sustainable Entrepreneurs BBC Editorial
you ever had a good idea for a business that is profitable and good for society? Wondering who could finance this brilliant project? The scheme New Ventures (New Companies) specializes in helping small businesses to seek sponsorship sustainable.
Next 28 and 29 November will take place in Sao Paulo, Brazil, the Second Investment Forum on Sustainable Business of New Ventures in that country. BBC
spoke with Amy Sprague, sustainable business program at World Resources Institute (WRI, for its acronym in English), a non-governmental that is engaged in the New Ventures program to promote sustainable innovators in the developing world. How do
to bring together investors with innovative sustainable? Fabric
AmazonLife Amazon forest is a Brazilian company that produces clothing and other products made from a rubberized fabric of native trees from the Amazon forest. New Ventures
addresses the growing demand for investments that comply with environmental and social criteria.
We're delivering strong sustainable businesses through our consulting services. Each company
New Ventures has the opportunity to appear before an Investors' Forum, an audience of entrepreneurs, potential clients and members of organizations dedicated to promoting business. Under what criteria
choose their projects in Latin America?
New Ventures selects companies for its financial perspective, innovation, market potential, and social and environmental benefits. These companies seeking between $ 100,000 and $ 3 million investment.
What is a sustainable business for New Ventures?
usually look for companies that operate within one of our areas of interest that are clean technologies, ecotourism, forest products, certified wood, organic products, renewable energy, sustainable aquaculture, and biodiversity.
Companies must incorporate social and environmental considerations into their models to deliver value to investors, local communities and the environment.
Where did this idea?
Since, in most emerging small and medium enterprises (SMEs) represent over 50% of GDP and 80% of the workforce, they understood the importance of the social and economic development of these countries.
Moreover, SMEs have a strong relationship with the environment, and create links between micro and large national and multinational companies.
think that if we change the orientation of SMEs towards products and services that create environmental and social benefits as well as economic, would be a very important catalyst for sustainable development. How
WRI understands its mission against New Ventures? Organic Shrimp
Biocentinela is an Ecuadorian company that received sponsorship for organic shrimp farms in natural environment without antibiotics or hormones.
WRI's mission is to harness human society to live in ways that protect the global environment and its ability to meet the needs and aspirations of present and future generations.
One of our goals is to act as a catalyst in the adoption of policies and practices to expand prosperity, as it reduces the use of materials and waste generation.
Then the New Ventures program promotes a new model for SMEs to protect the environment and higher quality of life of communities through employment and fair wages, but also a collaboration between SMEs and community social and environmental issues.
If anyone has a good project in Latin America, how can they contact you?
Now we are looking for new companies in Brazil and Mexico. We will have a call for business in each country in 2006. Also offer workshops on business plans in each country in early 2006.
For more information, visit or contact me directly http://www.new-ventures.org amys@wri.org. BBCMundo.com
Note: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/hi/spanish/business/newsid_4470000/4470354.stmPublicada: 2005/11/25 13:29:17 GMT © BBC MMIX
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