U zb ekis t a n

SEIS highlights

Rapidly advancing e-governance reforms have led to the open publication of national and province-level data and meta-data on economics, population, institutions, transport and other themes. While the national Open Data Portal provides information on environmental permits, nature resources use and air pollution, a separate Unified Portal for Interactive Public Services also allows to directly obtain permits for the use of natural resources.

Increased production of environmental information being part of the state reform, Uzbekistan has in recent years digitized and upgraded many environmental datasets, and continues the modernization of its waste management system, hydrometeorological and biodiversity monitoring.

The national state of the environment report is expected to be published every 2–3 years, but in practice the last SoE report was produced in 2013. The previous SoE reports of Uzbekistan were quite comprehensive and included time series. In 2022–2023, UNEP and UNECE are supporting Uzbekistan in the preparation of a new environmental report.

The framework for monitoring environmental SDGs is under development and includes environmental indicators, partly drawn from the UNECE set.

Compared to other Central Asian countries green politics play stronger role in the national Parliament.