English: Director General LI Yong met with Rémi Allah-Kouadio, Minister of Environment and Urban Hygiene Development of Côte d'Ivoire. The DG took the opportunity to thank Kouadio for his participation as chair of the plenary conference on renewable energy, organized by UNIDO in January 2014 as a side event of the investment promotion forum “ICI2014” in Abidjan. Furthermore, the DG briefed Kouadio on the ongoing UNIDO TC portfolio in Côte d’Ivoire in the area of environment and renewable energy. The DG highlighted an early GEF-6 project concept on renewable energy and energy efficiency. Kouadio called on UNIDO’s urgent assistance to review the draft sustainable development policy and supporting bill. Assistance from UNIDO would be required to assess (i) air, water and soil pollution by industry on a sector-by-sector basis; (ii) technologies to contain the pollution; (iii) an implementation strategy. The DG committed UNIDO to support him in the sustainable development policy with the best practices available, Cancun, 29 May 2014.