KAZAKHSTAN’S ROAD TO NET ZERO GHG EMISSIONS
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Date
2022-03
Authors
Zhumabayev, Dauren
Bakdolotov, Aidyn
De Miglio, Rocco
Litvak, Vladimir
Baibakisheva, Assel
Sarbassov, Yerbol
Baigarin, Kanat
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National Conservation Initiative Corporate Fund
Abstract
In December 2020 President of Kazakhstan
Mr. Tokayev announced that Kazakhstan
would become carbon neutral country by
2060. This work aims to investigate how to
reach carbon neutrality in Kazakhstan and it
is a continuation of the “Kazakhstan’s Road
to Net Zero GHG Emission Vision” project that
was initiated when President had declared
carbon neutrality aim.
This is a very ambitious aim given that con-
siderable amount of energy in Kazakhstan is
generated using coal power plants. The main
challenges that are faced by Kazakhstan are
high dependence on coal for electricity and
heat generation, lack of funds to invest in
renewable energy resources, transport, inef-
ficiency of the government spending on miti-
gation activities, high emissions in cropland.
Kazakhstan will have to find money to cut
off coal use and transit to carbon neutral technologies to produce energy in an efficient
way with minimal damage to economy.
This project investigates how to reach
carbon neutrality in the most efficient and
cost-effective way. The project develops
Kazakhstan’s carbon neutrality path using
both short and long term vision.
In the context of the COP event held in
Glasgow in November 2021, Kazakhstan’s
approach to carbon neutrality might be
interesting to other countries. The results
of this work were presented COP 26 in
Glasgow, UK.
The report is divided into chapters. First
several chapters investigate solutions in
Energy, Transport, Agriculture and Waste
sectors. Further general issues such as
carbon trading system, technology transfer
and financial topics are analyzed. And finally
regional cooperation options are discussed.
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Type of access: Open Access, Central Asia, Kazakhstan, ecology, climate change, GHG emissions
Citation
Zhumabayev, D., Bakdolotov, A., … Baigarin, K. (2022). KAZAKHSTAN’S ROAD TO NET ZERO GHG EMISSIONS [E-book]. National Conservation Initiative Corporate Fund.