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ECO4CLIM15 – COP21
On November 23-28 2015, more than 300 green economy professionals from 7 major cities participated in the 2015 Global Week of Green Business and the Climate Movement. #ECO4CLIM15 far-reaching impact clearly showed how green SMEs can significantly contribute to the Climate Movement by providing socially-empowering and financially-viable business solutions to the mitigation and adaptation challenges. A powerful statement and a loud voice calling for our leaders to enact supportive legislation, and facilitate the transition towards a sustainable economy grounded on a vibrant fabric of SMEs.
Two weeks later, we carried that voice all the way to the COP21 Climate Summit in Paris, where, alongside the green SME winner of the Climate Champion Special Award 2015 –Ciclogreen-, we participated in the official EU workshop "Opportunities and challenges for SMEs in realising the COP21 vision" organized by GreenEcoNet. And then the historic Paris Agreement was reached in a groundbreaking victory for the Climate Movement as a whole.
In Spain, 172 professionals and more than 50 organizations actively participated in a range of activities organized by Greenbiz along 4 different cities –Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia and Seville-, including multi-stakeholder co-creation sessions; thematic workshops on housing, recycling, energy and mobility; and the "Climate Champion Awards 2015", where 28 SMEs showcased the positive impact they are already creating on the ground, with 16 of them winning prizes along two categories: mitigation and adaptation/resilience.
Press release : "Spanish SMEs join the Climate Movement ahead of the COP21"
Preliminary statistics report: "Ecopreneurs for the Climate 2015 – Spanish chapter, information and preliminary stats"
Impact & Results Report (Spanish lenguage): "Informe de Resultados"
COP21 Climate Summit in Paris: we contributed to the conversation with two articles published in EL PAÍS, a major Spanish journal: "Towards the end of a fossil fuel based economy" before the COP21, and "Paris Agreement: cooperation, innovation and opportunities for SMEs" after the COP21.
Pictures from the events available on this Picasa album or on our Facebook page
The following entities contributed to making the 2015 events in Spain possible:
In Germany, ECO4CLIM15 started off with the official ceremony of the StartGreen Award on Nov 19th, 2015, an award honoring innovative ideas and founding concepts serving as role models for the green economy in Germany. UnternehmensGrün was part of the jury and partner in the award ceremony. The StartGreen Award was launched by StartUp4Climate, a founder-initiative, aiming to strengthen the sustainable entrepreneurship scene in Germany, facilitating networking activities of green start-ups, founding-support and investors.
On Monday, 23rd November 2015, UnternehmensGrün e.V. organized a "Climate Lunch" in Berlin. Sustainable entrepreneurs had the opportunity to taste fine organic food, jointly prepared by eco-entrepreneurs and the team of UnternehmensGrün. The dish's recipes came from the "Genuss-Kochbüchle". This climate-friendly cookbook was developed by a group of pupils as part of the education for sustainable development project "Umweltprofis von morgen." Additionally, as a member of the Climate Alliance Germany, UnternehmensGrün strongly supports the political demands of their recently issued position paper. The paper outlines crucial energy and climate policy requirements necessary to limit global warming to well below 2 or 1.5 degrees Celsius.
In the Netherlands, De Groene Zaak launched a report showing that businesses often have great climate ambitions, but are held back by governments. It was done on board the "Train to Paris", an initiative of a coalition of businesses that headed to the COP21 in Paris, providing a "moving platform" for debates and workshops about Climate Change.
Venues: Train to Paris
In France, Entreprenedre Vert organized a workshop in Paris on what entrepreneurs, both through working together and in their own organizations, can do to fight climate change. This led to strong conclusions and recommendations that can be seen here. As stated by Frederic Benhaim, Co-president, "To our association and to our members, it's high time for stronger climate action from public policy decisionmakers at all levels, and from corporate and SME policy. We can all, really, make a difference. Let's work together!"
Venue: Espace Fil Rouge, 4 Rue Saint-Nicolas, 75012 Paris
Conclusions: http://entreprendrevert.org/2015/12/09/cop21-nos-recommandations-pour-aller-de-lavant/
Program: Circular discussions were maintained, with open participation from the audience and prestigious speakers including:
Philippe Schiesser, CEO of Ecoeff, president of APEDEC / Écodesign Fab lab
Gilberte Caron, co-founder of Cobusiness
Hélène Exbrayat, consultant – educator, founder of Sequoiavox
Aksel Piran, entrepreneur in the virtual reality field
Some pictures from Ecopreneurs for the Climate 2015 (full album on Picasa or Facebook)


County Fair starts tomorrow so we've been busy ironing shirts, shining boots, cleaning tack and bathing horses! I think she's as ready as she can be and if nothing else, Gracie looks like a million bucks! If you're here in Seward, stop down to the fair grounds tomorrow or Thursday and take in some equestrian fun!


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New Mexico county attorney sues unauthorized, private police group protecting Spanish statue
Albuquerque police detain members of the New Mexico Civil Guard, an armed civilian group, following the shooting of a man during a protest over a statue of Spanish conquerer Juan de Oñate on Monday, June 15, 2020, in Albuquerque, N.M. ... more >
By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times - Tuesday, July 14, 2020
A county district attorney is suing the New Mexico Civil Guard, saying it endangered public safety by trying to protect a Spanish statue during protests last month.
The lawsuit seeks to halt the group from presenting itself as an unregulated police force.
Bernalillo County District Attorney Raul Torrez says that the group of civilians dressed in military-like attire and armed with weapons attempted to disrupt a protest last month seeking to remove the statue of Juan de Onate, the Spanish conquistador and colonial governor of Santa Fe.
The event turned violent when a man, not affiliated with the group, shot and injured a protester.
The New Mexico Civil Guard told people they were there at the protest to protect property, but according to the legal complaint, they broke the law by representing themselves as an unauthorized police force.
"NMCG has unlawfully exercised and intends to continue to unlawfully exercise the power to maintain public peace reserved to peace officers," the 33-page complaint read. "This is a case about paramilitary action that threatens public safety and intimidates the public's exercise of First Amendment rights."
Mr. Torrez said some members of the New Mexico Civil Guard were white supremacists and from "neo-Confederate" organizations.
State law bans private security forces that are unregulated as well as paramilitary organizations.
"Whatever our differences are, there is simply no place in our society for private paramilitary groups to impose their will on other citizens or threaten public safety. Regardless of our diverse political views, we must remain committed to the rule of law," Mr. Torrez said.
Bryce Provance, the leader of the New Mexico Civil Guard, said city officials are trying to divert blame for how the protest was handled.
"They are deflecting," Mr. Provance told Albuquerque TV station KOB, channel 4.
"The mayor and deputy chief ordered their officers not be in an area so that violence could be carried out against property, against counterprotesters and it backfired. Somebody got shot, and then we had to disarm the shooter, form a perimeter around him and hold him until police arrived. And because of the mayor and deputy chief's ineptitude, they are going to deflect and try and charge us and sue us whatever they are going to do," he said.
Mr. Torrez teamed with the Georgetown Law Center in filing the lawsuit.
Georgetown's Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection previously represented the city of Charlottesville against the private military-like groups at the Unite the Right rally in August 2017, when violence erupted over the removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee. A protester was run over and killed, and two law-enforcement responders died in a helicopter crash.
In that dispute, several settlement agreements were reached where the groups agreed not to return to the city.
"Self-proclaimed private militias in New Mexico and elsewhere are increasingly purporting to 'protect' property and monuments against unsupported claims of anti-fascist violence, unlawfully usurping the role of law enforcement officials while intimidating peaceful protesters and raising the risk of violence," said Mary McCord, the legal director of the Georgetown institute.
"The district attorney's action today is necessary to thwart this threat to public safety and ensure the protection of fundamental constitutional rights," she added.
• Alex Swoyer can be reached at aswoyer@washingtontimes.com.

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