Georgia hosting Green Climate Fund board meeting
Georgia’s capital Tbilisi is hosting the 37th board meeting of Green Climate Fund between Monday and Wednesday. Photo: Environmental Protection
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Georgia’s capital Tbilisi is hosting the 37th board meeting of Green Climate Fund, the world's largest fund assisting developing countries to respond to climate change, between Monday and Wednesday.
Georgian Agriculture and Environmental Minister Otar Shamugia, who opened the event earlier today, thanked the organisers for choosing Georgia as the host country of the meeting.
The Ministry of Environmental Protection said Shamugia expressed hope the Tbilisi meeting would lead to “fruitful” cooperation between the Fund and the Government, and to financing of new “significant” projects.
Agriculture and Environmental Minister Otar Shamugia. Photo: Ministry of Environmental Protection
On her part, Mafalda Duarte, the Executive Director of the Green Climate Fund, thanked the Georgian Government for its hospitality and noted the hosting marked the first time the meeting was held in the Eastern European region.
She noted the Council of the Fund would make decisions to be implemented in the next four years during the meeting, including approval of 15 new funding proposals, of which 12 target the Least Developed Countries, Small Island Developing States and African States.
Nino Tandilashvili, the Georgian Deputy Minister of Environmental Protection and Agriculture, has been elected as a member of the Governing Board of the United Nations-initiated Green Climate Fund, the Ministry announced on Tuesday.
Georgian Agriculture Minister Otar Shamugia on Monday said up to 150 new meteorological and hydrological monitoring stations would be set up across Georgia over the next year.
Georgia’s capital Tbilisi is set to host the 37th board meeting of Green Climate Fund, the world's largest fund assisting developing countries to respond to climate change, at the end of October, the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Agriculture of Georgia announced on Saturday.
The United Nations Development Programme, Sweden and Euronews Georgia have launched Climate Magazines, a series of documentaries detailing key climate change issues and impacts in Georgia, in a bid to better inform the country’s residents about challenges posed by the issue.
Members of the Green Climate Fund delegation, the largest fund assisting developing countries to meet their climate change goals, visited Georgia to review the protection of forests in the country, as part of the ECO.Georgia project, the Environment Ministry said on Sunday.