Nationally determined contributions under the Paris Agreement were clarified 

On November 6, there kicked off the workshop on nationally determined contributions under the Paris Agreement, on the initiative of the Ministry of Environment and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

It took place the seminar on phasing out mercury-added products in Yerevan

 The initial seminar on "Strengthening capacity to promote phasing out of mercury-added products in Armenia" project took place  in  Ani Grand Hotel.

 

Public discussion addressed to increasing the effectiveness of public access to environmental information

Advisor to the Minister of Environment Narine Solomonyan had a meeting with representatives of non-governmental organizations dealing with environmental issues. The meeting was attended by K. Danielyan, A. Iskoyan, M. Madoyan, S. Ayvazyan, A. Mirzoyan, Yu. Poghosyan.

The workshop on quality assurance of the national greenhouse gas inventory management systems and national greenhouse gas inventory of Armenia

On November 4-8, at the initiative of  the Ministry of Environment, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the workshop on quality assurance of the national greenhouse gas inventory management systems and national greenhouse gas inventory of Armenia was launched.

Enhanced regime maintenance works are implemented  in forestries of  “ArmForest” SNCO 

The cases on illegal cutting of trees  were detected in the foresteries of  “ArmForest” SNCO  under the Committee of Forest  of  the Ministry of Environment. In particular, 9 cut trees were revealed in ''Hrazdan Forestry'' branch, 330 -  in ''Artsvaberd Forestry'' branch, 142- in ''Yeghegnut Forestry'' branch, 49 -  in ''Dsegh Forestry'' branch, 1-in “Ijevan Forestry'' branch and 4 - in ''Gyumri Forestry'' branch in the period of October.

Training workshop for organizations owning polychlorinated biphenyls

It took place the training wrkshop for organizations owning PCBs (polychlorinated bphenyls) on accounting, sampling and labeling of PCB-containing oils and equipment under “Regional Demonstration Project for Coordinated Management of ODS and POPs Disposal in Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Armenia” jointly implemented by the Ministry of Environment and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO).

The employees of “ArmForest” SNCO will henceforth wear uniforms

There took place the handover of uniforms to the workers of foresteries in “Hrazdan forestry” branch of “ArmForest” SNCO.