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Intended Nationally Determined Contributions of the Republic of Uzbekistan (INDC).

Country/Territory
Uzbekistan
Document type
Date
2015
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Subject
Agricultural & rural development, Environment gen., Sea
Keyword
Policy/planning Climate change Agricultural development Disasters Water shortage/drought International agreement-implementation International relations/cooperation Risk assessment/management Irrigation Early warning system/emergency intervention system Gender Desertification Pastoralism Clean development mechanism Ecosystem preservation Biodiversity
Geographical area
Aral Sea, Asia, ASIA AND THE PACIFIC, Central Asia, CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States), EUROPE AND CENTRAL ASIA, Landlocked Developing Countries, North Asia
Basin
Aral Sea
Abstract

This Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC) for Uzbekistan is a multi-sectoral policy document at national level for the period of 2015-2030. Uzbekistan is one of the country’s most vulnerable to climate change. Without additional resource saving measures, the country may face deficiency of water resources, growth in land desertification and degradation, increase in occurrence of droughts and other dangerous phenomena, leading to instability of agricultural production and threatening to the country’s food security. Since the early 1950s the average rates of air temperature growth throughout the territory of Uzbekistan were 0.29оС for each ten years, which is by 2 times higher than the global warming rates. Besides, Uzbekistan has encountered the one of the most complicated problem for the Central Asia region – the Aral Sea ecological disaster. This is virtually one of the largest ecological disasters in the contemporary history. The Aral Sea, once the unique and one of the most beautiful and largest inland water bodies in the world, has turned out to be at the edge of total disappearance during the life of one generation. This has caused unprecedented disaster and irreversible damage to the local population, ecosystem and biodiversity of the Priaralie.

Full text
English
Website
www4.unfccc.int