Frédéric Bardeau, entrepreneur – France

Member of Le Conclave 2014

Frederic Bardeau is co-founder of Simplon.co, a “solidarity factory” of programming where he combines social and digital innovation. Every 5 months, Simplon trains 24 underprivileged smart people (young people from the suburbs, handicapped people, seniors…) on web development, innovation, and helps them to build web start-ups for social well-being.

Along with this project, Frederic Bardeau develops a vision of social economy and digital democracy, and hopes to “link the digital, the power of code, politics and ethics”. Before Simplon, Frederic founded, along with Laurent Terrisse, a responsible communication agency “Limite”, considered today as a remarkable player in the field of communication in France. Former student of the prestigious military school Saint-Cyr, he is also the father of five children.

www.simplon.co

Juliette Decq, youth engaged for climate – France

Member of Le Conclave 2014

Juliette Decq is one of the major young committed players at an international scale. She runs, at only 25 years old, the project Cop in MyCity. That project is launched by the Think & Do Tank CliMates and is an international plan of action for training and mobilizing young people in dozens of cities all around the world, on the COP occasions (Conferences on climate). They worked on making the COP 21 a success. CliMates provides a toolkit for negotiations and mobilization and thus gives a voice to the young people.

Graduate from Sciences-Po (the prestigious French political university) and University Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI) with a environmental political science degree, she is a representative of the Young at the Regional Council of Ile-de-France (Paris region). Juliette is also part of French network WARN (We are ready now) that gathers all the student associations for climate that organized the COY (Conference of Youth) in December 2015.

www.studentclimates.org

www.copinmycity.weebly.com

Luhui Yan, entrepreneur – China

Member of Le Conclave 2014

Luhui Yan is the founder and CEO of Carbonstop, China’s first carbon management software and consulting service provider. Since 2011, Carbonstop helped more than 500 organizations reduce their environmental impact. Carbonstop collaborates with United Nations Sustainable Consumption, World Resource Institute, China NDRC, CDP, TUV NORD (technical service provider with world-wide activities), British Standard Institute, etc.

Luhui Yan’s expertise is recognized at the international scale. He is an expert reviewer of the UN IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) and a member of the Carbon Disclosure Project Technical Experts. He was member of the China Youth Delegate for UNFCCC 2012 Doha Climate Change Conference. He graduated from MSc in Computer Science in Oxford University (UK).

www.carbonstop.net

Mariam Allam, youth engaged for climate – Egypt

Member of Le Conclave 2014

Mariam is an undergraduate majoring in Political Science at Cairo University. She is set to graduate in 2015 with also completing a minor in Public Administration. Mariam is passionate about environment and sustainable development with a special focus on climate change issues and climate policy and she has been following the UNFCCC climate negotiations for 3 years. She has also been following the sustainable development goals both nationally and internationally.

Mariam is a member of the Egyptian National Youth Consultants to the National Population Council, representing youth voices in the National Post-2015 Development Agenda. She is Cairo University representative at the World Environment Students Network (WSEN), the National Coordinator of the Arab Youth Climate Movement (AYCM) an independent body that works to create a generation-wide movement across the Middle East & North Africa to solve the climate crisis, and to assess and support the establishment of legally binding agreements to deal with climate change issues within international negotiations. She is also the focal person of the African Youth Initiative on Climate Change (AYICC) an umbrella initiative of all youth organizations in Africa working on climate change. Meantime, she was the Egyptian Civil Society representative at the UNFCCC National government delegation meeting for COP20 and COP21.

Thanks to her multiple hats, she is one the major players on climate change in the Middle East.

www.ayicc.net

www.aycm.org

Opavivará ! Coletivo, artistic collective – Brazil

Member of Le Conclave 2014

Opavivará! is an art collective from Rio de Janeiro, which develops actions in public spaces of the city, galleries and cultural institutions, offering inversions in the use of urban space through the creation of relational devices that provide collective experiences.

Since its creation in 2005, the group has been actively participating in the contemporary arts scene. The goal is to create situations that activate and increase power of life: how to drink and dance together, or celebrate any day gathered in the square, at the beach or on the street. Celebrating the carnival out of season, to increase its transformational power.

Concentrated on the anthropocene, Opavivará!’s works are a space that worships the non-productive and nonactive and it stands as a counter proposition to our accelerated times. Their latest work, Formosa Decelerator, is a kind of sloth temple, a space that allows our accelerated daily routine to be stretched, opening up the path to a more organic, pleasurable and reflexive fruition of our environment as a counter proposition to our accelerated, superficial and volatile times.

www.opavivara.com.br

www.youtube.com/user/opavivara

Wang Tianju, youth engaged for climate – China

Member of Le Conclave 2014

Wang Tianju is a campaign director at Greenovation Hub. Founded in 2012, Greenovation Hub (G:HUB) is a Chinese environmental NGO that combines the efficiency of grass-root and international NGOs. G:HUB is committed to foster China’s green transition hence global sustainable development. It adopts new media and new technologies to create the most practical tools and interact with green citizens to search for solutions for China and for the world’s ecological crisis.

Wang Tianju is a specialist of green finance. His skills range from research to concrete implementation of green credit policy in HeBei province.

He received his master degree in the University of Exeter (UK) in climate change and risk management, and his bachelor degree of financial economics in the University of Swansea.

www.ghub.org/en

Ben Knight, entrepreneur – New Zealand

Member of Le Conclave 2014

Ben Knight is a co-founder of Loomio, an online tool for collaborative decision making, built by a core team in Wellington, New Zealand.

“Loomio is all about building tools to make it easy for as many people as possible to put their heads together, to come up with better solutions than anyone would have come up with on their own.”

Loomio is being used by thousands of groups worldwide, from community organisations and start-up businesses, to innovators like the Wikimedia Foundation. Loomio won the MIX Prize Digital Freedom Challenge in 2014, an international management innovation award run by Polly LaBarre, cofounder of Fast Company magazine, who says :

“The beauty of Loomio is that it transcends the tradeoff between efficiency and engagement.”

Ben has an academic background in the evolution of collective intelligence, a practical background in grassroots community organising, and a passion for the potential of technology to spur positive social change. He was closely involved with the Occupy movement in 2011, where he got massively empowering results of collective decision-making on a large scale.

www.loomio.org

www.reinventors.net/content/ben-knight

His TED talk : www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vCL4I19o9U

Linh Do, youth engaged for climate – Australia

Member of Le Conclave 2014

At only 25 years old, Linh Do is already a major figure of the international scene committed to climate. When she was only 15 years old, she launched the Change A Million Light Bulbs campaign in Australia which influenced the government to limit incandescent light bulbs in the country.

She co-founded Our Say and TheVerb where she now works full time, an international media that intends to bring a better comprehension of today’s greatest stakes and to change the way that traditional media treat these subjects. Gathering experts from more than 17 countries, these articles are published and relayed by Al Jazeera, Reuters, The Huffington Post, Crikey, Jezebel, etc.

Named World Economic Forum Global Shaper in 2013, she is also Australian Geographic Young Conservationist of the Year (2013) and one of Junior Chamber International Outstanding Young Persons of the World. She is based in Melbourne, Australia with extensive experience overseas.

www.theverb.org

Her TED talk : www.youtube.com/watch?v=32GPv32hkHE

Charles-Adrien Louis, youth engaged for climate and entrepreneur – France

Member of Le Conclave 2014

Charles Adrien Louis is President of Avenir Climatique, a French association that raises young people’s awareness of climate change and energy topics through participative activities. The association measures carbon impact of human activities, finding unexpected subjects to draw their attention. For example, during the 2012 presidential election in France, Avenir Climatique calculated the consequences of each candidate’s campaign on global warming.

Through these activities, Charles-Adrien fights for a societal shift and wants to show that the young people are ready to act. He is very active in the WARN project (We Are Ready Now). For three years, he has also been an entrepreneur of change by founding B&L, a consulting company in sustainable development and carbon engineering. Charles-Adrien has made his everyday life a constant struggle for a better place and lives in a carbonfree perspective.

www.avenirclimatique.org

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RirqzxJiHlk