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STORY: KENYA / SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT
TRT: 1.28
SOURCE: UNEP
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH /NATS
DATELINE: 30 OCTOBER 2014, NAIROBI, KENYA / RECENT
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30 OCTOBER 2014, NAIROBI, KENYA
1. Wide shot, Ban, Kenyatta and delegates walking down the stairs
2. Med shot, Ban and Kenyatta shaking hands
3. Close up, Ban and Kenyatta at the dais
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations:
“Africa is growing rapidly and I am very encouraged to see so much dynamism from individuals and private sector – creating jobs and income. Sustainable transport sector is crucial to sustaining this hard-won momentum. In strengthening African transport we must overcome a number of infrastructure bottlenecks and policy choke-points.”
5. Wide shot, panel
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Achim Steiner, UN Under-Secretary-General and UNEP Executive Director:
“In looking at the perspectives for Africa on sustainable transport, we also have a perfect case study of what the world currently negotiating in terms of a future set of sustainable development goals. Transport is about mobility, it’s about access, it’s about safety, it’s about resource efficiency, it’s about health and it’s about equity.”
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7. Wide shot, vehicles loading on a ferry
8. Close up, a van on the street
9. Wide shot, people boarding a ferry
Speaking at the Africa Sustainable Transport Forum in Nairobi, Kenya today, the Secretary-General said “sustainable transport sector is crucial to sustaining this hard-won economic growth momentum” throughout the continent.
Over 42 African countries, represented by ministers of transport, environment and other senior officials, participated in the forum organized by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), the World Bank and UN-Habitat.
The meeting, hosted by the government of Kenya, aimed to implement concrete actions to integrate sustainable transport into the region's development and planning processes.
The roadmap adopted by ministers today seeks to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from transport in Africa by adopting a comprehensive approach that aims to promote the use of low-emission non-motorized transport, encourage the development of quality public transport and increase investment in clean technologies.
Globally, air pollution is killing 7 million people a year - four times the impact of HIV AIDS and malaria together, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) - though deaths from outdoor air pollution in Africa are well below the world average.
In Kenya alone, rapid urbanization is projected to double Nairobi's car fleet in just six years, a situation that could put the health and well-being of thousands of Kenyans at risk.
Reducing CO2 emissions is a growing challenge for the transport sector. According to the World Bank, transportation produces roughly 23 per cent of the global CO2 emissions from fuel combustion. More alarmingly, transportation is the fastest growing consumer of fossil fuels and the fastest growing source of CO2 emissions.
With rapid urbanization in developing countries, energy consumption and CO2 emissions by urban transport are increasing rapidly everywhere in the world, including Africa.
