Climate Change Action Plans

Three New Independant State (NIS) and Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) countries -- Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, and Ukraine -- have already completed national Climate Change Action Plans.

Hungary, Kazakhstan, and Russia are preparing similar programs.

These plans identify and prioritize measures that will help countries meet their commitments under the Convention and the Protocol.

With these plans countries seek to:

• increase public awareness and support among decision-makers (Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Kazakhstan, Russia)
• integrate climate policy into other development priorities (Bulgaria, Hungary, Kazakhstan)
• increase domestic technological capacity (Bulgaria and Russia)

Although objectives differ, four out of the six plans state that public awareness and building a constituency for action among government officials are necessary for successful climate initiatives.