Turkmenistan offers UNIDO to draft cooperation roadmap for period until 2030
ASHGABAT. April 13 (Interfax) - Turkmenistan has offered the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) to draft a roadmap of cooperation in the green transition and climate change mitigation for the period until 2030, the Turkmen State News Agency reported.
Turkmen Khalk Maslakhaty (People's Council) Chairman Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow put forward the initiative at a meeting with UNIDO Director General Gerd Muller on the sidelines of the International Vienna Energy and Climate Forum.
"The sides discussed current items on the climate change agenda. Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow confirmed Turkmenistan's readiness to consider the possible drafting and implementation of the roadmap of Turkmenistan-UNIDO cooperation in 2026-2030 in the green transition and climate change mitigation," the report said.
Berdimuhamedow highlighted Turkmenistan's priority regional initiatives in that context. He said the call for opening the Central Asia Regional Center for Desertification Prevention and Control aimed to create an effective mechanism coordinating efforts towards the recovery of ecosystems and the enhancement of the regional environmental sustainability.
As noted at the meeting, Turkmenistan is also promoting the elaboration of international legal documents to manage transborder water resources, including regional conventions on the Amu Darya and Syr Darya river basins.
Turkmenistan is focused on the promotion of the Caspian Environmental Initiative to pool international efforts towards conservation of the unique ecosystem of the Caspian Sea.
In addition, Turkmenistan is implementing the initiative of the United Nations Regional Centre for Climate Change Technologies in Central Asia. It will provide an effective platform for innovative solutions in the adaptation for and mitigation of climate change and for broader international technological cooperation.
Muller lauded the significance of Ashgabat's initiatives and said that the UNIDO viewed cooperation with Turkmenistan as strategic and long-term.
