About MCI
A Non-Profit Organization committed to a fair and equitable world for everyone — acting as a catalyst for the global elimination of all forms of injustice.
"Acting as a catalyst for the global elimination of all forms of injustice, create the long-lasting positive change through advocacy and significantly contribute to achieving the SDGs."— MCI Core Mission
0. About Martaniah Care International (MCI)
Non-Profit.
Global Impact.
Martaniah Care International (MCI), is a Non-Profit Organization, registered in Canada with the vision to contribute to a "Fair and equitable world for everyone" and a mission of "acting as a catalyst for the global elimination of all forms of injustice, create the long-lasting positive change through advocacy and significantly contribute to achieving the SDGs".
The MCI is planning to bring together the policy makers and the development partners to create a discussion and discover ways to align their businesses to the green and blue market trends that are occurring because of climate change.
To serve as a flagship of the United Nations which has introduced 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to the world, with 2030 as the end goal, these global goals were designed to shift the world onto a sustainable and resilient path, one that could help our world become a better place.
The platform convenes key players representing:
- • Youth and women from all over the world,
- • The private sector,
- • Policy makers,
- • Academicians,
- • Researchers,
- • And development partners to exchange insights and collaborate on targeted themes, all aimed at Entrepreneurs' Tech-Led Innovative Home-grown solutions advancing blue and green economic resilience.
In this framework, MCI is steering a forum to showcase innovative home-grown solutions for a blue and green global economic resilience for improved investment opportunities within this sector. The MCI serves as a nexus for stakeholders to engage in policy discourse, evaluate regulatory challenges, explore investment delivery models, and propose solutions to overcome barriers inhibiting scale up of tech-led innovative solutions and investments.
This is achieved through:
- • Identifying and prioritizing entrepreneurs' that are tech-led and crucial for investment attraction in blue and green economy.
- • Showcasing and peer learning of the tech-led solutions based on the local contexts and future dynamics.
- • Brainstorming on the impact of blue and green economy on human well-being.
We are inviting:
- • The interested entrepreneurs,
- • Private sector,
- • Policy makers,
- • Academicians,
- • Researchers,
- • And development partners to participate in this important world-wide conference, uniting participants globally in their efforts to pave the way forward for a just transition into the green and blue economy.
1. Background, Initiatives and Issues
The intertwined climate, biodiversity and development crises require considerable change and innovation to achieve an inclusive and sustainable global economy. Blue and green technology has a critical role to play in responding to this. As the infrastructure and development gap is significantly most in Africa, blue and green technology can provide resilient, climate-smart interventions. For example, hundreds of millions of Africa's smallholder farmers are highly dependent on rainfed agriculture.
Climate- and nature-smart water, energy and agricultural technologies could enhance production, build resilience, and help to improve food security, while supporting ecosystem-services. However, while the global green technology market has enormous financial value and, together with other frontier technologies, is expected to reach US$ 2.1 trillion in 2030, most blue and green technology development happens outside of Africa.
To better understand the potential for youth employment in green technology in Africa, this scoping report examines the current landscape of existing green technology policies and programmes, including their focus on youth employment and entrepreneurship.
The impacts of climate change are already being felt around the world. It is creating a massive transformation of the global economy that will revolutionize the future of work. Our global workforce needs the right skills to lead this transformation.
Sub-Saharan Africa, together with Latin America and the Caribbean are the least ready to exploit these technologies. The global growth in blue and green technology, if harnessed, could offer opportunities for job creation and entrepreneurial activities around the world.
As young people will bear the brunt of the climate and biodiversity crises and have the highest unemployment rate in Africa, their agency and capabilities can be mobilised to provide green technology solutions.
Green technology adoption can also create much-needed jobs through the emergence of new firms and industries that develop and trade these technologies.
For this to happen, firms require not only the skills and know-how, as well as access to capital necessary to develop and sell green technologies, but an enabling regulatory, policy and infrastructural environment.
The World Economic Forum notes that roughly one-fourth (23%) of jobs are expected to change by 2027, with 69 million new jobs created and 83 million eliminated; however, the green transition and localization of supply chains will experience net job growth.
How this paradigm shift plays out where some continents remain to be determined, but employment projections suggest that the demand for skills will vary based on the economic context, the nature of the sector, and the maturation of the sector.
2. Goals of the Conference
The 2024 conference will complement existing knowledge sharing and learning platforms that enable entrepreneurs' tech-led for innovative home-grown solutions for blue and green global economic resilience.
Participants from the globe will also discuss the issues, challenges, and innovations of entrepreneurs in-line of jobs creations and climate changes based on; The Clusters of blue and green Technologies such as:
- Biodiversity-benefiting technologies,
- Climate technologies for mitigation and adaptation, and
- Pollution reductions or removal technologies including circular economy technologies.
All the three clusters are around prominent blue and green technology sectors with high potential such as:
- • Renewable energy, Environmental services, Manufacturing, Agriculture,
- • Forestry and fishery and construction and building, as well as waste.
The discussion from this conference will inform the climate change interventions of MCI's strategic focus for the next five years.
Overall goal:
To provide opportunity for entrepreneurs, academicians, researchers, policy makers and development partners to learn and share fruitful experiences on innovative home-grown solutions for blue and green economic resilience and to collectively commit to develop the necessary drivers and conditions necessary for technology system that sustains the resilient climate.
Specific Objectives:
- • Reflect on the climate change, challenges, issues, and impact on global economic resiliency.
- • Showcase the entrepreneurship opportunities applying the tech-led innovative home-grown solution with the blue and green economy aspect as well as related opportunities.
- • Promote the sharing of knowledge and experience around practical and innovative solutions in renewable energy, agriculture, transport, forestry and fishery, manufacturing, environmental services, construction and building, waste management all applying the key principle of climate protection.
- • Interrogate, validate, and adopt new/emerging trends in innovations that support the climate protection.
- • Identify and define strategies, tech, capacities, resources and the other necessary factors for the operationalization and the successful implementation of the envisaged climate technologies for mitigating issues related to the climate change.
- • Build scale-up mechanisms among the policy makers, private sectors, academicians, research, development partners around the successful innovations in organic compost from agricultural waste, reforestation and afforestation, solar and renewable energy and lives below the seas.
3. Expected Outcomes
- • The common understanding on the climate changes, challenges, issues, and impact on global economic resiliency.
- • The successful tech-led innovative home-grown solutions with blue and green economy entrepreneurship opportunities showcased.
- • The practical and innovative solutions in renewable energy, agriculture, forestry and fishery, transport, manufacturing, environmental services, construction and building, waste management all applying the key principle of climate protection are showcased and guide the discussions.
- • The common understanding on the new/emerging trends in innovations that support the climate protection.
- • The strategies, tech, capacities, resources and the other necessary factors for the operationalization and the successful implementation of the envisaged climate technologies for mitigation and adaptation as well as pollution reduction are clearly defined.
- • The successful innovations in organic composts from agricultural waste, reforestation and afforestation, solar and renewable energy and lives below the seas are scaled-up.
4. Methodological Approach to the Preparatory Work
The conference will be held totally:
- • In-person, and the duration is three days,
- • The first two days are dedicated to the discussions on the common principles of blue and green economy,
- • Its application to companies' missions and visions etc,
- • And the main part of this conference is organized in moderated plenaries and breakout sessions while
- • The third day will be dedicated to the brainstorming on innovative tech-led solutions for blue and green economic resiliency as well as networking.
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