Team for the Planet: actions to combat climate change
To strengthen its efforts to reduce its environmental impact, Meanwhile Boutique chose in 2024 to join the group of shareholders of the purpose-driven company Team for the Planet. As a shareholder, Meanwhile Boutique thus supports investments in decarbonization, energy savings, and combating plastic pollution projects. We explain the impacts of Team for the Planet in this article.
What is Team for the Planet?
Entrepreneurship at the service of the climate emergency
Team for the Planet is a purpose-driven company that calls itself a citizen movement. Since its creation in 2019, it has enabled the financing of innovations and the creation of companies to combat climate change.
The shareholders of Team for the Planet, a group of more than 10,000 individuals or companies that Meanwhile Boutique joined in 2025, invest financially in non-profit projects. Team for the Planet and its shareholders claim no financial dividends will be paid until the temperature increase returns to +0 °C compared to the pre-industrial era.
The shareholders are also involved in the selection process of the projects to be financed and developed.
The Team for the Planet charter
Just like the Meanwhile Boutique charter, Team for the Planet bases its operation on following a charter comprising 7 main pillars. This charter was initiated in a context of planetary emergency and aims to ensure the operation of the company with the goal of combating climate change.
The power of entrepreneurship
Team for the Planet believes in action driven by a small number of committed people. Entrepreneurship appears as a major lever of action to propel innovative solutions in the face of global warming.
A non-profit activity
Team for the Planet, its shareholders and partners waive the sharing of profits. As long as the temperature increase has not returned to +0 °C, the financial returns will be entirely reinvested in improving, making accessible, and deploying initiatives.
Actions for the common good based on open source
To act quickly in a context of climate emergency, the sharing of information is essential. Thus, all knowledge, research, or expertise is shared according to the rules of open source, allowing everyone to access the proposed solutions.
Projects carried out through collective intelligence
Everyone can contribute to the launch of projects: by proposing an innovation, by investing, or by providing expertise via the scientific and market committees.
Benevolence as the golden rule
The operation of Team for the Planet is based on trust and the desire to act for the common good.
Total transparency about its activity
The salaries and accounts of Team for the Planet are accessible to everyone. Each person can become a partner for 1 euro and participate in general assembly votes.
Projects with high ethical value
Beyond the climate fight, Team for the Planet defends a fairer world: gender equality, non-discrimination, respect for the environment, and the fight against all forms of violence and human exploitation are at the heart of its activity.
Innovations to combat climate change
Thanks to a selection based on scientific and technical criteria, Team for the Planet supports projects aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Understanding the challenges of climate change
The IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) has been warning since the 90s about the acceleration of global warming and its human origin. Greenhouse gas emissions must be limited in order to meet the objectives of the Paris Agreement signed in 2015.
The Team for the Planet strategy
Team for the Planet finances innovative projects to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the most polluting sectors such as agriculture, industry, energy, or transport.
Projects are evaluated according to 6 criteria:
- The impact on greenhouse gas emissions
- Technical feasibility
- Replicability
- Induced externalities, that is, other impacts on biodiversity, resources...
- Disruptive nature
- Market potential
Effective and increasingly numerous actions
More than 1,000 innovation requests have been received. About half are analyzed by the committee of experts.
More than 1,000 innovations proposed
- Agriculture: methane and CO₂ reduction
- Industry: zero waste and recycling
- Energy: sobriety and energy efficiency
- Transport: soft mobility and electrification
The impact of actions already carried out
Since 2019, 14 companies have been created and nearly 40 million kg of CO₂ have been avoided. For example, Beyond the Sea allows reducing the fuel consumption of ships by 20 to 40%, while Seaturns aims to produce up to 10% of the world's electricity thanks to wave energy.
Meanwhile Boutique is very happy to join the Team for the Planet adventure and to support initiatives committed to the common good and the protection of our planet.
