IDA to provide Moldova with 2 million dollars to implement climate risks management project

17:55 | 10.06.2015 Category: Social

Chisinau, 10 June /MOLDPRES/ - The International Development Association (IDA) will provide Moldova with a two-million-dollar-worth loan to implement actions within the Disaster and Climate Risks Management in Moldova Project. The cabinet passed a bill on ratification of a financing agreement to this effect today.

The money is to be used especially to purchase and set 14 automatic weather stations and 35 weather units. The draft is already under way and will be implemented till 30 June 2016.

Also today, the government approved a draft law on ratification of the third additional protocol to an agreement on technical and financial assistance between the Moldovan and Romanian governments, based on a non-reimbursable aid worth 100 million euros. The document stipulates that 15 million euros of the above-mentioned sum will be earmarked for environmental protection projects.

(Reporter C. Russu, Editor L. Alcaza)

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