“For a just transition to a green economy, procedures for accessing climate finance should be simplified.”
This was stated by the Minister of Natural Resources, Ecology and Technical Control of Kyrgyzstan, Meder Mashiyev, in an interview with the newspaper “Report”.
“Today we have begun the transition towards green technologies. But developing countries say that current levels of financing are not enough to fight climate change and are demanding more. At the same time, developed countries do not always agree with this position Previously, the annual amounts approx. 100 billion If they were US dollars, the leaders of this financing platform 1-5 billion “They expressed the need for a significant increase in the US dollar,” he said.
M. Mashiyev also mentioned the problem of fair distribution of climate finance, as access to funds is becoming more difficult. “For a just transition, all countries should comprehensively apply “green” economies and technologies, but existing procedures only make access to financing more difficult,” the minister added.
According to him, at COP29 Kyrgyzstan presented an initiative on mountainous regions and a plenary session dedicated to the discussion of mountain ecosystems will be held one day before the end of the conference with the participation of all countries. M. Mashiyev noted that Central Asia consists mainly of mountainous regions, 90% of the territory of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan are mountains, and the water resources of countries such as Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan depend on glaciers in mountainous regions.
“The mountain ecosystem is very fragile and particularly sensitive to climate change. The last 50-70 In Kyrgyzstan, glaciers covering 1,200 square kilometers of territory disappeared, that is, 16% of the total territory. If this pace continues, a large part of the glaciers will disappear by the end of the century, causing water shortages for tens of millions of people. “Climate change is no longer an abstract threat, but a reality, and almost all countries feel it,” the minister stressed.
