{"id":26375,"date":"2017-05-18T15:51:49","date_gmt":"2017-05-18T15:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/?p=26375"},"modified":"2018-04-22T11:53:17","modified_gmt":"2018-04-22T15:53:17","slug":"unic-beirut-and-ngo-organize-bike-tripoli-4-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/blog\/2017\/05\/unic-beirut-and-ngo-organize-bike-tripoli-4-ride\/","title":{"rendered":"UNIC Beirut and NGO organize Bike Tripoli 4 ride"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 hundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-overflow:visible;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last fusion-column-no-min-height\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-margin-bottom:0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-slider-sc fusion-flexslider-loading flexslider flexslider-hover-type-none\" data-slideshow_autoplay=\"1\" data-slideshow_smooth_height=\"0\" data-slideshow_speed=\"7000\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:100%;\"><ul class=\"slides\"><li class=\"image\"><span class=\"fusion-image-hover-element hover-type-none\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/18320719_1062141407219360_1018726446414851896_o.jpg\" width=\"750\" height=\"420\" \/><\/span><\/li><li class=\"image\"><span class=\"fusion-image-hover-element hover-type-none\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/18320475_1062141270552707_1807103814257749623_o.jpg\" width=\"750\" height=\"420\" \/><\/span><\/li><li class=\"image\"><span class=\"fusion-image-hover-element hover-type-none\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/partners.jpg\" \/><\/span><\/li><li class=\"image\"><span class=\"fusion-image-hover-element hover-type-none\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/launch.jpg\" width=\"750\" height=\"420\" \/><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>For the third year in a row, the Lebanese NGO Social Way Association has organized a bicycle ride, Bike Tripoli 4, in cooperation with the UN Information Centre (UNIC) in Beirut, Bike Lebanon, Beirut by Bike, and the northern coastal cities of Tripoli and Al-Mina municipalities. The theme for the sporting event was \u201cEmpowering women in decision making positions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More than 1,500 cyclists rode in the ride on 7 May. It attracted a large crowd of politicians, social and environmental activists, and media representatives. Lebanese explorer and ambassador of Bike Tripoli, Maxime Chaya, participated along with representatives of UN agencies and other diplomatic missions working in Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the ride, shows and musical performances were held throughout the day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have been organizing Bike Tripoli for three years now with Social Way Association. Our partnership is based on common goals that both the Centre and the Association believe in, including preserving clean environment, encouraging the use of renewable energy and securing traffic safety, among other goals,\u201d said UNIC Beirut Acting Director Margo Helou.<\/p>\n<p>She added that the UN considers sport an important enabler of sustainable development and an element in establishing peace among parties through respect for others and tolerance.<\/p>\n<p>UNIC Beirut\u2019s media support for this event focused, as in previous years, on promoting the Sustainable Development Goals 11 (Sustainable Cities and Communities) and 13 (Climate Action).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/iseek-newyork.un.org\/article\/unic-beirut-and-ngo-organize-Bike-Tripoli-4-ride\">UN Intranet iSeek<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the third year in a row, the Lebanese NGO Social Way Association has organized a bicycle ride, Bike Tripoli 4, in cooperation with the UN Information Centre (UNIC) in Beirut, Bike Lebanon, Beirut by Bike, and the northern coastal cities of Tripoli and Al-Mina municipalities. The theme for the sporting event was \u201cEmpowering women in decision making positions.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,15,4],"tags":[6857,3632,261,4781],"class_list":["post-26375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-change","category-energy","category-news","tag-bike-tripoli","tag-climate-action","tag-energy","tag-sustainable-cities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/95"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}