National Environment Policy

This document aims at consolidate several sectoral and cross-sectoral policy goals under one common approach of environmental management. Climate change impacts are one of the key challenged considered by the document to handle in order to achieve resilience.

One of the national target concerning the built environment is to establish new constructions and building standards in the context of climate change and Tsunami (viii). The policy further seeks to enhance preparedness of the country to address the impacts of extreme weather events, climate change, including sea level rise, and other environmental disasters.

The policy further aims at fostering renewable energy production and energy efficiency.