{"id":63541,"date":"2016-02-04T00:36:32","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T22:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/cs-for-environment-and-unep-chief-launch-kenya-green-university-network-kgun\/"},"modified":"2016-02-04T00:36:32","modified_gmt":"2016-02-03T22:36:32","slug":"cs-for-environment-and-unep-chief-launch-kenya-green-university-network-kgun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/cs-for-environment-and-unep-chief-launch-kenya-green-university-network-kgun\/","title":{"rendered":"CS for Environment and UNEP Chief Launch Kenya Green University Network (KGUN)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span dir=\"ltr\"> NEW YORK, United States of America, February 3, 2016\/APO (African Press Organization)\/ &#8212; <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Launch of Kenya Green University Network (KGUN)<\/p>\n<p>Date: Friday, 5 February 2016, 9.00am \u2013 11.00am<\/p>\n<p>Venue: United Nations Complex, Gigiri<\/p>\n<p>Conference Room 1<\/p>\n<p>Who<\/p>\n<p>Achim Steiner, UNEP Executive Director<\/p>\n<p>Prof. Judy Wakhungu, Cabinet Secretary for Environment, Water and Natural Resources, Kenya<\/p>\n<p>Professor Collette Suda, Principal Secretary for Education, Kenya<\/p>\n<p>Prof. Geoffrey Wahungu, Director General, National Environment Management Authority (NEMA)<\/p>\n<p>Prof. David K. Some, Commission Secretary CEO of Commission for University Education (CUE)<\/p>\n<p>Prof. Peter Mbithi, Vice-Chancellor, University of Nairobi<\/p>\n<p>Prof. Mucai Muchiri, Vice-Chancellor, Karatina University<\/p>\n<p>What<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Close to 70 Kenyan higher education institutions will launch the Kenya Green University Network (KGUN) \u2013 a collaborative project of the Commission for University Education (CUE), the National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).<\/p>\n<p>The new platform will help universities to incorporate environmental and sustainability aspects in their curricula and campus operations. It will also promote enhanced student engagement and assist universities with their performance contracting reporting requirements.<\/p>\n<p>Following the adoption of the global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Agreement on climate change last year, KGUN will provide a platform for Kenyan higher education institutions to play their part in these global processes, including by devising low-carbon strategies and mainstreaming environmental sustainability across the curriculum.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK, United States of America, February 3, 2016\/APO (African Press Organization)\/ &#8212; Launch of Kenya Green University Network (KGUN) Date: Friday, 5 February 2016, 9.00am \u2013 11.00am Venue: United Nations Complex, Gigiri Conference Room 1 Who Achim Steiner, UNEP Executive Director Prof. Judy Wakhungu, Cabinet Secretary for Environment, Water and Natural Resources, Kenya Professor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4584],"tags":[428,4585,830],"class_list":{"0":"post-63541","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-africa-news-2","7":"tag-africa","8":"tag-apo","9":"tag-news","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}