{"id":17739,"date":"2026-07-16T13:31:49","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T13:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/07\/16\/taliban-un-talks-climate-projects-afghanistan\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T13:31:49","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T13:31:49","slug":"taliban-un-talks-climate-projects-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/07\/16\/taliban-un-talks-climate-projects-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban Administration Discusses Climate Projects with UN Officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation, and Livestock has announced that Mawlawi Attaullah Omari, acting head of the ministry, met with the head of the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) in Afghanistan to discuss the implementation of joint projects. The talks focused on climate change adaptation, water resource management, and strengthening technical cooperation.<\/p>\n<p>According to the ministry\u2019s newsletter, both parties explored ways to expand collaboration to mitigate the impacts of climate change, improve water resource management, and enhance the capacity of the agricultural sector. Afghanistan has been among the countries facing consecutive droughts and declining water resources in recent years, a situation that has directly affected the lives of residents and farmers across many provinces.<\/p>\n<p>UNOPS, as one of the operational entities of the United Nations, works on the implementation of infrastructure and development projects, and its cooperation can play a role in technical support and project execution. However, experts have consistently emphasized that the success of such programs requires transparency, equal access to vulnerable areas, and accountable management within responsible institutions.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban administration has not yet released further details regarding the budget size, timeline, or specific areas of project implementation. This information is expected to be clearly communicated to the public to ensure program effectiveness and build trust among farmers and partner organizations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban&#8217;s agriculture ministry and UN officials held talks on climate change projects to improve water management and support Afghan farmers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17738,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17739","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=17739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}