In 2012, Azerbaijan completed its first TNA. Since then, the country has taken up a number of climate activities, driving the Asian nations climate ambition. In early 2025, Azerbaijan has joined TNA V, updating the sectors and technologies that were assessed more than 10 years ago.
Bordering the Caspian Sea and situated within the Caucasian region, Azerbaijan is located where eastern Europe meets western Asia. The country experienced rapid socio-economic growth from the mid-2000s, in large part due to its rich deposits of oil and gas. The rapid development across all sectors resulted in adverse effects on the environment and the overexploitation of natural resources. The TNA has helped shape the move away from a dependence on oil and gas by providing a framework for the renewable energy sector to emerge.
Azerbaijan completed its TNA in 2012. The TNA showed that biogas, together with the other prioritized technologies in the commercial and residential sectors, has the potential to reduce emissions by a total of 32.7 mtCO2e by 2030. In particular the establishment of grid-connected wind power and the introduction of biogas will greatly reduce emissions while at the same time boosting the development of the alternative energy sector, enabling a shift in energy sources from oil and gas to wind.
In 2025, the country began to update its TNA, to re-assess priorities and to identify sectors and climate technologies that can support the nation in meeting its climate targets as well as its low-emission development.
Azerbaijan’s TNA contributes to the following Sustainable Development Goals:
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