Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. November 7, 2018. The General Director of the Department of Climate Change and International Cooperation Mr. Batjargal Khandjav, of the Ministry of Environment and Tourism, held a meeting at the Cuban Embassy in Mongolia with Cuban Ambassador Raúl Delgado Concepción, in which received information about the Cuban strategy of confronting climate change and its National Plan for mitigation and adaptation to this global problem. Signatories of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change both countries face the extreme weather phenomena derived from global warming that affect the population and cause damage to the economies of both countries.
Director Batjargal, was accompanied at the meeting by Mr. H. Ganbaatar, Director of Environment and the Climate Fund, and Ms. Saruul Dolgorsuren, Administrator of the National Implementation Project for the confrontation of Climate Change of the Ministry , which highlighted that Mongolia has been experiencing heavy flooding in the summer and severe declines in winter temperatures as a result of global warming and climate change. These natural phenomena have caused Mongolia significant economic damage, especially to the nomadic Mongolian population, as the main source of income is livestock and agriculture. The floods that occurred last summer affected considerably the towns and cities of several provinces in the north and center of the country.
The Mongolian directors of the Ministry of Environment and Tourism indicated their intention to travel to Cuba to study and share the experience of our scientific institutions in the confrontation and preparation of our country to this phenomenon, of which they know we have a national strategy that involves all the organisms and institutions of the state and the population with an important educational component to the new generations in the rational use of the natural resources available to the planet. (EmbaCuba Mongolia)