Ethiopia's Olympic champion and four-time world 1,500m champion Kenenisa Bekele and former world champion Berhene Adere arrived in Kenya on Thursday for the 6th World Sport and Environment Conference underway at the UN office in Nairobi.

According to event's organizer Cheo Oben, the athletes will attend the conference on Friday and take part in the Relay for Life event that will take place in Nairobi's Kibera, the largest slum in sub-Saharan Africa on Saturday.

The conference, which is jointly organized by the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) and the International Olympic Committee (IOC), is focusing on the linkages between sport, peace and environment.

Over 300 heads of national Olympic committees, international sport organizations, UN agencies as well as sport stars will review the environmental activities of the Olympic Movement.

Over the course of the three days, the participants will take part in panel discussions on key themes relating to sports, peace, environment, and sustainable development.

Also attending the conference is member of the IAAF Athletes' Commission, Morocco's double Olympic gold medalist Hicham El Guerrouj, and retired sprinter Frank Fredericks of Namibia who among his many achievements was 1993 world 200m champion.

The three-day meeting whose theme is "Sports, Peace and Environment" was officially opened by Vice President Moody Awori on Wednesday.

Source: Xinhua