UN to fund Myanmar for environmental development tasks
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The United Nations Frame Work convention Climate Change (UNFCC) will provide 16 million U.S. dollars to Myanmar to help carry out environment-related development tasks, the local Myanmar Newsweek reported Tuesday.
The fund will be extended through Global Environment Facility ( GEF), Myanmar environment officials were quoted as saying.
The fund for Myanmar is shared from the 10 billion dollars' aid provided for developing and under-developed countries for their respective environment-related development undertakings.
To obtain the fund, Myanmar is set to officially apply for it in July this year, the report said.
The first environment-related seminar on climate change was held in Myanmar's second largest city of Mandalay last December, in which representatives from Myanmar presented "Climate Change on Myanmar" and "Our Responsibility."
Myanmar has designated 34 nature conservation areas, which cover 26,603 square kilometers.
The country has been carrying out natural forest protection, forest plantation establishment, wood fuel substitution, and water supply tasks in 13 districts of Mandalay, Sagaing and Magway regions with a total of 121,500 hectares of forest plantations having been established in the dry zone.
"Myanmar Agenda 21" was also formulated in the country in 1997 as the long-term guidelines for the environmental activities and sustainable development.
