UNEP Supports "World Class Vision" for Nairobi

Package Targets River Clean-Ups to Waste Management Nairobi, 16 June 2008-A wide-ranging new initiative to assist in greening Kenya's capital city has been drawn up by the UN Environment Programme(UNEP) in cooperation with the government, the city council, donors and UN-Habitat. Today Achim Steiner, UN Under-Secretary General and UNEP Executive Director held discussions in Gigiri with Honorable Mutula Kilonzo, Minister for Nairobi Metropolitan Development, on the way forward which promises improved lives and livelihoods for millions of Kenyans.

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Global Economy Gets a Little Greener

Ten New Participants Join UNEP's Climate Neutral Network at the Global Business for the Environment Summit in Singapore

Singapore/Nairobi, 23 April 2008-What brings together a Latin American beauty corporation, a boutique French advertising agency, a UK-based sustainability think-tank and a Brazilian online carbon trading venture?

All of them have pledged to significantly reduce their greenhouse gas emissions en route to zero emissions by joining the Climate Neutral Network (CN Net), a web-based forum to catalyze a transition to a low-carbon world set up by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) in cooperation with the UN's Environment Management Group.

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