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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