Faso Burundi Cameroon Cape Verde Central African Rep. Chad Congo Rep. Cote d'Ivoire DR Congo Djibouti Egypt Equat. Explaining cleaner production, UNEP Information Officer Jim Sniffen said it was a preventive environmental strategy aimed at increasing overall efficiency and reducing risks to both humans and the environment. In a press release issued in connection with the Nairobi meeting, the agency stressed that African countries stand to benefit from cleaner production because it promotes the optimum use of resources. Organized jointly by UNEP, the Germany-based Carl Duisberg Gesellschaft and the Government of Norway, the roundtable will serve as a forum for networking among those working to promote clean production in Africa.
Participants hope to create an institutional mechanism to keep track of clean production.
They will also work to create a framework linking the issue to sustainable consumption. Mr. Sniffen explained that the Nairobi meeting will work towards providing an African perspective to an international seminar on clean production to be held in Montreal this October. All the news from Africa, all the time. In updating their database on leadership in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the French have begun to revise their forecasts to some degree. You can get this headline news ticker on your site.