Raising public awareness of climate issues

Dear Difteur-ses,

After launching La Ville du Changement in Lons-le-Saunier, the GoodPlanet Foundation continues its commitment to the ecological and solidarity-based transition... this time in Senegal!

With the Femmes et Coquillages project, the Foundation is supporting the sustainable development of the oyster, shellfish and beekeeping industries in the Saloum Delta and Casamance between 2025 and 2027. The ambition is to sustainably improve the economic situation and working conditions of women while preserving coastal biodiversity.

Supported by the GoodPlanet Foundation with its local and international partners, the project is already mobilizing a vast network of players and has set itself concrete objectives:

- 2,425 direct female beneficiaries, brought together in 14 groups, supported over three years;

- 40% of women trained in sustainable practices, financial monitoring and social entrepreneurship ;

- 6 new breeding perimeters for oysters and shellfish installed;

- 200 women trained in beekeeping and 50 hives set up ;

- 15 hectares of mangroves reforested to protect ecosystems

Beyond technical and economic support, the GoodPlanet Foundation is working to enhance the role of women as players in the ecological transition, supporting them in diversifying their activities (market gardening, fish farming, agroforestry) and structuring new marketing channels.

This project fully illustrates the Foundation's mission: to combine human development, environmental preservation and collective mobilization.

Find out more: https://www.goodplanet.info/actu-fondation/empowerment-des-femmes-cultivatrices-de-coquillages-au-senegal/

Dear Difteur-ses,

La Ville du Changement is a major collective citizen initiative whose ambition is to experiment with ecological transition on the scale of one town: Lons-le-Saunier. For one year, the GoodPlanet Foundation will coordinate this adventure of change, between May 2024 and June 2025, with the support, work and commitment of numerous local players. This adventure will then be told in 2025 on France Télévisions through 4 documentary evenings produced by HOPE Production and Brainworks.

Supported by the Ministry of Ecological Transition and the Agency for Ecological Transition (ADEME),the aim of the "City of Change" project is to experiment in a concrete way with the ecological transition of a territory by mobilizing residents, associations, economic players, elected officials and agents, pupils and students.

In addition to raising awareness (workshops, meetings with inspiring personalities, murals...) and project support(31 projects to date), the GoodPlanet Foundation mobilizes decision-makers and economic players through, among other things:

- An awareness-raising and mobilization program aimed at SMEs/ETIs on the one hand, and merchants/TPEs on the other, in collaboration with the regional BPI, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Clus'Ter Jura, AlonsZi, Made in Jura and other local players;

- A training program for municipal teams and elected officials within the town hall and the agglomeration (ECLA) in conjunction with ADEME;

- An experiment in Ecological Civic Service within the town hall.