Sseesamirembe Eco-City

On January 18 2006, the Government of Uganda signed a comprehensive Memorandum
of Understanding with Kagera Eco-Cities Ltd to create a 200 square mile International
Special Economic Zone and Eco-City called the Sseesamirembe Eco-City: Lake Victoria
Free Trade Zone. 
=== A cross-border EcoCity? ===
The 200-square mile planning area of the Eco-City straddles the common border
of Uganda and Tanzania. Discussions are underway with the Tanzanian
Government to extend the Eco-City across the border to create Africa’s first cross
border International Investment Municipality. 
=== Green development issues ===
The Eco-City is planned as a model where the
objectives of socio-economic growth are achieved in an ecologically
friendly manner. The Eco-City’s administration is to enforce key green
development issues such as: 
*re-forestation
*eco-friendly building materials
*energy efficient building designs
*pedestrian friendly urban planning to create a non-automobile dependant town
*eco-friendly waste sorting, re-cycling and disposal
*hybrid (wind-solar) renewable energy.
=== Regional and Global Community interest ===
Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi are all linked to other countries such as Sudan, Ethiopia, Egypt and
other Mediterranean countries by the waters that flow from Lake Victoria via the River Nile. 
The Global Community has recognized that it is in its best interests to
support and study an integrated socio-economic-climate change package
in the form of an Eco-City that can be replicated across the region.
Sseesamirembe Eco-City (Uganda) has been designated as a “Designer
Eco-City” and shall be presented to the 2nd Annual Low Carbon Societies
Conference to be held in London from the 13th-15th June 2007.
=== External links ===
*Sseesamirembe Eco-City
=== References ===
*Press brief, Sseesamirembe Eco-City, Africa's response ot climate change.
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