Plastic bag wastes. [Photo/the-star.co.ke]
President Uhuru Kenyatta has said Kenya remains wholly committed to strengthening and supporting the UNEP to achieve its noble goals.
“That is why we will increase Kenya’s funding to the organization in order to support its programmes,” said the President.
“I would also like to encourage other member states to consider raising their voluntary contributions to help United Nations Environment Programme discharge its mandate effectively.”
The President of Guyana, David Granger, and the President of Trinidad and Tobago, Anthony Carmona, who spoke at the assembly praised Kenya for implementing the ban on plastic packaging.
President Carmona said through the plastic ban Kenya has become the hope for humanity.
“Nothing stops Kenya from becoming known as the hope of humanity just as it is known as the cradle of humanity,”
He said he learnt with admiration that the ban on plastic bags in Kenya has resulted in renewed growth in paper and jute industries in Kenya.
He called on UN Environment Assembly to come up with implementable resolutions that can guide humanity towards intergenerational equity.
“We should not be indicted by our children and our children’s children for polluting planet earth,” said President Carmona.
President Granger said pollution knows no frontiers and the actions of people in one corner of the world will directly affect those in other regions.
He said eradicating pollution requires information, education and communication strategies that informs all people about the fact that a clean environment is a right for all.