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future cleantech architects presents

The Arc 2022
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Europe's most ambitious
Cleantech Innovation Festival

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What the experts have to say

Participating in The ARC is a tremendous opportunity to meet with innovators and change makers who are truly making a difference in the world and providing solutions to address climate change. The combination of policymakers and the cleantech industry in such an unique setting is remarkable and I look forward to attending the next festival because of the enormous value add.
Julia Souder
Julia SouderExecutive Director | LDES Council
The ARC Cleantech Festival in Remscheid the #cityofinnovators brought together a remarkable range of creative innovators and helped create the disruptive momentum which is necessary to live up to the double challenge of energy transition and climate crisis. Thank you for including me as a panelist with a number of distinguished experts.
Dr. Hinrich Thoelken
Dr. Hinrich ThoelkenSpecial Advisor International Climate and Energy Policy | Federal Foreign Office
The ARC Festival 2022 brought together some of the world's most influential and progressive leaders in climate action. I was proud to represent Canada at this global event. There is a unanimous acknowledgement of the urgency in acting on decisions made today to reduce emissions and move towards net-zero by 2050. Political leaders, investors, industry associations, technology developers, and industrial power consumers spent the two days prioritizing actionable measures through publicly accessible and credible information, regulatory reform, and strengthened innovation support guided by sustainable development goals. Collaboration between many emissions-intense supply chains is already happening thanks to The ARC Festival.
Anouk Kendall
Anouk KendallPresident | Decentralised Energy Canada
I can only recommend The ARC Cleantech Festival. High-quality panels, very good visitor structure. I have rarely been able to make as many good connections as I did at this conference!
Klaus Schimmer
Klaus SchimmerChief Innovation Architect Sustainability | SAP SE
The ARC Festival provided a great space for real conversations about the potential and limitations of clean tech. And about how it could be reframed for desirable futures, through a systemic lens.
Carlos Álverez Pereira
Carlos Álverez PereiraVice President | Club of Rome
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Event Overview

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The stages you will visit

The Launchpad

Teo Otto Theater

Game-changing cleantech start-ups need to scale to fulfill their potential. The Launchpad showcases high-impact innovators who have successfully done so and, together with co-host EIT InnoEnergy, discusses the financial and policy tools needed to replicate these successes.

The Heavy Industry Stage

Gründerquartier

The Heavy Industry Stage brings together representatives of the producers of vital but emissions-intensive products and services, such as steel, cement, and heavy-duty transport to discuss what it will take to decarbonize them.

The Effective Policy Stage

City Hall

Global technological advances are imperative to reach net-zero. Together with UNIDO and UNFCCC, the Effective Policy Stage brings together policy-makers and stakeholders to discuss the requirements for sustainable cross-governmental collaboration and technological transfer.

 

Disruptive Innovation Stage

Central Library

Co-hosted by our partners from UNFCCC and UNIDO, the disruptive innovation stage highlights national innovation systems and the important role public and private incubators and accelerators play in driving, enabling, and sustaining effective innovation.
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Agenda

Who we are

FCA is a non-profit cleantech thinktank working to close the remaining innovation gaps in order to reach net-zero emissions by 2050. Together with UNIDO ITPO Germany, FCA launched the UNIDO Global Call for Innovative Solutions in Cleantech and Sustainable Land Management in 2021 with the aim of identifying innovators with deployable and scalable solutions to combat the negative effects of climate change.

The award ceremony of the global call, held in Remscheid’s Teo Otto Theatre, was flanked by panel discussions, one on breakthrough innovation and one on decarbonizing heavy industry, that allowed attending guests of the ceremony to discuss the most pressing climate challenges and their solutions in smaller groups. Building on the success of these events, FCA will host ARC – a cleantech innovation festival – in the summer of 2022.

Together with international partners and co-hosts from the public and private sphere, ARC brings together the brightest minds and best ideas in cleantech worldwide. Four stages, each focusing on accelerating high-impact ideas across cleantech innovation, will give attendees the opportunity to discuss the most effective technologies, policy approaches, and financial ideas to drive down emissions drastically.

The ARC – igniting cleantech innovation worldwide.