Ulaanbaatar
Cooperation to be developed to mitigate climate change
Politics
Ulaanbaatar/MONTSAME/. On October 29, D.Sarangerel, Minister
of Environment and Tourism, received Philip Malone, Ambassador Extraordinary
and Plenipotentiary of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Northern Ireland to Mongolia.
During the meeting, the sides exchanged views on the bilateral
cooperation towards mitigating and adapting to climate change, virtual climate change conference to be held
in December, as well as 26th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations
Framework Convention on Climate Change.
Ambassador Philip Malone said, “We have many projects and
programs in Mongolia, which aim at mitigating and adapting to climate change.
For instance, supporting agriculture and farming, improvement of climate
risk management in rural areas, and recycling plants. We are confident that our
cooperation in these areas will bring good results.”
Minister D.Sarangerel said, “Mongolia is one of the ten vulnerable countries to the climate change. Therefore, we pay a lot of
attention to climate change. Although Mongolia’s greenhouse gas emission is compared to how developed countries do, we will strive to achieve our goals by realizing
the obligations before our citizens and the Paris Agreement. Mongolia has
heightened its target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from 14 percent to 22.7
percent by 2030. We are working actively to reduce risk factors for greenhouse
gas emission.”
