GCCA+ in the news: Trinidad and Tobago Solar Park is a “turning point” in the power generator sector
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The Solar Park Project has broken ground at the Piarco International Airport, in Trinidad & Tobago.
“This initiative is a turning point in the power generation sector and in the national climate change agenda”, said Minister of Planning and Development Pennelope Beckles.
“It represents action that T&T is undertaking, assisted by our international partners, to meet our climate change commitments under the Paris Agreement. These commitments are aimed at achieving our Nationally Determined Contribution, as part of the global effort to constrain global temperatures to survivable levels, and to target the sectors responsible for our highest emissions, the power generation, transportation and industrial sectors.”
Photo: Ministry of Planning and Development
The Piarco Solar Park is a collaboration between the Government of T&T, the European Union’s Global Climate Change Alliance Plus (GCCA+) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
As part of implementing the 2011 National Climate Change Policy, the ‘Strategy for Reduction of Carbon Emissions (CRS-Carbon Reduction Strategy)’ was developed and adopted in 2015, establishing a mitigation action plan targeting the country’s three main emitting sectors; electrical power generation, industry, and transport, over the period 2013 – 2040. This was the policy basis for Trinidad and Tobago’s Nationally Determined Contribution or NDC, and represents commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions as required under the Paris Agreement.
Other solar energy installations were at a bee project in Brasso Seco Community in the rainforest of Northern Range, at a Police Youth Club in Guayaguayare and innovative Kernaham Women’s Group Plastic Upcycling and Learning Facility
Read the articles
- Solar Park makes progress at Piarco International Airport
- Beckles describes Piarco Solar Park as ‘turning point’ in T&T’s power generation
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