Cambodia, RoK Ink Green Growth Cooperation
Phnom Penh, March 12, 2011 AKP –Cambodia’s Ministry of Environment has signed here a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Green Growth Cooperation with Global Green Growth Institute of the Republic of Korea (GGGI).
The MoU was inked on Mar. 10 by Environment Minister H.E. Mok Mareth and GGGI’s Chairman Han Seung-soo, who is also a special envoy of the President of South Korea Lee Myung-bak, under the witness of Deputy Prime Minster H.E. Yim Chhay Ly.
Through the MoU, South Korea will help build capacity for Cambodian environment officials, increase their knowledge, provide technical assistance, and mobilize financial supports to implement the roadmap for green growth in Cambodia, according to a press release on green growth process in Cambodia.
The MoU will also help ensure environmental sustainability for socio-economic development and economic growth, it added.
Cambodia adopted the roadmap for green growth in February last year. –AKP
By SOKMOM Nimul
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