Larissa Tuayo is a Youth UN Volunteer Greening Office Assistant with the UN Development Programme (UNDP) in Cameroon. She contributes to reducing the ecological footprint of UNDP offices, through the operationalization of a strategy she prepared with the guidance of her supervisors. On the occasion of World Environment Day, Larissa shares her reflections.
Since we can't reduce what we don't know, my first activity was to identify the different sources of emissions and then to calculate the quantity of greenhouse gases that UNDP emits."
Larissa identified electricity as the main source of emissions and developed a prioritized and concrete action plan. She organized awareness sessions for the staff to adopt environmentally-responsible practices to reverse the trend.