Momentum for Change provides a public platform to highlight broad-ranging climate change actions that are already achieving real results on the ground. By shining light on the most inspiring and transformational mitigation and adaptation activities, known as 'Lighthouse Activities', Momentum for Change aims to strengthen motivation, spur innovation and catalyse further change towards a low-emission, high-resilient future. The Lighthouse Activities are showcased at the annual United Nations climate change conferences.

The map below shows all Momentum for Change Lighthouse Activity winners. All of the activities in 2011 and 2012 fall under the Urban Poor focus area, which is implemented with the generous support of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. At the end of 2012, two focus areas were launched: Women for Results, implemented with the generous support of The Rockefeller Foundation and Financing for Climate Friendly Investment, implemented in partnership with the World Economic Forum. The 2013 Lighthouse Activities were selected from all three focus areas. In 2013, a fourth focus area was launched: ICT Solutions, implemented in partnership with the Global e-Sustainability Initiative.

Following a successful three-year relationship with The Rockefeller Foundation, the secretariat re-launched Women for Results in 2016 with a focus on the role of women as innovators especially in the renewable energy and energy efficiency sectors. Momentum for Change is pleased to partner with Masdar’s Women in Sustainability, Environment and Renewable Energy (WiSER) initiative to implement Women for Results.

The WiSER initiative and Momentum for Change share a common theme; empower and inspire women to be catalysts of innovation and drivers of new companies and commercial solutions that secure access to energy, water and food while mitigating climate change. The Momentum for Change initiative has had great success with ‘Women for Results’ and the partnership with WiSER will help ensure that this is taken to the next level in the future.

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The nineteen 2017 Lighthouse Activities are:

Climate Neutral Now pillar:

• Plan A Carbon Reduction
• Net Positive Wine
• Aviva's Climate Neutral Plan
• Zero Carbon Police Force

Planetary Health pillar:

• Restoring Peatlands in Russia
• Cleaning our Oceans of Plastic
• Reclaiming Global Waterways and Beaches
• Sustainable Energy for Safe Childbirth

Financing for Climate-Friendly Investment pillar:

• KaXu Solar One
• Green Finance and The Aggregation of Swedish Local Government Investments
• Partnerships to Advance Climate Risk Insurance Approaches

Information and Communications Technology Solutions pillar:

• ICTs For Small-Scale Farmers: A Game Changing Approach to Climate Smart Agriculture in Latin America
• SmartICE
• Green Credit Card
• Climate Change Impacts on Mountain Biodiversity (CLIMB)

Women for Results pillar:

• From Waste to Wow
• More Corals=More Fish
• Sustainable Agriculture with Gender Inclusion and Participation in Quito
• Building Resilient Livelihoods

The thirteen 2016 Lighthouse Activities are:

Financing for Climate-Friendly Investment pillar:

• Crowdfunding for Community Solar Projects
• Off Grid Electric
• Revenue-Neutral Carbon Tax
• Gothenburg Green Bonds

Information and Communications Technology Solutions pillar:

• Climate Right
• Connected Mangroves
• Mapping for Rights
• Project Sunroof
• SOLshare

Women for Results pillar:

• Women-led Fog-Harvesting for a Resilient, Sustainable Ecosystem
• Rural Community Leaders Combatting Climate Change
• Women's Empowerment for Resilience and Adaptation against Climate Change
• The W+ Standard

The sixteen 2015 Lighthouse Activities are:

Urban Poor pillar:

• E-waste: From Toxic to Green
• Emerging and Sustainable Cities Initiative
• Solvatten Solar Safe Water Heater

Women for Results pillar:

• Fostering Cleaner Production
• Harvesting Geothermal Energy
• Planting Trees to Save the Mangrove
• SELF's Solar Market Gardens

Financing for Climate-Friendly Investment pillar:

• Azuri PayGo Energy
• Deforestation-free Cocoa
• Microsoft Global Carbon Fee

Information and Communications Technology Solutions:

• ChargePoint Electric Vehicle Charging Corridors
• Enabling Farmers to Adapt to Climate Change
• Fairphone
• Lifelink Water Solutions
• Mapping Exposure to Sea Level Rise
• Mobisol Smart Solar Homes

The twelve 2014 Lighthouse Activities are:

Urban Poor pillar:

• Resolve: Trash 2 Cash;
• Building Storm-Resistant Houses;
• Earth Roofs in the Sahel Program;
• National Resettlement Plan;

Women for Results pillar:

• Thailand SPCG Solar;
• Bhungroo;
• Ibu Inspirasi;

Financing for Climate-Friendly Investment pillar:

• Lighten The Energy Bill;
• Zurich Flood Resilience Program;
• EcoMicro;

Information and Communications Technology Solutions:

• Smartsense;
• Community-Based Flood Early Warning System

The seventeen 2013 Lighthouse Activities are:

Urban Poor pillar:

• Community Based Micro Climate Resilience, building climate-change resilient and affordable housing for the urban poor;
• Fostering Innovative Sanitation and Hygiene, providing fecal sludge management services to unsewered poor areas of Liberia;
• Pollinate Energy, training the local community to distribute and install clean lighting systems in the slums of Bangalore;
• Public Private People Partnerships for Climate Compatible Development (4PCCD), designing and implementing community-led adaptation activities;
• Recnowa, employing poor people in urban communities to turn waste into a business opportunity.

Women for Results pillar:

• 1 Million Women, a women driven movement to save energy, reduce waste, cut pollution and lead change;
• Assistance to Local Communities in Climate Change Adaptation & Disaster Risk Reduction, in Bangladesh helping communities adapt to climate change by addressing flooding and extreme weather conditions;
• Food & Trees for Africa, addressing climate change by planting trees to sequester carbon;
• Ghana Bamboo Bikes Initiative, building high quality bamboo bicycles and creating jobs for young people, especially women;
• The BOMA Project, enabling women to start small businesses in their villages;
• Women Farmers in Guatemala, promoting tree planting to improve farming techniques, such as preventing erosion, improving yields and increasing crop diversity.

Financing for Climate-Friendly Investment pillar:

• Adaptation for Smallholder Agriculture Programme (ASAP), channeling climate and environmental finance to smallholder farmers;
• China Clean Development Mechanism Fund, a national climate fund that supports low carbon growth and climate resilience;
• Darfur Low Smoke Stoves Project in Sudan, providing a transformational financing scheme to reduce greenhouse gas emissions with energy efficient stoves;
• Mexico: Financing sustainable housing, helping Mexico tackle climate change by unlocking financing to build and finance low-carbon housing;
• Rental Solar Farms, leasing cost-effective, convenient and clean solar farms without up-front capital investment or long-term obligations;
• Sustainable Energy Finance Program in the Philippines, establishing market capacity to develop and finance commercial investments that increase energy efficiency.

The nine 2012 Lighthouse Activities are:

• Solar Sister, a door-to-door green energy social enterprise in Uganda;
• The Ahmedabad bus rapid transit system in India, which created an integrated and accessible public transport system;
• BioComp Nepal, a waste reduction project involving composting organic waste in Nepal;
• Energy efficiency in artisanal brick kilns in Latin America (EELA) in Peru, which promotes cleaner-burning artisanal brick kilns;
• Lifestraw Carbon For Water in Kenya, which uses carbon financing to fund household level water purification packs;
• Adaptation to coastal erosion in vulnerable areas, an Adaptation Fund-supported activity in Senegal that fights coastal erosion;
• Lanka Electric Vehicle Association in Sri Lanka, who have piloted the use of electric buses and rickshaws in Colombo;
• Holistic approaches to community adaptation to climate change, a Namibia-based activity that uses a six-point method to assist local communities in adapting to climate change;
• Guangzhou bus rapid transit system in China, one of the largest integrated bus rapid transit systems in the world.

The ten 2011 Lighthouse Activities are:

• Buffelsdraii Landfill Site Community Reforestation;
• Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves - The Paradigm Project;
• Wales-Mbale Climate Change Tree Planting;
• eMalahleni Water Reclamation Plant;
• Spurring Climate Change Adaptation in Seychelles Schools through Rainwater Harvesting;
• Horn of Africa Risk Transfer for Adaptation - Rural Resilience Initiative;
• Solar Driven LED Street Lighting in Guiyang villages;
• A Litre of Light;
• The Buses of Brazil: Connectivity - Intelligent Transport Solution
• Scaling Up Solar in India through Public-Private Action

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