Country Study on Climate Change

The immediate objectives of the project are to prepare the first national communication of Uzbekistan to the CoP. It will build in-country capacity to fulfil its commitments to the Convention on a continual basis and build endogenous capacity to establish a basis for additional obligations. It will enhance general awareness and knowledge of climate change related issues to enable these issues to be taken into account in planning and strategic formulation for different economical/technical sectors and strengthen the country's role in international scientific for a and negotiation processes related to climate change; it will develop an institutional mechanism/framework to facilitate dialogue, information exchange, etc, among relevant players and help identifying concrete projects to reduce GHG emissions (or enhancing sinks) which may be eligible for GEF, and other funding.