Four multinational corporations, five global banks, sixteen cities and former President Bill Clinton have formed a consortium dedicated to retrofitting buildings in order to reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, according to an announcement from the Clinton Foundation Wednesday during the C40 Large Cities Climate Summit in New York. ABN AMRO, Citi, Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan Chase and UBS banking institutions have pledged $1 billion each for the Energy Efficiency Building Retrofit Program.
This is a great job and a global issue which demand urgent attention.thanks a lot for the former leader and other parties to the organization.The emmission reduction and energy efficient worldwide is a good step.It's vivid that the environment belong to all,it needs to be protected,conserved sustainably(development). The foundation should be extended to the mega city particularly lagos in Nigeria where human activities have contributed to gas emmissions and other events that destroy the environment.The project should be extended to Africa as a whole. 'am an environmentalist,i bagged my Bsc in environmental manangement and toxicology and a student memeber of Nigerian environmental society. we solemnly require your support to built the environment,to create an awareness and to develop the environment Yours truly, omowaye s.samson c/o Dr Gbadebo A.M uNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE, DEPT OF ENVIRONMENTAL MGT &TOXICOLOGY P.M.B 2240 ABEOKUTA,OGUN-STATE. WEST-AFRICA.
Bill Clinton Spearheads Green Cities Initiative
Posted by: Walaika Haskins May 17, 2007 03:48 PMFour multinational corporations, five global banks, sixteen cities and former President Bill Clinton have formed a consortium dedicated to retrofitting buildings in order to reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, according to an announcement from the Clinton Foundation Wednesday during the C40 Large Cities Climate Summit in New York. ABN AMRO, Citi, Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan Chase and UBS banking institutions have pledged $1 billion each for the Energy Efficiency Building Retrofit Program.
The foundation should be extended to the mega city particularly lagos in Nigeria where human activities have contributed to gas emmissions and other events that destroy the environment.The project should be extended to Africa as a whole.
'am an environmentalist,i bagged my Bsc in environmental manangement and toxicology and a student memeber of Nigerian environmental society.
we solemnly require your support to built the environment,to create an awareness and to develop the environment
Yours truly,
omowaye s.samson
c/o Dr Gbadebo A.M
uNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE,
DEPT OF ENVIRONMENTAL MGT &TOXICOLOGY
P.M.B 2240
ABEOKUTA,OGUN-STATE.
WEST-AFRICA.