Estelle Brachlianoff at the Europe-Africa Forum: "We need to pick up the pace to accelerate the ecological transformation"
March 21, 2022 at 06:38 am EDT
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Roundtable on "Women: driving the global recovery".
Other participants in the discussion: Oulimata Sarr -UN Regional Director for West and Central Africa, who presented the HeforShe initiative, which features CEOs working to advance the agenda on empowering African women; Patricia Tomaino Ndam Njoya - Mayor of Foumban, who presented the improvements to wood-fired cooking practices and the impact on the health of Cameroonian women and deforestation on the edge of the Sahel; and Martine Vassal - President of the Aix-Marseille-Provence Metropolitan Area and the Bouches-du-Rhône Departmental Council, who announced the launch of a centre to attract business to the region with its One Provence label and thereby showcase the region's businesses and young start-ups from Africa.
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