Green Development Policy

The Green Development Policy is a national cross-sectoral policy of Mongolia for the period 2014-2030. Its main objective is to ensure that Mongolia evolves as a developed nation that has built conditions for environmental sustainability, so that it will be inherited by future generations who will gain benefits from it in the long-run through participatory and inclusive economic growth based on the green development concept.
The Policy aims to make agriculture, forestry and fisheries more productive and sustainable. To this end, it is planning to promote a sustainable consumption and production pattern with efficient use of natural resources, low greenhouse gas emissions, and reduced waste generation; sustain ecosystem’s carrying capacity by enhancing environmental protection and restoration activities, and reducing environmental pollution and degradation; increase investment in natural capital, human development and clean technology by introducing financing, tax, lending and other incentives for supporting a green economy; and encourage education, science, and technology to serve as the catalyst for green development, and develop cultural values and livelihoods that are in harmony with nature; and create and promote incentives, like payment for ecosystem services for herders who take the initiative to contribute towards preventing pasture degradation and damage by breeding livestock in accordance with pasture capacity, and by maintaining water sources and springs.
Further, for reducing rural poverty, the document targets to engrain a green lifestyle by reducing poverty and promoting green jobs; create employment opportunities with secured incomes for at least 80% of the available workforce, by increasing permanent jobs through public-private partnerships; enhance labor productivity through the creation of a competitive and professional workforce, obtaining internationally qualified educations available in the home country; strengthen an emerging middle class by promoting investment towards expanding the social protection floor and promoting multiple income sources of livelihood; involve citizens in vocational training programs, provide job placement services, and offer a sufficient salary for women taking care of children, and provide them suitable compensation for their work.
In order to increase the resilience of livelihoods to disasters, the Policy aims to develop and implement a population settlement plan in accordance with climate change, while considering the availability of natural resources and the resilience of regions; and strengthen individual’s ability to overcome the adverse impacts of climate change by implementing programs and projects to improve the livelihood of individuals dependent on the environment and natural resources.
Green development policies will be incorporated in the Government Action Program, sector policy documents and public investment programs. Incentives shall be provided to citizens, the private sector and civil society to encourage their participation in the policy implementation, and to expand cooperation and partnerships between them. The government shall undertake an annual evaluation on the implementation of the Green Development Policy and present for hearing to the Parliament.