Ecological Projects (E)

	Environmental strategies, programs and projects
	Brief description of ecological projects executing in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan are offered. Also activities of the different governmental, non-governmental and international organizations in field of the environment protection on national and regional levels are described – INTAS, COPERNICUS, USAID, UNDP, Global Environmental Facility (GEF), UNEP, WB, UNESCO, and other.

Joint projects on trans-boundary and regional environmental problems	National Environmental Activities
	Kazakhstan	Kyrgyzstan	Tajikistan	Turkmenistan	Uzbekistan
National Environmental Action Plan	yes				yes
Participation in international environmental conventions	9	3	4	7	8
Creation of regional environmental database	yes			yes	yes
Regional Environmental Action Plan	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes
Environmental projects
Region of the Semipalatinsk nuclear testing area	yes
Foothills of the Tyan-Shan	yes	yes			yes
Region of the Caspian Sea	yes			yes
Aral Sea Projects
Aral Sea VISION	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes
International Fund for the Saving Aral Sea	yes			yes	yes
Aral Sea Basin Capacity Development Project	yes			yes	yes
National strategies and Reports
Biodiversity
Water
Climate Change
Ozone layer
Decertification

Environmental strategy

National Environmental Action Plan
Harmonisation of the environmental legislation
Co-operation of national strategies related to international environmental conventions: 9
Creation of regional environmental database - started
Preparation of joint projects on trans-boundary and regional environmental problems

The descriptions of the ecological projects are given on the territorial sign.
There are considered:

Else several projects executing in some regions or on all territory of the Republic Kazakhstan are described.

Kyrgyzstan

Environmental strategy

National Environmental Action Plan
Harmonisation of the environmental legislation
Co-operation of national strategies related to international environmental conventions: 3
Creation of regional environmental database
Preparation of joint projects on trans-boundary and regional inveronmental problems

The descriptions of the ecological projects are given on the territorial sign.
There are considered:

Else several projects executing in some regions or on all territory of the Kyrgyz Republic are described.

Turkmenistan

Environmental strategy

National Environmental Action Plan
Harmonisation of the environmental legislation
Co-operation of national strategies related to international environmental conventions: 7
Creation of regional environmental database
Preparation of joint projects on trans-boundary and regional inveronmental problems

The descriptions of the ecological projects are given on the territorial sign.
There are considered:

Else several projects executing in some regions or on all territory of the Turkmenistan are described.

Tajikistan

Environmental strategy

National Environmental Action Plan
Harmonisation of the environmental legislation
Co-operation of national strategies related to international environmental conventions: 4
Creation of regional environmental database
Preparation of joint projects on trans-boundary and regional environmental problems

The descriptions of the ecological projects are given on the territorial sign.
There are considered:

Else several projects executing in some regions or on all territory of the Tajikistan are described.

Uzbekistan

Environmental strategy

National Environmental Action Plan
Harmonisation of the environmental legislation
Co-operation of national strategies related to international environmental conventions: 8
Creation of regional environmental database
Preparation of joint projects on trans-boundary and regional environmental problems

The descriptions of the ecological projects are given on the territorial sign.
There are considered:

Else several projects executing in some regions or on all territory of the Uzbekistan are described.

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