HAVANA, Cuba, Apr 19 (ACN) The Council of the Provincial Administration in Santiago de Cuba recently approved an Environmental Strategy, which includes all necessary actions to be taken until 2020, to mitigate the impacts of climate change on the environment.
José Alejandro Zapata Balanqué, head of the Environment Unit of the Territorial Delegation of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment (CITMA), told ACN that this allows guiding and controlling what was agreed in the National Strategy, the document that sets the rules in the environmental policy in the country.
Among the indicators are the control of the rational use of natural resources and the conservation of ecosystems, as a basis for sustainable development, as well as preventing, reducing and monitoring pollution, as a way to improve environmental quality.
They are also to effectively implement actions aimed at confronting climate change, prioritizing adaptation measures, as well as improving and developing the instruments of environmental policy and management as a support for decision-making in all areas, he said.
Each of these aspects includes concrete measures that will demand the effort of the collective of CITMA, in charge of the task, noted Zapata Balanqué.
We have proposed, for example, to control 40 percent of the environmental licensing, hazardous waste and biosafety licenses granted in the previous two years, and the implementation of action plans for priority sources of air pollution, he said.
Also, to inspect the priority hazardous waste generators and their licensing, the total of approved protected areas and the implementation of what is established with a view to preventing degradation of natural resources and ecosystems, he added.
They will also assess the effectiveness of the management of the National System of Protected Areas, the plan to confront social indiscipline by the corresponding agencies, and the implementation of environmental investments in 2017.
On the other hand, they will update the inventory of polluting sources of the bay ecosystem, to establish administrative control, and conclude the diagnosis with a view to the economic valuation of ecosystem goods and services of the Santiago's Bay.
It is a projection of four years, as ambitious as necessary, concluded Jose Alejandro Zapata Balanqué.
All of the above contributes to the agreement signed by Cuba aimed at promoting the Sustainable Development Objectives and the Agenda until 2030.
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