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Kenya Green University Network Informal Consultative Meeting
United Nations Environment Programme

The Kenya Green University Network (KGUN) was proposed in 2012 after deliberations between the Greening Kenya Initiative (GKI), World Student Community for Sustainable Development (WSCSD), the University of Nairobi (UoN), Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT), Multimedia University of Kenya (MMU) and UNEP’s Environmental Education and Training Unit (EETU) as a follow-up to the World Student Summit for Sustainability and the International Day for Biodiversity celebration. The network would aim at developing a functional network of higher education institutions that would incorporate environment, low carbon-climate resilience development strategies and sustainability aspects in their education, training, campus operations/management and enhanced student engagement;


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2014
Reports and Books
Africa Mountains Atlas
United Nations Environment Programme

The mountains of Africa provide water and food, rich biodiversity, recreational areas and serve as important centres of cultural integrity and heritage. However, Africa faces growing challenges in ensuring the sustainable development of mountain areas, such as poverty and climate change and addressing the feat of transboundary co-operation. Through use and integration of local and indigenous knowledge, supporting green investments and addressing the multidimensional nature of poverty and food security, these challenges can be surmounted. The Africa Mountains Atlas defines these challenges and presents the associated opportunities that can be seized to prevent unsustainable development of Africa’s mountain ecosystems.


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2014
Reports and Books
Financial System Impact of Disruptive Innovation
United Nations Environment Programme

This report examines disruptive innovations and their implications for the design of a green and inclusive financial system – innovations driven by top-down, centralised innovation in policy and regulation or by bottom-up, decentralised financial market innovation||innovations stimulated by long-terms shifts in environmental and social factors or technological innovations. The scale of the challenge of the transition to such a system calls for flexibility and experimentation with a diverse set of policy approaches."


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2014
2013 Tongji University Sino-African Summer School Visit to UNEP
United Nations Environment Programme
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2013
Reports and Books
Building inclusive green economies: success stories from South-South Cooperation
United Nations Environment Programme

This report shows how South-South Cooperation is playing a key role to identify solutions to sustainable development challenges, as well as delivering new ideas and resources to advance the global transformation to an inclusive Green Economy.


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2013
Reports and Books
The clean energy voyage
United Nations Environment Programme

The Clean Energy Voyage explores the rapid progress with clean energy technologies, policies and projects over the past decade, and explores the many myths about the potential for a global economy powered by clean energy. From innovative transport schemes in Paris, to the UNEP headquarters in Nairobi, and the clean energy finance companies of New York, the publication uses destinations across the developing and developed world to highlight the factors for success and, at times, the reasons for failure in efforts to increase the use of renewable energy and energy efficiency.


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2013
Serials
UNEP global environmental alert service: December 2013
United Nations Environment Programme

This issue is about the great migrations of wildebeest in East Africa.


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2013
Reports and Books
Kenya wetland atlas
United Nations Environment Programme

Wetlands are among the most important ecosystems in Kenya. This atlas details many of Kenya's wetlands and the specific pressures facing them.


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2012
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Inventory of Mercury Releases in Kenya
Ministry of Environment and Mineral Resource, Kenya

This inventory is prepared by an interministerial team under the Ministry of Environment and Mineral Resources as part of the preparations for national actions to address the growing emissions of mercu-ry, in November 2011 as part of the preparations for Kenya’s participation in the negotiations for a legally bidding mechanism for mercury emission.


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2012
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Desk Study on Waste Management Practices and Trade Flow of Dental Amalgam and its Alternatives in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda
ILima Organization, United Nations Environment Programme

This desk study was initiated by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Health Organization (WHO) Global Oral Health Program in collaboration with the respective Ministries of Health and the Ministry of Environment and in line with global initiatives to reduce mercury pollution. It is a component of the East Africa Dental Amalgam Project (EADAP) whose aim to explore essential conditions for a phase down in the use of dental amalgam and its alternatives. The study aimed at obtaining data and information on dental amalgam trade flows and current dentists’ practices in handling and waste management of dental amalgam and its alternatives in three East African countries- Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.


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2012