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General Assembly President John Ashe (left) with UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner at the closing press conference of the Global South-South Development Expo in Nairobi, Kenya.
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UN South-South forum wraps up with over $450 million pledged for greener development

1 November 2013
More than $450 million was pledged between investors, green businesses, Governments and other parties at the United Nations-organized Global South-South Development Expo in Nairobi, where hundreds of participants spent this week exchanging ideas, solutions and technologies developed in the global South.
Cabinet Secretary Anne Waiguru of Kenya, (centre), and UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson cut the ribbon at the opening of the UN South-South Expo. UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner is at left.
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At UN conference, countries share green solutions for development challenges

28 October 2013
Representatives from some 150 countries today gathered at the headquarters of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in Nairobi, Kenya, to tackle development challenges and discuss ways to harness environmentally-friendly solutions developed in the global South.