General
| Name of initiative
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Climate-Smart Agriculture Booster (CSA Booster)
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| LPAA initiative
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No
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| NAZCA Initiative
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No
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| Website address
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http://csabooster.climate-kic.org/
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| Related initiatives
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| Starting year
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2015
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| End year
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| Secretariat
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Pan Pan
Flagship Manager
Climate-KIC AG
Limmatstrasse 264, 8005 Zurich, Switzerland
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| Organisational structure
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| Geographical coverage
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Western Europe, Eastern Europe
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| Name of lead organisation
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Climate-KIC
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| Type of lead organisation
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Other intergovernmental organization, Network/Consortium/Partnership
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| Location/Nationality of lead organisation
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Switzerland
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Description
| Description
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The Climate-smart Agriculture (CSA) Booster is a flagship programme of Climate-KIC’s Sustainable Land Use (SLU) theme. The CSA Booster acts as both an innovation platform and an accelerator where it brings together a multi-stakeholder ecosystem of public and private sector partners to incubate innovative and sustainable CSA solutions, facilitate and catalyse their adoption and scaling, and to accelerate and de-risk investments into CSA across Europe and beyond.
Climate-KIC is Europe’s largest public-private climate innovation partnership. It is one of three Knowledge and Innovation Communities (KICs) created in 2010 by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), an EU body. It funds and supports innovation and entrepreneurship activities directed at creating economically viable products and services addressing climate change mitigation and adaptation.
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| Objectives
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The purpose of the CSA Booster is to incubate and facilitate the application, adoption and scaling of low-carbon (“climate-smart”) technologies in the EU’s agriculture and food sector; and to accelerate and de-risk investments into CSA across Europe and beyond.
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| Activities
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Capacity and ecosystem building - including open innovation platform (Agrisource.org), CSA solutions database, multi-lingual CSA MOOC, and regional CSA hubs in Europe (France, Italy, Netherlands, Nordic). Project development, assessment, management and funding for agtech, agri-finance and insurance, and innovation/technical assistance projects.
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| One or two success stories achieved
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Upon request
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Monitoring and Impacts
| Function of initiative
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Capacity building, Technical dialogue, Funding, Political dialogue
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| Activity of initiative
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Awareness raising and outreach, Training and education, Knowledge dissemination and exchange, Knowledge production and innovation, Policy planning and recommendations, Fundraising
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| Indicators
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Training and education — Workshops or trainingsTraining and education — Training materials publishedKnowledge production and innovation — Knowledge production or publication producedKnowledge production and innovation — PatentsKnowledge dissemination and exchange — Presentations held| Year | 2017 | 2018 |
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| Value (#) | 10 | 10 |
Knowledge dissemination and exchange — Workshops and meetings for exchanging the knowledge| Year | 2017 | 2018 |
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| Value (#) | 10 | 10 |
Fundraising — Number of donorsFundraising — Funds raised| Year | 2017 | 2018 |
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| Value (MUS$) | 3 | 3 |
Policy planning and recommendations — Presentations held| Year | 2017 | 2018 |
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| Value (#) | 10 | 10 |
Awareness raising and outreach — Events attended and or organisedAwareness raising and outreach — Website visits| Year | 2017 | 2018 |
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| Value (#) | 1000 | 5000 |
Awareness raising and outreach — Media tracking |
| Goals
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2030 Impact Goal - Increase, by an order of magnitude, the application of innovative CSA solutions in Europe and beyond.
2022 Outcomes Goals:
• Link diverse actors across the agriculture and food value chain by creating a
multi-stakeholder open innovation platform, growing local ecosystems and
activating behavioral and dietary change.
• Catalyze the application and adoption of CSA innovations via identification,
assessment, implementation and scaling of CSA solutions.
• Accelerate and de-risk CSA investments by creating data analytics and tools,
developing public-private insurance and financing mechanisms, and blending climate and agriculture finance.
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| Comments on indicators and goals
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KPIs: solutions developed, solutions implemented, patents registered, products launched in the market, case studies created, papers published, start-ups supported, partners engaged, co-funding generated, funding leveraged, funding attracted, knowledge and education events organized, # of CSA MOOC participants, # of open innovation platform users, # of CSA regional hubs, # of @CSABooster Twitter followers
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| How will goals be achieved
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| Have you changed or strenghtened your goals
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| Progress towards the goals
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Substantial - details upon request
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| How are you tracking progress of your initiative
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Specific KPIs
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| Available reporting
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Upon request
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Participants
| Participants
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Number
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Names
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| Members
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50
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| Companies
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0
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South Pole Group (Switzerland),Cybeletech (France),AgriCircle (Switzerland),Oasis Palm Tree (United Kingdom),Carbon Delta (Switzerland),Agvesto (United Kingdom),CO2i (United Kingdom),Clarmondial (Switzerland),Danone (France)
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| Business organisations
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0
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WBCSD (Switzerland), Cool Farm Alliance (United Kingdom)
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| Research and educational organisations
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0
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Wageningen University (Netherlands), Wageningen Environmental Research (Netherlands), IBIMET (Italy), INRA (France), University of Reading (United Kingdom), GFZ (Germany), PIK (Germany), BTU (Germany), CMCC (Italy), CPHU (Denmark), UPV (Spain), Cirad (France), Bologna (Italy), Oxford (United Kingdom), DTU (Denmark).
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| Non-governmental organisations
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0
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GACS-A(Global Alliance for CSA (Italy)
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| National states
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12
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Netherlands, France, Italy, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Spain, Belgium, Finland, Portugal, Poland, Hungary
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| Governmental actors
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0
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| Regional / state / county actors
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0
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| City / municipal actors
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0
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| Intergovernmental organisations
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3
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FAO -Food and Agriculture Organization (Italy)
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| Financial Institutions
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0
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African Development Bank (Ivory Coast)
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| Faith based organisations
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0
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| Other members
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35
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| Supporting partners
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0
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Climate-KIC, various co-founders
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| Number of members in the years
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| Have only national states as participators
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No
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Theme
| Transport
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Agriculture
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Forestry
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Business
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Financial institutions
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Buildings
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Industry
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Waste
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Cities and subnational governments
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Short Term Pollutants
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International maritime transport
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Energy Supply
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Fluorinated gases
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Energy efficiency
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Renewable energy
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Supply chain emission reductions
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Adaptation
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Other
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Resilience
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Innovation
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Energy Access and Efficiency
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Private Finance
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| No
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Yes
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No
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No
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No
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No
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No
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Yes
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No
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No
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No
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No
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No
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No
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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Last update: 10 March 2022 13:23:30
Not only have national states as participators
