The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) is working with China to ensure that the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympic Games will be remembered as the greenest Olympics, UNEP’s deputy executive director Shafqat Kakakhel told Xinhua.
Kakakhel, who is also United Nations assistant secretary-general, met with International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Jacques Rogge and said, “I mentioned to Mr. Rogge that we have had contacts with the Chinese authorities…I told him that the Chinese authorities are committed to ensuring the Games are organized in an environmentally friendly manner.
“I expressed the hope that the three of us, the IOC, UNEP and the Chinese authorities, work in an important alliance as regards to environment”.
