TBILISI, Georgia, May 6. The overwhelming
agenda of the Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) New Country
Partnership Strategy for Azerbaijan would be helping the country to
decarbonize its economy, ADB Director General for Central and
Western Asia Eugenue Zhukov said in an exclusive interview with
Trend on the
sidelines of the ADB annual meeting in Tbilisi.
“We are preparing the New Country Partnership Strategy. But I
have to say that the overwhelming agenda for this strategy would be
dealing with the consequences of climate change and helping
Azerbaijan to decarbonize its economy and to increase the share of
renewable energy. So, no matter what sectors that we work in, this
is an overarching agenda for ADB, not only in Azerbaijan, but in
all of Asia and Pacific. Overall, ADB committed to invest $100
billion by the year 2030 in this agenda,” he said.