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Decision-Making: Coordinating Bodies
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Decision-Making: Legislation and Regulations
In the case of trade-related investment measures, every attention is being paid to take into account environmental concerns.
Attention is also being given to the development of labour intensive technology with
prior environmental impact assessment. The focus is on the massive use of renewable
resources. Various measures, including the export bonus voucher and the dual exchange rate
system, have been introduced to stimulate exports. There are no restrictions on imports
except on contraband items. In addition, payments for goods and services have benefited
from the convertibility of the Nepalese currency.
Decision-Making: Strategies, Policies and Plans
Macro-economic stabilization has been introduced in the Eighth Five-Year Plan to ensure economic growth. It aims at moving Nepal to a higher sustainable growth path by invigorating private sector participation in economic activities. To supplement this objective, Nepal has adopted a liberal trade policy in order to expand exports, to attract foreign investments, to make domestic products competitive, to diversify trade, and to generate employment. Population, forestry, education, health, fiscal policies, and construction works are all involved in the area.
Environmental concerns are being looked at in the process of formulating policies,
plans and programmes including gradually being incorporated into the trade sector. Nepal
is now in the process of becoming a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and is
showing growing awareness of the WTO sanitary and phytosanitary rules and the
International Standard Organization (ISO 14000).
Decision-Making: Major Groups Involvement
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Programmes and Projects
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Status
Nepal has bilateral trade relations with approximately 17 countries, based on the Most Favoured Nations principle. With India the relationship is based on preferential agreements. It should, however, be noted that sandwiched between two giant nations, China and India, this mountainous Kingdom with rugged terrain has very high transport costs.
Challenges
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Capacity-building, Education, Training and Awareness-raising
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Research and Technologies
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Financing
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Cooperation
Since this is a new area for Nepal, international agencies have been expressing their support in contrast to more traditional kinds of assistance.
Nepal participates in the work of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) (1994), Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), World Bank, International Monetary Fund (IMF), and Asian Development Bank (ASDB) in this field.
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This information is based on Nepal's submission to the 5th Session of the Commission on Sustainable Development, April 1997. Last update: 1 April 1997.
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Decision-Making: Coordinating Bodies
This area involves the Ministry of Education, the Nepal Oil Corporation (NOC) (whose Managing Board has representation from the Ministry of Finance), the Nepal Industrial Development Corporation, and the Ministry of Supply.
The Ministry of Supply is responsible for supplying essential commodities such as petroleum products along with coal, timber, food grains through National Trading Limited, Nepal Oil Corporation, Nepal Food Corporation, Nepal Coal Limited, and Timber Corporation of Nepal, and others.
The Ministry of Supply provides liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) for cooking purposes in urban areas.
Decision-Making: Legislation and Regulations
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Decision-Making: Strategies, Policies and Plans
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Decision-Making: Major Groups Involvement
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Programmes and Projects
Programmes are being formulated and given priority to raise national productivity through industrial growth. It has been deemed essential to modernize traditional industries in order to reduce production costs and to increase production potential. Special consideration is given to commodities with export potential and to joint-enterprises in order to enhance product quality.
Besides being a source of material for the biogas plants, tree plantations serve the
objectives of the forestry programme.
Status
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Challenges
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Capacity-building, Education, Training
and Awareness-raising
Nepal has promoted education on nutrition, taught from the primary level onwards in order to raise public awareness on the nutritive values of food, on the different types of food, on cooking methods to save nutritive values, on the way foodstuffs should be stored, and on the changes needed in eating habits. It has also been planned to introduce nutritive education into adult literacy programmes as well as into agriculture productivity- oriented projects in order to enhance the quality of food storages and to bring about changes in eating habits.
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Research and Technologies
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The main goal of the Nepal Oil Corporation is to provide pure aviation fuel for aircraft and for vehicles. NOC has its own Fund for building oil reserve tanks around the country. The Fund is partly funded by the Government through foreign aid and the ADB.
Kerosene oil depots have been established in places so that a regular energy supply for people can be ensured without harming the forests.
Cooperation
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This information is based on Nepal's submission to the 5th Session of the Commission on Sustainable Development, April 1997. Last update: 1 April 1997.
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Decision-Making: Legislation and Regulations
New economic instrument introduced in Nepal include:
There is now a duty concession for environmentally-friendly vehicles. Among environmentally-unfriendly subsidies that have been eliminated was a previous import duty rebate provided to public vans and cars in Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal.
Decision-Making: Strategies, Policies and Plans
Nepal's goal is economic growth with stability, poverty alleviation and rural development. Environment is a top priority. Agriculture, forestry, power infrastructure projects and the social sector give sustainability much importance in terms of institutionalisation, replicability and financial capacity.
Decision-Making: Major Groups Involvement
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Programmes and Projects
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Challenges
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Capacity-building, Education, Training and Awareness-raising
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Research and Technologies
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Financing
Both domestic and foreign resources are used for achieving high economic growth, poverty alleviation, employment, rural development and empowerment. Of the annual budgets of His Majesty's Government of Nepal (HMG/N), an average of 35% is from foreign funds, and 62% of this development funding is ODA funding.
Other aspects of financing include:
Cooperation
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This information is based on Nepal's submission to the 5th Session of the Commission on Sustainable Development, April 1997. Last update: 1 April 1997.
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Transfer of Environmentally Sound Technology
Decision-Making: Coordinating Bodies
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Decision-Making: Legislation and Regulations
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Decision-Making: Strategies, Policies and Plans
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Decision-Making: Major Groups Involvement
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Programmes and Projects
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Challenges
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Capacity-building, Education, Training and Awareness-raising
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Information
With regard to the promotion of Environmentally Sound Technology, cooperation and capacity-building, the Ministry is looking forward to setting up information linkages and networks within a reasonable time in pursuance of national activities as well as regional inputs. In this respect, Nepal remains prepared to consider available programmes in order to participate actively in the exchange and promotion of an information network system.
Research and Technologies
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Financing
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Cooperation
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This information is based on Nepal's submission to the 5th Session of the Commission on Sustainable Development, April 1997. Last update: 1 April 1997.
Biotechnology
Decision-Making: Coordinating Bodies
The Ministry of Science and Technology was established in 1996 with the aim of conducting various programmes in the field of science and technology in an organized way and linking them with the national development process.
Decision-Making: Legislation and Regulations
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Decision-Making: Strategies, Policies and Plans
The following are the main policies on environmentally sound management of biotechnology:
Decision-Making: Major Groups Involvement
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Programmes and Projects
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Challenges
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Capacity-building, Education, Training and Awareness-raising
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Research and Technologies
It has been necessary to develop, improve and use appropriate food preservation, storage and processing technologies to bring about essential upgrading in the nutrition level of the general public through an increased availability of food commodities. In this context, biotechnology studies and research have been a priority concern and therefore technical support needs to be extended to agro-industries.
Financing
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Cooperation
Regional and international cooperation is in the process of being decided.
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This information is based on Nepal's submission to the 5th Session of the Commission on Sustainable Development, April 1997. Last update: 1 April 1997.
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