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At the Consultative Meeting of the Heads of State of Central Asia held on August 6 in the Turkmen Avaza, President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev proposed to develop a regional program “Green Agenda” for the countries of Central Asia.

The adoption of such a comprehensive document is a very important and urgent task for the states of the region, given the fact that all Central Asian countries have faced the negative consequences of global climate change and are interested in mitigating it.

As part of the obligations under the Paris Agreement (2015), each state is implementing its national plans for adaptation to climate change. At the same time, until now the countries of Central Asia do not have a unified, coordinated action program aimed at jointly solving such regional challenges as a decrease in the flow of transboundary rivers and associated droughts, an increase in greenhouse gases and air pollution, a decrease in biodiversity, desertification, floods, floods, glacier melting and other environmental problems.

One of the most important and most promising areas of work designed to help address such challenges both for an individual country in the region and for Central Asia as a whole is the widespread introduction of green technologies and the implementation of projects in the field of green energy.