Jonathan Derain

Position
Head of Corporates & Partners
Nationality
French
Languages spoken
French, English, Chinese
Team
Partners & Corporates

Joined
Solar Impulse Foundation in January 2017
Solar Impulse Challenge in 2015

Other in the Partners & Corporates

1000+ Solutions for Qualitative Growth

To address sustainability challenges while enabling economic growth, Bertrand Piccard and the Solar Impulse Foundation have identified 1000+ clean and profitable solutions.

Explorer for sustainability

Bertrand dedicates his life to demonstrate the opportunities lying in sustainable development and to raise interest in profitable solutions to protect the environment.

Pioneering vision

As a pioneer, he understood that fighting climate change with clean and efficient technologies is opening-up new industrial markets and offering a unique and profitable opportunity for economic growth.

Educations corner
for children, students and families

Solar Impulse was not built to carry passengers, but to carry a message. It provides a powerful educational platform for schools and universities students.

Endorsing the World Alliance

The World Alliance has entered in close and impactful collaboration with several international institutions, states and cities around the world to facilitate the selection, funding and implementation of the #1000solutions.

Supporting the World Alliance

World Alliance is working with like-minded incubators, accelerators and organizations to create a worldwide network to source 1000 clean, efficient and profitable solutions.

A shared vision for a clean future

The Solar Impulse Foundation and its Partners share a strong long-term vision: we want to promote clean and profitable solutions that tackle climate change and future-proof our societies.

A team is most of all a spirit

The Solar Impulse Foundation spirit is the cement that brings the team together. Professionals from all backgrounds, they know that the future can be written in renewable energy and clean processes.

The search-engine for climate action

The Explorer is a one-of-a-kind search engine that showcases profitable climate solutions from all over the world which are part of an ever-growing, curated, and publicly-accessible database.

Explore

Industry/Goods

Buildings

Waste/Pollution

Energy

Water

Food/Agri

Infrastructures

Mobility/Freight

A label focused on both environment and profitability

Assessed by independent experts, the Solar Impulse Efficient Solution label, serves as a credible marker of quality to decision-makers in business and governments.

Submit your Efficient Solution

For the first time a label assesses the economic profitability of solutions that protect the environment.
Sign up to become a Member of the World Alliance for Efficient Solutions and submit it now!

What is the Experts’ role in evaluating the Solutions?

The Experts are key in the labelling process, using their technical and professional expertise to assess and critique Solutions seeking the Solar Impulse Efficient Solution Label.

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Challenge events

How to become an Expert?

If you have more than five years technical experience in one of our target SDGS (6, 7, 9, 11, 12), the Expert role may be for you! You will be assigned Solutions fitting your expertise to review and assess.

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Guiding users to implement efficient solutions in cities

This guide looks at the challenges that cities face to become more sustainable, suggesting solutions that help decision makers to harness the economic opportunities of the ecological transition.

Explore

Energy & Power Grid

Construction & buildings

Mobility

Waste

Water & infrascructures

The Solutions for Cities Initiative

Proposing solutions to help decision makers harness the economic opportunities of the ecological transition whilst reducing their environmental footprint.

Advocating for global action

The Foundation engages with the stakeholders of the ecological transition using the 1000+ Solutions Explorer as a mean to support this effort.

Engaging at international fora

Pushing for the adoption of effective modern regulations with businesses and governments.

Bringing solutions to cities and regions

Cities and regions have a crucial role to play in the race to decarbonise our economies.

COP27 - 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference

At COP 27, countries come together to take action towards achieving the world’s collective climate goals as agreed under the Paris Agreement and the Convention.

The world alliance, an ever-expanding network

The World Alliance for Efficient Solutions brings together the main actors in the field of clean technologies to create synergies, facilitate matchmaking between solution providers and investors.