Yellow Humvees and the UN Procurement Scandal

“Isn’t it a bummer when you buy yourself a hummer and some prat puts you down on the net! Global warming’s just for fairies the science about it undoubtedly varies and most of its apologists are wet. So even though I work for UNEP I am rightly proud of my rep as an aging but highly sexed eco czar in a oversized gas guzzling toy of a car” --Sukuma Blog

Kenyan blogger Juliana Rotich is the editor of Green Global Voices, which monitors citizen media in the developing world, and is a regular contributor to this page. Thomson Reuters is not responsible for the content - the views are the author’s alone. The use of SUVs by UN staff in Nairobi is rankling some bloggers. They are posting pictures on their blogs, and have even created a flickr pool called ‘Kick The Habit’. The title of the set of pictures borrows from UNEP’s (United Nations Environment Program) campaign from June of this year, which encouraged ‘countries, companies and communities’ to reduce their CO2 emissions. The blogger on Sukuma Kenya started the flickr pool in June, after he noticed that many UN vehicles in Nairobi were SUVs, and felt that the UNEP campaign did not communicate how it was reducing carbon emissions while it was asking individuals to ‘kick the CO2 More...

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