The+Kitakyushu+Initiative+for+a+Clean+Environment


 * It is an initiative made to promote urban environmental actions.
 * It targets the air, water pollution and try’s to minimize all wastes.
 * Creates lessons from Kitakyushu, which is a city in Japan between Tokyo and Shanghai. It is a leading city in anti-pollution measures.
 * This initiative is a guideline for other cities in the Asia pacific region.
 * This project was adopted in September 2000 in the forth-Ministerial Conference of Environment and Development in Asia and the Pacific, which was held in Kitakyushu.
 * It is under the direction of the United Nations Economics and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific for Global and Environmental Strategies with other partners.
 * Millennium Development Goals: economic growth to alleviate poverty, and environmental sustainability goals of 2005- 2010. The cycle below shows the strategy for their goal.

Phase 1- 2005-2007 Phase 2- 2008 – 2009 Phase 3- 2009- 2010
 * [] This is the Actual Website for this Initiative.

Even though Iraq is not a developed country that is suffering from it's own domestic issues, It supports the initiative and views it as something that is important for nations to be aware of and develop for themselves. Having its own load to deal with Iraq would still like to be part of this initiative in the future for it has a lot of environmental issues. Helping reduce these enviromental conflicts will help ensure the both the safety and well being of the people of Iraq

Urges the enforcement of enviromental laws on waste limiting nations to a certain percentage, and public awareness: a) informing people of different ways to deal with waste. b) to ensure the both the safety and well being of the people c) to promote urban environmental actions