COP21 in Paris: Climate Change Agreement is signed
196 nations adopted the first global pact to fight climate change on December 12, 2015. This agreement will replace the active nowadays Kyoto Protocol.
The agreement sets the goal of combating global warming in average temperature to "well below 2°C above preindustrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C by 2050."
In the frameworks of this agreement, developing countries will have an opportunity to get additional funding to switch from fossil fuel to greener sources of energy and adapt to climate change effects, the developed world will provide $100 billion a year. DOWNLOAD AGREEMENT
Heinrich Wyes, CAREC Deputy Executive Director also participated at the final session of the COP21, when the Agreement has been officially signed. He said, “The Paris Agreement provides a unique opportunity for all countries, including the countries of Central Asia, to unite the efforts towards a low-carbon development path. It is a beginning of a new era of global and regional actions towards greener and more sustainable economies”.
In 2015, CAREC in close cooperation with international partners facilitated the regional dialogue platform, bringing on board the countries of Central Asia to discuss challenges, opportunities and readiness of the region in times of a new Global Climate Agreement.
2. Side-event of the 42th meeting of the SBSTA: 3 June 2015. Bonn, Germany
4. Side-event of the COP21: Innovative policies in low-carbon development and climate resilience in Europe and Central Asia: 4 December 2015. Paris, France
CAREC also prepared a series of knowledge products, dedicated to “Paris 2015” process at the regional level in Central Asia. They include: