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It is with great pleasure and excitement that the SEED Initiative today announces the 2011 SEED Award Winners!

“One of the most urgent – but not widely explored - questions at the centre of the debate on transitioning to the Green Economy is how to engage with and deploy the main engine of the global economy – small, micro- and medium-sized enterprises (SMMEs).

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SEED Symposium:

UN Women, the UN organisation dedicated to gender equality and the empowerment of women has partnered with SEED and will sponsor one special SEED Gender Equality Award in 2011 to initiatives that are women-led or owned, and prioritise gender equality or women’s empowerment as a core objective. Leer más...

Pretoria, South Africa - 15th April 2011

Together with UNEP, SEED hosted a high-level symposium on the Green Economy in Pretoria, South Africa, on Friday 15 April.  Speakers and panelists from government, civil society, industry bodies, international organizations and academia will underline the importance and necessity of moving towards a greener economy.

In this sixth edition of the SEED newsletter, discover:

On 22 February 2011, the SEED Awards Ceremony for the seven 2010 SEED Winners from Kenya was generously hosted by the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety at a reception during the 26th meeting of the UNEP Governing Council and the Global Ministerial Environment Forum.

“Dialogue with Business about Poverty Reduction and Climate Change”