Enhancing Impact of Science on Policies
Brain storming session with Director General and Staff of the Mongolian Department of Green Development Policy and Planning
The Director of ROAP, Nordin Hasan met with the Minister in the newly established Ministry of Environment and Green Development Mongolia, and the staff of its Department of Green Development Policy and Planning in Ulaanbaatar recently. The meeting discussed ways of enhancing the impact of science on green development policies in Mongolia. Sanjaansuren OYUN who recently became minister in the new coalition government in Mongolia, has a background in geology. Also present at the meeting were Professors Rick Leemans of Wagenigen University, the Netherlands who is also the Chair of the Science Committee of the Earth System Science Partnership (ESSP), Mark Stafford Smith, Science Director at CSIRO Australia and Masataka Watanabe of Keio University, Japan. The meeting was organised by Chuluun Togtokh, a member of the ICSU Regional Committee for Asia and the Pacific (RCAP). Chuulun was recently appointed Director General of the Department of Green Development Policy and Planning, Mongolia. He is the programme lead for Future Earth in the Regional Committee.
