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Fri, 11/08/2013 - 11:41
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ENVIRONMENT AND GREEN DEVELOPMENT MINISTRY COOPERATES WITH GGGI

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ Mongolian delegation led by Deputy Speaker of the State Great Khural L.Tsog and by Environment and Green Development Minister S.Oyun met November 3-5 with Howard Bamsey, a Director-General of the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) in Seoul, South Korea. The meeting was of great importance as it coincided with current discussions on Green development principles and its middle-term programs in our parliament. Mr Bamsey expressed a gratitude to the delegation for Mongolia’s support to the GGGI activities since the very beginning, and noted that GGGI is ready to co-implement Mongolia’s national policies on Green Development. The MPs thanked the GGGI for its ongoing projects in Mongolia and shared views on further cooperation on green growth and sustainable development. GGGI and the Ministry of Environment and Green Development signed a Memorandum of Understanding November 2011 to cooperate in programs and joint activities that foster the promotion of green growth. Sector-specific green growth projects in the transport and energy sectors were launched in 2012. The GGGI further seeks to contribute in developing of Mongolia’s national green growth strategies in 2013 along with next stages of the sectoral green growth projects. After initial scoping work and a Consultation Workshop in February of 2012, the transport and energy sectors emerged as priority areas on which to focus a green growth planning. As a result, the Strategies for Green Public Transport and Strategies for Green Energy Systems projects were launched. The transport project is centered on Ulaanbaatar, and will include recommendations to the government on effective and feasible clean energy technologies for the city’s public transportation system and enhanced inspection rules and regulations for vehicle emissions. A week-long Capacity building program was run, convening transport experts and officials to discuss and share technical knowledge on sustainable transport. The energy project assesses the current status of the Mongolian energy sector, identifies and evaluates key energy scenarios for the country, and will propose green energy solutions to reduce GHG emissions. The GGGI and the Stockholm Environment Institute (US Center) jointly organized a capacity building program in Ulaanbaatar in March of 2013 to help provide the Mongolian government officials and experts with training opportunities for energy scenarios planning tools.

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