{"id":6626,"date":"2019-11-18T10:05:58","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T07:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=6626"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:41","slug":"african-ministers-of-the-environment-agree-to-accelerate-action-through-effective-mechanisms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/11\/18\/african-ministers-of-the-environment-agree-to-accelerate-action-through-effective-mechanisms\/","title":{"rendered":"African Ministers Of The Environment Agree To Accelerate Action Through Effective Mechanisms&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By UN Environment<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In\na ministerial declaration issued today at the closing of the 17th Ordinary\nSession of the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN),\nAfrican governments agreed to make the Conference the forum for making regional\nenvironment policies with effective mechanisms for implementation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Held\nunder the theme, &#8220;Taking action for Environmental Sustainability and\nProsperity in Africa\u201d, the Conference was held from 11 to 15 November and focused\non the need for African countries to take practical action, including\nimplementation of policies, relevant regional and global frameworks, in order\nfor the continent to attain environmental sustainability and prosperity and\nachieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Africa\u2019s Agenda 2063.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0\u201cWe need to ramp up our efforts to implement the decisions for the benefit of our Continent,\u201d Barbara Creecy, President of AMCEN and Minister of Forestry and Fisheries and Environmental Affairs of the Republic of South Africa said. \u201cAs we deliberated on the contribution that the Circular Economy, Blue Economy and biodiversity can make, this is an ideal opportunity to involve our youth and women in a more meaningful way in these, whilst guarding against environmental degradation.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unenvironment.org\/news-and-stories\/press-release\/african-ministers-environment-agree-accelerate-action-through\">Read more>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By UN Environment In a ministerial declaration issued today at the closing of the 17th Ordinary Session of the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN), African governments agreed to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6628,"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-6626","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\/6626","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=6626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}