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Sustainable UN Sustainable United Nations (SUN), a UNEP initiative and administered by the SCP branch, aims to support UN and other organisations to achieve climate neutrality (PDF - 63 KB) and overall sustainability. SUN will also contribute to addressing UNEP's Climate Strategy. The SUN Facility is established in response to the call from UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon at the World Environment Day 2007 (5 June), to all UN agencies, funds and programmes to become climate neutral and "go green". This call was echoed in October 2007 in a decision of the UN Chief Executives Board for Coordination (CEB/2007/2, annex II - PDF - 66KB) to move all organizations belonging to the UN system towards climate neutrality for facility operations and travel by the end of 2009. Notwithstanding each organisation's own responsibility in achieving such target, the SUN work will consist in the delivery of tools, methodologies and advisory services that can enable its practical implementation. Although it is essentially a UN targeted initiative,
SUN plans to also cater to large public organisations at country
level. Organizations can achieve climate neutrality in various ways. SUN will work at three levels :
At the same time, SUN will work in synergy with existing initiatives such as the SBCI, the UN Global compact, or the Marrakech Task Force on Sustainable Procurement led by the Swiss government and many others. The SUN team, headed by Niclas Svenningsen, include Inhee Chung, Isabella Marras, Marie-Christine Guédon, Peter Graham in Paris and Lova Andre at UNEP Headquaters in Nairobi. See SUN flyer for more details. |
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