📋 Tender Overview
As part of COP29, a meeting was held between the Minister of Ecology, Environmental Protection and Climate Change Aziz Abduhakimov and the Vice President of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) Yingming Yang at the National Pavilion of Uzbekistan in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan. the visit of the Minister to the Vice-President at the Central Asian University of Environmental and Climate Change Studies (Green University) in Tashkent in April of this year, as well as the assistance of ADB to Uzbekistan in the field of adaptation to climate change and mitigating its consequences He expressed his gratitude for the ongoing support.
During the meeting, information was also given about the reforms carried out by the government of our country in this direction. In particular, the minister spoke about the establishment of the Climate Council, the development of the National Climate Policy and the National Climate Strategy in the presence of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan.
During the negotiations, the parties focused on a number of priority issues, including land degradation and desertification, the introduction of the latest climate technologies in agriculture, the restoration of the Aral Bay ecosystem, the improvement of the living standards of the population, the creation of jobs and the establishment of the Aral Climate Expo Hub. they looked Also, the Green City project was discussed with the vice-president of ADB, within the framework of which a master plan for environmental protection will be developed for each region and its administrative center.
This year, we approved our final cooperation strategy with Uzbekistan. One of the three main issues is the promotion of green transformation, and under the leadership of the Ministry of Ecology, Environment and Climate Change, we successfully presented the first climate-oriented public policy loan in Central Asia, said the vice-president of ADB.
At the meeting, taking into account the great attention of ADB to Green University, the foreign side was offered to consider the possibility of establishing a special educational program and training course at the university under the auspices of ADB, as well as creating its own climate laboratory based on it.
