UN Resident Coordinator Susan Ngongi Namondo’s Powerful Speech | World Environment Day 2025

In this inspiring keynote speech delivered in Dodoma during the National Commemoration of World Environment Day 2025, Ms. Susan Ngongi Namondo, the UN Resident Coordinator in Tanzania, addresses critical environmental challenges and solutions. Her powerful message highlights:

✅ The urgent global call to end plastic pollution

✅ Tanzania’s leadership in launching the Integrated Environmental Management Information System

✅ UN collaboration with the government on climate adaptation, clean energy, natural resource governance, and the blue economy

✅ Landmark projects like the Tanga Green Bond, mobilizing TZS 53 billion for sustainable water and environmental projects

✅ Ongoing efforts under the EU-funded Cook Fund Program to improve clean cooking technologies

✅ The importance of innovative financing tools like green bonds, blue bonds, etc

✅ A global push for a legally binding treaty to end plastic pollution

🔹 “This is Tanzanians investing in Tanzanian development.”

🔹 “Let’s scale up these efforts with urgency and make Tanzania a model of sustainable growth.”

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