Africa: UNEP and Norway Sign New Cooperation Agreement With Added Focus On Marine Issues

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Arendal, Norway — UN Under-Secretary-General and UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner and Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs Børge Brende met today in Arendal, Norway to sign a new Programme Cooperation Agreement, through which Norway - already one of UNEP's largest donors - renewed its contribution to UNEP's Programme of Work for 2014, totaling US$16 million.

The Agreement allocates US$1 million to support the action on emerging environmental issues in follow-up of the resolution taken on marine plastic debris and marine microplastics at the first United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) in June. It also allocates US$500,000 to a UNEP/Food and Agriculture Organization project to improve fish food security in West Africa.

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