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Eswatini Representative: Ensuring environmental sustainability is important in shaping cities

Eswatini Representative: Ensuring environmental sustainability is important in shaping cities

Baku, May 18, AZERTAC

“We should strive to minimize the impact of development processes on the environment. The use of green energy and technology serves to ensure environmental sustainability,” Melusi Hlandze told AZERTAC as part of the 13th Session of World Urban Forum (WUF13).

"I think that the integration of our ecosystem will play a decisive role among the trends that will exist in the global urbanization process in the coming decades. Ensuring environmental sustainability is very important in shaping cities," the Eswatini representative emphasized.

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