SEED Symposium: The Green Economy: Accelerating the Transition
Author: Creech (IISD), May 2011
On 15th April 2011, nearly 200 people gathered in Pretoria to explore the role of social and environmental enterprises in shaping the Green Economy. The SEED Symposium on The Green Economy: Accelerating the Transition, brought together start-up entrepreneurs, government leaders, international organisations, research institutions and the private sector in one of the first international meetings on this challenge. Through keynote presentations, guest speakers, panel sessions and discussion, Symposium participants explored two central questions:
- whether and how these enterprises – other with only one or two owners or employees – could accelerate the transition to the green economies in their countries and regions.
- what they might need on the way of support and enabling conditions from their governments.
