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North Korean Edition of the Paris Agreement

The Hanns Seidel Foundation has supported the publication of a North Korean edition of the Paris Agreement. Climate change poses new challenges for people around the world, which can only be managed through international cooperation in the long run. Growing awareness led to the adoption of the Paris Climate Convention at the UN Conference in 2015, at which 197 countries agreed on more cooperation and measures for climate protection.

In North Korea, signatory of the agreement, the Hanns Seidel Foundation has been supporting projects for several years in order to cooperate in overcoming environmental challenges. North Korea's intertidal wetlands in the Yellow Sea, home to rare bird species, have shrunk dramatically in the last fifty years. In addition, since the 1990s the country has suffered massively from deforestation due to energy shortages and from steep slope agriculture, which in turn has led to erosion. This has had a lasting negative impact on the delicate balance between man and nature.

The Hanns-Seidel-Foundation and the local partner, the North Korean Ministry of Land and Environment Protection, have published the North Korean edition of the Paris Agreement. The translation will facilitate North Korea's access to information and shall stimulate further cooperation and projects.

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