Transcript Afghanistan Country Report - Asian G-WADI

National
environment
National environment
protection
agency
protection agency
Afghanistan
Geographic setting:
Afghanistan is mountainous country. And rugged, land-locked
country in south central Asia it is bordered by Pakistan, Iran,
Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and china is dominated by
the majestic Hindu Kush whose peaks rise to over 7000m, and
associated mountain ranges extending across the country in a
northeast to southwest arc. Traversed deep valleys these
mountain separated plains north and Southwest.
Population:
Population:
Despite the considerable loss of life and fore migration during the prolong
Three decades of conflict, the population has rise from more than 8 million in
1950
To 26 million in 2002 .the post 2002 period has experienced very high
Population growth because out of 4 million Afghans who left the country
About 2 million returned back by 2002 and settled around central afghan
Region. As per last official census of 1979, the population registered at
13’051,385 (CIA, fact book 2006) or 15,551,385 in accordance to another
Judgment .the estimated population in Afghanistan in 2006 was 31,056,997
the population density of 46 per sq Km which reflects growth rate of 100% since
1979.
Environmental Background
Three decades of war combined with seasonal drought
resulted in:
 Deforestation.
 Range land destruction.
 Air pollution.
 Soil erosion
 Water shortage and pollution.
 Land slides.
 Extinctions of species.
 Destruction of infrastructures.
NEPA
The National Environment Protection Agency
(NEPA) was established in January 2oo5 as an
independent agency to combat environment
degradation. NEPA has 34 sub-province offices.
Division for Enviromental,Impact,Assessment
and Sustainable Development
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Division for Environmental, Impact Assessment
is a key Division and very important in NEPA
level ,this Division has tow department, such as
EIA, and Sustainable Development.
This Division according the Environment law
policy,regulation,guidline is Responsible for all
of development projects, like Mining,Industerial
, Construction, dam, and all kinds of projects
productions projects as well as.
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We have Scoping and Screening Process to
Implement to all of Projects. Than we have
another Department like Sustainable
Development. which has Responsible to check
and monitoring all of Projects which is were
surveyed and registered by the EIA group
already. And we have Implemented the
Sustainable development process to all of
projects like Industrials, Mining, construction.
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NEPA Achievements
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Environment law;
Environment Strategy;
Environment Policy;
EIA Policy;
Draft of Pollution Regulation;
EIA Regulations;
EIA Guideline;
Draft of Air Pollution Regulation;
EIA Implementation;
Implementing Some Sustainable Development Programs
Development Projects
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Capacity Building.
Kabul River Initiative Survey Project.
Public Awareness Project.
Nursery Project.
Air Pollution Control Project.
Industrial Factories Survey.
Climate Change and Carbon Market Projects
Challenges
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Insecurity.
Lack of Public Awareness.
Inadequate Funding.
Inadequate technical capacities.
Poverty.
Weak inter-institutional coordination mechanisms.
Lock of Governmental ,Private Sectors Cooperation.
International conventions to Which
Afghanistan is a Party
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- CBD
- UNFCCC
- UNCCD
- CITES
- RAMSAR
- CMS
- Vienna Convention on Trans-boundary Movement of
Hazardous Wastes
- BASEL Convention
Cooperation Agency Donors
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UNEP
WORLD BANK.
UNDP.
USIAD.
ACC.
ADB.
Future Plans
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Implementation of environment law, strategy and
polices.
Climate change project.
Air pollution control projects.
Environment research in different sectors.
Industrial project survey.
Biodiversity projects.
Suggestions
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Cooperation Capacity Building EIA and
Sustainable Development.
Financing and Environment Transferring New
Technology.
Technical Cooperation.
Thank You For Your Attention