The purpose of the law (full name: 'On introducing amendments and addenda to some legislative acts of Kazakhstan on the transition to green economy") is to improve legislation related to ecology and renewable energy.
Changes are made to the Land, Water, Environment, Tax, and Enterprise Codes to introduce or strengthen sustainable practices (e.g. updated environmental and natural resources protections, extended producer responsibility, improved standards for water consumption, sustainable waste management).
In direct relation to climate change, the law supplements the law 'on supporting the use of renewable energy sources' with amendments further supporting renewable electricity, creation of a renewable energy reserve fund, and improvement of the mechanisms for connecting renewable sources to national electric grid.
Full text (Kazakh) can be found here
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Law on the transition to green economy
Summary
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About this law
Year
2016
Most recent update
28/04/2016
Geography
Response areas
Mitigation
Sectors
Economy-wide, Energy, Waste, Water
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Group
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Target
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Risk
Impacted group
Just transition
Renewable energy
Fossil fuel
Greenhouse gas
Economic sector
Targets  4
Cut CO2 emissions in electric power industry to baseline, then 40% below--- by 2020, 2050 against a 2012 baseline
Energy, Target year: 205010% cut energy intensity of GDP, then 25%, then 50% by 2015, 2020, 2050 against a 2008 baseline
Energy, Target year: 20503% wind power of total electricity production by 2020, then 10% by 2030
Energy, Target year: 2030Note

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