{"id":59450,"date":"2016-10-06T16:20:39","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T23:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=59450"},"modified":"2016-10-06T16:20:39","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T23:20:39","slug":"sri-lanka-signs-the-d-c-sustainability-pledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/10\/06\/sri-lanka-signs-the-d-c-sustainability-pledge\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka signs the D.C. Sustainability Pledge"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Embassy of Sri Lanka\u00a0<\/em><em>Washington D.C.<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Demonstrating the Embassy\u2019s support for the District of Columbia\u2019s environmental and sustainability goals, Ambassador Prasad Kariyawasam joined over 62 Ambassadors and Embassy representatives on October 5 at the Embassy of Italy to sign the DC Sustainability Pledge.<\/p>\n<p>The signing ceremony was organized by the DC Greening Embassies Forum in collaboration with the District of Columbia and the Embassy of Italy. The event was also attended by senior officials representing the White House, the U.S. State Department and the District of Columbia.<\/p>\n<p>The DC Sustainability Pledge recognizes the collective commitment of Embassies and international institutions in the District of Columbia to support the District\u2019s Sustainable\u00a0DC\u201d plan and its goal to make the District the greenest city in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The original pledge was signed in 2012 by almost 80 Embassies and other international institutions. The revised pledge, almost\u00a0five years later, highlights the goals of the Paris Climate Change Agreement and renews the DC\u2019s international community\u2019s commitment to support the host city\u2019s green goals.<\/p>\n<p>The D.C.\u00a0Greening\u00a0Embassies\u00a0Forum affords the diplomatic corps a platform to contribute to the District\u2019s environmental efforts through, among other measures, sharing best practices, conducting training for embassy staff, supporting local sustainability events. The success of the diplomatic community in Washington DC through the DC Greening Embassies Forum has generated similar efforts by the diplomatic corps in Rome and Bangkok, which have launched matching forum chapters and pledges.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cts.vresp.com\/c\/?EmbassyofSriLanka\/cb95cee727\/0cb8e1f42a\/88bc2c2f5a\">Read the DC Sustainability Pledge.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Embassy of Sri Lanka<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Washington D.C.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>October 6, 2016<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Embassy of Sri Lanka\u00a0Washington D.C. Demonstrating the Embassy\u2019s support for the District of Columbia\u2019s environmental and sustainability goals, Ambassador Prasad Kariyawasam joined over 62 Ambassadors and Embassy representatives on October 5 at the Embassy of Italy to sign the DC Sustainability Pledge. The signing ceremony was organized by the DC Greening Embassies Forum in collaboration [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}