6th Five Year Plan (FY 2011-FY 2015)
The current Five Year Plan, produced by the Ministry of Planning, and focusing on ‘accelerating growth and reducing poverty’ contains numerous policy initiatives that relate to climate change, including the following topics:
Energy:
– A target to increase energy efficiency by 10%
– Improve railways and waterways as energy efficient multi-modal transport system to reduce carbon emissions
– Optimising domestic production of primary energy resources including renewable energy
Environmental sustainability:
– Increase productive forest coverage by 2 percentage points
– 500 metre-wide permanent green belt established and protected along the coast
– Environmental, climate change and disaster risk reduction considerations are integrated into project design, budgetary allocations and implementation process
