UN General Assembly
2020

Our country presented its National Voluntary Report back in 2017 and introduced its progress it has achieved towards the Sustainable Development Goals. We are hopeful that the Decade of Action to deliver the Global Goals will help to seek ways of sustainable solutions to such pressing global challenges, as climate change, poverty, gender inequality and financing. We should give an utmost importance to climate change challenges, which in this process pose serious hardships to all nations, including to Tajikistan. Over the past sixty years, the average annual temperature in Tajikistan has increased by one degree. It has resulted in increased number of days with heavy precipitations and intensity of natural hydro-meteorological phenomena, which have year after year been affecting all countries throughout the world. Tajikistan with 93 per cent of its territory covered by mountains, bears losses equal to hundreds of millions of dollars annually as a result of water-related disasters. Such natural disasters often cause casualties. The areas of glaciers located in our country which are essential for all Central Asia have been noticeably reduced over the recent decades.