The European Commission announced this week that it will
allocate €35 million for an Algerian environmental programme. The programme will
focus on protecting the Algiers coastal region, and aims to put the environment
and efforts to tackle the impact of climate change at the heart of the country's
development policies.
According to the European Commission, support will be given,
for example, to a national climate plan, an ecological monitoring system for the
coast, management plans for protected areas and studies of public investment
costs and recurrent costs, including maintenance. The private sector and civil
society will be closely involved in the programme's implementation.
This co-operation programme supplements other EU programmes
which have for many years funded environmental protection and measures to combat
pollution in the Mediterranean.
For more news and expert analysis about
Algeria, please see Algeria Focus and Algeria Politics & Security.
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