamic community to build a zero carbon economy and climate resilient society.Our vision is to enable Europe to lead the global transformation towards sustainability.Our core values demonstrate what we stand for. We are: Dynamic People: Passionate, Engaging, Open, Inspiring, Excellent and Empowering. We are Europe’s largest public-private innovation partnership focused on climate change, consisting of dynamic companies, the best academic institutions and the public sector.We drive innovation in climate change through creative partnerships large and small, local and global, between the private, public and academic sectors.All our partners bring their industry experience to the community and are connected through our centres across EuropeWe integrate education, entrepreneurship and innovation resulting in connected, creative transformation of knowledge and ideas into economically viable products or services that help to mitigate climate change.
Climate-KIC Education programmes address graduate students as well as providing business education. Programmes for graduate students:We offer added value to Master’s and Ph.D. degree programme at the best academic institutions across Europe as well as an annual summer school. Our pre-incubation programme the Greenhouse helps you explore your business ideas.Summer Schools: A unique and innovative concept summer school, where top-graduates join together on a journey across Europe. The 5-week programmes includes an introduction to climate challenges, impact measurements and problem statements formulations. The course will get you thinking of how to best find areas of impactful action to battle climate challenges. The journey also includes preparation for business ideation in order to already get you thinking about your business idea and developing viable business models by the end. Business education:Innovator catalyst: Our Innovator Catalyst programme tackles climate change through organisational change and system innovation. The eight-day course for experienced professionals offers a chance to enhance your skills and knowledge, and to develop innovative solutions to climate change issues.Short courses: These two-day programme for experienced professionals offer the chance to take climate action through enhancing your knowledge and understanding of climate change issues. The Short Courses are for experienced professionals that have a background in the thematic focus of the specific Short Course. Location: Our education programme take place at universities associated with our national centres.Alumni: Our Alumni Association helps you maintain your ties with Climate-KIC’s world-class community of climate innovators and entrepreneurs.Technology transfer is carried out within the partnership. Our partners work together and deliver various types of projects within our innovation framework, technology transfer takes place in the course of these collaborative projects, approx. 100 in 2015. In 2016 our aim is to expand the opportunity for technology and knowledge transfer to outside of the boundaries of our partnership. Hence, in 2016 we will become a member of the Climate Technology Centre and Network (CTCN), and will actively participate in their structured technology transfer mechanism.
We connect global and local, small and large partners from the private, public and academic sectors. The split across the three sectors is approximately 50% business, 30% academic and 20% public and not for profit.We operate through 13 centres across Europe and a headquarters in London.We receive funding from academic and private sector partners as well as an annual grant from the European Commission through its European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT).Governance: Strategically, we are led by our Assembly and Governing Board with representatives from our core partners.Operationally, we are driven by an Executive Board led by our Chief Executive Officer. Our Supervisory Board oversees the Executive Board.The Climate-KIC group consists of the Association Climate-KIC, a not-for-profit entity registered in the Netherlands (commercial register number 52000117), and its wholly-owned subsidiary, Climate-KIC Holding B.V., which has been established by the Association to deliver its goals and objects. Climate-KIC Holding B.V. is a private company with limited liability registered in the Netherlands (commercial register number 63299658), governed by its own articles of association that are aligned with those of the Association. Climate-KIC Holding B.V. has established further subsidiaries and branches across Europe.Association Climate-KIC• The Assembly is the body of Association Climate-KIC that is made up of all members of the Association, representatives from the 30 Core Partners. • Responsibility for the activities of the Association lies with a Governing Board made up of 13 members.Climate-KIC Holding B.V.• The Supervisory Board oversees the Executive Board and the general affairs of the company and its subsidiaries, as well as providing advice to the Executive Board. The members are appointed for a term of 3 years and can be re-appointed once.• The Executive Board is responsible for the management of the day-to-day activities of the company
SDGS & Targets
Goal 17
Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development
17.1
Strengthen domestic resource mobilization, including through international support to developing countries, to improve domestic capacity for tax and other revenue collection
17.1.1
17.1.2
17.2
Developed countries to implement fully their official development assistance commitments, including the commitment by many developed countries to achieve the target of 0.7 per cent of ODA/GNI to developing countries and 0.15 to 0.20 per cent of ODA/GNI to least developed countries; ODA providers are encouraged to consider setting a target to provide at least 0.20 per cent of ODA/GNI to least developed countries
17.2.1
17.3
Mobilize additional financial resources for developing countries from multiple sources
17.3.1
Additional financial resources mobilized for developing countries from multiple sources
17.3.2
17.4
Assist developing countries in attaining long-term debt sustainability through coordinated policies aimed at fostering debt financing, debt relief and debt restructuring, as appropriate, and address the external debt of highly indebted poor countries to reduce debt distress
17.4.1
17.5
Adopt and implement investment promotion regimes for least developed countries
17.5.1
Number of countries that adopt and implement investment promotion regimes for developing countries, including the least developed countries
17.6
Enhance North-South, South-South and triangular regional and international cooperation on and access to science, technology and innovation and enhance knowledge sharing on mutually agreed terms, including through improved coordination among existing mechanisms, in particular at the United Nations level, and through a global technology facilitation mechanism
17.6.1
Fixed broadband subscriptions per 100 inhabitants, by speed
17.7
Promote the development, transfer, dissemination and diffusion of environmentally sound technologies to developing countries on favourable terms, including on concessional and preferential terms, as mutually agreed
17.7.1
Total amount of funding for developing countries to promote the development, transfer, dissemination and diffusion of environmentally sound technologies
17.8
Fully operationalize the technology bank and science, technology and innovation capacity-building mechanism for least developed countries by 2017 and enhance the use of enabling technology, in particular information and communications technology
17.8.1
17.9
Enhance international support for implementing effective and targeted capacity-building in developing countries to support national plans to implement all the Sustainable Development Goals, including through North-South, South-South and triangular cooperation
17.9.1
Dollar value of financial and technical assistance (including through North-South, South‑South and triangular cooperation) committed to developing countries
17.10
Promote a universal, rules-based, open, non-discriminatory and equitable multilateral trading system under the World Trade Organization, including through the conclusion of negotiations under its Doha Development Agenda
17.10.1
17.11
Significantly increase the exports of developing countries, in particular with a view to doubling the least developed countries’ share of global exports by 2020
17.11.1
Developing countries’ and least developed countries’ share of global exports
17.12
Realize timely implementation of duty-free and quota-free market access on a lasting basis for all least developed countries, consistent with World Trade Organization decisions, including by ensuring that preferential rules of origin applicable to imports from least developed countries are transparent and simple, and contribute to facilitating market access
17.12.1
Weighted average tariffs faced by developing countries, least developed countries and small island developing States
17.13
Enhance global macroeconomic stability, including through policy coordination and policy coherence
17.13.1
17.14
Enhance policy coherence for sustainable development
17.14.1
17.15
Respect each country’s policy space and leadership to establish and implement policies for poverty eradication and sustainable development
17.15.1
17.16
Enhance the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development, complemented by multi-stakeholder partnerships that mobilize and share knowledge, expertise, technology and financial resources, to support the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals in all countries, in particular developing countries
17.16.1
Number of countries reporting progress in multi-stakeholder development effectiveness monitoring frameworks that support the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals
17.17
Encourage and promote effective public, public-private and civil society partnerships, building on the experience and resourcing strategies of partnerships
17.17.1
Amount in United States dollars committed to public-private partnerships for infrastructure
17.18
By 2020, enhance capacity-building support to developing countries, including for least developed countries and small island developing States, to increase significantly the availability of high-quality, timely and reliable data disaggregated by income, gender, age, race, ethnicity, migratory status, disability, geographic location and other characteristics relevant in national contexts
17.18.1
Statistical capacity indicators
17.18.2
17.18.3
Number of countries with a national statistical plan that is fully funded and under implementation, by source of funding
17.19
By 2030, build on existing initiatives to develop measurements of progress on sustainable development that complement gross domestic product, and support statistical capacity-building in developing countries
17.19.1
17.19.2
Proportion of countries that (a) have conducted at least one population and housing census in the last 10 years; and (b) have achieved 100 per cent birth registration and 80 per cent death registration
Goal 13
Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
13.1
Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters in all countries
13.1.1
Number of deaths, missing persons and directly affected persons attributed to disasters per 100,000 population
13.1.2
Number of countries that adopt and implement national disaster risk reduction strategies in line with the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030
13.1.3
Proportion of local governments that adopt and implement local disaster risk reduction strategies in line with national disaster risk reduction strategies
13.2
Integrate climate change measures into national policies, strategies and planning
13.2.1
Number of countries with nationally determined contributions, long-term strategies, national adaptation plans and adaptation communications, as reported to the secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
13.2.2
Total greenhouse gas emissions per year
13.3
Improve education, awareness-raising and human and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning
13.3.1
Extent to which (i) global citizenship education and (ii) education for sustainable development are mainstreamed in (a) national education policies; (b) curricula; (c) teacher education; and (d) student assessment
13.a
Implement the commitment undertaken by developed-country parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to a goal of mobilizing jointly $100 billion annually by 2020 from all sources to address the needs of developing countries in the context of meaningful mitigation actions and transparency on implementation and fully operationalize the Green Climate Fund through its capitalization as soon as possible
13.a.1
Amounts provided and mobilized in United States dollars per year in relation to the continued existing collective mobilization goal of the $100 billion commitment through to 2025
13.b
Promote mechanisms for raising capacity for effective climate change-related planning and management in least developed countries and small island developing States, including focusing on women, youth and local and marginalized communities
13.b.1
Number of least developed countries and small island developing States with nationally determined contributions, long-term strategies, national adaptation plans and adaptation communications, as reported to the secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
SDG 14 targets covered
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Andrea Karpati, Head of Policy