Minister of Environment: Iraq is moving towards investing in environmental projects
Baghdad - INA
The Minister of Environment, Halo Al-Askari, confirmed today, Wednesday, that Iraq is moving towards investing in environmental projects, while pointing to working to reduce environmental pollutants.
Al-Askari said, in a dialogue session during the Iraq Energy Conference, attended by the correspondent of the Iraqi News Agency (INA): "The government's decision to separate the Ministry of Health from the Environment is important and works in the right direction," indicating that "many developed countries play an important role in the field of climate."
He added that "Iraq is a stable country and is moving towards investing in environmental projects," noting that "the ministry has a lot of energies that we are proud of, and the vision is there and we are in the process of changing the mentality, as the ministry is supervisory and not executive and is a window to expand the economy, including the green economy."
He stressed that "the Council of Ministers decided to establish a factory to convert waste into energy, and this is an achievement," explaining that "one of the achievements presented by the ministry is the project to establish the Carbon Economics Company, which is the first in Iraq."
He continued: "Under the directives of the Prime Minister, the Ministry worked to give reasons and diagnose the causes and worked with ministries to improve the environmental situation by installing filters in factories and preventing the burning of waste."
He pointed out that "we are working to reduce environmental pollutants, and desertification is not a problem in Iraq but in the region and the world," explaining that "Iraq has a desertification committee and participated in international conferences on desertification and there were contributions from the Iraqi delegation that participated with the green initiative launched by Saudi Arabia."
Al-Askari indicated that "climate change is a global problem and Iraq chairs the Group of 77 with China to prepare for the climate summit in Brazil."
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