Overview
- The COP17 blue zone is active and the Green Zone opened to the public on Tuesday, giving citizens access to displays, cultural events and five municipal pavilions that showcase 480 project proposals and investment opportunities.
- Mongolia and the Ramsar Convention signalled stepped-up cooperation on protecting wetlands as nature-based tools to fight desertification after a ministerial meeting between Environment Minister Ts. Sandag-Ochir and Ramsar Secretary‑General Musonda Mumba.
- The Asian Development Bank announced a confirmed $1.9 million project to strengthen agricultural meteorological capacity and agencies including WMO and FAO are preparing a separate $5 million proposal for the Adaptation Fund that remains in development.
- Authorities say full medical, emergency and security arrangements are in place for delegates, with multiple medical points, mobile emergency teams and trained staff deployed across blue and green zones and mobile units operating in the Green Zone.
- Mongolia is pushing data and technology measures to improve Rio Conventions alignment, including AI decision‑support work and a proposed national data law, while the host frames these actions against the country’s large exposure to land degradation and its network of Ramsar wetlands.