Georgian Deputy Environment Minister says country aims “to halve” carbon emissions by 2030

Nino Tandilashvili, the Georgian Deputy Minister of Environmental Protection and Agriculture, on Tuesday said the country had “ambition to halve its carbon emissions by 2030 to contribute to climate change at the global level”.

In her interview with the TV Imedi channel, Tandilashvili highlighted the participation of the country’s Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze at the ongoing 29th United Nations Climate Change Conference in Baku, noting the event was of “utmost importance” and the Georgian delegation was “actively” involved in it.

She also emphasised the PM’s speech at the Conference about the country’s achievements in respect of climate change.

Georgia is one of the first countries, along with the European Union member states, to have announced that it would achieve carbon neutrality by 2050, and today, the Prime Minister devoted his attention to the fact that Georgia will be one of the leading countries in terms of renewable energy production”, the Deputy Minister noted.

Georgian PM Irakli Kobakhidze, together with the delegation involving Levan Davitashvili, Georgian First Vice Prime Minister and Economy Minister, Ilia Darchiashvili, the Foreign Minister, and Levan Zhorzholiani, the Head of the Government Administration, has been participating in the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Azerbaijan’s capital city of Baku.