BeClimate Hub

What an incredible night at the launch of BeClimate Hub! 🤩 We are SO full of energy from the overwhelming response from all the people who joined us last Thursday. 🤩 Our house is warmed, our hearts are full, and we are even more ready to inspire bold climate action in Belgium. Thank you for joining us! We can’t thank you all enough: Our exceptional speakers for their insights: Adélaïde Charlier, Charlène Collin, Nico De Clerck; the sustainable food and beverage partners (Bières de Quartiers, GIMBER, Belgobon, GR'EAT GRANOLA and Kult Kefir), Olivier and band (all from BeClimate community!) that got us singing and dancing, our live artist Christopher Malapitan .. and all of you! This is just the beginning. BeClimate Hub is here to bring together changemakers across sectors to co-create solutions for a better future. If you’re inspired and want to be part of this growing community, we want to meet you! ➡️ Reach out here to join the community: https://lnkd.in/eWwYZEMt ⬅️ Stay tuned for more exciting updates, including our updated mapping of the Belgian climate startup ecosystem, which will be published here in the next few days!

What happens when climate, cities, and improv come together? A night of creativity, connection, and fresh perspectives at BeClimate Hub! 🎭 Move the City: Improv for Climate Resilience & Innovation 🌍 Through playful, spontaneous improv exercises, we explored the complexity of urban climate challenges—from air pollution to heatwaves—seeing cities as dynamic, interconnected ecosystems. Improv helped us adapt, co-create, and uncover new ways to turn risks into opportunities for regeneration and equity. A huge thank you to Monika Barcikowska, PhD and Christopher Malapitan for leading us through this energising session, and to Alessandra✨ Guion - Gambrill, Kruti Munot, Carl Lebesque Colin Reisser  Emma K. Gregor Probst and Pascale for making it happen. At BeClimate Hub, we believe in the power of experimentation and collaboration to drive climate solutions. This session reminded us that real innovation starts with stepping outside our comfort zones—and sometimes, just saying "yes, and...". Let’s keep imagining, creating, and acting for a more resilient future. Who’s in? More events here👇 https://lnkd.in/ek54tUDf #BeClimateHub #ClimateInnovation #UrbanResilience #ImprovForChange #Sustainability

📣 Call to all companies with a positive environmental impact 💚

BeClimate Radio talks careers and talent with Unago! Last week, BeClimate Hub welcomed Coraline De Spirlet to introduce Unago Recrutement, a powerful initiative to unlock hidden talent and connect it with companies ready to make a difference. Coraline shared: ✅ The mission of Unago: breathing new life into "second chances" by showcasing conventionally overlooked talents. ✅ A deep-dive into how Unago operates to turn potential into real opportunities. ✅ The impact: from individuals regaining confidence, to businesses embracing inclusive hiring. ✅ Success stories and challenges in reintegration. Unago is proof that talent is everywhere—sometimes, it just needs the right chance to shine. 🌟 📢 Would you like to join us for the next BeClimate Radio - our weekly bite-sized lunch inspiration talks - on 27th Feb? Lionel Delatte from Atelier de l'Avenir will talk about energy renovations and buildings! Register here: https://lu.ma/hyi0eyz4

🎙️ BeClimate Radio: Bring your sandwich, feed your mind! 🍃 This Thursday at 12:30, we’re back with BeClimate Radio, our bite-sized lunchtime talks where we dive into key climate and business challenges with inspiring entrepreneurs. 🔹 This edition’s guest: Coraline De Spirlet from Unago Recrutement 🔹 Unago is all about giving a second chance a new life—uncovering hidden talents and connecting them with businesses ready to make a difference. Coraline will share: ✅ Unago’s mission & impact ✅ Success stories & challenges in reintegration ✅ How their model works in practice Bring your sandwich, bring your curiosity, and let’s talk! See you there! 😊

Join BeClimate Hub as a Communication Manager! Are you passionate about climate action and communications? We’re looking for a motivated volunteer or student to help us manage external communication, engage our community, and support event promotion at BeClimate Hub. Your Mission: 🔹 Develop and execute communication strategies (email, social media, press) 🔹 Create content & copywriting 🔹 Foster community engagement 🔹 Support event promotion and organization 🔹 Build press relations What We’re Looking For: ✅ Strong communication skills (EN required, FR/NL a plus) ✅ Autonomous and proactive ✅ Passionate about sustainability Location: Brussels Duration: Minimum 3 months (part-time/full-time) Ready to grow your skills and make an impact? 🌱 More information here 👉 https://lnkd.in/eQK56aqM #BeClimateHub #Sustainability #Communications #Internship #Volunteer #ClimateAction

🎙️We had the pleasure of hosting Carl Lebesque from ACHA Consulting during our lunchtime #BeClimateRadio. 🎙️ In this session, we focussed on the fact that climate change already impacts a lot of businesses. Carl illustrated the physical impact with a concrete example and explained how adaptation reduces exposure or vulnerability to climate hazards.  Carl also told us about the crucial differences between climate change adaptation and mitigation: - Mitigation is a global challenge and focuses on reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions being the cause of global warming, whereas - Adaptation is a local action aiming to reduce its impacts or consequences. With rising global temperatures, extreme weather will worsen, making adaptation difficult, even impossible. Thus, organizations must both adapt ("manage the unavoidable") and pursue carbon neutrality ("avoid the unmanageable"). Rising global temperatures will intensify extreme weather, making adaptation harder, perhaps impossible. Thus, organizations must both adapt ("manage the unavoidable") and pursue carbon neutrality ("avoid the unmanageable"). As a second key message, Carl explained that it is much more effective for businesses to anticipate the risks of climate change than to suffer its consequences.  By taking proactive steps, businesses can save money and protect their operations in the long run.💸 To conclude Carl outlined the four stages to effective climate adaptation :  - Analyse current resilience (using risk analysis methods like OCARA), - Assess future climate scenarios and risks, - Define a clear climate adaptation strategy and action plan, - Implement adaptation measures while monitoring climate resilience.  Thank you Carl Lebesque for sharing your expertise ! 💪 KARNO Destore KOMFOR Resolia RaYSun WellDoneDrill #ClimateMitigation #ClimateAdaptation #ClimateResilience

We are slowly building our event calendar on climatehub.be 🥳🤩 🌍✨ Join us at BeClimate Hub for MOVE the CITY: Improv for Climate Resilience & Innovation! ✨🌍 📅 Date: 25th February 🕕 Time: 18:00 - 21:00 📍 Location: BeClimate Hub, Rue du Marais 49, 1000 Bruxelles 🔗 Register Here: www.climatehub.be/events As we face rising temperatures, we have a unique opportunity to turn challenges into possibilities. This event will harness the power of collective creativity through engaging improv activities, allowing us to explore how to transform climate risks into opportunities for regeneration, equity, and shared prosperity. What to Expect: - Collaborative improv activities - Thought-provoking discussions on climate resilience - Networking with passionate individuals Our guest facilitator, Monika Barcikowska, PhD will guide us in weaving eco-feminist climate justice with innovative thinking. Let’s come together to experiment, play, and envision a sustainable future! A special thank you to our dear friend Christopher Malapitan for this first event! ♥️🤗 Don’t miss out on this chance to connect and innovate! 💚 #MOVEtheCITY #ClimateResilience #Improv #BeClimateHub #Sustainability

Investing in Sustainability Just Got Easier- Lionel Slusny, co-founder Shiperise (Techstars '24) - Supply Chain Finance startup Exciting news from our lunchtime #RadioClimateHub! We had the pleasure of hosting Lionel Slusny, co-founder of Shiperise, a game-changing startup revolutionizing sustainable procurement. Shiperise empowers investors to make a real difference for the environment while earning short-term returns.  Shiperise's innovative B2B procurement platform offers a guarantee on product availability, procurement pricing and overstock return guarantees. When investing in real inventory assets, investors can make a positive impact for the environment. The main sectors they are targeting are energy micro-generation and energy micro-storage, personal mobility, building equipment, home equipment or components of sustainable finished goods. We were also thrilled to welcome Alex Bakir and Kajsa Alenmyr from @Norrsken. This leading tech ecosystem supports founders making 'saving the world their business' their mission. Want to learn more about how you can invest in a better future? Connect with Lionel Slusny. Join us next week for our Radio Climate Hub talk! #SustainableInvesting #SupplyChainFinance #GreenTech

🚀 BeClimate Radio: Bring your sandwich, feed your mind! 🍃🎙️ This Thursday at 12:30, we’re back with BeClimate Radio, our bite-sized lunchtime talks where we dive into key climate and business challenges with inspiring entrepreneurs. This week, Carl Lebesque from Acha will guide us through a topic that’s becoming critical for businesses of all kinds: 🌱 Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation 📌 Agenda (30 min, sharp & actionable): What is climate change, and which sectors are most at risk? What does climate adaptation really mean? Steps & deliverables of an adaptation strategy Open discussion: How does this apply to your business? How can adaptation fit into your startup’s mission? 🔗 Join us this Thursday at 12:30 at BeClimate Hub for a short but powerful session—and let’s explore how we can make businesses more resilient, future-proof, and impactful together. Bring your sandwich, bring your curiosity, and let’s talk! See you there! 😊 hashtag #BeClimateRadio #ClimateAdaptation #Entrepreneurship #Resilience #Startups #Sustainability #BeClimateHub