Ulaanbaatar
Clean-Up, Infrastructure Preparations for COP17 Underway at National Garden Park
COP17
Ulaanbaatar, November 7, 2025 /MONTSAME/. As part of preparations for hosting the 17th Session of the Conference of the Parties (COP17) to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, efforts are underway to expand green areas within the National Garden Park in Ulaanbaatar. Landscaping works include the planting of more than 4,500 trees and shrubs of nine different types, along with grass.
Staff of the Project Unit under the COP17 Secretariat, together with residents, carried out a clean-up of waste in the eastern part of the park.
In addition, infrastructure
for temporary conference facilities is under development. According to the Capital City Governor’s Office,
installation of the information and communication
fiber-optic network has been fully
completed. Works to install the water
supply and sewerage systems are 88
percent complete, while electrical supply and
parking lot construction are 45
percent complete.
A planning team of the
Secretariat of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification,
which visited Ulaanbaatar last week, concluded that construction
of the conference facilities can be fully completed by the end of July 2026.
