News • May 1, 2023
Rwanda Non-Motorized Transport Project Huye City NMT Investment Action Planning Workshop
16 March ,2023 in Huye, Rwanda the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) in collaboration with United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) organized the NMT Project Investment Action Planning Workshop. In Rwanda mobility plays a vital role for economic and social prosperity, connecting people, goods and places. However, poorly planned transport systems have hard-hitting and negative consequences […]
News • March 21, 2022
GGGI, Government of Rwanda and UNEP Proposed area for Car Free Zone in Huye Secondary City
The Global Green Growth Institute’s (GGGI) is committed to supporting government of Rwanda achieve low-carbon development, the Rwanda country program has developed a visualization with Jan Kamensky of the redesign for the proposed car free zone in Huye. Car-free zones have recently been launched in the City of Kigali in the central business district renamed […]
News • June 8, 2021
GGGI Organizes Mapathon and Workshop on Non-Motorized Transport Infrastructure in Secondary City in Rwanda (Musanze)
3rd June , Musanze Secondary City , Rwanda . GGGI Rwanda is currently implementing a project that is ongoing in three different countries. The United Nations Environment Programme is funding the “Strengthening, Prioritizing, and Investing in Non-Motorized Transport Infrastructure” project with UNDP in Zambia, WRI in Ethiopia, and GGGI in Rwanda. As part of the […]
News • June 5, 2019
Beating Air pollution before it beats us
Air pollution is a chronic disease and a silent killer. We need to anticipate it and proactively address it head on before it overtakes us. In April 2019 it was time for me to relocate to Kigali from Seoul, I was happy to move away from Seoul’s deteriorating air quality. While living in Korea, a […]
News • May 31, 2019
Three Ways the Global Green Growth Institute is supporting the Government of Rwanda to Reduce Air Pollution
Ambient air pollution has risen sharply in recent years, especially in urban centers. Increasing rates of congestion combined with rising levels of personal vehicle ownership and limited public transport infrastructure have resulted in cities in sub-Saharan Africa exhibiting some of the highest levels of PM2.5 particulate matter in the world. Recent research has found that […]