15 December 2023
On November 30, 2023, the opening ceremony of the 28th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change took place in the United Arab Emirates. The President of the Republic of Belarus headed the Belarusian delegation and made a statement on December 1. The text of the speech is available via the link.
For two weeks, members of delegations, experts, analysts, and media representatives discussed the topics of transition to clean energy, decarbonization, adaptation to climate change, financing climate projects, as well as the steps necessary to accelerate the adoption of measures to mitigate the effects of climate change.
Conferences of the Parties have been held annually since 1995 as the supreme decision-making body of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. In 1997 in the further development of the provisions of the Framework Convention, the Kyoto Protocol was adopted to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, while in 2015, the Paris Agreement was reached enshrining the goal vital for all humanity – to prevent an increase in the average temperature of the Earth by more than 2°C in the current century, while simultaneously trying to reduce this figure to 1.5°C. Belarus, along with more than 190 countries, is a party to all of the mentioned international documents.
As part of the Paris Agreement, the Republic of Belarus initially committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 28% by 2030 compared to 1990 level. Now this indicator has been raised by the country to 35%. To implement its obligations, Belarus is developing strategic and program documents, including action plans in the fields of adaptation to climate change, increasing the absorption of greenhouse gases by sinks, adapting forestry and agriculture to climate change for the period until 2030, as well as long-term development strategies for the republic aiming at low greenhouse gas emissions. Forestry and agriculture are the most vulnerable sectors to climate change in the country.
The republic’s active participation in the implementation of the provisions of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change is important to achieving Sustainable Development Goal 13 and other SDGs by the Republic of Belarus.
More information about the participation of the delegation of the Republic of Belarus in COP-28 is accessible via the following links: https://eng.belta.by/president/view/lukashenko-attends-un-climate-summit-in-dubai-163775-2023/, https://www.minpriroda.gov.by/ru/news-ru/view/andrej-xudyk-provel-rjad-vstrech-na-poljax-vsemirnogo-klimaticheskogo-sammita-5384/.
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