Expo Live selects 36 entrepreneurs to receive grant, guidance and place at climate summit

Expo Live selects 36 entrepreneurs to receive grant, guidance and place at climate summit

- Social entrepreneurs address issues spanning energy to waste, finance to restoration

- Innovative, practical, scalable solutions are essential in fight against climate change

- Projects from 34 countries receive funding, support and networking opportunities

DUBAI – Thirty-six grassroots social entrepreneurs from 34 countries have joined the Expo Live Innovation Programme, bringing creative climate-related interventions that span biodiversity and ocean restoration, air quality, transport and carbon, food security, waste, energy, water, finance and the protection of vulnerable communities.

The latest cycle of the programme focuses on solutions that have a positive impact on the future of our planet and will provide the 36 selected projects, known as Global Innovators, with funding and technical guidance and the opportunity to showcase their ideas at the COP28 summit to be held at Expo City Dubai later this year.

Her Excellency Reem Al Hashimy, UAE Minister of State for International Cooperation and CEO of Expo City Dubai Authority, said: “When it comes to securing a sustainable future for our planet, we must act fast, and we must act now. As we saw first-hand throughout Expo 2020 Dubai, grassroots and community organisations are on the front line of climate change, ripe with creative solutions that can make a real, positive