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Non-motorised transport (NMT) offers basic and affordable mobility, access to public transport, and health benefits. Improving the convenience, comfort, and safety of walking and cycling reduces the demand for travel by personal motor vehicles,…
The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia has an urban population of 21 million residents. Despite a high level of reliance on non-motorised transport (NMT) in Ethiopian cities and rural centres, many streets are not designed for people to walk or…
In recent years, Ethiopia has become a regional leader in solid waste management. Last year, the country transformed the Koshe dump site, the only landfill in Addis Ababa, into a new waste-to-energy plant, the…
Your Excellency Mr Ossama Abdelkhalek, Chair of Permanent Representatives, Your Excellency Ms. Josefa Sacko, African Union Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen It is a…
Over 80 per cent of people in sub-Saharan Africa’s rely on biomass for cooking and heating. Much of it, however, is harvested and used unsustainability due to the lack of access to clean, affordable alternatives…
By Tefera Mengistu Woldie, National Coordinator, Institutional Strengthening for the Forest Sector Development Program at Ethiopia’s Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change, and UN Environment’s Ivo…
This report concludes that Ethiopian forests generated economic benefits in the form of cash and in-kind income equivalent to 111.2 billion Ethiopian Birr (ETB) (USD16.7 billion) or 12.86% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2012-131, considerably…
It’s the beginning of the end for Ethiopia’s stores of DDT, an internationally restricted pesticide. The East African country is moving to eliminate once and for all the largest officially reported global stockpile…
African Leaders gathered for the “Africa 2020 Access to Renewables Initiative” in Addis Ababa Addis Ababa, 17 March 2015 – A technical consultative meeting for the Africa 2020 Access to Renewables initiative…
This report is a terminal evaluation of a UNEP GEF project implemented between 2009 and 2012. The project goal was to build regional capacity on analysis and data generation for POPs in core matrices for the Global POPs Monitoring (GMP) to enable…
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