The GSM Association is inviting applications from start-ups, small and medium enterprises and social enterprises for its new climate action innovation fund.
, seeking solutions that use digital technology, especially mobile, to improve resilience and adaptation to climate change.It will test use cases, partnerships and business models in order to improve the sustainability and scalability of digitally-enabled solutions that make a positive impact on low-income populations and those who are most vulnerable to current or future climate risks.
Max Cuvellier, head of mobile for development at GSMA, states: “With this fund, we want to put an even stronger focus on supporting local teams and female-led organisations, as well as relatively nascent innovations in underfunded areas, such as regenerative agriculture, forestry, fisheries, coastal and wetland ecosystems, or food and waste value chains, while taking into account the need to strengthen biodiversity.
Maria van Berlekom, unit head for global cooperation on environment at Sida, adds: “There is strong evidence that mobile and digital technologies can support the resilience of people in poverty to meet the repeated shocks caused by climate change.