Dubai, UAE – Tunisia has set a goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 45 percent by 2030, and is one of the first countries to announce its intention to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050, Mohamed Zmerli, Official Representative of Tunisia in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), said on Sunday.
However, Zmerli stressed in a statement to Emirates News Agency (WAM) on the sidelines of COP28, that this goal is conditional on financing and technology.
Bringing attention to the modest 4 percent share of renewable energy, he highlighted the environmental challenges it poses. The objective is to hit a 30 percent renewable energy milestone by 2030, he affirmed.
The delegate acknowledged that the first Global Stocktake that COP28 will witness since the ratification of the Paris Agreement in 2015 makes the current conference one of the most important editions and a turning point. He said that this stocktake will provide a picture of the extent of progress that the world has achieved, and of the difficulties that the world has faced, in addition to the measures that must be taken to implement the agreement.
“We do not have the suitable stocktake mechanisms in the absence of indicators, and therefore we are betting that COP28 can come up with indicators for adaptation to climate change,” Zmerli said.