{"id":5578,"date":"2019-09-26T10:09:09","date_gmt":"2019-09-26T07:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=5578"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:33","slug":"roberta-annan-designated-unep-supporter-on-creative-economy-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/09\/26\/roberta-annan-designated-unep-supporter-on-creative-economy-in-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Roberta Annan Designated \u2018UNEP Supporter On Creative Economy\u2019 In Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By UN Environment<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UN Environment Programme (UNEP) has officially designated\nMs. Roberta Annan as a \u2018UNEP Supporter on Creative Economy\u2019 in Africa in a ceremony\nat the Concordia Annual Summit in New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe fashion industry employs over 75 million people worldwide and is worth $2.4 trillion a month,\u201d said Satya S Tripathi, UN Assistant Secretary-General and UNEP Director for the New York Office. \u201cThe big elephant in the room as far the fashion industry is concerned is $500 billion it loses every year because most of it is not recycled. Imagine if we recycle it every year, 100 percent, that is the saving of $500 billion not just for the industry but for mother earth.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ms. Annan is an avid philanthropist and is passionate\nabout women\u2019s development opportunities across Africa. She started the African\nFashion Fund in 2014. The Fund is an incubator to support talented designers\nfrom Africa. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unenvironment.org\/news-and-stories\/press-release\/roberta-annan-designated-unep-supporter-creative-economy-africa\">Read\nmore&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By UN Environment UN Environment Programme (UNEP) has officially designated Ms. Roberta Annan as a \u2018UNEP Supporter on Creative Economy\u2019 in Africa in a ceremony at the Concordia Annual Summit&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5579,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}