The Special Climate Change Fund (SCCF) is looking at funding Aral Sea’s climate change adaptation and prevention programme worth $20 million in partnership with the World Bank in Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. Qobil Nosirov, a deputy of the Uzbek MP said.
Last week, Uzbek senators ratified Paris agreement that mandates developing countries to support the endeavours of participant states on climate change adaptation and prevention. Considering the needs and priorities of developing countries, financial aid will raise up to $100 billion in 2020.
Now the fund is supporting 35 projects with the total worth of $1,5 billion. The Aral Sea project is one of them.
“According to the World Meteorological Organisation, today the average annual weather is 1°C higher than in 1880. The very indicator is 1,6°С for Uzbekistan for the same period. It means that it is above the global average, as Uzbekistan is one of the countries that tend to be under climate change effect”, the deputy said.
Uzbekistan signed the Paris agreement in UN Headquarters in New York on April 19, 2017, but has not yet ratified it until recently.
