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thank you for joining us people will be coming in slowly and slowly I know that many people registered and many will be a lot looking at this at us from the web stream trying to see to avoid the echo that's okay so we are here to uh discuss the ways and means to support and further enable the small and medium Enterprises in delivering low carbon and resource efficient transition the global awareness of the emergency for tackling pollution climate change and biodiversity loss is growing exponentially however today's policies and solutions do not match the scale of the planetary crisis and confronted with this reality many small and medium Enterprises have taken the matter in their own hands not waiting for government driving Innovation locally through entrepreneurship towards a more inclusive and circular economy yet their success stories and achievement often do not receive the recognition nor the support they deserve and require there are many experiences around the world on that many successful ones that they are not connected and we don't find the means today to scale them up consequently the potential of smes as drivers of green Innovation creators of the circular economy nature conservatives and local resilience Builder remain largely untapped from our side following 20 years of support for Echo inclusive Enterprises at seed the Coalition marks the next step to catalyze a scale ready smes and to systemize a proven methodology through a platform and launch pad together with different partners that accelerate Collective actions the Coalition aims at enabling smes scaling up and replicating their good practices while providing a voice for smes and enhancing system-wide Innovation and Collective green climate actions but this seed cannot do it alone no organization can do it alone we have to join hand and to do it all together so without any further Ado since our time is counted I will ask Tariq al-furi climate change visual coordinator for munap to deliver a short opening brief before we move to the panel and I'll have my presentation of that app thank you Adam it's a it's an honor to be here and it's an honor to have an opening remark on behalf of unep so as I have mentioned and according to the World Bank smes represent about 90 percent of businesses and more than 50 percent of employment worldwide and therefore they are very important to seeing to economic transformation and Innovation however their sheer number and diversity make it very hard to connect who is on the climate and sustainability gold agenda it's also challenging to prove and convince smes on how scaling up sustainability can actually help improve the resilience of their businesses and turn obviously the whole economy to a better place for this reason having a way to engage clause and directly with the fast type of smes is a crucial step in helping them help the overall sustainable economy transformation this is where smes support tools and...