Energy and environment for sustainable development: expected results
CPD outcome
Obligations under international environmental conventions and agreements are fulfilled
through improved effectiveness of environment management and development of clean
energy sources
Source:
Government of Uzbekistan and UNDP,‘Country Programme Action Plan 2005–2009’, Uzbekistan.
43. See Section 5.1, UNDP Success Stories: Project aimed at the promotion of the rights of women migrant workers, part II.
44.
Ibid
.
45. Tortell, Garratt and Khomenko, 1999.
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of Uzbekistan.
46
It describes and illustrates the
state of the environment, though there are few
statistics regarding environmental trends and
tendencies. This Atlas could create a basis for the
National Environment Action Plan.
47
The
Action Plan could then be used as a basis for
fostering investments into the cluster, as recent
Joint Environmental Programmes I and II of the
European
Bank
for
Reconstruction
and
Development, the European Union with The
World Bank, and the Nordic Environment
Finance Corporation in Central Asia have
successfully proved.
The Environmental Atlas originated from the
Enhancement of Environmental Indicators
Database project, which used a geographic
information system application to monitor the
state of environment. UNDP was one of the
main contributors to a recent publication based
on these indicators: ‘Environmental Profile of
Uzbekistan 2008 Based on Indicators’.
48
According to it, national environmental experts
consider the following prioritized list to be the
most pressing ecological problems in Uzbekistan:
1. Irrational use and pollution of water resources;
2. Imperfect waste management practices;
3. Air pollution;
4. Biodiversity conservation;
5. Climate change; and
6. Desertification and land degradation.
These challenges should guide and direct not
only future project activities, but also environ-
mental investments.
A third recently implemented project, Capacity
Building for the Clean Development Mechanism
(CDM), included elements on: capacity-building
of the designated national authority; legalization
of carbon transactions in the domestic context; an
assessment of the CDM potential in key sectors;
building capacities for legal and economic
appraisal of CDM projects; and technical
assistance for CDM pipeline development. At
present, one project is already pipelined to be
included into the UNDP MDG Carbon Facility.
These activities are excellent examples of projects
and activities that started or originated from a
policy- and strategy-level approach, and then
moved through planning and implementation
phases to concrete investments. The most
common bottleneck in approaching energy and
environmental problems is the lack of concrete
investments and securing appropriate funding.
The most sustainable course for solving
Uzbekistan’s accelerating environmental problems
is to follow a logical path that moves from
policy-level analysis to a full project cycle for
solving the problem, which in turn leads to
concrete investment.
Unfortunately, less promising examples also exist.
The cluster evaluation in 1999 concluded that
UNDP involvement in the Aral Sea was very
limited and unsustainable. The latest UNDP
involvement is similarly problematic. The issue
has had very limited inputs: the main input was
to assess the effectiveness of national and
international efforts focused on improving the
ecological and socio-economic situation in the
Aral Sea region. The desertification of the region
has remained the largest single natural catastrophe
in Central Asia, and donor efforts—including
those of UNDP—have remained too limited.
Though involvement may have been satisfactory
from efficiency and effectiveness perspectives,
from a results and impacts perspective, efforts are
far from sustainable.
46. Government of Uzbekistan/State Committee for Land Resources, Geodesy, Cartography and State Cadastre and UNDP,
‘Environmental Atlas of Uzbekistan’, Tashkent, 2008.
47. Government of Uzbekistan, ‘National Environment Action Plan’, 1996.
48. Government of Uzbekistan/State Committee for Nature Protection and UNDP Uzbekistan, ‘Environmental Profile of
Uzbekistan 2008 Based on Indicators’, 2008.
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