Minister of Energy Parviz Shahbazov met Mary Burce Warlick, Deputy Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (IEA), on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly event. The meeting discussed cooperation in the energy sector and within the framework of COP29.
The two sides spoke about recent developments in building renewable generation capacity in Azerbaijan and integrating it into the grid, the use of offshore wind energy, and the implementation of green energy corridor projects in various directions. They also reviewed the measures on energy efficiency and emission reduction taken by Azerbaijan, which has joined the Global Renewables and Energy Efficiency Pledge and the Global Methane Pledge. In this connection, the draft Energy Efficiency Roadmap for Azerbaijan, prepared by the IEA under the EU4Energy programme, was discussed, and its importance was assessed in terms of its contribution to these commitments.
Views were exchanged on the priorities on the COP29 agenda, including the adoption of the new collective quantified goal on climate finance and the updating of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), on Azerbaijan’s work to promote them, and on close cooperation with the IEA in this framework.