Ulaanbaatar
National UN-REDD Programme budgets 4 million USD for forests
PoliticsUlaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ The official document for the National Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD) for Mongolia was signed Monday by the Minister of Environment, Green Development and Tourism N.Battsereg and the United Nations Resident Coordinator and the UN Development Programme Resident Representative in Mongolia Ms Beate Trankmann.
Mongolia is the first to receive funding for its own national REDD Programme among the countries with northern coniferous/boreal forests. The National Programme is to be realized within three years, commencing in the second half of 2015.
Minister N.Battsereg applauded the successful launch of the Mongolian National REDD Programme and thanked the UNDP for its consistent support for the ministry’s activities. “The funding of four million US dollars for the UN-REDD Programme was approved in July last year. We look forward to closer cooperatiing in many fields in the future”, said the Minister.
Ms Trankmann thanked the Ministry and its Forest Policy Management department for supporting the activities of the UNDP.
The REDD Programme is of great importance for Mongolia, a zone with high risk of climate change, thus, influencing the livelihoods of its herders, who are profoundly affected by the environmental degradation, she underlined.
Present at the signing ceremony were, the State Secretary of the Ministry of Environment, Green Development and Tourism Ts.Tsengel; head of the Department of Forest Policy Management Ts.Banzragch; head of the Foreign Cooperation Department B.Undarmaa; the UNDP’s Deputy Resident Representative Mr Thomas Eriksson, and the FAO Resident Representative Mr Kevin Gallacher.
The Programme, supposed to help to respond to the climate change, to reduce green-house gas emission from forests, to increase the accumulation of carbon dioxide in forests, incorporates sustainable forest management, replanting and preservation of forests.
Mongolia officially joined the UN-REDD on June 20 of 2011. The UN-REDD is being implemented in 56 partner countries in Africa, Asia-Pacific, Latin America and Caribbean regions.
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