Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ Minister of Environment and Tourism
D.Sarangerel met with Resident Coordinator of the United Nations (UN) in
Mongolia Tapan Mishra to discuss issues of bilateral cooperation as well as key
areas of further cooperation.
Minister D.Sarangerel said the 2020-2024 action plan of the Government of Mongolia will include policies and actions on climate change, forest management,
tourism, green development, air pollution, and disaster risk reduction and
prevention in line with the National Green Development Policy and the Sustainable
Development Goals, while noting that glaciers have been melting due to climate
change and global warming.
The Minister also expressed her views on
bilateral cooperation in forest management and mitigation of air and other
environmental pollution and undertook to focus on domestic tourism development
to cope with the losses caused by COVID-19 in the tourism industry.
Recognizing Mongolia’s fast response to the global pandemic,
UN Resident…
