Accident mortel dans l'après-midi de ce jeudi 11 mars 2021 sur le tronçon oiseau blanc-carrefour Cococodji à hauteur de la pharmacie Sycomore.
Selon un témoin de l'accident au micro de Frissons Radio, la victime est un conducteur de camion-citerne. Il aurait stationné le camion pour aller saluer une connaissance. Au moment de remonter à bord de son camion, il a été percuté violemment par un véhicule. Le conducteur de camion-citerne est décédé sur le champ. La police est intervenue pour les formalités d'usage.
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Le Ministre des PME et de la Promotion de l'Emploi M. Modeste Tihounté KEREKOU et le Directeur Général de l'Agence de Promotion et d'Investissement des Exportations (APIEX) M. Laurent GANGBES ont visité dans la matinée de ce jeudi 11 mars 2021 l'entreprise ALPHA BÉNIN qui produit les pâtes alimentaires sous la marque Matanti.
Implantée dans la zone franche industrielle de Semè-Podji depuis 2011 l'entreprise emploie 270 jeunes béninois.
L'objet de la visite ont précisé le Ministre et le DG APIEX est de s'enquérir des difficultés et surtout explorer ensemble les pistes de solutions pour alléger les peines qui relèvent de facteurs divers et variés.
La délégation a été reçue par la promotrice Mme. Fatme Zhein RIHARD qui a présenté les différents compartiments de l'unité de production à ses hôtes.
Le Ministre en charge des PME et le DG APIEX après la visite de l'outil industriel ont fait part de leurs impressions au terme de la séance d'échanges qu'ils ont eu avec la promotrice.
Ils se sont engagés à en rendre compte au Gouvernement aux fins des diligences à faire pour lever les goulots d'étranglements qui entravent l'extension de l'outil industriel qui devrait induire l'accroissement de la production et surtout la création d'emplois estimée au triple des emplois déjà existants.
A l'occasion ils ont lancé un appel en faveur de la préférence de la consommation de la production locale.
Préférer et consommer la production locale dans tous les domaines est un acte de civisme et de patriotisme économique, de soutien au développement et à la croissance des entreprises locales créatrices de richesses et d'emplois a laissé entendre le Ministre des PME et de la Promotion de l'Emploi M. Modeste Tihounté KEREKOU.
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Le président de la République du Bénin a rendu un hommage sincère au ministre ivoirien Hamed Bakayoko, qui s'est éteint, ce mercredi 10 mars en Allemagne. Sur sa page facebook, Patrice Talon a salué la mémoire d'un homme politique rassembleur aux mérites louables. << Le Premier Ministre Hamed BAKAYOKO, au-delà d'être un travailleur acharné, était unanimement perçu comme un homme généreux, loyal, multicompatible, un fédérateur >>, reconnait le Chef de l'Etat béninois. À la famille éplorée et au Gouvernement ivoirien, Patrice Talon adresse ses condoléances les plus attristées. << À tous les Ivoiriens, en ces moments douloureux, je transmets le soutien fraternel du peuple béninois. Yako à vous >>, a conclu le président Talon sur sa page facebook.
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Photovoltaic panels on St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Of the trillions of dollars set aside for COVID-19 recovery, a small percentage has been used in green recovery initiatives according to a United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) report. Credit: Kenton X. Chance/IPS
By Samira Sadeque
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 11 2021 (IPS)
Last year, only $368 billion of a $14.6tn budget geared towards COVID-19 recovery measures across the world’s largest 50 countries took into account green recovery initiatives, according to a report launched yesterday, Mar. 10.
“Are we building back better?” by the Global Recovery Observatory, an initiative led by the Oxford University Economic Recovery Project (OUERP), and supported by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) was launched during a panel talk where global leaders who discussed measures taken to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic that are favourable to the climate.
“With growing climate instability, rising inequality, and worsening global poverty (World Bank, 2021), it is crucial that governments build back better through a green and inclusive recovery,” read a part of the report.
UNEP Executive Director Inger Andersen addressed the trillions in the budget for post-COVID-19 recovery.
“We are taking extraordinary amounts out of the pockets of the future — because these are borrowed monies — so let’s not do that with the engine of driving further environmental destruction,” she said.
Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which also supported the report, was on the panel and highlighted the crucial importance of including climate action in the budget for development after the pandemic. The role of climate action is “indispensable” in IMF’s work, she said.
“We cannot have microeconomic and financial stability without environmental and social sustainability and these are issues we need to learn fast how to integrate in economic policy,” Georgieva said.
She was echoing one of the key recommendations in the report that called for a higher investment in research and development (R&D) of understanding economic impacts and requirements of green initiatives.
In some cases, some of the impact may not even be seen in the immediate aftermath of the implementation, the report noted.
“The new technologies developed through such programmes will be necessary to meet climate commitments, particularly in hard-to-abate sectors such as heavy transport, industry, and agriculture,” the report claimed.
In the COVID-19 recovery packages, among other green initiatives, the R&D sector was allotted the lowest amount — $28.9 bn. This, the authors claimed, could potentially be because of the long time it takes to see results in these types of investments.
This likely means that “governments that are looking for tangible change on the scale of months may prioritise different policies in the short-term,” the report added.
But Andersen of UNEP said that countries could learn from what others were doing to help shape their own approach.
She said the partnership between the Observatory and UNEP, and their findings would allow countries “to check what neighbours are doing” and “see a menu of options”.
“Brazil is going to have different solutions to Guinea Bissau but it’s about doing elements that can lead us in the right directions,” Andersen said.
Moderator Nozipho Tshabalala said: “This is not about comparing between countries, but about galvanising momentum to look at what others are spending and the impact of that.”
Economist and Nobel Laureate Professor Joseph Stiglitz also spoke at the panel and pointed out various tools that need to be taken into account: how the money is allocated, how the projects are designed to make sure that in the designs there are concerns about inequality and the environment.
“These are not contradictory objectives but complementary objectives,” he said.
Georgieva of IMF brought the focus to factors important for the IMF to take into account as they plan.
“In our function of looking at the health of national economies and the world economy, we must integrate climate change,” she said.
“We take into account bulk opportunities to reduce the risk of climate change in the future — such as, how to bring down emissions, how to integrate that in economic development, and also factoring in the opportunity for green growth,” she added. “How can we create more jobs and better opportunities by investing money the right way?”
She emphasised that it’s crucial for those in the finance industry to be aware of the climate risks to financial stability.
“There are transitional risks if the economy shifts away from carbon intensive industries and the financial system is slow to adapt to that — that could be a massive shock,” she said.
She added that financial institutions should further be aware of the exposure of the industry to the climate crisis.
“We have to integrate climate in our capacity development; central banks and finance ministries ought to be better equipped to factor sustainability in their decision making,” she said.
She also highlighted the importance of data collection.
“We are now working on bringing carbon intensity in quarter economic reports,” she said, adding that it’s crucial information for countries to look at during their growth to ensure it is not happening at the cost of climate sustainability.
Overall, the panelists shared enthusiastic notes and ideas about how to move forward with financial plans for a recovery with a strong focus on climate action.
Stiglitz summarised the issue in a few words: “A stronger recovery and a green recovery are not in conflict — these are complementary policies. It’s not a question about building back, it’s about going forward.”
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