MEETING COP-26: DECARBONIZATION OF EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES OF THE KAZAKHSTAN REPUBLIC

On October 22, 2021, JSC “National Geological Exploration Company “Qazgeology” together with the Gumarbek Daukeev Almaty University of Energy and Communications (AUES) and the Green Academy Scientific and Educational Center held a presentation of the first monograph within the CIS on the topic “DECARBONIZATION of EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES of the REPUBLIC OF KAZAKHSTAN”.

Member of the Green Economy Council under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Head of the REC “Green Academy” Bakhyt Yessekina, Member of the Senate of the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan Olga Bulavkina and Chairman of the Board of JSC “Qazgeology” Anvar Boranbayev opened the event with a welcoming speech.

The presentation was attended by representatives of the Office of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Senate of the Republic of Kazakhstan, key ministries of the MAGPR, ME, MNE, MES, the delegation of the EU, the US Embassy, JSC “Samruk-Kazyna”, AIFC, KMG, KazNU, ENU, KBTU, AUES, KazNITU after Satpaev, and many others, The event was also broadcasted online via zoom. In total, more than 80 people attended the event.

The world community is preparing for the 26th Conference session of the Parties of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP-26), which is held from October 31 to November 12 this year in Glasgow (Great Britain).

The aim of the conference is to accelerate activities to achieve the Paris Agreement goals. The Kazakhstan Republic joined this global process as well by signing and ratifying the Paris Climate Agreement in 2016, and in December 2020 at the UN Climate Ambitions Summit, Kassym-Zhomart Tokayev, the President of Kazakhstan Republic said that the country plans to achieve carbon neutrality by 2060.

Kazakhstan can become a leader in decarbonization by investing in realistic technology solutions, empowering citizens and correlating activities in key areas such as industrial policy, finance and research, while ensuring social justice for a flexible transition.
Achievement of the stated goals necessitates a radical restructuring of technological structure of the national economy and the adoption of decisive and systemic measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, primarily in the extractive industries, in the next decade.

This monograph, published under the editorship of the Academician of the Republic of Kazakhstan National Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Geological Sciences, Daukei S., was prepared on the basis of international experience and domestic research generalization. In scientific publication the issues of the global energy transition and achievement of carbon neutrality in economies with high carbon potential have been considered, the state and ways of the extractive industries decarbonization in the national economy have been analyzed, and the prospects for the introduction of low-carbon technologies in the fuel and energy and mining and metallurgical complexes of the Kazakhstan Republic have been substantiated in the light of achieving carbon neutrality by 2060.

The methodological basis of this study was provided by the UN Sustainable Development and Climate Reports; leading international agencies accredited to the UN, such as OECD, IEA, UNDP, UNEP, IRENA, UNIDO, as well as the AUPET named after Gumarbek Daukeev staff – study research, the Eurasian Mining Academy of Sciences of the Kazakhstan Republic, SEC “Green Academy”, L.N. Gumilyov ENU, Institute of Hydrogeology and Geoecology named after V. I. Akhmedsafin, JSC «QAZGEOLOGY», Oil and Gas Kazakhstan Institute, “Astana” International Scientific Complex, AIFC Green Finance Center. The study information basis was the data of the official statistical information Eurostat, the Bureau of Statistics of the ASPIR RK for 2010-2020, as well as industry data posted on the official website of ministries and departments of Kazakhstan.

The monograph collaborative writing team, presented by well-known Kazakhstani scientists and specialists and united by a common idea of informing the public and forming a national position on the eve of the 26th Conference of the Parties on Climate to the UNFCCC (COP-26), expresses the hope that the presented analytical materials will be useful both to decision makers as well as all those who are interested in the problems of transition to low-carbon development and decarbonization technologies of the extractive industries.