UN Global Compact Centre

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The Hunter's Point Shipyard has been designated by the U.S. Environmental Agency as one of the most polluted sites in the U.S. As an old naval shipyard it is contaminated with industrial toxins and radiations.

It it sometimes hard to imagine where the funds to rehabilitate such a site will come from, however San Francisco has just announced plans to build the U.N. Global Compact Centre "a world class climate change think tank and green tech incubator" on the old shipyard.

According to the mayor Gavin Newsom, the centre will “serve as an anchor for other sustainable businesses at the Shipyard in much the same way that the University of California and the Stem Cell Institute have anchored Mission Bay’s burgeoning biotech and life sciences cluster.”