Environmental Protection Authority Stresses Need for Cooperative Efforts to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions  

Addis Ababa December 25/2024 (ENA)—Ethiopia’s Environmental Protection Authority Director General, Lelise Neme, pledged to accelerate cooperative efforts to effectively reduce greenhouse gas emissions, which play a crucial role in fostering positive climate change.

The Authority has entered into an MoU agreement with seven sector institutions to collaborate on the national system for reducing, reporting, and verifying greenhouse gas emissions.

Ministries of Transport and Logistics, Industry, Urban and Infrastructure, Agriculture, Mines, and the Ethiopian Forest Development signed the agreement with the Ethiopian Environmental Protection Authority.  

 

On the occasion, Director General of Ethiopia’s Environmental Protection Authority, Lelise Neme said Ethiopia has pledged to  reduce emission of greenhouse gases by 68.8 percent in 2030 stressing the need to create strong collaboration in order to attain this goal.

She  said that the agreement will play a significant role in reducing the emission of greenhouse gases and ensuring the ongoing efforts  of Ethiopia to build a green economy system.

The institutions that signed the agreement said that they will work together to implement policies, proclamations, regulations and strategies issued at the national level.