Rwanda Validates Environment and Climate Change Mainstreaming Strategy 2024–2029

This Tuesday, 23 December 2025, the Rwanda Environment Management Authority (REMA), in partnership with the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI), successfully convened a multi-stakeholder workshop to validate the Environment and Climate Change Mainstreaming Strategy 2024–2029.

The strategy now validated provides a coherent and systematic framework to integrate environment and climate change considerations into national, sectoral, and district planning, budgeting, and implementation processes.

This will help ensure that climate resilience and environmental sustainability are central to Rwanda’s development planning over the next five years.

Mainstreaming environment and climate change means embedding these considerations into everyday decision-making and development priorities, rather than treating them as standalone issues.

The framework aims to strengthen alignment with the National Strategy for Transformation Phase II (NST2), Rwanda’s Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) under the Paris Agreement, and the country’s broader vision for a climate-resilient, low-carbon economy.

The validation workshop brought together representatives from government agencies, development partners, civil society, and the private sector to review and refine the strategy, marking a key step toward its formal adoption and implementation.

By ensuring that sectors and districts systematically address climate and environmental risks and opportunities, Rwanda continues to build on its leadership in sustainable development and climate action.

Further coverage, including stakeholder perspectives, will follow.