UN URGES LEGAL INTERVENTIONS TO TRANSITION AFRICA TO GREEN ECONOMY

Dirk Wagener, the UN Environment Coordinator for Resource Efficiency Program said the governments have to collaborate with the private sector to help address the challenges to be able to be at par with other continents.
"Policies and regulatory frameworks are necessary to create the incentives to develop green businesses and to mainstream Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) practices," Wegener said at the launch of Kenya Switch Africa Green (SAG) Networking Forum in Nairobi.
Wegener observed that policies should be combined with support that enables producers and consumers to adopt more environment and climate friendly practices.
"This can be done by nurturing eco-innovation and green business development, helping firms to capture opportunities for reducing or changing their resource use, minimizing waste, developing and marketing new products and services, and increasing demand for such products and services," he added.
He said that since the launch of SAG in Africa, the project has supported 34 grantees with financial and technical support amounting to 11.5 million U.S dollars in terms of grants disbursed across Burkina Faso, Ghana, Kenya, Mauritius, South Africa and Uganda.
In Kenya, the priority sectors that ranges from agriculture, tourism and manufacturing that received a grant of 1.75 million dollars are already key game changing sectors in the transition to green economy."The continent requires a great leap in economic performance that is sustainable, inclusive, and trans formative and the green economy investment is one way to achieve this," he added.
SOURCE: news.xinhuanet.com

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