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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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:
1.Reconnect diverse actors across the whole agricultural value chain by creating a multi-stakeholder platform, growing local ecosystems and activating behavioural change.
2. Catalyze the application and adoption of CSA innovations via identification, assessment, validation and scaling of CSA solutions.
3. Accelerate and de-risk CSA investments by blending climate and agriculture finance, enhancing data analytics and tools, and developing innovative public-private financing schemes and insurance mechanisms.
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Comments on indicators and goals
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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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Yes
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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 (CH),Cybeletech (FR),AgriCircle (CH),Oasis Palm Tree (UK),Carbon Delta (CH),Agvesto (UK),CO2i (UK),Clarmondial (CH),Danone (FR)
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Business organisations
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0
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WBCSD (CH), Cool Farm Alliance (UK)
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Research and educational organisations
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0
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Wageningen University (NL), Wageningen Environmental Research, IBIMET (IT), INRA (FR), University of Reading (UK), GFZ (DE), PIK (DE), BTU (DE), CMCC (IT), CPHU (DK), UPV (ES), Cirad (FR), Bologna, Oxford, Imperial, DTU
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Non-governmental organisations
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0
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GACSA (Global Alliance for CSA)
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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)
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Financial Institutions
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0
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African Development Bank
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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