CIS Foreign Ministries Consultations on Economic Aspects of Climate Agenda Held in Moscow

26 September 2024

CIS Foreign Ministries Consultations on Economic Aspects of Climate Agenda Held in Moscow

On 25 September, Moscow hosted scheduled the CIS Foreign Ministries Consultations on “Economic Aspects of the Climate Agenda. Energy Transition and Low Carbon Energy Development”.

Director of the Department of Economic Cooperation of the Russian MFA Dmitry Birichevsky chaired the meeting.

Plenipotentiary representatives of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and the CIS Executive Committee participated in the consultations.

The IPA CIS was represented by Secretary of the Permanent Commission on Agrarian Policy, Natural Resources and Ecology Natalia Amburtseva.

The meeting addressed a wide range of issues of economic cooperation in the transition to a low greenhouse gas emission economy and ways to improve coordination of positions in this area in the CIS region.

The participants of the event spoke out against politicisation and fragmentation of the green agenda, introduction of trade barriers under the climate pretext, as well as other unilateral restrictive measures undermining the efforts of states to address climate change. They called for a balanced, scientifically and economically sound approach to low-emission development and energy transition policies, taking into account the national characteristics of the Commonwealth countries.

The parties spoke in favour of enhancing coordination within the CIS on climate regulation, green financing, development of low-carbon standards, implementation of climate projects and circulation of carbon units in the CIS, as well as increasing the role of the Commonwealth countries in addressing the global climate agenda.