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"Urban soils: critical area for environmental transition" Newsletter
B Side / October 28, 2021
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Like a good vinyl record, our newsletters are divided into two sides. Side A analyses a major trend. Side B offers reading advice to go further. This month, the role of urban soils in the environmental transition is in the spotlight. Don't miss our new monitoring article!
You can also find the latest news from Leonard, our innovative business radar and the agenda of our next events. On the agenda: return from COP26, higher education graduates facing the climate challenge and the launch of a new cycle of open foresight on the circular economy in construction.
Enjoy your reading!
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A look back at the basics, an overview of emerging knowledge and a cross-section of views on a subject that is less mundane than it seems: Leonard offers you a selection of useful sources for a more in-depth look at the role of soil in the environmental transition.
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— NEWS
🏆Construction Startup Competition 2021 Final Leonard is a partner of the "Construction Startup Competition 2021" alongside Cemex Ventures, Dysruptek, GS Futures, Ferrovial, Hilti and NOVA by Saint-Gobain, to identify and support start-ups working to transform the construction industry. See the ten finalists!
🤝 "Les entreprises s'engagent" (Companies are commited) Last Friday, Leonard welcomed Elisabeth Borne, Minister of Labour, Employment and Integration, and Thibaut Guilluy, High Commissioner for Employment and Business Commitment, for the launch of the "Les entreprises s'engagent" platform. In the presence of Xavier Huillard, Chairman and CEO of VINCI, they also met the entrepreneurs who are members of the intrapreneurs, start-up and artificial intelligence programmes, as well as the players in the social and solidarity economy hosted by Leonard.
👷 Health and safety Impulse Partners, the OPPBTP and the CCCA-BTP have just published the Observatory of innovation trends in the construction industry (in French). During the public presentation of the report, which took place on 21 October, Alexis Waeselynck, Leonard's safety and innovation officer, shared Leonard's prospective work on safety and innovation approaches.
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RADAR
Our selection of innovative businesses #40
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CostCertified raises $8.45 million for its residential construction budget simulator. Canada’s Trusscore, a specialist in PVC panels based on nanomaterials research, raises $21 million. European fund 2150 raises $312 million for its “Urban Sustainability Technology Fund”, aimed at reducing the environmental impact of cities.
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— SAVE THE DATE
How to make a success of the city circular transition? |
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How to create value while drastically reducing the extraction and consumption of new resources? What will be the jobs of the circular city? What partnerships should be forged between economic players to develop new markets and sectors? We invite you to Leonard:Paris between November and January for a new series of meetings open to the public to identify the obstacles to be overcome and the opportunities that lie ahead to accelerate the circular transition of the construction sector.
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16.11 at 6pm Leonard:Paris
Circular transition: from constraint to opportunity
Inaugural session of the cycle: "How to make a success of the circular transition?" (in French)
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17.11 at 8.30am Leonard:Paris
COP 26: "Back from Glasgow"
Leonard invites you to discuss the outcome of the 26th United Nations Conference of the Parties on Climate Change (COP26), which takes place in Glasgow from 31 October to 12 October. (English translation available)
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22.11 at 5.30pm Leonard:Paris
The circular transition facing the challenge of taxation and financing
Second session of the cycle: "How to make a success of the circular transition?" (in French)
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23.11 at 6pm Leonard:Paris
Graduates, companies and the climate: is the revolt rumbling?
Three years after the Manifesto for an Ecological Awakening, which called on companies and educational institutions to rise to the climate challenge, what forms is the commitment of students and young graduates in higher education to the climate and the ecological transition taking? (in French)
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Leonard est la plate-forme de prospective et d'innovation de VINCI. Nous rassemblons des entrepreneurs, penseurs et esprits créatifs de tous horizons. Ensemble, nous cherchons à inventer les services, équipements et infrastructures qui feront la ville et les territoires de demain.
Prospective, rencontres et échanges, entrepreneuriat et accélération… Bienvenue chez Leonard ! C’est ouvert.
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