Uzbekistan Paris Agreement
The Paris Agreement aims to unify the efforts of the global community in developing and implementing comprehensive measures to prevent further climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere and maintaining global average temperature growth. However, the signing of this agreement is not the last point, but a beginning of integrated measures and a basis for the subsequent preparation of mechanisms for its implementation from 2020. According to the senators, the agreement will serve as a ”roadmap” for UN member states, helping to reduce emissions and build resilience to climate change. – The Paris Agreement is a document that has been regulating measures to reduce carbon dioxide in the atmosphere since 2020. The agreement was prepared at the climate conference in Paris and adopted by consensus on 12 December 2015. On the 19th. In April 2017, Uzbekistan signed the Paris Agreement at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. The document was adopted on 12 December 2015 at the 21st Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. On behalf of the Republic of Uzbekistan, the document was signed by the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Uzbekistan to the United States — Mr.
Bakhtiyar Gulyamov, the press service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Uzbekistan reported. The discussion on the project began with an online stakeholder meeting on 22 January. Participants participated in the design of the project and discussed ways to identify synergies and areas of cooperation with different partners. FAO specialists and officials from the Ministry of Agriculture, the State Forestry Committee, the State Committee for Ecology and Environmental Protection and the Centre for the Hydrometeorological Service of Uzbekistan participated in the workshop. The Paris Agreement was adopted as part of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which regulates measures to reduce carbon emissions into the atmosphere from 2020 onwards. – On 4 November 2016, thirty days after the date on which at least 55 Parties to the Convention, representing an estimated total of 55 per cent of total global greenhouse gas emissions, deposited their instruments of ratification, acceptance, authorization or accession with the Depositary. This condition became realistic when the European Commission`s Parliament ratified the agreement on 4 October 2015. The Republic of Uzbekistan has long relied on its robust agricultural sector, which is mainly based on cotton and wheat.
Uzbekistan faces major challenges related to desertification, water scarcity and depletion of the Aral Sea, exacerbated by climatic stressors such as rising temperatures, more frequent and extreme droughts, lower rainfall during parts of the year and changes in weather conditions that alter the growing season. These stressors are expected to intensify over the coming decades and have a significant impact on economic sectors and natural resources across the country. The energy sector is the main source of greenhouse gas emissions in Uzbekistan, followed by agriculture, industrial processes and waste sectors. Uzbekistan joined the United Nations Paris Climate Agreement in April 2017. CAREC continues to support the post-Paris process in Central Asian countries and holds regular meetings to discuss countries` progress and formulate possible joint actions that reflect the Central Asian countries` vision on climate change. The last meeting took place from 17 to 18 April 2017 in Almaty. It should help government, the private sector and academia strengthen their current reporting tools, including more up-to-date inventories of emission sources and sinks using advanced IPCC guidelines and institutional arrangements with relevant instruments, training and support to move towards its expanded transparent framework (ETF). – Learn more about CAREC`s activities under the Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Programme (CCSE) here. More information can be found in the Climate Risk Profile (2018).
In Uzbekistan, an FAO project aims to improve national capacity for transparent activities in line with the national priorities of GEF funds. Central Asia should continue regional cooperation in the context of global climate processes, taking into account in particular the processes of establishing accountability mechanisms, implementing climate finance instruments and interacting with national policies. The government officially signed the Paris Agreement on April 19, 2017 and ratified it in November 2018. The NDC sets mitigation and adaptation targets ”to reduce specific greenhouse gas emissions per unit of GDP by 10% by 2030 compared to 2010 levels” and ”continue its efforts to strengthen adaptive capacity to reduce the risk of negative impacts of climate change on various economic sectors, the social and priaraly sector (coastal area of the Aral Sea)”. On the 27th. In September, the Uzbek Senate ratified the Paris Agreement on climate change (Paris, December 12, 2015), reports the correspondent of ”Gazeta.uz”. The Paris Agreement aims to combat climate change and its effects, with the signing of which Uzbekistan committed to limit the rise in global average temperature to well below 2 degrees Celsius. To achieve this goal, each country has developed individual climate commitments known as Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). In addition, other provisions of the Paris Agreement focus on climate change mitigation and adaptation in a country. It agreed worldwide to support developing countries in their efforts to mitigate and adapt to climate change by creating a framework for transparent monitoring, reporting and tightening of countries` climate targets. In order to increase the ambitions of the provinces` commitments by disclosing information on the Parties` climate efforts, a new Enhanced Transparency Framework (ETF) will provide information on the Parties` greenhouse gas emissions, progress in the implementation and achievement of the NDCs, their adaptation measures and financial support, technology and capacity-building necessary for Parties in developing countries. is received and provided, reports and reviews.
– Without exception, all countries must adopt and implement their national plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, promote technological progress and promote adaptation to climate change. Currently, the agreement has been ratified by 170 countries that have committed to take action to reduce emissions, modernize and adapt to climate change. The project contributes to the Capacity Building Initiative for Transparency (CBIT) under the GEF-7 Climate Change Mitigation Strategy to support projects that build institutional and technical capacity to meet the broader transparency requirements of the Paris Agreement. The CBIT aims at:. . . .