Recent News - by Sinduja Jayaratne

The Environmental Ministry of Sri Lanka has taken steps to formulate a National Climate Change Policy with the support of UN-Habitat. A Ministry spokesmen said to Sunday Observer that the main objective of the Climate Change Secretariat is to Facilitate climate change research and distribution of research results to trigger policy reforms and actions.Meanwhile, the nations of the SAARC have adopted a three year Action Plan on climate change. This plan was adopted at the SAARc Ministerial Meeting on Climate Change, which was held in Dhaka from July 1-2,2008.