Green BRI, Green Azerbaijan and COP29
Worldwide heatwave has consumed spirits, social orders, frameworks and has accentuated on the quick influences of green advancements on the planet. It appears to be that “Green Change” has turned into the main expect the endurance of communities, countries and landmasses around the globe.
The change in outlook in the Chinese Belt and Street Drive (BRI) has previously equipped green plans, strategies, plants, activities and consistent influences in its 152 individuals on the planet, changing tragedies into opportunities, expanding heat spells into soul recuperating specialists, deforestation into enormous forestation, sandy lands into green fields and contaminated environment into all-encompassing and far-reaching idea of natural human progress.
China being the boss of green innovations is supposed to keep on greening adjust its overseas BRI projects, with a more extensive and more groundbreaking spotlight on environmental manageability. Greening the BRI stresses China’s solid obligation to empower a low-carbon worldwide economy as a dependable international partner. China’s undertakings to progressively green-adjust the BRI are, as a matter of fact, the combined result of its keen strategy estimates put in force throughout recent years. The portion of efficient power energy commitment is supposed to see an extreme ascent in 2024.
On its part, Azerbaijan has chalked out another grand system that lines up with national interests, enveloping a serious economy, climate justice and development. Among these needs, accentuation is put on accomplishing a perfect environment and advancing ‘green turn of events.’ Blending national environmental strategies with international prescribed procedures is critical in this undertaking. Azerbaijan’s facilitating of the 29th meeting of the Conference of the Gatherings to the UN System Show on Climate Change (COP29) in November further underscores this responsibility. Azerbaijan is a significant player in the South Caucasus district, which is likewise a critical piece of the Silk Street Financial Belt. China and Azerbaijan marked a MOU on development of the Silk Street Financial Belt.
The two countries are broadening financial participation to different areas including green vehicle and planned operations, farming and different regions. China’s high-level insight and advancements in the field of elective energy would be a worth expansion for its large-scale economy.
The Azerbaijan President’s pronouncement proclaiming 2024 as the ‘Extended period of Fortitude for the Green World’ clearly mirrors a continuation of the progress to a green economy methodology. It appears to be that the COP29 offers an opportunity for Azerbaijan to incorporate its endeavors and techniques to decrease environmental effect while amalgamating best practices for climate change transformation.
The COP29 has wide extension and importance and likewise conveys critical financial ramifications. Ideally, facilitating COP29 will additionally improve Azerbaijan’s change to a green economy and draw in unfamiliar ventures.
Azerbaijan has started interests in efficient power energy projects in a joint effort with unfamiliar investors. The job of COP29 in Azerbaijan as a stage for drawing in long haul speculations and encouraging headways in the field of environmentally friendly power energy couldn’t possibly be more significant.
As per Azerbaijan’s official information, China-Azerbaijan two-sided exchange came to $3.1 billion 2023, a year-on-year increment of 43.5 percent, with the two imports and commodities seeing twofold digit development. China remained Azerbaijan’s fourth biggest exchanging accomplice. China likewise turned into Azerbaijan’s second-biggest wellspring of imports interestingly, in front of Turkey, and accounting for 17.5 percent of the country’s all out imports.
Azerbaijan, the country’s vital topographical area likewise positions it as a basic transportation center for the China-Europe cargo train. The demand for the freight train has seen a critical increment because of its upper hands as a dependable transportation device, especially following the Red Ocean emergency, which brought about a significant expansion of transportation time and expenses for ocean journeys.
Azerbaijan assumes a significant part in the trans-Caspian international transportation hall, filling in as a unique new market at the junction of Europe and Asia. It’s a crucial hub in the BRI as well as a huge passage for Chinese ventures to get to the business sectors of the Caucasus and the EU.
China is presently the world’s biggest maker of clean energy gear. In 2021, the result worth of the energy conservation and environmental assurance industry surpassed 1.13 trillion bucks. China’s commodity of three tech-concentrated green items, to be specific sunlight-based batteries, lithium-particle batteries and electric vehicles, enrolled a 66.9 percent increment in the principal quarter of this current year, official information showed. Together they contributed 2 rate focuses to the general commodity development, up from 1.7 rate focuses for 2022.
Environmentally friendly power energy has extraordinary possibilities in Azerbaijan. It has proactively announced to produce 30% of its power from sustainable sources and to send out 4 GW of energy to Europe through the links passing the Dark Ocean by 2030, which has incredible trans-provincial financial, international, and geostrategic multiplier impacts.
Azerbaijan has focused on lessening its ozone harming substance outflows by 30% from 1990 levels by 2030 and by 40% by 2050, as a component of the Paris Climate Understanding. To accomplish this essential objective, it has framed the Sustainable power Organization, which guarantees the dynamic cooperation of the confidential area in the country. At last, it has expanded the portion of introduced power age from environmentally friendly power sources.
In rundown, the appointing of the 230 MW Garadagh Sun based Power Plant (GES) with the support of the Leader of Azerbaijan which is the primary modern scale sun oriented power plant in the Caspian Ocean locale with the help of Masdar” organization of the UAE, chips away at the development of the 240 MW Khizi-Absheron wind power station (KES) project and the 240 MW Shafaq GES project in Jabrayil area will start from the final part of the ebb and flow year seeing quick green change of Azerbaijan.
The facilitating of COP29 in Azerbaijan will arise as a urgent opportunity to grandstand the country’s monetary potential and draw in long haul speculation, especially in the domain of environmentally friendly power energy. Ideally, COP29 will act as an impetus for propelling these endeavors and situating the country as a central participant in the worldwide change to environmentally friendly power.
(mehmoodulhassankhan@yahoo.com)