Mongolia’s annual mean air temperature increased by 2.24°C from 1940 to 2015, triple the global average; thus, the impacts have been particularly significant, especially in rural communities.

Over the next three years, Mongolia will benefit from almost USD 3 million in GCF financing to support the development of resilience in such vulnerable sectors as animal husbandry, arable farming, water resource management and forestry. The GCF is helping to establish, strengthen and promote access to green finance in Mongolia.

The NAP project builds on support already provided by the Global Environment Facility (GEF)-financed NAP Global Support Programme (NAP-GSP), which has supported Mongolia since 2013 to identify technical, institutional and financial needs to integrate climate change adaptation into medium- and long-term national planning and financing. NAP-GSP is a joint programme by the UN Development Programme (UNDP) and UNEP to assist developing countries to advance NAPs. [UNDP Press Release]