{"id":5803,"date":"2019-10-08T08:52:30","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T05:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=5803"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:35","slug":"environment-the-forgotten-partner-in-big-four-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/10\/08\/environment-the-forgotten-partner-in-big-four-agenda\/","title":{"rendered":"Environment: The forgotten partner in Big Four agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By The Star<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>About 40 years ago, when one mentioned the environment as an\nimportant development agenda in Africa, one could have been easily ignored.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This notwithstanding, the UN had established one of its biggest agencies, the United Nations Environment Protection Agency (UNEP), in Nairobi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The UN was perhaps taking a cue from the US. Not long after he\ncame into office, Richard Nixon established the first Environmental Protection\nAgency in that country in 1970. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-star.co.ke\/news\/2019-10-06-environment-the-forgotten-parner-in-big-four-agenda\/\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By The Star About 40 years ago, when one mentioned the environment as an important development agenda in Africa, one could have been easily ignored. This notwithstanding, the UN had&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5804,"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-5803","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\/5803","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=5803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}