The cooperation of Yerevan Municipality with the UN Development Programme (UNDP) involves various directions of city’s economic development. Current cooperation activities and further plans were discussed during the meeting of Yerevan Deputy Mayor Gevorg Simonyan with the representatives of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and UNDP.

Yerevan Mayor Tigran Avinyan hosted the delegation of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) which involved the director of the Foundation for the Preservation of Wildlife and Cultural Assets Ruben Khachatryan, the regional director of the IUCN for

This year, the green zones of Yerevan are going to be expanded by 15 hectares, 30 km of new irrigation network is to be installed. 6000 trees are going to be planted during the spring tree plantings action: approximately 4000 trees are to be planted in “Yerablur” Military Pantheon, the rest ones

Total surface of public green areas of Yerevan is approximately 900 hectares. Nowadays it has become vital to replace old sick trees with new ones. To find professionally grounded solution to the problem a conference was held in the City Hall. Specialists of the sphere, representatives

Yerevan Eco-Community” event, held in Yerevan basic school N146 after M.Metsarents, united students of eco clubs of the city. The event was held to demonstrate the activity performed by the clubs

Autumn tree pruning in the capital is over. During the regular working meeting it was reported that 1520 units of machinery were involved in the process of pruning of nearly 9200 trees. Taking into 

Currently Yerevan Municipality is getting ready for autumn tree planting. Taking into account that the soil in this area was of poor quality it was decided to fulfill the process by the trench method. The soil was very stony and it was rather hard to dig out special trenches. After having dug the trenches specialists fill back the stones and then cover them with high-quality earth. The trenches also serve for using rain waters and saving irrigation waters.

The issues related to environment protection and challenges of climate changes were discussed during the meting of Yerevan Mayor Hrachya Sargsyan with COP26 (UN Climatic Change Conference) Regional Ambassador for Europe, Central Asia, Turkey and Iran Mr. David Moran. The Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United Kingdom to Armenia H.E. Mr. John Patrick Gallagher was present at the meeting as well.

Dear co-citizens, Within the scope of “Earth hour” global event aimed to struggle against climate change, on March 26, from 20:30 to 21:30 the external illumination of streets and buildings will be turned off. In Armenia the event is held by the initiative of the Armenian branch of the World Wide Fund