 I think it's the opportunity to deal and address groups that are living with the economic and social drivers of vulnerability. And the sustainable development goals and the priorities that have been set around the climate change agenda presents, for instance, an opportunity to deal with the drivers of women's vulnerability in this case, what undermines women's economic empowerment. And when we look at the links with the environment goals, promoting sustainable management of ecosystems and dealing with combating land degradation. This is an important goal that if addressed would contribute to women farmers, small-scale farmers enhancing their food security. The opportunities that the Green Growth Development Path presents for informal traders and for women in small enterprises are quite immense, right? If we look at the transition towards clean energy as an example, and if I was to look at what could possibly happen at the practical level taking a country like Malawi for instance, where women in small farming communities as a way of augmenting their income are involved in selling charcoal in the informal sector in order to build and bring income to their households, could there be a potential for us looking at how they substitute the sale for charcoal with the sale for clean cooking technology as an example? Beyond just making that technology available for their use at the household level, is there an opportunity to look at a woman who's been involved in the sale of energy products for household income to be involved in the trade of technology that is being made available? The sale of solar panels as an example, clean cooking stoves and so forth. So I think there is an opportunity in terms of the thinking around alternatives that have been put on the table, practical alternatives to technology. But we really have to have a conversation around who should have access to this technology and who should be benefiting from these opportunities that are being made available. And how do they access information around that? How do we deal with challenges that we already know hinder women progressing from their small businesses to maybe medium enterprise businesses? The questions that we've been grappling with around access to finance. Is there an opportunity for us to have new conversations around the type of finance that is being made available in the avenues that are being created for women corporatives, for individual inter-premiers to tap into the funding that is being made available? The other practical opportunities that I see around this is also the spirit around and the commitment towards civic participation in the formulation and the implementation of the SDGs. Is there a potential to provide spaces where the informal traders' coalitions, where the women who are involved in small businesses can actually be part of the process that is shaped in the national agenda beyond what has already happened at the global level? So we really have to be looking at the organizations and the networks that some of the women have gone about setting up and inviting them to come to the table. And I don't see this happening if the discussions around climate change, if the discussions around implementing the goals, the environmental goals within the sustainable development goal agenda are really just happening in the environment circles. I think we need to invest in connecting stakeholders. We need to invest in connecting networks. And in this case, I would make a really strong case for looking at how we shift the discussions from think tanks, from intermediary NGOs to bring in social movements into the discourse. There was also some interesting insights that are coming up that if we're looking at green growth contributing to poverty reduction and contributing to promoting sustainable management of the environment or the protection of the environment, we really need to have a conversation around the quality of jobs that is being delivered as part of this agenda. We're really quite accustomed to the job discussions in the environment sector being around recycling and we have to look at the sites where this recycling is taking place and the kind of health provisions that are being taken into account in those contexts. The other thing that I think is an opportunity to really redress some of the historical injustices is really taking seriously the question of equitable benefit sharing. We were just looking at statistics for Namibia, for instance, as we were preparing for this conference and looking at the benefits that communities who are involved in developing and selling natural products gain through the energy and we're quite surprised to realize that on average, what stays within the community that is involved in the production is between 2% and 3%. Now, if we're looking to contributing to incomes and contributing to job and growth, local economic development, surely those kinds of ratios are not sustainable and that's not a fair way of doing business and it will not contribute much to poverty reduction. So we have to look at the opportunities and the means through which communities can benefit and derive benefits throughout the value chains from production going all the way to the markets. The last thing that I would add is again a serious reflection around how we connect communities that are involved in the natural products to the markets beyond the local markets. How do we use access to information tools to make sure that they respond to raising awareness and building knowledge around where the markets are and what the demands are in the markets outside the localities so that you can support the process of green businesses at a local level. And I think that taking this forward really is an integrated approach that requires multiple stakeholders to collaborate and work closely together. How do you identify private sector that is interested in the kinds of social investments that you need in order to deliver benefits for those who are poor and operating at a local level and those who may be big businesses that are operating at different scales beyond just that locality? Well I mean the Open Society Foundation has launched a new program on food security in the context of climate change in Africa and through that work there is a lot of work working with grantees on the ground in different countries in Liberia and Sierra Leone, in Zambia, Mozambique and Tamirun as an example where there is an initiative to work with civil society and small scale farmers on the ground and marginalised groups to set up advocacy platforms that are informing the land reform processes and making a stronger case for strengthening community rights to land and community access to productive assets as well as making a case for investments on the part of governments that are supporting agricultural production amongst small scale farmers. But it's just one area of work that is relevant and could potentially accompany the process of implementing the sustainable development goals. On the side of working with the informal sector, the Open Society Initiative of Southern Africa has been working with a network of informal traders in the region and one of the things that we've been doing over the last four years is to support them in setting up an advocacy platform where they're engaging with the Southern Africa development community to look at policy reforms that govern the movement of goods and people between the southern countries in order to support or provide an enabling environment for cross-border traders because for the informal traders to have access to wider markets these markets need to go beyond the countries that they are operating in and most of the informal traders are in any case involved in moving goods say between Zimbabwe and Botswana or between Zimbabwe and South Africa and Mozambique, South Africa, vice versa. So it's important to remove the barriers that may undermine the growth of that sector of the economy. At a national level it's also important to look at that and within Swaziland as an example we have been working with a coalition of informal traders that has been looking to influence the formulation of bylaws and just also just providing a platform for informal traders to come together for purposes of advocacy and amplifying their voice so that they're more visible when they look at making a case for the contribution of the informal sector in the economy but also having very specific policy asks around how you change the bylaws that may be prohibitive to be more enabling how you begin to introduce discussions around tax reform that may not be regressive and punitive towards informal traders just that ability for the informal traders to connect with other individuals who are involved in this sector because most of these are very small family run individual run businesses but for you to be in a position to make a convincing case for policy changes you really do need that mass mobilization and to have that collective voice with a common vision that you can clearly communicate to the policy makers so these are just some of the small programs that we've been working in where there's an opportunity to actually even begin to introduce the new issues that may be coming up or new opportunities that are coming up within the SDGs it would be progressive if the discussions around green growth and the opportunities for that can actually begin to permeate these spaces so far what we have seen is for us to take South Africa as an example or even Zambia is that the green growth strategies are being developed by technocrats within government with the support of UN agencies but the involvement of local communities particularly around what those opportunities could be for enterprises, for businesses what the opportunities are for local communities themselves to adapt and mitigate the impacts of climate change are yet to happen and I think that these spaces that some society organizations have set up around their different interest groups do provide an avenue for some of these progressive discussions to take place