TEHRAN - Iran’s government on Wednesday approved an integrative program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by four percent till 2030.

Head of the Department of Environment, Masoumeh Ebtekar, said that different executive organizations have studied the program for about one year and it was finalized by the government on Wednesday, ISNA reported on Friday.

Ebtekar said that the program has been prepared in line with the general policies of the country to change consumption pattern with special focus on the use of clean energies.

She added that the government should move toward a “low-carbon economy” which, according to Ebtekar, has been envisioned by the country’s sixth five-year development plan (2016-2021).

Ebtekar said that Iran should put some efforts in improvement of water consumptions, protection of soil and jungles as well as a change in cultivation.

In February 2014, Ebtekar warned on Iran’s seventh place in the production of CO2 in the world. According to World Bank statistics, Iran produced above 0.6 gigatons of CO2 in 2012 while the global figure was 32.3 Gt in 2012.

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