Uzbekistan committed to the global climate change response immediately after the adoption of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 1992. The Convention seeks to achieve a stable concentration of greenhouse gases in the Earth’s atmosphere at a level that would not allow dangerous anthropogenic influence on the climate system.

In 2017 Uzbekistan signed the Paris Climate Agreement and formulated its own commitments (its nationally determined contributions or NDCs) to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The country’s contribution is reducing the specific emissions per unit of GDP by 10% by 2030 compared to 2010. The current task is to define a new amount of Uzbekistan’s emission reduction commitments for the next period (up to 2030)

This report provides the first attempts on modeling and assessment of impacts of measures aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions on the social and economic situation in Uzbekistan and was prepared under the «Climate Promise» initiative of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) on behalf of the UNDP Country Office in Uzbekistan.