(11 Nov 2024)
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Baku, Azerbaijan – 11 November 2024
1. Various of Afghanistan delegation posing for photos in front of COP29 signage
2. Various of Afghanistan delegation leaving and walking
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Baku, Azerbaijan – 9 November 2024
3. COP29 signage
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Baku, Azerbaijan – 11 November 2024
4. SOUNDBITE (Pashto) Matuil Haq Khalis, head of Afghanistan’s environment protection agency:
"This (climate change) requires partnership and collective efforts. All the countries must join hands and tackle the problem of climate change in (the) most vulnerable areas, which can be affected by this problem."
5. Khalis talking to delegate
6. SOUNDBITE (Pashto) Matuil Haq Khalis, head of Afghanistan’s environment protection agency:
"The Islamic emirate has done its best in this regard and is focusing on the important steps like reforestation, protection of wildlife, controls on hunting, providing facilities to people, so we abide by and implement all the environmental and climate conventions, and we are committed to this."
7. Khalis during interview
8. SOUNDBITE (Pashto) Matuil Haq Khalis, head of Afghanistan’s environment protection agency:
"We also have a national strategy for protection of wildlife until 2030 which is moving forward, and we are working with national and international NGO’s on its implications."
9. Delegate from Afghanistan
10. Khalis seated during interview
11. SOUNDBITE (Pashto) Matuil Haq Khalis, head of Afghanistan’s environment protection agency:
"We have a huge capacity of utilisation of solar energy, and we are working on it in Srubi (a district in Kabul), but that is not the only thing. We have the capacity of producing energy from wind, but as I have already said that one nation or one government cannot do everything and for that, we need international support to achieve our goals."
12. Wide of interview
13. SOUNDBITE (Pashto) Matuil Haq Khalis, head of Afghanistan’s environment protection agency:
"It is obvious that we will arrange bilateral meetings with the United States and other countries. But one thing worth mentioning (is) that since the return of Islamic emirate, we were not part of the last three conferences, COP26, 27 and 28. But we are happy that this time we are here and we will be able to deliver the message of the Afghan people with the international community."
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Baku, Azerbaijan – 9 November 2024
14. Various of flags and COP29 signage at venue
STORYLINE:
Afghanistan’s first delegation at United Nations climate talks since the Taliban’s return to power in 2021 has arrived in Baku, Azerbaijan on Monday in a bid to garner support for climate action in the climate-vulnerable nation.
Matuil Haq Khalis, who is the head of the country’s environment protection agency, told The Associated Press that Afghanistan is among the worst affected nations by climate change and needs the world’s support to deal with extreme weather like erratic rainfall, prolonged droughts and flash floods.
"All the countries must join hands and tackle the problem of climate change," said Khalis, speaking through a translator.
Afghanistan is particularly vulnerable to climate change, with a recent assessment by climate experts ranking it the sixth most climate vulnerable country in the world.
In March this year, northern Afghanistan was hit by heavy rains resulting in flash floods, killing over 300 people.
Climate scientists have found that extreme rainfall has gotten 25% heavier over the last 40 years in the country.
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