After Morocco (2022) and Mauritania (2023), the UNECE Environmental Efficiency Critiques (EPR) proceed to achieve past the area of the United Nations Financial Fee for Europe (UNECE). Mongolia has requested UNECE to undertake its second evaluation, following the primary in 2017.
Right now, a multidisciplinary group of 17 worldwide specialists, met with 30 officers representing numerous environmental and sectoral authorities of Mongolia. Ms. Ariuntuya Dorjsuren, Director Basic of the Worldwide Cooperation Division of the Ministry of Surroundings and Local weather Change, who facilitated the assembly, highlighted the significance of the EPR course of in shaping and enhancing environmental governance within the nation and for monitoring and attaining SDG implementation.
The group additionally met with representatives of worldwide organizations lively within the nation and nationwide NGOs. The specialists will proceed working in Ulaanbaatar till 25 September 2024, assessing the environmental efficiency of the nation and analyzing developments throughout the previous seven years.
That is the fifth EPR performed exterior of the UNECE area – which stretches throughout North America, Europe and Central Asia – because the institution of the EPR Programme. UNECE EPRs present a complete device to assist international locations determine key environmental challenges and set up concrete suggestions to enhance environmental sustainability throughout all sectors.
The second evaluation of Mongolia will measure progress made and considers challenges encountered within the areas of air high quality, water administration, biodiversity and guarded areas, soil safety, waste and chemical compounds administration and greening the economic system. It’ll additionally study the nation’s environmental knowledge, info and statement techniques, the extent to which worldwide environmental agreements and commitments are applied, and actions relating to local weather change.
The nation’s authorized, coverage and institutional framework and regulatory and compliance assurance mechanisms referring to the surroundings can be reviewed, in addition to the mixing of environmental issues into financial sectors. The evaluation may also handle the problems associated to training for sustainable growth, land administration and well being safety.
As well as, this evaluation will assess the nation’s progress in the direction of related targets and indicators of the Sustainable Growth Objectives. The evaluation group will study how the Objectives are being tailored to the nationwide context and the way the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Growth is put into follow, whether or not the required assets have been allotted and tasks are clear, what obstacles have been encountered when concentrating on the Objectives and what concrete outcomes have already been achieved.
Constructing on the evaluation of progress made since 2017, the evaluation will end in a set of suggestions on how you can enhance the nation’s environmental efficiency. The evaluation course of will culminate with the UNECE Committee on Environmental Coverage contemplating the suggestions in 2025, with a view to their adoption, and the nation committing to implement them throughout the subsequent 5 to 10 years.
The nation evaluation mission, which incorporates engagement with completely different stakeholders together with companies and civil society, can be organized in cooperation with the Ministry of Surroundings and Local weather Change, different key ministries and governmental establishments. The second evaluation of Mongolia is made potential by monetary and in-kind assist from Finland, France, Germany, Portugal, the Netherlands, the United Nations Financial and Social Fee for Asia and the Pacific and the United Nations Surroundings Programme. Particular because of the Mongolia United Nations Nation Group for sharing their experience on the nation.
Distributed by APO Group on behalf of United Nations Financial Fee for Europe (UNECE).
