Azerbaijan: National action plan on strengthening capacity to respond to challenges of biodiversity conservation, climate change and desertification/land degradation
Presently, the whole mankind is getting more and more concerned about global environmental challenges and these issues are now being considered by the developed and developing countries of the world both at political and economic levels.
In order to reduce the increasingly growing impact on the environment to a minimum there is a necessity in strengthening activities of the world community and international organizations. Pursuant to a decision by the board of global environmental facility (GEF) support provided by GEF to countries with economy in transition for needs assessment and strengthening capacity in the protection of the global environment is part of the aforementioned activities.
The main objective of needs assessment and strengthening capacity by countries is to build an independent capacity in the area of global environmental protection as well as biodiversity conservation, combating climate change and desertification / soil degradation by taking account of provisions of the three international conventions.