The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has
named a 24-year-old Nigerian doctor and environmentalist, Charles
Akhimien as its winner of the 2013 World Environment Day blogging
competition after picking up almost half of close to 70,000 votes cast
in an online vote.
Akhimien was among the ten short-listed bloggers
whose entries were posted on the World Environment Day website
(www.unep.org/wed) where WED followers could choose their favourite
entry.
Having securing first place with over 31,000 votes,
the environmental campaigner will be visiting Mongolia in June 2013 to
attend the World Environment Day (WED) 2013.
“As a doctor, I have found that the state of our
environment is directly related to our personal health, so I have
decided to champion environmental issues,” said Mr. Akhimien
“I look forward to seeing some of the two million
trees planted across Mongolia’s vast desert regions since 2011, and to
observe how Mongolia is using renewable energy by exploiting its huge
solar power potential,” he added.
The result was announced after considering over 100
entries submitted by bloggers across the globe to this year’s UNEP
competition on the theme of food waste. It was held in support of the
‘Think.Eat.Save. Reduce Your Foodprint! campaign launched by UNEP, the
Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) and other
partners earlier this year.
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