Introduction

Entrepreneurship contributes to economic empowerment and supports building resilience at local, national, and global level. Ethical, sustainable, and climate-friendly entrepreneurship, which builds on principles of inclusion and participation, could contribute to climate action and building multi-actor partnerships. The EthicalX initiative by SLYCAN Trust aims to support and scale up ethical, sustainable, and climate-friendly entrepreneurship through activities related to capacity-building, technical support provision, and support in raising seed funding with a special focus on vulnerable communities, women, and youth. The programme has a special focus on food systems, plant-based, cruelty-free, ethical, sustainable, and climate-friendly food choices and entrepreneurship.

Under the programme, the meeting of the EthicalX Food Systems Cell will be held to discuss the potential for scaling up plant-based, ethical, sustainable, and climate-friendly food production and consumption with entrepreneurs who are already having a food-related brand or business. The meeting also aims to identify support needs for scaling up business activities and strengthening Sri Lanka's start-up ecosystem.

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  Just transition in the energy sector
  - Key elements to ensure just transition in the energy sector
  - Gaps and challenges faced in integrating aspects and strategies of just transition in the energy sector
  - Institutional structures and role of actors in achieving just transition in the energy sector
  - Entry points and opportunities for integrating just transition into climate policy initiatives and actions
  - Success stories, best practices, and experience sharing on initiatives

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  Ensuring just transition in the food sector
  - Key elements of just transition and their relation to global and local food systems
  - Gaps and challenges faced in integrating aspects and strategies of just transition in the food sector
  - Institutional structures and role of actors in achieving just transition in the food sector
  - Entry points and opportunities for integrating just transition into climate policy initiatives and actions
  - Success stories, best practices, and experience sharing on initiatives

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  Gender, inclusion, social protection, and cross-cutting aspects related to just transition
  - Key cross-cutting aspects related to just transition
  - Interlinks for integration of just transition with climate action and into different climate policy and action processes
  - Impacts of COVID-19 and the role of recovery actions in contributing toward just transition
  - Success stories, best practices, and experience sharing on initiatives