TONGA: Joint National Action Plan 2 on Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management (JNAP 2) 2018-2028

Meta Data
Draft: 
No
Revision of previous policy?: 
No
Effective Start Year: 
2018
Effective End Year: 
2028
Scope: 
National
Document Type: 
Plan/Strategy
Economic Sector: 
Energy, Power, Multi-Sector
Energy Types: 
All, Oil, Power, Renewable, Bioenergy, Solar, Other
Issued by: 
Government of the Kingdom of Tonga
Source: 
Pacific Climate Change Portal
File: 
JNAP 2 (2018-2028)
Overall Summary: 
Joint National Action Plan 2 on Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management (JNAP 2) 2018-2028 sets out six policy objectives and targets and an implementation strategy for the country to achieve its vision of a Resilient Tonga by 2035. JNAP2 is aligned with the Tonga Climate Change Policy and covers both climate change adaptation and disaster risk management.
Efficiency
EE priorities: 
Tonga is committed to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions from the energy sector principally by increasing its utilisations of [...] and energy efficient technologies.
EE targets: 
Tonga also plans to improve energy efficiency through reduction of electricity line losses from 18% in 2010 to 9% by 2020.
Renewable Energy
RE priorities: 
Tonga is committed to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions from the energy sector principally by increasing its utilisations of renewable sources of energy such as solar [...].
RE targets: 
Tonga aims to achieve 50% of electricity generation from renewable sources by 2020 and 70% by 2030.
Environment
Energy environmental priorities: 
Tonga is working to reduce its reliance on oil imports, and to respond to the Paris Agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, targeting a much cleaner energy through its nationally determined contributions (NDC, 2015) and the Climate Change Policy (to achieve a Resilient Tonga by 2035).