The 2024 budget of the Environment Fund Administration (AFM) will be RON 9.3 billion, of which RON 1 billion will go to the Rabla Plus car scrappage programme, said Mircea Fechet, minister of Environment, Water and Forests, at the end of the Government meeting on Wednesday.
The minister added other proposals for programmes to be implemented this year: a new programme for more efficient stoves, funded with half a billion RON, a proposed programme for agricultural machinery - 500 million RON, Green Week in Schools - 100 million RON or Junior Rangers, a new programme where children will be taken to protected natural areas and the state will bear part of the costs of these activities.
The Environment Minister also said that private owners of forests in protected natural areas will receive compensation through a state aid scheme.
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