Top Kenyan Athletes Support Half-Marathon to Celebrate
UNEP’s 40th Anniversary
Nairobi,
7 February 2012 – Kenya’s top
runners will join the public later this month for an
historic half-marathon in Nairobi that will celebrate
the UN Environment Programme’s (UNEP) four decades of
working for the environment and raising public
awareness of what needs to be done to ensure the
sustainable future of the planet.
Organized by UNEP in partnership with the Paul Tergat
Foundation and the Athletics Kenya, the 21-kilometre
celebratory run on 19 February will start at the Kenya
Technical Teachers College in Gigiri, Nairobi.
Champion runners Paul Tergat and Patrick Makau will
lend their support to the event. Mr. Tergat held the
world marathon record from 2003-2007, while Mr. Makau
set the new world marathon record at last year’s
Berlin Marathon.
6 February 2012 –
On January 31, The Kingdom of Netherlands Ambassador,
Renée Jones-Bos, hosted a reception organized with the
Greening Embassies Forum, chaired by the State
Department and the District of Columbia, on the
occasion of the Royal Netherlands Embassy’s LEED
certification. The event featured the signing of a
Sustainability Pledge by more than 40 Embassies in
addition to a workshop that taught Embassies how to
operate in a sustainable way. 
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