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New UN-led Global Partnership to Help Green 30 National Economies by 2020
March 4, 2014
New UN-led Global Partnership to Help Green 30 National Economies by 2020
Countries such as Burkina Faso, Peru, Mauritius, Mongolia, and Sengal are set to boost their economies through a shift of investment and policies towards a new generation of assets that include clean technologies and resource efficient infrastructure, green skilled labor, well-functioning ecosystems, and good governance. Such a transformation, supported by the UN-led Partnership for Action on a Green Economy (PAGE), will pay significant dividends in social, environmental and economic terms. PAGE aims to extend its support to a total of 30 countries by 2020.
Achim Steiner, UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Directore of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), said: “The Partnership for Action on Green Economy has the potential to help countries improve human well-being and social equity, while significantly reducing environmental risks and ecological scarcities in line with their own national development priorities. Growth in income and employment would be driven by public and private investment that reduces carbon emissions and pollution, enhances energy and resource efficiency, and prevent the loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services”
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