{"id":8429,"date":"2021-12-08T15:04:18","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T12:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baikalfoundation.ru\/?page_id=8429"},"modified":"2024-07-17T21:47:27","modified_gmt":"2024-07-17T18:47:27","slug":"green-steps","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/baikalfoundation.ru\/en\/our-work\/partnership-for-sustainable-development\/green-steps\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Steps"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>September 2021 \u2013 October 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Active position of the business is crucial to conserve the Baikal natural area and key element in harmonic social-economic development of local communities: both with approaches in business activities, also with participation in the eco-educational events of the citizens. The number of tourists in Baikal is growing, and we need to create conditions for sustainable tourism development, which doesn\u2019t harm the environment. Lake Baikal Foundation with the support of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eng.atb.su\/\">Asian-Pacific Bank<\/a> decided to initiate grant contest for small and medium business \u00abGreen Steps\u00bb to help with ecologization of business processes in the Baikal region.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3>Aim:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>To contribute to dissemination of sustainable environmental practices and implementation of green technologies among small and medium businesses in the Baikal region, and realization of the Sustainable Development Goals in Irkutsk region and Republic of Buryatia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3>Tasks:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Ensure development of social responsibility of the business to improve environmental conditions in localities of the Baikal region and conservation of ecosystems;<\/li><li>Involve business in improvement of public spaces in localities and development of responsible tourism.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3>Nominations:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ol type=\"1\"><li>Ecological innovation in business.<\/li><li>Sustainable localities.<\/li><li>Green corporate environment.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h3>Key dates:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>27<sup>th<\/sup> September 2021 \u2013 10<sup>th <\/sup>November 2021 \u2013 Call for applications.<\/li><li>11<sup>th<\/sup> November 2021 \u2013 25<sup>th<\/sup> November 2021 \u2013 Evaluation of the applications by the Jury.&nbsp;<\/li><li>No later 6<sup>th<\/sup> December 2021 \u2013 Announcement of the winners.<\/li><li>1<sup>st<\/sup> February 2022 \u2013 30<sup>th<\/sup> November 2022 \u2013 Implementation of the projects by the winners.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3>Profile of the participant<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ol type=\"1\"><li>Companies and individual entrepreneurs.<\/li><li>Carrying on business in the following branches:<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Waste management<\/li><li>Agriculture<\/li><li>Construction development<\/li><li>Sales<\/li><li>Hotels<\/li><li>Foodservice industry<\/li><li>Education<\/li><li>Consulting<\/li><li>Personal service (dry-cleaning, hairdressing, beauty salons).<\/li><li>To be in included into general register for subjects of small and medium business.<\/li><li>Project geography: cities Irkutsk, Ulan-Ude, Central Environmental zone of the Baikal natural area.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3>Members of the Jury:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Elena Bazhenova, Project Coordinator at Killaberg Nature Reserve<\/li><li>Nina Budazhapova, Imperial College London<\/li><li>Elena Vishnyakova, group \u00abEcoline\u00bb<\/li><li>Maksim Evdokimov, Agency for Strategic Initiatives<\/li><li>Natalya Eremeeva, Foundation \u00ab Give a Life to our Planet Foundation\u00bb (\u00abPodari Planete Zhizn\u00bb)<\/li><li>Evgenia Kuznetsova, You Social<\/li><li>Ekaterina Kuznetsova, \u00abGreen office\u00bb<\/li><li>Andrei Kulakov, Association \u00abGoal Number Seven\u00bb<\/li><li>Alexandra Lavrenko, Foundation \u00abSecond breath\u00bb<\/li><li>Margarita Milavskaya, Bj\u00f6rn<\/li><li>Il\u2019nur Salyakhov, APB<\/li><li>Alexandra Sytnikova, ATLAS<\/li><li>Ekaterina Trosman, Society for Ecological Restoration<\/li><li>Jochan Ebbing, International Science Academy of Ecology, Security of the Human and Nature<\/li><li>Alexandra Yakovleva, Kenozero National Park<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The total grant funding is 1 000 000 rubles. The maximum grant for each nomination is 335 000 rubles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3>Winning Projects:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Nomination \u201cEnvironmental Innovation in Business\u201d: <ul><li>Minus CO2 project to reduce the company&#8217;s carbon footprint, charity store \u201cTuesday\u201d, Irkutsk.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Nomination \u201cGreen Corporate Culture\u201d:<ul><li>\u201cLet&#8217;s Save Nature Together\u201d project to implement a recyclable container system for food delivery, \u2018Voyage\u2019 restaurant, Ulan-Ude.<\/li><li>Project \u201cSaving Yourself &#8211; Teach Others!\u201d &#8211; eco-educational annual program for employees and clients, Baikal Plaza Hotel, Ulan-Ude.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Nomination \u201cSustainable Human Settlements\u201d:<ul><li>Social project \u201cThread\u201d: a project to expand infrastructure for accepting unwanted clothes and things, Ulan-Ude;<\/li><li>Project for the construction of an ecological trail \u201cSource of Youth\u201d, Orange House Recreation Center, Ulan-Ude.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The implementation became possible thanks to the support of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eng.atb.su\/\">Asian Pacific Bank<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 2021 \u2013 October 2022 Active position of the business is crucial to conserve the Baikal natural area and key element in harmonic social-economic development of local communities: both with approaches in business activities, also with participation in the eco-educational events of the citizens. The number of tourists in Baikal is growing, and we need &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/baikalfoundation.ru\/en\/our-work\/partnership-for-sustainable-development\/green-steps\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Green Steps&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8190,"parent":4907,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"categories":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baikalfoundation.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8429\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baikalfoundation.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baikalfoundation.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baikalfoundation.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baikalfoundation.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=8429"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/baikalfoundation.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8429\/revisions\/"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13680,"href":"https:\/\/baikalfoundation.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8429\/revisions\/13680\/"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baikalfoundation.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4907\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baikalfoundation.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8190\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baikalfoundation.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=8429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baikalfoundation.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=8429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}