national interministerial dialogue on climate change - UNDPCC.org

• decision on the development of a <strong>national</strong> strategy on climate change according to the new
inter<strong>national</strong> post-2012 agreement.
G. Allaberdiev, Head of the National Group on Climate Change, organized the presentation of the
participants: name, position and possible experience in the field of climate change.
Turkmenistan and Climate Change
G. Allaberdiev presented the main results of the research carried out in the course of the Second
National Communication on climate change in accordance with the UNFCCC, i.e. greenhouse gas
emissions inventory, research on climate change mitigation and adaptation as well as priority sectors
in connection with climate change.
The facilitator emphasized those presentation slides, which displayed different scenarios of climate
change as well as an increase in greenhouse gas emissions. He was asked how the increase in
greenhouse gas emissions would affect the economy of Turkmenistan and whether such calculations
had been made. In the framework of the Second National Communication no economic estimation
was made, but it is the task under the UNDP Project to estimate the cost of actions aimed at climate
change prevention and adaptation in the three key economic sectors – oil and gas, power industry
and water industry. The presenter specified which economic activities were included in the Energy
Sector for greenhouse gas inventory.
The facilitator asked about the applied methods and economic criteria of the greenhouse gas
emissions projection. Currently the greenhouse gas emissions were assessed in accordance with the
two scenarios only for two key sectors – power industry and oil and gas industry. Inter<strong>national</strong> IPCC
methodology was used to estimate projections. Population growth, planned GDP growth, and sectoral
development programmes were used as the main projection criteria.
The Bali Road Map and the Review of Climate Change Negotiations
A. Averchenkova presented main stages of the development of inter<strong>national</strong> cooperation in 1992-
2007, differentiation of the countries in the framework of the Convention and their obligations, building
blocks of the Bali Action Plan, new approaches to participation of developing countries in mitigation of
climate change according to the Bali Action Plan, schedule of negotiations before the Conference in
Copenhagen as well as final results of the Conference in Poznan. The presenter pointed out that a
future agreement on climate change would be based on a complex economic approach and that to
participate effectively Turkmenistan must elaborate a <strong>national</strong> position on the economic mechanisms
under discussion.
The facilitator informed participants that the Conference in Copenhagen had been postponed for a
week and asked to explain in detail the decisions on the Adaptation Fund. The presenter briefly
described the main objectives of the Adaptation Fund and the possibilities for Turkmenistan to get
finance from the Fund for projects on adaptation.
D. Gershinkova added that the Adaptation Fund had been recently established and that so far it had
obtained no application from any country because no relevant procedure existed. Unfortunately at
present the countries of Central Asia cannot obtain direct help from the Adaptation Fund, however it is
possible to build capacity right now to be ready to submit applications for adaptation projects.
I. Atamuradova thanked the presenter for a detailed presentation, especially regarding the results of
the negotiation process, and asked to explain the consequences for developing countries of a new
differentiation of countries in the framework of the Convention. The presenter clarified that developed
countries would undertake quantitative obligations while developing countries would be able to
participate in the control of greenhouse gas emissions and use a wider range of economic
mechanisms including voluntary obligations than those stipulated in the Kyoto Protocol.
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