Check against delivery Excellencies, colleagues. Welcome to the 2024 edition of the Climate and Clean Air Conference. It is a pleasure to open this conference alongside H.E. Cabinet Secretary Soipan Tuya and Governor Sakaja. This annual meeting is something of a homecoming. Thirteen years ago, here in Nairobi, the environmental capital of the world, we …
Welcome to the 31st session of the International Resource Panel (IRP), hosted at UNEP’s Headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya – the environmental capital of the world. Congratulations on completing the second edition of the Global Resources Outlook, which will be launched next week during the Sixth United Nations Environment Assembly. My thanks to the scientists, IRP …
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Welcome to the Cities and Regions summit ahead of the sixth UN Environment Assembly, or UNEA-6. My thanks to the summit’s partners: UN-Habitat, C40 Cities, ICLEI, the World Resources Institute, and many others, including Bloomberg Philanthropies and UNDP. This summit has been a recurring feature at environment assemblies, for good reason. Cities hold immense gravity. …
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