Session 11: Promoting Environmental Entrepreneurship: the Role of Women

Organized by: Women's International Coalition

Sub-theme 2: Challenges and Opportunities facing the main actors & stakeholders of the multilateral trading system

Date: Wednesday 24th of September 14:00 - 16:00

Meeting Room: B

Abstract

The aim/objective of the session is to enable women get a ‘hands on’ experience backed by academic expertise in environmental entrepreneurship in issues of renewable energy hardware, organic gardens, ecological building and sewage systems are ideal for practical sessions, and how the holistic approach of environmental entrepreneurship can enable participants to examined these issues in abroad, sustainable environmental and financial context.

The Women International Coalition Organization (WICO) Africa wishes to play a special role in developing and disseminating the knowledge women need to move towards a more sustainable society, we wish to be at the forefront in the continent of Africa with a responsibility for environmental entrepreneurship monitoring and assessment.

This involves carrying out regular observations and sampling in forests, farming areas, renewable energy, ecological/organic gardening/farming, ecological building, sewage systems and surface waters management throughout the continent. Back at the laboratories, soil and water samples are subjected to chemical and biological analysis. Databases of environmental information are built up and made publicly available. New marketing, monitoring and assessment methods are developed.

We hope to present the results of researchers’ analyses of the data collected are presented in economic/scientific publications and reports to Africa authorities and international organizations, and form the basis for decisions in a range of fields, both in Africa and internationally. WICO Africa and partners is thus an important part of the knowledge infrastructure needed to ensure the sustainable use of natural resources, entrepreneurship promotion and the role women can play.

Questions

  • Describing an enviropreneur project that you would like to develop or explore more fully while at Event – one that combines free market ideas or incentives with an environmental or conservation goal that you are passionate about. This description can be as broad or specific as you wish. It can be part of an ongoing project that you are already involved with or a loose collection of ideas that you have been dreaming of for some time.
  • Since Public Forum lectures and discussions often focus around your project, imagine the proposal as a device to elaborate why your participation in the event might help clarify, solidify, and grow your project/ideas into a concrete enterprise. Projects/ideas can vary greatly from ongoing enterprises or polished business plans to loose confederations of ideas.

Selection of Panellists is not only based on how well they understand the subject matter or idea, but rather on its virtues.

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