Sri Lanka Climate Change Documents

The Ministry of Environment of Sri Lanka remains committed to the management of the environment and natural resources of the country, maintaining the equilibrium between the trends in rapid economic development and the use of the natural resource base.

Social and economic behavior of the increasing human population has put a major threat in achieving these objectives. The Ministry has framed key policies for adoption in the management of the environment and natural resources of the country. These policies are implemented with the participation of stakeholders, including government, agencies, NGO’s, and communities.

What’s alarming is how fast climate change is making South Asian coastal communities disappear. They face this calamity on two main fronts. First, from flash floods, which continually destroy farming activities and their livelihoods; and second, the rise in sea levels, which is making coastal islands in South Asia disappear rapidly.

Preparation of strategies and action plans and implementation of pilot projects to be able to implement policies that are in line with environmental and natural resources.

Major functions: 

• Identification and analysis of the problems in the environment and natural resources sector through Stakeholder consultation to enable policy formulation for Sustainable Development.
• Ensuring notification and implementation of relevant stakeholders in formulating policies related to conserving the environment and natural resources.
• Ensure the implementation of multilateral environmental agreements signed by Sri Lanka in compliance with international commitments.
• Development of monitoring mechanisms for the environment and natural resource sector and develop strategies based on the data and information of monitoring.
• Raising public awareness at the national level on policy reforms and the concept of a sustainable environment as well as other major environmental processes related to the environment and natural resources.
• Conduct research to identify the impact of the implementation of policies, analyze the research findings, and disseminate among the public and related agencies.
• Creating a conducive environment for the state and political sector’s commitment to sound environment management.

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