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Category: International
Type: News
Source: EPA
Date: Friday, February 18th, 2011

WASHINGTON - On Friday, February 18, E.P.A. (EPA) Administrator Lisa P. Jackson will travel to Kenya and Ethiopia to engage in bilateral and multilateral meetings aimed at building relationships with key African counterparts and other environmental leaders. The trip will include attending the 26th United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) Governing Council Meeting and Ministerial Environment Forum, where Jackson and other U.S. representatives will outline the global scope of shared environmental, health and economic challenges and opportunities.

Jackson's meetings in Kenya and Ethiopia will highlight important issues in children's environmental health, good environmental governance and emerging green technology and innovations.

Jackson's stops in Ethiopia and Kenya will include meetings and events focused on electronic waste, enforcement and compliance, indoor air quality, and clean fuels. While in Kenya, she will be hosted by U.S. Ambassador Michael E. Ranneberger and will lead the U.S. delegation to the UNEP meetings, where the group will continue the precedent set by the U.S. during UNEP's 2009 meeting by actively engaging international partners in bringing awareness to shared environmental, health and economic challenges. In 2009, the U.S. signaled its commitment to take on a leadership role in working with 140 other countries on a binding international arrangement on mercury. At the UNEP meeting, Jackson and UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner will sign the 1st ever Memorandum of Understanding between the 2 organizations, furthering the U.S. commitment to more effective collaboration to promote global environmental sustainability. She also will join with the director general of the country's National Environmental Management Authority to speak on environmental initiatives and will participate in a roundtable with the East Africa Enforcement Network.

In Ethiopia, Jackson will be hosted by U.S. Ambassador Donald Booth and will meet with U.S. Ambassador to the African Union Michael Battle. She will represent U.S. interests in bilateral meetings with Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi and leaders from Ethiopia's E.P.A.. Jackson will also speak with students from Addis Ababa University about opportunities for women to take leadership roles in addressing environmental issues facing Ethiopia. In addition, she will gain a site-briefing and tour an e-waste de-manufacturing facility to highlight improved e-waste management and affirm EPA's commitment to supporting innovation in the management of electronic waste.

These meetings will focus on EPA's recently launched international priorities and aims to strengthen U.S. relationships with environmental counterparts in the Kenya, Ethiopia and other African nations.

More information on EPA's international priorities and efforts:
http://www.epa.gov/international/


*** Credentialed press who would like to interview Administrator Lisa P. Jackson should e-mail [email protected] to RSVP. Please include your name, media affiliation and contact information in your request.

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