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Summit of COP26 in Glasgow: The world leaders and largest corporations adopted the historic declaration and committed to restore forest system

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Summit of COP26 in Glasgow: The world leaders and largest corporations adopted the historic declaration and committed to restore forest system

On the second day of the World Climate Change Summit the participants of COP26, including the world leaders and largest corporations have pledged to preserve and restore forests.

In Tuesday, the Plenary Hall of COP26 in Glasgow was lightened in green and filled with nature sounds: chirping birds and rustling leaves. As our special correspondent of UN news service reports from Glasgow, in this environment the forum participants looked calm and relaxed – they seemed to be breathing cleaner air.

Having gone up to the rostrum, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Boris Johnson solemnly announced that 110 countries, representing 85% of the world’s forests, signed COP26 Declaration, and pledged to end deforestation by 2030, and then then and start its rehabilitation. Johnson stressed that China, Russia and Brazil have also joined the pledge that he says could create millions of new jobs.

What exactly does the declaration say?

The heads of states and governments who signed the declaration promise to activate their common efforts to conserve forests and other terrestrial ecosystems, and accelerate their restoration. The text also speaks of the need to empower indigenous peoples, especially those suffering from the thoughtless exploitation of natural resources and forest degradation.

It is important that the document includes the financial obligations of the forum participants. Over the past decade, destructive land use has spent about 40 times more money than conservation and restoration of land, and the transition to sustainable agricultural practices. A pledge, also signed by more than 30 financial institutions with a combined capital of $ 8.7 trillion, aims to change the current situation.

It should be noted, that by order of the President of Turkmenistan the representative delegation of Turkmenistan led by Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet Serdar Berdimuhamedov participates in the UN climate summit, held this year in the Scotland city Glasgow of the United Kingdom.

The 26th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP26) is an international forum that brings together heads of state and government from around the world to discuss and agree on joint steps to counter global warming.

As you know, over the past few decades the climate change and its effects on environment, economy and society became one of the most topical global problems of our time.

The participation of the representative delegation of our country in the global forum witnesses the most responsible attitude of Turkmenistan to the issue under consideration, understanding the importance and urgency of taking common, consensus measures to counter the greatest challenge for humanity.

The environment protection is the most important priority of the state policy pursued by the President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, aimed at the creation of conditions for the for a prosperous life of people in all respects.

In this regard, constructive initiatives put forward by the Turkmen leader at various high-level forums and which have received broad support from the international community are of great importance. In particular, we are talking about proposals to open in Ashgabat a Regional Center for Technologies related to climate change in Central Asia, to develop a UN Water Strategy, a special UN Program for the Aral Sea Basin, to identify the Aral crisis as a separate area of the UN activity, as well as to preserve the ecological safety of the Caspian Sea and others.

Having ratifying the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, Kyoto Protocol and Paris Agreement, which became an important environment international legal instruments aimed at stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere and reduction of anthropogenic impact on the planet's climate, our country strictly fulfills all its obligations.

Thus, the National Climate Change Strategy of Turkmenistan became a basis for the formulation and implementation of national policy on the issues related to climate change and its effects. The primary goal of the Strategy is to provide the sustainable socio-economic development of Turkmenistan, which will maximally mitigate the impact on climate change and will contribute to improving the economic, food, water and environmental security of the state.

The limitation of greenhouse gas emissions is directly promoted by modern technologies actively introduced in the industrial sector in the process of forming a resource-saving, innovation-oriented “green” national economy, an effective system for monitoring and controlling pollutant emissions. Also, in accordance with the requirements of the time and generally recognized international norms, national legislation is constantly being improved.

In order to mitigate climatic impacts, important environmental projects are being successfully implemented in the country, mass landscaping is underway, within which millions of tree seedlings are planted annually, which, as you know, are the main absorbers of greenhouse gases.

Today, the issues of ecology and environmental protection, directly related to the future of civilization, are in the focus of everyone's attention, and therefore the initiatives of Turkmenistan and the large-scale work carried out by it in this direction find more and more support throughout the world.

Prepared: Janmamed Gulamov