A climate idea that holds up economically

8 weeks Weekly 1:1 mentoring Content + tools + mentoring
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The reality

A serious climate project
deserves to be taken seriously economically.

Many green-project leaders hold a strong conviction about the impact they could create — and no clear answer to who pays, how much, and why. Without a model, impact stays an intention.

This programme doesn't ask you to choose between impact and viability. It treats one as the survival condition of the other.

The programme

Three components, eight weeks

Built for people with full professional lives: 5 to 8 hours per week, at your pace, with mentoring scheduled around your availability.

01

Structured content

The essential methods and frameworks — business model, field validation, impact measurement, financing — available at your pace, with no filler.

02

Applied tools

Working tools you apply directly to your project. You're not learning theory; you're building your dossier week by week.

03

Weekly 1:1 mentoring

One session a week with an active investor and entrepreneur who has built climate projects across several continents. Not a generalist coach.

The arc

From hypothesis to a fundable pitch

Four phases that build on each other. By the end, your project is no longer an intention — it's a dossier that holds up under scrutiny.

01 Weeks 1–2

Diagnosis & clarification

Map hypotheses, market, and competition. Identify what holds.

02 Weeks 3–4

Business model & validation

Build the model. Test it with real market signals.

03 Weeks 5–6

Impact measurement

Carbon, social, biodiversity. A credible impact analysis.

04 Weeks 7–8

Financing & pitch

Business plan, instruments & pitch deck — ready to present.

On the way out

What you leave with

A validated business model, with concrete market evidence

A credible impact analysis: carbon, social, biodiversity

A financing plan with instruments genuinely suited to your project

A pitch deck impact investors can evaluate

Sharp clarity on the real viability of your concept

The mentor

The mentoring I wish I'd had

Portrait of the mentor — founder of The Impact Advantage

Fifteen years ago, I had exactly this kind of project — a deep conviction about the climate impact it could create, and no idea how to make it viable. I learned the hard way, made costly mistakes, and eventually built projects that held up. This programme exists because I would have needed this kind of mentoring back then. No one offered it to me.

A serious climate project deserves to be taken seriously economically. One is the survival condition of the other.

01 Active investor in green innovation

I evaluate and finance climate projects with my own capital. I know the investors' decision grid from the inside.

02 Entrepreneur — several projects built

I've lived the doubts, the mistakes, the pivots. I don't talk about entrepreneurship from a desk — I talk from the field.

03 International climate-innovation expert

Green-innovation programmes across Europe, Africa, and beyond. I understand the systemic stakes and the international standards for measuring impact.

04 ESG & sustainability strategist

I'm fluent in the language and methodologies funders and financial institutions require to evaluate real impact.

Honesty first

Who it’s for — and who it isn’t

This mentoring is demanding. Better to know that before you apply than after.

It’s for you if

  • You have a green-innovation idea that has reached a first level of maturity
  • You want to build something viable — not just “do good”
  • You’re ready to be challenged and to test your idea against the market
  • You can commit 5 to 8 hours a week for 2 months
  • You want deep mentoring, not a generic online course

It’s not for you if

  • You’re looking for validation without rigour or hard questions
  • Your idea is still very abstract and not ready to face the market
  • You’re mainly looking for a grant without a business model
  • You don’t have the availability to engage seriously for 8 weeks
Frequently asked

What we get asked most

A classic entrepreneurial coach helps you structure your mindset and your general approach. This mentoring adds three layers: the grid of an active investor (what is actually fundable, in practice), deep expertise on climate stakes and impact measurement (emissions reduction, adaptation, biodiversity, social impact), and the lived experience of an entrepreneur who has built similar projects across several continents. It is that combination that is rare on the market.
Yes — that is the case for most participants. The programme is built for people with full professional lives. Weekly mentoring is scheduled around your availability; content is available at your pace. What you need: 5 to 8 hours a week — not a full-time career transition.
There is no minimum maturity threshold in terms of prototype or revenue. What counts: having a clear enough conviction about the problem you are solving. If your idea changes radically every week, it is probably too soon. If you have a direction and want to know whether it holds up economically — this is exactly the right moment.
Count 5 to 8 hours: 1 mentoring session (1h), reading and applying content (2–3h), working on your project with the tools provided (2–3h). It is a serious investment — not a MOOC you open when you have time. The participants who get the most out of it treat it as a priority for 8 weeks.
Mentoring is available in English or French — you pick at application. Sessions are scheduled around your time zone; the mentor is based in Europe but works with participants from Africa to the Americas. Having worked on climate-innovation programmes across multiple continents, context — geographic, political, cultural — is treated as structural data, not a detail.
The application

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