ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES
Environment protection and climate change resilience occupy high-table position on Rwanda’s development agenda For more than a decade, Rwanda has placed environment protection and conservation at the centre of the country’s socio-economic transformation. These efforts have resulted into a strong institutional and policy framework, allowing the country to develop in a way that is clean and green and that builds resilience to climate change. The protection and management of environment are among the pillars of Vision 2020. The objective of the Government is that by 2020 the pressure on natural resources, particularly on land, water, biomass and biodiversity, will be significantly reduced and the process of environmental pollution and degradation reversed. Rwanda needs to be a nation in which the management and protection of these resources and environment are more rational and well regulated in order to preserve and bequeath to future generations the basic wealth necessary for sustainable development. Although Rwanda has one of the world’s lowest per capita emissions of greenhouse gases, it is highly vulnerable to the impacts of temperature and rainfall changes due to climate change.
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GREENING RWANDA | OUTLOOK | ISSUE 2017