The meeting held on October 24, 2025, between Batbayar Shurenchuluun, the Secretary of State of the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change of Mongolia, and Hirohito Toda, the Deputy Executive Secretary for Partnership and Coordination of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN ESCAP), as well as Dr. Ganbold Baasanjav, head of the UN ESCAP office in East and Northeast Asia, focused on discussing this issue.
Participants of the meeting emphasized the need to intensify actions to prevent sand and dust storms, as well as to strengthen measures for climate change adaptation. As a result, they agreed to launch joint regional and national initiatives that will be presented at the 17th session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (COP-17), scheduled for August next year in Ulaanbaatar. Furthermore, the parties exchanged views on joint projects and programs, as well as proposals put forward by Mongolia in the context of COP-17.
