Mohammed VI Green City-Sustainable Development Megaproject
HM King Mohammed VI visited the construction site of the Mohammed VI green city, close to Benguerir, on Friday a one-off project in Africa that gives a new royal impetus to a megaproject incorporating modernity and sustainable development.
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The project offers convenient infrastructure, an ecological space and a life style that ensures well-being, diversity, and social and cultural welfare for its inhabitants. The city will be developed around the Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, a private institution with international dimensions, and which will be the engine of development for the green city.This educational facility rests on different fundamentals including education, research and development, transfer of technologies, the adoption of innovative and promising projects as well as the proximity with the corporate world,MAP reports.
HM the King chaired the signing ceremony of two agreements, the first was signed between the Ministry of Higher Education and Office Chérifien des Phosphates (OCP), and the second is a framework agreement on cooperation between the école nationale supérieure des mines de Paris and the OCP.In order to ensure the connection and integration between the Mohammed VI green city and the existing city of Benguerir, a green lane of 4 km has been designed. The lane, called Coulée verte, will cover 80 hectares where over 50,000 trees will be planted. King Mohammed VI planted a tree as a symbolic launch of the green lane project. , MAP concludes.
It is estimated that over 50% of the world’s population now lives in cities and urban areas and this is likely to grow particularly in Africa.The need for a green urban environment which is sustainable is increasing as the urban populations multiply. The need to conserve water develop efficient draining systems,improve waste and rubbish disposal in an environmentally sustainable way reduce vehicle emissions create agricultiral areas for food so that cities can be self sustaining ,reduce energy costs by using renewable enegies are all important considerations for future community development.
In line with the far sighted development of renewable energy for Morocco this Green City initiative points the way to a sustainable future and better urban environments.. Converting todays urban sprawls into greener versions will be a major challenge but new developments in many parts of the world demonstrate that the necessary changes can be made in countries such as China,Brazil,Ecuador,the US, Canada and Denmark.
HM the King chaired the signing ceremony of two agreements, the first was signed between the Ministry of Higher Education and Office Chérifien des Phosphates (OCP), and the second is a framework agreement on cooperation between the école nationale supérieure des mines de Paris and the OCP.In order to ensure the connection and integration between the Mohammed VI green city and the existing city of Benguerir, a green lane of 4 km has been designed. The lane, called Coulée verte, will cover 80 hectares where over 50,000 trees will be planted. King Mohammed VI planted a tree as a symbolic launch of the green lane project. , MAP concludes.
It is estimated that over 50% of the world’s population now lives in cities and urban areas and this is likely to grow particularly in Africa.The need for a green urban environment which is sustainable is increasing as the urban populations multiply. The need to conserve water develop efficient draining systems,improve waste and rubbish disposal in an environmentally sustainable way reduce vehicle emissions create agricultiral areas for food so that cities can be self sustaining ,reduce energy costs by using renewable enegies are all important considerations for future community development.
In line with the far sighted development of renewable energy for Morocco this Green City initiative points the way to a sustainable future and better urban environments.. Converting todays urban sprawls into greener versions will be a major challenge but new developments in many parts of the world demonstrate that the necessary changes can be made in countries such as China,Brazil,Ecuador,the US, Canada and Denmark.
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