(MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
BAKU, Azerbaijan, November 15. Tajikistan will
build solar and wind power plants with a capacity of 1,500
megawatts in the next 24 months, Tajikistan's Minister of Energy
and Water Resources Daler Juma said at the COP29 energy Transition
Investment Forum for Central Asia, Trend reports.
“Tajikistan plans to increase its generating capacity by 2030,
which is dominated by hydropower, from the current 6 gigawatts to
10 gigawatts. In addition, 10 percent of the energy produced should
come from non-hydropower sources, i.e., solar and wind power. For
this purpose, we have undertaken to build solar and wind power
plants with a total capacity of 1,500 megawatts in the next 24
months,” he said.
Juma emphasized that Tajikistan has pledged to fully switch to
the use of green energy by 2032.
“At the moment we have reached the level of 98 percent. In
addition, our economy will also become fully green by 2037,” he
added.
The opening of COP29 took place on November 11 in Baku's Olympic
Stadium and will continue until November 22. It is the largest
event organized by Azerbaijan to date, and the first time in the
region that it is being held in Azerbaijan.
As part of COP29, the highest-level event, the World Leaders'
Summit on Climate Action, was held on November 12-13.
The main expectation from COP29 is to agree on a fair and
ambitious New Collective Quantitative Goal (NCQG) on climate
finance.
In addition to being a top priority that creates the conditions
for action, creating climate finance will also help fulfill the
1.5°C pledge by bringing everyone together.
The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change is an agreement
signed at the Rio Earth Summit in June 1992 to prevent dangerous
human interference in the climate system. The acronym COP
(Conference of Parties) stands for“Conference of Parties” and is
the highest legislative body overseeing the implementation of the
Framework Convention on Climate Change.
A total of 198 countries are parties to the Convention. Unless
otherwise decided by the parties, COP is held annually. The first
COP event was held in March 1995 in Berlin, and its secretariat is
based in Bonn.
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