Kyrgyz Energy Minister Taalaibek Ibrayev and energy company leaders attended the 29th session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP-29), which took place on 11-22 November 2024 in Azerbaijan.
The ministerial event, organized in partnership with key international stakeholders under the COP29 presidency, aims to discuss energy initiatives, green energy commitments, including green energy zones and corridors, COP29 energy conservation and implementation of global industrial commitments, the COP29 Hydrogen Declaration and their contribution to the goals of the Paris Agreement, as well as other previously adopted commitments. It also aims to consider strategies for the successful implementation of initiatives, including comprehensive and broad support for these initiatives, stakeholder cooperation and private sector involvement.
As part of the event, participants were given a presentation on the energy sector of Kyrgyzstan, a model of large hydroelectric power plants was demonstrated, and a video was shown about a major project aimed at preventing energy security.
Kyrgyz Energy Minister T. Ibrayev spoke at the forum and spoke about the current state of climate change in Kyrgyzstan and the impact of these changes on the country’s energy sector. He emphasized that the implementation of large-scale projects aimed at eliminating its consequences is a requirement of today. As part of the event held in Baku, bilateral meetings were held between the Kyrgyz Energy Ministry and a number of countries for the purpose of cooperation in the energy sector, following which the relevant documents were signed.
An agreement on the implementation of the project “Renewable Energy Sources in Central Asia” was signed between the Ministry of Energy of the Kyrgyz Republic and GIZ. The corresponding document was signed by the Minister of Energy of the Kyrgyz Republic T. Ibraev and the project representative Ilka Starrost.
The project is a regional project for Central Asia and is aimed at establishing technical cooperation in the energy sector between the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Republic of Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, the Republic of Uzbekistan and the Federal Republic of Germany within the framework of the global energy transition and regional energy cooperation
