Meet the Founding father of Greening the Islands

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Gianni Chianetta based Greening the Islands after an in depth profession at respected firms together with Parke-Davis, Wilkinson Sword and Warner Lambert.

Greening the Islands (GTI) is working to unfold information and finest practices in order to speed up the sustainability and self-sufficiency of islands and distant areas. They act as a catalyst in relations between non-public and public stakeholders.

Forward of their marketing campaign to lift capital to scale GTI, we sat down with Gianni Chianetta to be taught extra about his background, GTI’s mission and what’s subsequent for the sustainable startup. 

Inform us about your profession previous to creating Greening the Islands?

I’ve been deeply concerned within the vitality sector since 2003, first as Exterior Affairs Director within the Italian Division of BP then as Managing Director for BP Photo voltaic Italia till 2013. 

In 2005, I co-founded the primary photo voltaic business affiliation of Italy and served as President for 3 consecutive phrases. I then co-founded the Community of Nationwide Photo voltaic PV Associations in 2007. This grew to become the World Photo voltaic Council in 2015 at COP21 and served as co-Chairman. 

In 2013 I based The Inexperienced Consulting Group, a consultancy firm which specialised within the origination and improvement of initiatives in vitality and setting and remained Managing Director up to now. The Greening the Islands Worldwide Convention launched in 2014. It’s mission is to create a desk for islands and worldwide answer suppliers, selling enabling laws and sustainable initiatives. 

Which leads as much as 2017 the place Greening the Islands grew to become an progressive begin up.

What’s Greening the Islands and what do you do?

Greening The Islands is an progressive start-up that matches islands wants with forward-thinking options. 

We facilitate the origination of initiatives for the sustainable transition of islands and their replicability on the mainland. We act as a catalyst in relationships between governments, enterprise, academia and residents, disseminating information and finest practices.

When and the way did you realise that there was a big influence on islands affected by local weather change, and what would the influence seem like with out GTI’s assist? 

In 2015, on the Greening the Islands Convention, we launched a name to motion for COP21 to acknowledge the position of islands as laboratories for options to confront local weather change, issuing suggestions to governments and intergovernmental organisations to help and ease investments in sustainability on islands. 

With out GTI it might be tougher for islands to take a seat with key policymakers and progressive answer suppliers globally. In truth, GTI is already a pioneer in selling islands’ sustainability. We had been invited as a particular visitor to the EU Vitality Ministers assembly in Malta 2017 the place a political declaration was signed to speed up renewable vitality transition in additional than 2700 UE islands. 

GTI’s actions have stimulated the creation of the Clear Vitality for EU Islands program, a bundle of EU directives to help the vitality transition of EU islands from 2020 to 2030 that was introduced on the GTI Worldwide Convention in Favignana, one of many Sicilian minor islands, in the identical yr.

What does your aggressive panorama seem like and the way does GTI differentiate itself?

After the launch of the GTI convention in 2014, there have been different initiatives on communications and networking. Nonetheless, GTI differentiates itself by specializing in the totally different applied sciences and distinctive digital instruments to evaluate an island’s standing and monitor its progress in the direction of sustainability.

May you inform us about a few of your largest achievements up to now?

Our best achievement is the power to assemble all related stakeholders of various sectors (vitality, water, agriculture, waste, tourism, mobility and many others) at worldwide and native ranges. Then with that, figuring out the islands as labs for built-in initiatives and enhanced sustainability.

How do you intend to create a scalable and worthwhile enterprise mannequin?

We’re trusted by international leaders of the sustainable transition just like the UN, European Fee, FAO, IRENA, UNESCO and others. 

Now it’s time to scale up because of our digital platform. That features the potential for establishing purchaser teams thus creating economies of scale, and accessing consulting companies from specialists all around the world. 

We envision an unlimited variety of memberships in addition to an rising variety of tenders capitalising on our know-how and community.

What do you intend to do with the cash you elevate?

We’re going to make investments the proceeds into the corporate. This seems to be like strengthening the employees, the event of the digital platform and all its options.

What do you like to do in your free time?

I moved to Malta, which is an Island State, with frequent travels to Italy, my homeland. I really like nature and luxuriate in taking good care of vegetation. In addition to doing sport actions outside and at sea, particularly trekking and canoeing.

In the event you weren’t constructing GTI, what do you assume you’d be doing?

I’d be managing my household’s wine farm.

After some time in enterprise now, what’s the largest lesson you’ve learnt up to now constructing GTI?

For the frequent good, it’s essential to constantly have interaction and encourage folks. Islands can actually be a mannequin of coexistence between people and nature for each neighborhood.

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Greening the Islands is tapping into an neglected market, giving them sufficient area to grow to be a dominant participant. We’re excited to be supporting them with their present marketing campaign. 

Wish to be part of historical past and help GTI on their journey? We invite you to go to their marketing campaign right here.