UN Environment is supporting the Ministry of Environment, Natural Resources and Physical Planning of Sudan in the process of developing the country’s first State of the Environment and Outlook Report.
Sudan is facing a wide range of environmental, social and natural resource challenges such as deforestation, land degradation, loss of biodiversity and habitat, pollution of air, land, and water, conflicts over diminishing natural resources, food insecurity and poor waste and sanitation services in urban areas. All of these issues are aggravated by climate change and are hindering Sudan’s sustainable development.
The State of the Environment and Outlook Report will help the Sudanese government to make better informed decisions regarding policy actions and interventions by supporting the understanding of the environmental challenges faced in the future. The adoption of an integrated approach aims to elucidate the link between environment, social and economic development.
The report will work on answering the following questions:
- What is happening to the environment and why?
- What are the consequences to Sudan’s environment and people?
- What is being done and how effective is it?
- Where is the country heading?
- What actions could be taken for a more sustainable future?
- How will Sudan meet its commitments to national aspirations, while sustaining its environment in the future?
Sudan’s State of the Environment and Outlook Report is part of a bigger initiative called ‘Adapt for Environment and Climate Resilience in Sudan’ (ADAPT) that aims to promote evidence based policy and decision-making and scale up successful environmental practices in development and humanitarian programming. This initiative is supported by UN Environment and the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID).
ADAPT wants to effect positive change by supporting policy and institutional reform in natural resources management and help Sudan formulate project proposals to mobilize resources.
