{"id":11298,"date":"2026-04-23T16:10:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T16:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/04\/23\/taliban-environmental-department-talks-japan-cooperation-afghanistan\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T16:10:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T16:10:33","slug":"taliban-environmental-department-talks-japan-cooperation-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/04\/23\/taliban-environmental-department-talks-japan-cooperation-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban Environmental Department Holds Talks with Japan on Bilateral Cooperation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Environmental Protection Department under the Taliban administration announced that Khalis Matwakil, acting head of the department, met with Kentaro Doi, Japan&#8217;s Deputy Minister of the Environment, to discuss expanding bilateral cooperation and addressing Afghanistan&#8217;s environmental challenges.<\/p>\n<p>According to the department&#8217;s statement, the meeting reviewed the current environmental situation in the country, existing needs, and priorities. The Afghan side emphasized the necessity of technical and financial support and expressed a desire to benefit from Japan&#8217;s experience in natural resource management, pollution reduction, and climate change mitigation.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Japan&#8217;s Deputy Minister of the Environment expressed his country&#8217;s readiness to participate in environmental projects in Afghanistan. Further details on the types of projects and how these collaborations would be implemented have not been disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, Afghanistan has faced challenges such as consecutive droughts, declining water resources, air pollution in major cities, and forest degradation\u2014issues that require effective long-term planning and regional as well as international cooperation to address.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban&#8217;s Environmental Protection Department discusses expanding cooperation with Japan to address Afghanistan&#8217;s environmental challenges and seek technical support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}