Deadline: 21-Oct-22

Deloitte is proud to support the Lead2030 Challenge for SDG13 for the second year in a row. Through this challenge seek to empower passionate people finding meaningful and innovative ways of tackling climate change.

Deloitte is committed to addressing climate change both within their organization and beyond through their strategic initiative, WorldClimate, which aims to deliver on this global ambition. The foundation recognizes that change starts within, and they must set and meet higher standards for themselves, empower their professionals and connect with their broader ecosystem to create solutions that facilitate the transition to a low carbon economy. Everbody must work collectively to accomplish change.

Solutions

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.
• Use innovative approaches.

Focus Areas

Deloitte is looking for bold solutions that reduce impacts of climate change and/or empower others to act on climate change. Examples of solutions may include behavioral change, technology solutions or scaling of technology solutions, education, nature-based solutions, community actions or collaborations.

The solutions should drive impact in at least one of the following areas:

• Actively contribute to carbon reduction, carbon sequestration, and/or the transition to clean, renewable energy.
• Support or empower local people who are undertaking climate action to improve their community, strengthen resilience and limit the effects of climate change.
• Promote meaningful collaboration across stakeholder groups such as communities, businesses, and governments, to advance climate change solutions and resilience measures.
• Support initiatives that develop job skills, improve educational outcomes, and provide access to opportunities within the green economy.
• Limit the negative human, environmental, or societal impacts brought on by climate change.

Benefits

The winning solution will receive:

• Sponsorship to participate in the One Young World Summit 2023.
• A US$50,000 grant from Deloitte.
• 12 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 organization, such as:
  • Business strategy.
  • Best practices for data collection.
  • Monitoring and evaluation.
  • product design.

Challenge Criteria

• Aligned: Evidently aligned with the SDG13 challenge.
• 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).

Eligibility Criteria

• The challenge is open to young people from social enterprises, non-profits, or community organizations.

For more information, visit https://www.oneyoungworld.com/lead2030/22-23/challenge-sdg13-deloitte