BAKU, Azerbaijan, February 14. Azerbaijan’s
everlasting consultant to the UN, Yashar Aliyev knowledgeable the
Safety Council on Azerbaijan’s contribution to the struggle towards
local weather disaster at an open debate of the UN Safety Council on the
theme “The affect of local weather change and meals insecurity on the
upkeep of worldwide peace and safety”, Pattern stories.
”Mr. President,
On the outset, I want to congratulate the delegation of
the Co-operative Republic of Guyana on assuming the presidency of
the Safety Council and convening this essential open debate to
study the dynamic interrelationships between local weather change and
meals insecurity underneath the management of the President of Guyana
H.E. Mr. Mohamed Irfaan Ali. We’re grateful to the briefers for
their insightful displays.
Local weather change stays the defining problem of ourtime, having
an alarming impact on societies and ecosystems, disproportionally
impacting low-income and fragile nations, affecting livelihoods,
underlying vulnerabilities, contributing to instability and thus
underscoring the urgency of concerted and sustained efforts and
recommitting to a worldwide imaginative and prescient of sustainable growth.
In its consensus decision 77/276, entitled ”Request for an
advisory opinion of the Worldwide Court docket of Justice on the
obligations of States in respect of local weather change”, co-sponsored
by Azerbaijan, the Normal Meeting acknowledged that local weather change
is an unprecedented problem of civilizational proportions and
that the well-being of current and future generations of humankind
depends upon our fast and pressing response to it.
Areas and nations worst affected by the challenges of
local weather change are entitled to a lot larger assist, and we glance
ahead to productive proceedings within the World Court docket and their
essential outcomes for lengthy overdue local weather justice.
Local weather change and meals insecurity are sometimes inter-connected,
having the potential to affect on ranges of safety and stability
in sure areas or nations.
Multilateral cooperation in assist of the nations which are
significantly weak to the opposed impacts of local weather change
and have important capability constraints, such because the least
developed nations and small island creating States, have to be
among the many prime priorities of worldwide motion and assist.
Because the President of the twenty-ninth session of the Convention
of the Events to the United Nations Framework Conference on
Local weather Change, Azerbaijan is dedicated to working inclusively and
collaboratively to make sure the success of the Convention and can
spare no efforts to contribute to the struggle towards the local weather
disaster and selling and strengthening worldwide solidarity. It
is noteworthy that the choice to carry COP29 in Azerbaijan was
reached within the context of selling the regional peace agenda.
As a sensible step in our nationwide capability, the President of
Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has declared 2024 the ”Inexperienced World
Solidarity 12 months”. Azerbaijan has additionally set an bold aim to
scale back greenhouse gasoline emissions by 40% by 2050 in its Nationally
Decided Contributions (NDCs), in keeping with the worldwide pledge to
restrict world warming to 1.5°C. Our prime priorities embrace the
renewable power share enhance within the whole put in electrical
capability, aiming to succeed in 30% by 2030. This excessive goal is
established, primarily, to enhance power effectivity and introduce
modern options in city atmosphere, transport methods, and
business.
With the top of the 30-year occupation of its territories by
Armenia, Azerbaijan has initiated a peace agenda and instantly
proceeded to addressing the disastrous penalties of the struggle on
the area’s atmosphere and biodiversity brought on by the depredatory
exploitation of mineral sources, large destruction of forests,
air pollution of water basins and large-scale mine contamination within the
previously occupied territories.
Azerbaijan is at present enterprise intensive post-conflict
rehabilitation, reconstruction, and reintegration efforts in its
liberated territories. These actions are primarily based on
climate-friendly, environmentally clear applied sciences, in addition to
”good” and ”inexperienced” approaches. Azerbaijan is decided to
remodel these areas into ”Carbon Impartial” zone by 2050, marked by
modern approaches such because the institution of ”inexperienced power”
zones, sustainable agriculture, eco- pleasant transport, good
cities, good villages, and reforestation applications masking
hundreds of hectares of land.
In concluding, I want to emphasize that the challenges
dealing with the world in the present day, together with particularly the local weather disaster
and acute meals insecurity, and sensible and significant options
and techniques that should be taken in that regard necessitate,
initially, strengthened world unity and solidarity and
simpler and trusted multilateralism grounded within the U.N.
Constitution and worldwide regulation.
Thanks”, stated Yashar Aliyev.