Tunisia to join Japan’s initiative to cut greenhouse gas emissions

28 / 08 / 2022

By Marwa Nassar - -

Tunisia will join the Japanese initiative to reduce greenhouse gas emissions under a partnership agreement signed between the two sides within the framework of Article 6 of the Paris Agreement.

Tunisia and Japan have also signed another partnership agreement on providing for technical and financial cooperation and the financing of the Tunisian government’s development projects and reform programs in various fields.

Meanwhile, Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi said his government had approved $100 million (about TND 321 million) in funding as part of the Tunisia COVID-19 Social Protection Emergency Response Support Project, TICAD 8 Media Coordinator Mohamed Trabelsi said.

The announcement was made at the end of a meeting which brought together Minister of Foreign Affairs, Migration and Tunisians Abroad Othman Jerandi and Japan’s Yoshimasa Hayashi. The latter is visiting Tunisia to attend the eighth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD 8).

The conference is jointly organised by Japan, the African Union Commission, the UN, the United Nations Development Program and the World Bank.